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Monitoring your common ports can allow you to more easily keep track of activity within your network and within devices using communication data from your network services. SolarWinds® ipMonitor® includes several dozen monitors for your common port services, with out-of-the-box configuration that typically takes just a few minutes to set up.
The lightweight SNMP Monitor can test an SNMP agent’s ability to respond to an information request, as well as its level of responsiveness. You can also easily configure a custom SNMP monitor using the SolarWinds Custom SNMP Wizard, which can allow you to monitor SNMP-connected devices across your network. To further extend your SNMP monitoring capabilities, the included SNMP trap monitor can allow you to detect traps and analyze the received data.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) monitoring can support creating a more effective network monitoring protocol. When you maintain a high-quality FTP server, you can help prevent bottlenecks in data transmission from a client’s server to your own. SolarWinds ipMonitor includes a bandwidth-light FTP Monitor designed to test an FTP server’s ability to accept incoming sessions and level of responsiveness.
ipMonitor offers several port monitors for critical network protocols. For example, you can use the DNS over TCP monitor or UDP monitor to test a DNS server’s ability to respond to a record query and level of responsiveness. ipMonitor also includes an LDAP monitor you can use to access standalone LDAP directory services or directory services with an X.500 back end. Additionally, the RADIUS monitor can test an authentication server’s ability to perform a database lookup and respond to an authentication request.
Web functionality insights are also critical for many businesses, and ipMonitor can allow you to monitor activity from HTTP, HTTPS, and even HTML/ASP ports. With these monitors, you can test a web server’s ability to accept incoming sessions, generate a webpage server-side, and then transmit the requested webpage to ipMonitor.
The port monitors in ipMonitor also include mail server monitors that can provide key insights into performance. For instance, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol monitor can test an SMTP mail server’s ability to accept incoming sessions and level of responsiveness. The bandwidth-light IMAP4 monitor can also connect to an IMAP4 server and wait for the server to respond with a standard “Service Ready for a new user” (code 220) message. The bandwidth-light POP3 monitor also works in a similar way. These monitors can help you more easily ensure servers connect, adhere to protocols, and respond promptly as required.
In addition to common port monitors, SolarWinds ipMonitor can allow you to measure essential services that aren’t assigned a port number. Other monitors available in ipMonitor include:
ipMonitor allows you to integrate common port monitors with monitors to address offline network services, all in a unified dashboard. With such a diverse set of out-of-the-box monitors, ipMonitor is built to be an intuitive way to monitor your most important network services.
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Network management requires a keen understanding of your network’s common ports. With IANA numbers below 1023, your common ports serve to transmit and receive communications from other devices—whether they’re inside or outside your network. Since common ports serve some of the most essential web services in your network, your network performance can depend on the effectiveness of your common ports.
Common port monitoring helps ensure reliable and high-speed communication among the common ports in your network by running test transactions to and from your common ports to check their effectiveness at transmitting and receiving data. Round-the-clock port checks are especially helpful in common port monitoring, since your ports need to remain available even when network admins are not.
By using a common port monitor, you can help minimize downtime by identifying issues with your common ports before they affect end-user performance and help save money by ensuring internal and external services can communicate data as smoothly as possible.
A common port is exposed each time one of your web services is engaged in communication with another device. However, plenty of pitfalls can affect a common port’s ability to respond to queries. To identify common port issues, round-the-clock port monitors can continually test your common ports for their ability to communicate data.
Since common ports include multiple unique services, common port monitoring is often not a one-size-fits-all equation. Assessing the efficacy of common ports includes running tests specialized to the needs of each common port.
Your common port monitoring solution should test the ability to transmit and receive data. For ports that perform more specialized duties, a successful monitor should also run tests for more than just port availability. For instance, your HTTP port check should test to see whether your HTTP server can generate and transmit a webpage.
SolarWinds ipMonitor provides a user-friendly approach to 24/7 common port monitoring. Since your common ports need to always be available, ipMonitor offers different notification formats to alert you of performance issues identified in common port checks. With real-time alerts delivered to your inbox, you can quickly assess and address performance issues.
What happens if you’re out of the office when you receive an alert that one of your web services is experiencing issues? SolarWinds ipMonitor is designed to help troubleshoot even when you’re away from your dashboard with the ability to simply configure automated fixes for common port issues with standard resolution protocol.
Setting up and navigating ipMonitor is also built to be a streamlined, user-friendly process. Simply log in to your ipMonitor server and navigate to the Add New Monitor tab. From there, you can select a monitor for any of the devices ipMonitor has discovered in your network.
From your ipMonitor dashboard, you can view monitors within the Common Port Checks category. From there, you can view statistical performance data for any port monitor you’ve set up. With user-friendly graphical analysis, you can quickly assess common port performance.
Common port monitors available with ipMonitor include:
To ensure your monitors and alerts are running as expected, you can also test out each monitor using the Downtime Simulator included in ipMonitor.
ipMonitor is built to be a well-rounded solution to network services monitoring and includes more than common port monitors. Other categories of monitors available are:
ipMonitor includes several monitors available from an intuitive dashboard where you can view your monitor categories in one place. From user-end bandwidth to device temperature to Active Directory responsiveness, ipMonitor can help you create a more efficient network.
Network management requires a keen understanding of your network’s common ports. With IANA numbers below 1023, your common ports serve to transmit and receive communications from other devices—whether they’re inside or outside your network. Since common ports serve some of the most essential web services in your network, your network performance can depend on the effectiveness of your common ports.
Common port monitoring helps ensure reliable and high-speed communication among the common ports in your network by running test transactions to and from your common ports to check their effectiveness at transmitting and receiving data. Round-the-clock port checks are especially helpful in common port monitoring, since your ports need to remain available even when network admins are not.
By using a common port monitor, you can help minimize downtime by identifying issues with your common ports before they affect end-user performance and help save money by ensuring internal and external services can communicate data as smoothly as possible.
A common port is exposed each time one of your web services is engaged in communication with another device. However, plenty of pitfalls can affect a common port’s ability to respond to queries. To identify common port issues, round-the-clock port monitors can continually test your common ports for their ability to communicate data.
Since common ports include multiple unique services, common port monitoring is often not a one-size-fits-all equation. Assessing the efficacy of common ports includes running tests specialized to the needs of each common port.
Your common port monitoring solution should test the ability to transmit and receive data. For ports that perform more specialized duties, a successful monitor should also run tests for more than just port availability. For instance, your HTTP port check should test to see whether your HTTP server can generate and transmit a webpage.
SolarWinds ipMonitor provides a user-friendly approach to 24/7 common port monitoring. Since your common ports need to always be available, ipMonitor offers different notification formats to alert you of performance issues identified in common port checks. With real-time alerts delivered to your inbox, you can quickly assess and address performance issues.
What happens if you’re out of the office when you receive an alert that one of your web services is experiencing issues? SolarWinds ipMonitor is designed to help troubleshoot even when you’re away from your dashboard with the ability to simply configure automated fixes for common port issues with standard resolution protocol.
Setting up and navigating ipMonitor is also built to be a streamlined, user-friendly process. Simply log in to your ipMonitor server and navigate to the Add New Monitor tab. From there, you can select a monitor for any of the devices ipMonitor has discovered in your network.
From your ipMonitor dashboard, you can view monitors within the Common Port Checks category. From there, you can view statistical performance data for any port monitor you’ve set up. With user-friendly graphical analysis, you can quickly assess common port performance.
Common port monitors available with ipMonitor include:
To ensure your monitors and alerts are running as expected, you can also test out each monitor using the Downtime Simulator included in ipMonitor.
ipMonitor is built to be a well-rounded solution to network services monitoring and includes more than common port monitors. Other categories of monitors available are:
ipMonitor includes several monitors available from an intuitive dashboard where you can view your monitor categories in one place. From user-end bandwidth to device temperature to Active Directory responsiveness, ipMonitor can help you create a more efficient network.
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Use visualization for common port metrics, with graphical insights available on your centralized dashboard.
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