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Enterprise Application & Server Management Software

It’s the stuff legends are made of: a portfolio of products that gives you the bottoms up, tops down management you need to tame system complexity – at a price that won’t leave you trembling. Whether you’re tracking down the cause of elusive events in your data center or in the cloud, we have all the tools you need to make performance problems turn tail faster than a Yeti trying to escape a camera.

To aid in this quest, we’ve expanded our footprint in systems management with two new additions to the SolarWinds family and updates to two of your old favorites. Together, these products definitively prove that it can be easy and affordable to deliver amazing performance and availability for your “always on” server and application environment. Unfortunately, you’re still on your own when it comes to convincing your buddies that you really did see a large, furry, woodlands creature in the server room.

Server & Application Monitor

(formerly Application Performance Monitor)

Starts at $2495

It’s been spotted in the wild… and is coming soon to a datacenter near you. Our new Server & Application Monitor, formerly known as Application Performance Monitor, is getting a new name that does justice to all of the incredible server and app management features packed into its latest release.

With agentless performance and availability monitoring for hundreds of applications and hardware types, you’ll get the management, alerting, and reporting you need to keep your servers and apps running at peak performance.

COMING SOON! Monitor the health of Dell®, HP®, and IBM® servers and the underlying hardware for your VMware® hosts, achieving valuable insight into environmental data, hardware status, intrusion detection, and more
Perform agentless availability and performance monitoring for virtually all of your applications, servers, operating systems, network services, and system components
Simplify application and server management with a best-in-class web interface that is truly LUCID™ (Logical, Useable, Customizable, Interactive, & Drill-down)
COMING SOON! Troubleshoot server issues faster with real-time visibility into the active processes running on problematic systems
Get immediate value with extensive expert knowledge templates, plus out-of-the-box dashboards, alerts, and reports
Leverage business service views and configurable alerting for fast root-cause analysis

Patch Manager – NEW PRODUCT!

Starts at $1195

We know that patch management can be a frustrating task that inspires fear and loathing. So we acquired leading technology from EminentWare to build our new Patch Manager. You’ll change your tune about patch management after you experience how much time this product can save you! We even provide you with pre-built, pre-tested, third-party patches and make them super easy for you to deploy to your servers and workstations. Go ahead – experience the joy of patch management!

Automate patching applications across tens of thousands of servers and workstations
Receive automatic notifications of new third-party patches from leading vendors like Adobe®, Apple®, Google®, Mozilla®, and Sun Microsystems®; then deploy our pre-built, pre-tested patches to save tons of time
Use PackageBoot™ technology to execute custom actions before and after patches are deployed so that you can rest assured that even the peskiest of patches gets deployed correctly (and doesn’t break anything in the process)
Manage updates dynamically, pushing the right patches to the right machines at the right time
Perform enterprise-wide discovery and inventory quickly and identify rogue, unauthorized, and unpatched computers instantly
Get visibility into patch compliance with an extensive collection of simple, built-in reports
Leverage your existing WSUS and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) deployments

Synthetic End User Monitor

Starts at $1995

Synthetic End User Monitor takes the mystery out of tracking the response time and health of your critical web applications, so that you can shine a light on issues before your users do.With just a push of a button, a recorder captures the steps involved in a web transaction and saves them to a test that can run every 5 minutes. The latest version even makes it quick and easy for you to deploy tests to the cloud and run synthetic transactions whenever you see fit!

Continuously monitor user experience and response time from multiple locations for internal (behind the firewall), customer-facing, SaaS, and cloud-based applications
Record tests with the push of a button and run automated tests at frequent intervals
Quickly and inexpensively deploy transaction players to Amazon® EC2 with the Cloud Player Portal and run synthetic transactions from the cloud whenever you want to
Measure independent step latency for more effective troubleshooting
Record and playback rich content, including Flash® and Silverlight®

Server & Application Monitor

(formerly Application Performance Monitor)

Starts at $2495

Even if your apps are running, that doesn’t mean your users are happy. That’s why our new Server & Application Monitor, formerly known as Application Performance Monitor, combines powerful availability monitoring with the ability to measure application performance from an end user’s perspective. Finally you can minimize help desk tickets (and whining) by getting visibility into end user experience!

Continually measure response time for mission-critical applications to better understand what your users are experiencing right now
Leverage out-of-the-box user experience monitors and support for a host of applications and services, including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, DHCP, DNS, LDAP, POP3, IMAP4, MAPI, Microsoft® SQL Server®, Oracle®, and other ODBC databases
Monitor end user experience alongside hardware and application health for a complete view of the performance of your systems infrastructure via a best-in-class web interface that is truly LUCID™ (Logical, Useable, Customizable, Interactive, & Drill-down)
Get immediate insight into end user experience with out-of-the-box dashboards, alerts, and reports

DameWare Mini Remote Control – NEW TO SOLARWINDS!

Starts at $99

We proudly welcome DameWare Mini Remote Control (MRC) to the SolarWinds family! If you’re new to this legendary tool, it’s time to discover why tens of thousands of sysadmins swear by it to remotely manage all of the Windows® machines on their LANs and WANs. In just a matter of seconds, Mini Remote Control gives you the control to do remotely what used to require logging into the box physically. Seriously!

Remotely take complete control over any machine on your LAN or WAN (across town, across the country, or even around the world) in a matter of seconds
Perform "on the fly" deployment of the client agent service to remote machines, eliminating the need to physically install the software
Manage all of the machines in your environment – regardless of whether that’s 10 or 10,000 – with a single license
Keep things safe with extensive security and encryption features
Employ multiple secure authentication methods, including the ability to perform an interactive smart card login and remote smart card authentication

DameWare NT Utilities – NEW TO SOLARWINDS!

Starts at $349

The competition shudders in the shadow of this giant set of system administration utilities! DameWare NT Utilities not only includes Mini Remote Control (see above for details), but also gives you a wide array of trusted desktop tools to provide you with even more remote Windows management power.

Use the built-in Mini Remote Control to remotely and securely manage any Windows machine on your network without leaving the comfort of your desk or disrupting your users
Save time with a powerful collection of utilities for remotely managing Windows servers and workstations, Active Directory®, users and groups, files and directories, printers, Windows events, and more
Export detailed information from remote machines to create reports for inventory management
Open multiple views of the same machine or different machines simultaneously
Remotely manage multiple Active Directory sites from your workstation via an easy-to-use interface – without being logged into the domain

Server & Application Monitor

(formerly Application Performance Monitor)

Starts at $2495

Our new Server & Application Monitor, formerly known as Application Performance Monitor, delivers powerful, out-of-the-box dashboards for monitoring the health of critical applications, including Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server®, IIS, and more.

Finally, you can get a clear picture of those misbehaving processes that you always knew existed, but didn’t have the goods to prove. And that’s just the beginning of the wonder this comprehensive systems management product holds in store for you!

Achieve amazing – and immediate – visibility into Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server®, IIS, Windows®, Linux®, and more with out-of-the-box templates that have extensive expert knowledge built-in to provide guidance on what to monitor, why, and where to set optimal thresholds
Drill down into detailed application performance data, as well as the health of the supporting hardware, using a best-in-class web interface that is truly LUCID™ (Logical, Useable, Customizable, Interactive, & Drill-down)
Be notified of Active Directory and Exchange problems before they impact your users with out-of-the-box alerts
Generate reports quickly and easily to illustrate trends, capacity needs, and historical performance over specific time periods

DameWare NT Utilities – NEW TO SOLARWINDS!

Starts at $349

Every sysadmin needs a Swiss army knife to survive in the systems management wilds.Meet DameWare NT Utilities.For years, this product has delivered a trusted array of desktop tools to tens of thousands of sysadmins on their daily trek to achieve systems greatness. It’s a one-stop shop for not only managing Active Directory® and Exchange, but also users, groups, servers, and printers.You’ll get all of this – plus some formidable remote troubleshooting tools – at an unbelievably low price.

Access a powerful, centralized collection of utilities for remotely managing Windows servers and workstations, Active Directory, Exchange, and more
Remotely manage multiple Active Directory sites via an easy-to-use interface – without being logged into the domain
Leverage the powerful Active Directory Object Browser to search, create, delete, browse, and filter objects such as organizational units, users, groups, contacts, shared folders, and computers
Remotely manage Microsoft Exchange mailboxes and create mail-enabled Active Directory objects
Use advanced picture and logo management functionality to turn Active Directory into a true user database
Extend your systems management reach with the ability to remotely control any machine on the network using the built-in Mini Remote Control

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