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Solar*ink January 2010
 

In This Edition:

6 WAYS TO GET YOU AND YOUR NETWORK IN SHAPE FOR 2010

It's that time again — time to think about getting your abs, your network and your engineering skills in tip-top shape for the new year. Before heading off to the gym to start sculpting that new six pack, check out these six tips for shaping up your network and expanding your network engineering awesomeness.

Flex Your Cerebral Muscle at Our New Geek Speak Site

Our Head Geek, Josh Stephens, loves to trade networking tips, so he's been busy filming videos, hosting webcasts, blogging on current networking issues, and creating comprehensive guides on a wide variety of network management topics.

Now we've collected all this geeky goodness into Geek Speak, a resource-rich website where you can find answers to your toughest network management questions. So instead of firing up your Wii Fit¢â, give your brain a workout instead:

VISIT THE GEEK SPEAK SITE >

Take a Page from the Olympic Playbook on Network Management

SolarWinds is heading to the Olympics¢ç, ensuring networks at the Winter Games will deliver gold-medal performances.

When faced with the huge challenge of managing the broadcast of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium decided to rely on SolarWinds Orion products for network monitoring and management.

Over the 10 days of games, Orion Performance Monitor (NPM) will allow the team to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance problems and outages. And in the event of network equipment failure, the Consortium will rely on Orion Network Configuration Manager (NCM) to quickly restore configurations.

Experience for yourself why this leading broadcaster has relied on Orion for years to manage networks that serve more than 5000 employees across over 30 locations.

Try Orion NPM Free for 30 Days >

Try Orion NCM Free for 30 Days >

Read More About Technologies at the Winter Olympics >

Hone Your Networking Toolkit

January is a great time to assess the tools in your toolkit and determine what you need in order to make your job easier. Here's a checklist of some tools in our award-winning Engineer's Toolset that every network engineer should have at hand.

Network Diagnostics Tools – Perform robust network diagnostics with tools including Ping Sweep, DNS Analyzer, and Trace Route.
View all diagnostic tools »

Network Discovery Tools – Deploy an array of network discovery tools including Port Scanner, Switch Port Mapper, and Advanced Subnet Calculator.
View all discovery tools »

Real-Time Monitoring and Alerting Tools – Monitor and alert in real time with tools like Real-Time Interface Monitor, SNMP Real-Time Graph, and Advanced CPU Load.
View all monitoring tools »

Specialized Tools for Cisco¢ç Environments – Manage Cisco devices with specialized tools including Real-time NetFlow Analyzer, Config Downloader, and Config Compare.
View all Cisco tools »

Download a Free Trial of Engineer's Toolset >

Want to see the tools in action? Let our Head Geek give you a tour of Engineer's Toolset - Watch Now >>

Remember, if you're using Orion and don't have your copy of Engineer's Toolset you're missing half the solution. Orion NPM and Engineer's Toolset are integrated so you can go from identifying performance issues to fixing them with a single click!

Get your hands on these must-have tools today. Fire up a FREE trial of Engineer's Toolset!

Download a Free Trial of Engineer's Toolset >

Trade Tips, Tricks, & Templates with Other IT Pros

If you haven't joined thwack, the SolarWinds community site, you're missing out on a wealth of geeky goods. Check out some of the ways thwack members are helping each other trick out Orion Network Performance Monitor.

Rock Your Orion with Google Earth¢â Maps!

Hot Topic Alert: the thwack community is buzzing about the integration of Orion NPM maps with Google Earth. Check out tips, instructions, and sample maps in these two threads to see how you can rock your own Orion implementation:

Get Groovy with Live Weather Maps

Speaking of maps, integrating Orion NPM with live weather maps is another cool way to spiff up Orion. Your fellow geeks have even provided multiple solutions for accomplishing this feat:

Ramp Up Your Reporting Game with New Templates

The thwack Content Exchange is a great place to find new report templates to impress your team and wow your boss. Here are a few of our favorites:

Fine Tune Your Network Skills with Free Training

Why pay for seminars and expensive technical manuals when you can learn almost anything you want to know, online and for free? For example, every month our Head Geek hosts an informative webcast on topics suggested by the SolarWinds community. This is your year to benefit from these sessions!

Live Webcast: Prepare for Network Management Success in 2010

Register Now >

Join our Head Geek, Josh Stephens, as he discusses the top technologies, trends, and practices you'll want to keep in mind as you plan your 2010 network management strategy. Choose your session:

On-Demand Webcasts

Start the new year right by watching some of our most popular on-demand webcasts:

  • Quality of Service, Part 1: learn about different types of QoS, best practices for implementing QoS, monitoring practices, QoS monitoring applications and more!

  • Quality of Service, Part 2: do a deep dive on super-technical topics like traffic shaping, scheduling and queuing algorithms, congestion avoidance, and CBQoS.

  • How Network Management Systems Work: get in-touch with the technologies behind network management like SNMP, WMI, MIBs, OIDs, counters, and network polling.

View All On-Demand Webcasts >

Pump Up Your Network Geek Cred

Are you a true network geek? Finally, you can let the rest of the world know! Make 2010 the year that you demonstrate your expertise in network management by becoming a SolarWinds Certified Professional¢â (SCP)!

An SCP can do the following:

  • Identify and resolve network issues and performance trends
  • Collect and analyze network monitoring data to determine causes of network faults
  • Define, monitor, and report on SLAs
  • Determine the impact of network topology on the network
  • Deploy and use Orion NPM on a corporate or governmental network

Learn More About Certification >

Download the SCP Prep Guide >

Start Studying at Our Learning Center >


 

GIVE YOUR DORSAL INTEROSSEOUS A WORKOUT... FREE TOOLS ARE JUST A CLICK AWAY!

Ease into your workout schedule by starting with some clicking action that will arm you with the free tools you need to whip your network into shape.

Free VM Monitor
Continuously monitor a VMware¢ç ESX Server and its virtual machines.
Download Now >>

Free Kiwi Syslog Server
Receive, log, display, and forward syslog messages from network devices.
Download Now >>

Free WMI Monitor
Monitor your Windows¢ç apps and servers in real time!
Download Now >>

Free IP Address Tracker
Scan, track, and consolidate your IP address information in one easy place!
Download Now >>

Free IP SLA Monitor
Quickly troubleshoot network slowdowns between sites and easily understand device-to-device performance using Cisco¢ç IP SLA operations.
Download Now >>

Real-time NetFlow Analyzer
Capture and analyze up to one hour of NetFlow data to see what types of traffic are on your network, where it's coming from, and where it's going.
Download Now >>

VIEW ALL FREE TOOLS >

Join Us at Cisco Live in Barcelona, Spain on January 25-28, 2010 in booth G4!

SolarWinds speaks geek in multiple languages and we're ready to chat network management with you at Cisco Live!

Is DNS in your DNA? Do you believe there's no place like 127.0.0.1? Promote your geekiness proudly — simply swing by our booth to grab some geek buttons with these slogans and more. We'll even let you create your own. Or grab an official geek t-shirt while you talk to our support engineers and product managers about your networking needs.

Our Head Geek, Josh Stephens, will also be speaking every half hour on topics like managing virtualization, identifying red card traffic on your network, and unlocking the hidden secrets of IOS. See you in Barcelona!

REGISTER TO ATTEND >

TAKE A RUN THROUGH OUR LIVE DEMOS

Discover how our products can transform the way you manage your network by checking out our live demo sites:

FAULT & PERFORMANCE MONITORING DEMO >

IP ADDRESS MANAGEMENT DEMO >

APPLICATION MONITORING DEMO >

NETWORK CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT DEMO >

ORION PRODUCT UPDATES

Our dev team has been busy making important updates to a number of Orion modules. See what's new and great in the latest releases:

Orion IP Address Manager v1.6

• Bulk add subnets

• Perform mass editing of IP addresses

• Create a custom field with a URL as a value

• Support for /31 and /32 subnets

DOWNLOAD THE UPDATE >

TRY IT FREE >

Orion IP SLA Manager v3.1

• Automatic IP SLA device discovery and import

• Verify connections to a device that is not managed by Orion

• Designate which interfaces you want a specific operation to run on

DOWNLOAD THE UPDATE >

TRY IT FREE >

Orion Application Performance Monitor v3.1

• Expanded Windows¢ç Server monitoring capabilities, with the ability to monitor and alert on Windows log files

• Improved usability and response time for critical features

DOWNLOAD THE UPDATE >

TRY IT FREE >

OTHER PRODUCT UPDATES

Check out the latest product updates and service packs that are available for download from the support area of the SolarWinds website:

Orion NCM v5.5.2 »

ipMonitor v10.0.1 »

Orion NTA v3.5 HotFix 1 »

Engineer's Toolset v10.4 »

VIEW ALL PRODUCT UPDATES >

SYNC YOUR MAINTENANCE RENEWALS - IT'S EASY!

January is a great time to get your maintenance renewals in tip-top shape. Contact our maintenance renewal team to get started.

Co-terming enables you to pick a single date for renewing maintenance for all of your products, regardless of when they were purchased. That means you just have to keep track of one date, instead of multiple renewal dates.

Contact us to co-term today!

And speaking of renewals, do you know that you can now renew online in the SolarWinds Customer Portal? Just look under "License Management" after you login and click on the handy "renew" buttons.

FEATURED TECHNOLOGY RESOURCE: Whitepaper - Effective Solutions for Firewall Management

Athena FirePAC, a SolarWinds Technology Partner, recently released a cool whitepaper about the challenges that network dudes like you face in managing those firewalls that protect your network from all sorts of evildoing. Find out how Athena FirePAC works with Orion NCM to manage firewalls using predefined policies.

DOWNLOAD NOW >

FREE PRODUCT TRIALS - DOWNLOAD NOW >>

Our free product trials put powerful technologies that even Iron Man would envy, right at your fingertips. Try a few today!

Orion Network Performance Monitor >

Orion NetFlow Traffic
Analyzer
>

Orion Network Configuration Manager >

Orion IP SLA Manager >

Orion IP Address Manager >


VIEW ALL FREE TRIALS >


 
 
 
 
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