Free Solarwinds utilities for monitoring and managing IT infrastructure
We know Solarwinds well and have been working with it for a long time, many of them also know their products for network (and not only) monitoring. But not so widely known that they provide a good four dozen free utilities to download from their site that will help you monitor network devices, manage infrastructure, databases, and even handle incidents. In fact, this software is separate fragments of their paid products. All utilities are 100% free, not trial versions. Under the cut links to the description and download.
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Simple tool. The interface sets a range of addresses, it polls them and issues nodes available for setting up for remote monitoring. Of the possible monitoring tools: ping, WMI, SSH. On servers, it can perform standard checks such as CPU, Memory, Disk. This is the free version of the older brother ipMonitor (no free) and supports up to 50 nodes. Nothing for a small office or test tasks. Eat short video with description.
Replication, testing and configuring devices to send flow traffic. The tool consists of three parts: replicator, generator and configurator. The replicator can receive and forward netflow traffic to one or more receivers. Generator - generates netflow for testing, checking firewall settings and other purposes. The configurator automatically configures network devices to send netflow to the target device. Eat short video with description.
This utility is an add-on for the system tracert. Performs analysis of network routes, can launch packets using TCP and ICMP protocols. Eat short video with description.
Generates a list of open, closed and filtered ports for each scanned IP address. Can scan via TCP and UDP protocols, and after scanning, you can upload all the collected data to a file. It also works through the command line.
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Monitoring of network devices. The utility comes with many different templates for monitoring via SNMP, you can configure reports and alerts. But there is a limitation: monitoring of only one device is supported. Short video with description.
Network environment emulator. The utility works on Windows, Mac and Linux. More than 20 vendors of network equipment are supported. You can emulate various network topologies and see how it all works. Eat video with description.
An add-on for Wireshark for the convenience of analyzing packets by response time. Detects traffic for approximately 1200 applications. Works like a calculator for app response time. Eat video with description.
The utility is designed to monitor NetFlow, J-Flow and sFlow traffic. The interface has views in the form of various slices: by interaction between devices, by applications, by domains and end devices. In addition, it is possible to record data up to 60 minutes.
Scanning, committing changes, identifying IP address conflicts. This is the younger brother of the older IP Address Manager - it can manage up to 254 addresses, as opposed to 2 million in a paid solution.
The utility can display financial information for several accounts at the same time. The interface has a breakdown of costs for the year, quarter, month, and in addition, paid resources that are not used are shown. Works on Windows and Mac platforms.
Designed to monitor physical servers. Out of the box, it can work with Dell PowerEdge, HP ProLiant, IBM eServer xSeries servers and VMware ESX/ESXi hypervisors. Supports SNMP, WMI and CIM communication protocols.
A package of three utilities for: detecting unused accounts, detecting unused workstations, and importing user accounts into AD. Eat video with description.
Incident, problem and service level management. There is integration with AD and reports. This is the little brother of the full featured version.
Most of these utilities are suitable for solving local problems, some can be used as production systems. In the last 2-3 years, Solarwinds has been actively developing its products and now they can already be considered as a universal monitoring system for the organization level. If you are looking for a monitoring system for this role, consider Solarwinds as well.