Modern networks are constantly changing environments, and you need solutions to help make IT monitoring a simple and pain-free experience.
SolarWinds® ipMonitor® is a comprehensive IT monitoring tool designed to collect and analyze valuable performance data from your networked devices and infrastructure, providing you with actionable insights for troubleshooting issues and stabilizing performance as efficiently as possible. ipMonitor is also agentless and lightweight, using a built-in web server and database for simple setup.
ipMonitor includes a smart notification system with more than a dozen alert types, organized to keep you up to date on critical and non-threatening issues alike. Alerts are also highly configurable, allowing you to specify the critical performance thresholds triggering notifications. You can select whether to send notifications as SMS or email messages or event log files, and which team members should be updated based on the issue type.
ipMonitor also includes automatic recovery capabilities, enabling you to decide how the tool responds when it detects an issue. In the event of a failure, ipMonitor can help you minimize downtime and response time by automatically triggering server reboots, restarts for applications or services, or by running scripts. This takes care of non-critical issues while your team attends to more important problems.
Featuring a full-screen NOC view, ipMonitor includes reporting capabilities to help translate data the tool collects into easy-to-understand summaries and status reports. The reporting interface provides zoomable point-and-shoot functionality, allowing you to examine performance over specific timeframes or for particular network events and to drill down into network groups for granular analysis. The tool is built to give you the information you need to quickly determine the root cause of an issue and to resolve the problem.
ipMonitor provides comprehensive monitoring for your entire network, including applications and servers. Out of the box, ipMonitor is built to quickly detect your infrastructure and recommends the ideal monitoring and data collection settings for networks, servers, VMware hosts, applications, and other services. This minimizes the need for manually configuring settings and helps provide round-the-clock monitoring and insights into the status and performance of critical system resources and services.
IT monitoring software refers to applications, tools, and other services providing visibility into the status and performance of networked devices, servers, and applications. This allows you to proactively troubleshoot potential issues and detected problems, and to ensure the network is operating at its specified service levels.
IT monitors can offer a range of functions, from straightforward status checks to granular monitoring of valuable performance metrics. Some IT monitoring options incorporate automation capabilities to streamline the troubleshooting and repair processes.
IT monitors also allow for observation, data collection, and analysis of resource usage across networks. The CPU, RAM, and disk utilization of devices and equipment are a few of the critical performance metrics that can be indicative of potential issues or inefficiencies. IT monitors enable you to quickly check the performance of and to receive status updates from a single console about devices connected to the network.
IT monitors typically include tools for observing, analyzing, and engaging with network devices. At their most basic, IT monitors include observational tools, which run performance checks on applications, devices, and services and deliver those findings. Availability, infrastructure, application performance, and web performance monitoring solutions are also examples of observational IT monitors.
IT monitoring software with analytic capabilities introduces a greater degree of complexity and control to network management. These tools collect observational data from devices and equipment and then analyze the data to reveal root causes of performance problems, provide insight as to why certain problems are recurring, and can even use historical data and trends to predict where future issues are likely to occur.
Engagement capabilities provide the final piece of the puzzle, allowing you to use the observed and analyzed data as the basis for remediation efforts. Service tickets or configurable alerts deliver notifications to key players and technicians when certain critical performance thresholds are reached. Tools may also include the ability to back up or reboot devices as needed.
One of the most significant reasons to implement a robust IT monitoring solution is it enables you to become more proactive with network management and protecting business productivity and security.
Rather than waiting on a device to encounter issues or fail—which can result in expensive and damaging downtime if business-critical systems are affected—you can use IT monitoring tools to anticipate problems before they impact business operations. Monitoring solutions can help keep you aware of current issues, larger historical performance patterns, and suspicious conditions.
Since IT monitors can also collect observational data, which is foundational to analysis and faster troubleshooting and resolution, these solutions help ensure networks, servers, applications, and data are kept secure. Overall, a properly implemented and utilized IT monitoring solution helps provide reliable services and business stability.
By collecting and analyzing performance data, IT monitoring software grants visibility into operations and performance patterns and provides the information necessary for troubleshooting and business planning.
IT monitoring tools can be leveraged to perform several critical functions, including:
IT monitors need to include a range of specific features to function as an effective solution. The following are a few of the key features of a comprehensive IT monitoring solution:
Real-time data collection and analysis. This capability is key for ensuring ongoing visibility into the network. Functional networks require various hardware and software operating at optimal efficiency. But it can be difficult to manually monitor and maintain too many elements. An IT monitor tracks data from these network elements and provides insight into current performance (and historical performance over time).
Automatic discovery and mapping. IT monitoring tools should include a range of automated features, including discovery and mapping. Given that networks aren’t static environments, automatic discovery of new nodes is helpful for ensuring an up-to-date overview. Similarly, automatically updated network maps can provide easy-to-understand and accurate graphic interpretations of network connections and dependencies.
Alerting. Alerts can be useful for several reasons—such as keeping you up to date on unusual activity or network performance metrics reaching critical thresholds. The ability to configure alerts is also important. This allows you to efficiently send alerts to appropriate stakeholders based on area of specialty or to triage issues based on level of severity. This also helps to establish essential and nonessential pipelines for greater operational efficiency and business stability.
Issue remediation. Issue remediation is another area where IT monitoring tools should take advantage of the benefits of automation. It’s one thing to have identified an issue, and it’s another thing entirely to be able to fix it—especially without manual input. By relegating routine, non-critical, or error-prone tasks to the automated functions of an IT monitor, you can work on critical, higher-value concerns and issues requiring greater problem-solving skills.
Scalable. Scalable. Network monitoring software should also be highly scalable. As network topology shifts and expands, tools should keep pace with systems and configurations. While some monitoring tools impose a cap on the number of device and equipment nodes they can monitor, look for a solution providing unlimited monitoring.
Out of the box, SolarWinds ipMonitor provides IT monitoring coverage for your network infrastructure—without the need for agents or additional installations. As an IT monitor, ipMonitor is built to provide critical visibility into essential hardware and services, allowing you to monitor the availability and performance of workstations, routers, servers, virtual machines, applications, and more from a single pane of glass.
ipMonitor also includes customizable reporting capabilities designed to make it easier to examine performance metrics over set time periods and to pinpoint the cause of patterns or issues. Reports can be scheduled to run and deliver on a routine basis as needed.
ipMonitor incorporates automatically updated maps to help provide a quick visual overview of devices, servers, and applications across the network. You can view node statuses and drill down on individual nodes for more insight into issues.
ipMonitor is designed to be easy and intuitive to use, offering both automatic device discovery and automatic suggestions for which metrics to monitor based on device and application type. The smart alerting system includes more than a dozen different notification types and provides rapid, highly configurable updates about network issues.
A useful feature of ipMonitor is its automatic remediation, allowing you to set up actions to occur without manual intervention. These actions can include restarting failed applications or Windows services, rebooting servers, running scripts, and backing up files as needed.
IT monitoring software refers to applications, tools, and other services providing visibility into the status and performance of networked devices, servers, and applications. This allows you to proactively troubleshoot potential issues and detected problems, and to ensure the network is operating at its specified service levels.
IT monitors can offer a range of functions, from straightforward status checks to granular monitoring of valuable performance metrics. Some IT monitoring options incorporate automation capabilities to streamline the troubleshooting and repair processes.
IT monitors also allow for observation, data collection, and analysis of resource usage across networks. The CPU, RAM, and disk utilization of devices and equipment are a few of the critical performance metrics that can be indicative of potential issues or inefficiencies. IT monitors enable you to quickly check the performance of and to receive status updates from a single console about devices connected to the network.
IT monitors typically include tools for observing, analyzing, and engaging with network devices. At their most basic, IT monitors include observational tools, which run performance checks on applications, devices, and services and deliver those findings. Availability, infrastructure, application performance, and web performance monitoring solutions are also examples of observational IT monitors.
IT monitoring software with analytic capabilities introduces a greater degree of complexity and control to network management. These tools collect observational data from devices and equipment and then analyze the data to reveal root causes of performance problems, provide insight as to why certain problems are recurring, and can even use historical data and trends to predict where future issues are likely to occur.
Engagement capabilities provide the final piece of the puzzle, allowing you to use the observed and analyzed data as the basis for remediation efforts. Service tickets or configurable alerts deliver notifications to key players and technicians when certain critical performance thresholds are reached. Tools may also include the ability to back up or reboot devices as needed.
One of the most significant reasons to implement a robust IT monitoring solution is it enables you to become more proactive with network management and protecting business productivity and security.
Rather than waiting on a device to encounter issues or fail—which can result in expensive and damaging downtime if business-critical systems are affected—you can use IT monitoring tools to anticipate problems before they impact business operations. Monitoring solutions can help keep you aware of current issues, larger historical performance patterns, and suspicious conditions.
Since IT monitors can also collect observational data, which is foundational to analysis and faster troubleshooting and resolution, these solutions help ensure networks, servers, applications, and data are kept secure. Overall, a properly implemented and utilized IT monitoring solution helps provide reliable services and business stability.
By collecting and analyzing performance data, IT monitoring software grants visibility into operations and performance patterns and provides the information necessary for troubleshooting and business planning.
IT monitoring tools can be leveraged to perform several critical functions, including:
IT monitors need to include a range of specific features to function as an effective solution. The following are a few of the key features of a comprehensive IT monitoring solution:
Real-time data collection and analysis. This capability is key for ensuring ongoing visibility into the network. Functional networks require various hardware and software operating at optimal efficiency. But it can be difficult to manually monitor and maintain too many elements. An IT monitor tracks data from these network elements and provides insight into current performance (and historical performance over time).
Automatic discovery and mapping. IT monitoring tools should include a range of automated features, including discovery and mapping. Given that networks aren’t static environments, automatic discovery of new nodes is helpful for ensuring an up-to-date overview. Similarly, automatically updated network maps can provide easy-to-understand and accurate graphic interpretations of network connections and dependencies.
Alerting. Alerts can be useful for several reasons—such as keeping you up to date on unusual activity or network performance metrics reaching critical thresholds. The ability to configure alerts is also important. This allows you to efficiently send alerts to appropriate stakeholders based on area of specialty or to triage issues based on level of severity. This also helps to establish essential and nonessential pipelines for greater operational efficiency and business stability.
Issue remediation. Issue remediation is another area where IT monitoring tools should take advantage of the benefits of automation. It’s one thing to have identified an issue, and it’s another thing entirely to be able to fix it—especially without manual input. By relegating routine, non-critical, or error-prone tasks to the automated functions of an IT monitor, you can work on critical, higher-value concerns and issues requiring greater problem-solving skills.
Scalable. Scalable. Network monitoring software should also be highly scalable. As network topology shifts and expands, tools should keep pace with systems and configurations. While some monitoring tools impose a cap on the number of device and equipment nodes they can monitor, look for a solution providing unlimited monitoring.
Out of the box, SolarWinds ipMonitor provides IT monitoring coverage for your network infrastructure—without the need for agents or additional installations. As an IT monitor, ipMonitor is built to provide critical visibility into essential hardware and services, allowing you to monitor the availability and performance of workstations, routers, servers, virtual machines, applications, and more from a single pane of glass.
ipMonitor also includes customizable reporting capabilities designed to make it easier to examine performance metrics over set time periods and to pinpoint the cause of patterns or issues. Reports can be scheduled to run and deliver on a routine basis as needed.
ipMonitor incorporates automatically updated maps to help provide a quick visual overview of devices, servers, and applications across the network. You can view node statuses and drill down on individual nodes for more insight into issues.
ipMonitor is designed to be easy and intuitive to use, offering both automatic device discovery and automatic suggestions for which metrics to monitor based on device and application type. The smart alerting system includes more than a dozen different notification types and provides rapid, highly configurable updates about network issues.
A useful feature of ipMonitor is its automatic remediation, allowing you to set up actions to occur without manual intervention. These actions can include restarting failed applications or Windows services, rebooting servers, running scripts, and backing up files as needed.
ipMonitor
Auto-discover new devices and update network maps—without user input
Configure smart alerts to get real-time updates on performance issues
Drill down into historical performance data for deeper understandings of long-term trends