Orion is not a C&C platform, it’s used for monitoring. Most environments are monitored using SNMP or WMI. SNMP is a stupid simple protocol to compromise for signal data and is often recommended shutdown or heavily firewalled point-to-point.
SNMP V2 can configure every device in the network.
https://www.solarwinds.com/solutions/orion
Solar Winds graduated to the mythical “single pane of glass” with Orion.