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SolarWinds Exchange Monitor (zip): SolarWinds free Exchange Monitor delivers a clever desktop dashboard that continuously monitors Microsoft Exchange to deliver real-time insight into Exchange services, mail queue sizes, and host server health. With Exchange Monitor at your fingertips, youll be able to track Exchange health at-a-glance and ensure this mission-critical app never fails your...; Tags: Monitor, Health Care, SolarWinds, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Monitors & Displays, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Hardware, Components; Software downloads 2008-07-02
LANsurveyor (zip): LANsurveyor automatically discovers, diagrams, and documents your entire network. LANsurveyor uses multiple discovery methods to find networked devices and cross-correlates that information to generate advanced topology maps that can be printed, exported to SolarWinds Orion & Microsoft Visio. Continuous Scan Intrusion Detection security feature monitors the network for changes and...; Tags: Network, SolarWinds, Monitors & Displays, Networking, Hardware, Components; Software downloads 2008-06-05
SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset (exe): With Engineer's Toolset's extensive network management capabilities, you'll look like a super hero, without having to develop any special powers. Here's a sample of Engineer's Toolset's save-the-day features: Monitors and alerts on availability, bandwidth utilization and health of network devices; Provides robust network diagnostics for troubleshooting and quickly resolving complex...; Tags: Network, SolarWinds, Networking; Software downloads 2008-05-02

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Firescope crushes the BSM price point: Earlier today I spoke with Mark Lynd, president of Firescope, a company that's trying with very little funding - $4 million at the last count - to bring Business Service Mangement BSM to the mass of smaller enterprises. Earlier in the week, the company launched BSM-Business Edition at a starting...; Tags: Asset, SLA, Information Technology, Price, Small And Medium Business, Firescope, Asset Management, Smb/Sme, Service Level Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-23
NetFlow Configurator (exe): SolarWinds NetFlow Configurator is an easy-to-use tool for remotely and quickly configuring NetFlow v5 via SNMP on supported Cisco devices. NetFlow Configurator also facilitates setting up collectors for Cisco NetFlow data, specifying the ports on which the collectors are listening, and enabling monitoring of inbound and outbound (ingress/egress) traffic data...; Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., SolarWinds NetFlow Configurator; Software downloads 2008-01-17

Getting the Most Out of Your SolarWinds Orion Network: Features and Add-Ons: It's an unfortunate truth that many network administrators don't really understand how to get the most out of their network. The software may work, and the administrators may figure out a roundabout way how to do what they want, but there may be a faster, more efficient way to do...; Tags: Network, Add-on, Corona Technical Services, Networking; White papers 2007-11-30
TFTP Server (exe): Multi-threaded TFTP server used to upload/download executable images and configs to routers and switches. It runs on most Microsoft operating system, including Windows XP, Vista, 2000, and 2003. While there are other free TFTP servers available, SolarWinds TFTP Server is the most robust, widely-trusted and, easy-to-use solution that helps network...; Tags: TFTP, Network, Auditing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Networking, Operating Systems, Software; Software downloads 2007-11-09
Advanced Subnet Calculator (exe): Free Subnet Calculator from Solarwinds generates all subnets with real-time DNS, PING and CIDR tests. This networking tool performs DNS resolution, address translation, supports CIDR and Address Class information. It calculates subnets based on Subnet Mask, Mask Bits, Host Bits, Number of Subnets and Hosts per Subnet. It can even...; Tags: Subnet; Software downloads 2007-11-09
Orion Netflow Traffic Analyzer (zip): Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer enables network engineers to capture and analyze Cisco NetFlow data and examine network traffic by user, application, department, conversation, interface and protocol. Integration with SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor provides users with even deeper visibility into traffic patterns and device performance, delivering valuable usage, performance, and...; Tags: Performance, Network, Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management; Software downloads 2007-08-07
SolarWinds Cirrus Configuration Management (zip): Unless your remote is broken, we're guessing you don't leave the couch to change the channels on your television. So, why would you Telnet into each and every network device to make network configuration changes if you can do it automatically from a central location? Meet Cirrus. Cirrus is an...; Tags: Network, Cirrus, Change Management, Leadership, Telnet, Networking, Tools & Techniques, Management; Software downloads 2007-05-18
SolarWinds Engineers Edition (zip): New Engineers Toolset has over 45 Network Discovery, Monitoring and Management tools. Inventory your entire network with SONAR, use the performance monitor to measure bandwidth traffic, % utilization, CPU load, disk space & memory. Perform fault management with alerting & email notification. Also included: Full MIB browser, IP Address Management...; Tags: Disk, Memory, Monitoring, CPU, Tool, New Engineers Toolset, Productivity, E-mail, Networking, Online Communications; Software downloads 2006-03-06
Busting the myths of Email outsourcing: When David Berlind suggested that 90 percent of businesses can't justify insourcing their Email and therefore should outsource their Email instead, it kicked of a firestorm of debate inside and outside of our ZDNet blogsphere when JMJames who recently started blogging for our sister site TechRepublic.com took David to task....; Tags: outsource, Email server, e-mail; Blog posts 2006-02-20
What's the true cost of running email in-house?: What's the true cost of running email in-house?The Hidden Yet Explosive CostIve seen users store mail locally on their laptops even when the mail services are externally handled.The Hidden Yet Explosive CostThere's another hidden, potentially explosive cost: smaller businesses without full-time IT staff, backrelease unsupported Exchange or none, who end...; Tags: e-mail, outsource, outsourcing; Discussion threads 2006-02-17