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Our new free WMI Monitor makes it easy to monitor any Windows® application or server, giving you amazing insight into real-time performance data with a slick desktop dashboard.
With the free WMI Monitor, you can monitor virtually any Windows application. Choose from pre-built application templates in the tool or explore templates created and posted on thwack® by the SolarWinds community of more than 25,000 network engineers.
WMI Monitor enables you to:
- Monitor real-time performance metrics on any Windows server or application
- Modify or design your own application templates with the built-in WMI browser
- Leverage a large selection of pre-built and community-generated application templates for immediate monitoring of:
- Microsoft® Exchange
- Microsoft Active Directory®
- Blackberry Enterprise Server™
- Microsoft Windows™ Server 2000, 2003, 2008
- Microsoft SQL Server®
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Version 3 of Orion Application Performance Monitor (APM) provides the powerful app monitoring you need to achieve peak performance. It installs in less than an hour and then auto-discovers your critical applications and servers to deliver the supercharged monitoring, alerting, and reporting you've been waiting for.
Plus, as a module of Orion Network Performance Monitor, Orion APM presents application monitoring data alongside comprehensive performance information for your network infrastructure, giving you a complete picture of network health. With Orion APM, you can quickly isolate performance issues – before they affect your end users.
- Monitor virtually any application on your network
- Auto-discover your applications
- Simulate and measure Quality of Experience (QoE)
- Migrate from open-source solutions (such as Nagios®) with the Open Source Script Processor
- Remotely monitor WMI performance counters for proactive troubleshooting
- Receive advanced alerts when issues arise
- Gauge DNS, email, web, and database performance - and more!
LEARN MORE ABOUT ORION APM >
Fight the forces of evil on your network with more free tools from SolarWinds. These tools will help you simplify daily management tasks, while helping you perfect performance. Strap on your bat belt and start downloading!
Free IP Address Tracker frees you from the evils of spreadsheets, delivering powerful and simple-to-use features that give you a unified view of your IP address space and that enable you to manage it – all for free! IP Address Track enables you to:
- Track an unlimited number of IP addresses
- Get a unified, at-a-glance view of your IP address space
- See which IP addresses are in use - and which are not
- Determine the last time an IP address was used
- Eliminate manual errors and ditch your spreadsheet
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Free IP SLA Monitor enables IP SLA on Cisco routers and switches, configures the path-specific operation details, and displays the resulting real-time performance information in an easy-to-read dashboard. With IP SLA Monitor, you can easily:
- Analyze performance between a Cisco IP SLA-enabled device and other remote devices
- Monitor IP SLA operations, including UDP echo, ICMP path echo, TCP connect, DNS resolution, and HTTP
- Verify and monitor quality of service (QoS)
- View IP SLA operation details, including frequency, source and target, operation type, and ToS settings
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Free Real-time NetFlow Analyzer captures and analyzes up to one hour of NetFlow data in real time to show you what types of traffic are on your network, where that traffic is coming from, and where it is going. This free NetFlow monitoring tool enables you to:
- Investigate, troubleshoot, and quickly remediate network slowdowns
- Easily identify which users, devices, and applications are consuming the most bandwidth
- Isolate inbound and outbound traffic by conversation, application, domain, endpoint, and protocol
- Personalize NetFlow data displays to view traffic by specified time periods and by traffic type
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Kiwi Syslog Server is one of the most trusted Windows®-based syslog servers on the market. Easy to set up and configure, it offers a feature-rich solution for receiving, logging, displaying, alerting, and forwarding syslog and SNMP trap messages from network devices, such as routers, switches, Linux and Unix hosts, and other syslog and trap-enabled devices.
Just released, Version 9 offers up some sensational new features, including:
- Web Access: Now you can view your syslog data remotely from anywhere with web access! Create and save custom views using filters and highlighting rules that are accessible from wherever you log in.
- Log Forwarder for Windows: Forward event log message from your Windows server to Kiwi Syslog Server using the Log Forwarder for Windows application that's included in the latest version.
- Community Content Exchange: Leverage community-created rules and filters for faster resolution to common issues and share content you've developed with the SolarWinds community on thwack.
LEARN MORE ABOUT KIWI SYSLOG SERVER >
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Just follow these easy steps to claim your free t-shirt:
- Write a review of a SolarWinds product. Use the quick links below to navigate to the product review forms. (Note you will need to log in with your thwack/Community ID).
- Complete this form to let us know that you've written your review.
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The new version of Orion Application Performance Monitor allows you to browse, download, and share application monitoring templates with the SolarWinds community from directly within the product. That makes it super easy for you to trade custom monitors with your fellow network superheroes using the Content Exchange on thwack. And, of course, it saves everybody a lot of time to do other things... like studying the molecular structure of kryptonite. Here's how to do it:
- Go to APM Settings; select Manage Application Monitor Templates.
- Select the tab that reads, "Shared templates on thwack."
- Browse or search for a template that interests you and select it.
- Click Import. Type your thwack user ID and password.
- Voila! Start monitoring your apps immediately!
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