What is SolarWinds Tool? and All about SolarWinds Tool

As the networking domain is increasing day by day, more global, many companies need a proper network connection. For this they need some tool to give them information about their infra, they don’t know which device is up and which device is down, and in other cases, companies want their system support machine virtualization, hardware changes, and run an application across disparate data centers. To ensure these complex IT infra they need an infrastructure monitoring tool that is SolarWinds Tool.

SolarWinds Tool collects complete data from applications, servers, hardware, and other network components.

SolarWinds Tool also tracks CPU, Memory, Disk, Partition, Memory usage, Uptime, and response time. SolarWinds Tool also creates a log of actionable intelligence IT department it helps us to troubleshoot, Resource provisioning, and Capacity planning.

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Why SolarWind Tool is important for Monitoring?

The foundation of any IT company depends on its INfrasutucture if something happens to their infra like servers or routers then it all affects company review. If we don’t need any effect then we need to check each and every company devices which is used for production and for this manual check we need more man power to avoid more man power and time.

We switched to SolarWinds Tool this tool gives all information that is configured in the tool.

Infrastructure monitoring can also help your organization meet service level agreements (SLAs). IT department set SLA for the performance they can expect from the device, network, servers, and resources they use.

About SolarWinds Company

SolarWinds is an American company that develops software to help the company to manage their infrastructure and IT technology infrastructure. SolarWinds Head office situated in Austin, Texas.

SolarWinds Company is founded in May 1999 and the founder of the company is Donald Yonce, David Yoncethey. They have more than 3,200 employees and their yearly Revenue is near about $938.5 Millions. FOr more details go to their Official Website.

All about SolarWinds Tool

SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor (NPM) makes it easy to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve performance issues before outages occur. This affordable, easy-to-use tool delivers real-time views and dashboards that enable you to visually track and monitor network performance at a glance. Plus, using dynamic network topology maps and automated network discovery, you can deploy and keep up with your evolving network.

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It shows Real-time visibility and colored coded graphs make it easy to identify which device is in a critical state and which device is in a normal state. SolarWinds Tool has a robust alert system when any device is going to a critical state then it gives you an alert but if it is configured.

You can also see detailed information about your device in SolarWinds Tool with the help of graphs and maps with few clicks.

Network Performance Monitor

Simplifies detection, diagnosis, and resolution of network issues – before outages occur
Tracks response time, availability, and uptime of routers, switches, and other SNMP-enabled devices
Shows performance statistics in real-time via dynamic, drillable network maps
Includes out-of-the-box dashboards, alerts, reports, and expert guidance on what to monitor and how
Automatically discovers SNMP-enabled network devices and typically deploys in less than an hour

Features of SolarWinds Tool

1. Automated Network Device Discovery

Schedule network scans from an easy-to-use, Web-based discovery wizard; identifying new network devices and ensuring you are monitoring all of your critical equipment.

2. Multi-Vendor Device Support

Gain out-of-the-box, multi-vendor device support for today’s complex network environments. SolarWinds NPM monitors availability and performance statistics for any router, switch, firewall, VPN concentrator, wireless access point, and other devices that support standard protocols.

3. Hardware Health Monitoring

Get at-a-glance insight into the health of your network hardware by monitoring, alerting, and reporting on the state of key device sensors including temperature, fan speed, and power supply.

4. Intelligent Network Alerting

Quickly configure alerts for correlated events, sustained conditions, and complex combinations of device states. Topology and dependency-based alert suppression enable you to intelligently escalate alerts for issues that are truly critical.

5. SolarWinds Tool Drag-and-Discover Performance Charts

Accelerate and simplify network troubleshooting with real-time, interactive charts, and graphs of key device performance statistics.

6. Network Availability and Performance Monitoring

Deploy an array of network discovery tools including Port Scanner, Switch Port Mapper, and Advanced Subnet Calculator.

7. Network Monitoring

Monitor network device and interface availability and performance indicators, such as bandwidth utilization, packet loss, latency, errors, discards, CPU, and memory for SNMP and WMI-enabled devices.

8. Quick, Do-It-Yourself Deployment

Download, install, and deploy Network Performance Monitor in less than an hour, using three simple steps.

9. ConnectNow™ Network Mapping

Drag and drop network devices to custom network maps and automatically view connections between devices and their real-time status.

10. Intuitive LUCID Interface™

Simplify network troubleshooting with a Web interface that is Logical, Useable, Customizable, Interactive, and Drill-down (LUCID).

11. Centralized Message Center

Get a central view for all of the notification messages about your network’s performance so you can streamline troubleshooting with alerts, syslog data, events, traps, and other messages in a single interface.

12. Dynamic Service Groups

Group network devices by virtually any category and roll up network performance and service level status by location, business center, or any other grouping.

13. Customizable Performance and Availability Reports

Generate network performance reports using out-of-the-box templates that can be customized with a few mouse clicks; automating report creation and distribution.

14. Integrated Wireless Polling

Manage wireless thin and autonomous access points and their associated clients. Now SolarWinds NPM can monitor your wireless devices alongside your wired devices and provide you with alerts, reports, and Top 10 lists for your wireless infrastructure.

System Requirements for SolarWinds Tool

Hardware	Minimum requirements
CPU	3GHz
Memory	3GB RAM
Hard Drive	20GB, free disk space is recommended
Software	Minimum requirements
OS	Windows® 2003 & 2008 Server (32-bit or 64-bit) including R2, with IIS installed, running in 32-bit mode
.Net Framework	Database
Database	SQL Server® 2005 SP1 Express, Standard, Enterprise SQL Server 2008 Express, Standard, or Enterprise, or SQL Server 2008 R2

NOTE – The minimum server requirements listed assume default configuration. Significantly increasing the poll rate or statistic collection rate could result in additional load on the server, which may require a larger CPU or additional memory.

Recent update of SolarWinds Tool

Microsoft Confirm Breach as Part of SolarWinds Cyberattack

A widespread hack that took advantage of a back door in SolarWinds software has hit one of the world’s biggest technology companies, Microsoft, which has likened it to an “attack” on the country itself.

Like other SolarWinds customers, we have been actively looking for indicators of this actor and can confirm that we detected malicious Solar Winds binaries in our environment, which we isolated and removed,” said Microsoft spokesperson Frank Shaw on Twitter, confirming a Reuters report of the attack on Thursday.

The hack of the Austin-based SolarWinds was first reported on Sunday and may be the biggest to hit the U.S., with around 18,000 companies—including many on the S&P 500—and major U.S. government agencies swept up.

Cyber-Security Lessons from the SolarWinds Hack

Cyberattack done on Solarwinds most famous company of the software it compromised the system of several of the largest US public companies and government agencies.

“Software supply-chain risk is far from a new concept. Over the last decade, we’ve seen many instances of what happens when the supply chain is tampered with and subsequently tainted. What makes this problem intractable is that every business, whether they acknowledge it or not, relies on a software supply chain for both homegrown and third-party applications.”
Kunal Anand, Chief Technology Officer, Imperva

Cisco Latest Victim of Russian Cyber Attack Using Solar Winds Tools

Cisco Systems Inc. was compromised as part of a suspected Russian campaign that has roiled the U.S. government and private sector and left security experts across the country racing to assess the extent of the damage.

Some internal machines used by Cisco researchers were targeted, the networking equipment maker said. The company said its security team moved quickly to address the issue and that the “affected software” has been “mitigated.”