Ace the SolarWinds SCP NPM Challenge 2026 – Energize Your IT Mastery!

Three main components make up the SolarWinds Orion Platform as used by Network Performance Monitor: the Web Console, the Core Services, and the SQL Database. The Web Console is the web-based user interface you interact with to configure monitors, view dashboards, and manage alerts. The Core Services run on the Orion server as background Windows services that perform polling, data collection, processing, and alerting tasks. The SQL Database stores all the platform’s data—device configurations, performance metrics, historical data, and settings—so you can report on trends and review past events.

Why this set fits best: Orion is designed as an integrated platform where the UI, the processing engine, and the data store work in concert. The option that mentions a portal isn’t the standard Orion component, and “Orion Core” alone isn’t the official naming for the services. The database used by Orion is Microsoft SQL Server, not MySQL, so the MySQL option isn’t correct either.