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.
In this overview of the utility for:
- network infrastructure management;
- IT infrastructure management;
- IT security management;
- database management;
- organization of the Help Desk service.
Network Infrastructure Management
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 .
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 .
This utility is an add-on for the system tracert. Performs analysis of network routes, can launch packets using TCP and ICMP protocols. Eat .
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. .
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 .
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 .
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.
TFTP server with GUI. Runs on Windows as a service. Eat .
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.
Bandwidth monitoring of network interfaces and visualization of metrics. Also a junior solution for Network Performance Monitor (NPM).
Search, filter and sort CCM CDR logs.
Collection of IP SLA data from Cisco devices and their visualization.
IP calculator for address space design.
Analysis, reception and archiving of syslog and SNMP. Eat .
Advanced FTP client for Windows. Supports FTP, FTPS, and SFTP protocols. Through this client, you can perform scheduled file transfers.
The utility works as a Windows service and supports simultaneous file transfer to multiple devices.
IT infrastructure management
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.
Packs events from the Windows log and sends them as syslog wherever you want. There is flexible filtering.
Advanced Putty. It has a multi-tab interface and a convenient search for saved sessions. Eat .
VMware and Hyper-V performance monitoring. The interface displays key performance metrics and the status of virtual machines.
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.
Data array monitoring Dell EMC, NetApp, IBM, Pure Storage. Eat .
Monitoring of key Exchange services. Eat .
A utility for automatically configuring local and remote WinRM services.
A package of three utilities for: detecting unused accounts, detecting unused workstations, and importing user accounts into AD. Eat .
A utility for checking the availability of Windows Update services (WSUS) on remote servers.
Utility for performing synthetic tests. One transaction is supported for web applications.
A utility for controlling a Windows server via WMI. It is the server, because only one device is supported.
Setting up SNMP counters on remote Windows servers.
IT security management
Windows Log Consolidator with convenient event search and conditional alert settings. Eat .
Utility for testing firewall rules. Supports importing configurations from Cisco, Check Point, and NetScreen devices.
Analyzer of access rights for users, group members and rights to manage network balls.
Database management
Real-time query analyzer for SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 and SAP ASE databases. Shows slow requests. Eat .
Utility for analyzing Execution Plan in SQL Server. Monitors resource utilization as the plan progresses. Eat .
Help Desk organization
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.
Source: habr.com