SolarWinds

It is my pleasure to announce General Availability of Solarwinds Engineer’s Toolset (ETS) v11, the most innovative release in many years history of this product. First, let’s take a look at what is completely new in v11: Toolset on the Web As many of you requested tighter integration of ETS to our single plane of […]

NTM 2.2 is out the door and we’re hard at work on the next release.  Here’s some of the stuff we’re working on: The list is short because we’re currently thinking about what we’d like to focus on in the next release.  Have an idea?  We’d love to hear about it!  Add it here: PLEASE […]

SolarWinds have reached the Release Candidate (RC) status for Log & Event Manager (LEM) 6.3. RC is the last step before general availability and is a chance for existing customers to get the newest functionality before it is available to everyone else. The RC contains the following enhancements: Single sign-on (SSO)/smart card integration. Update to […]

APM includes several ways to monitor files.  For many users, there are business critical files that must be present and unchanged.  If the file is changed or deleted, a critical incident has occurred. How do you know if a file is still there?  The File Existence Monitor is a straightforward monitor that will periodically check […]

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Storage Resource Monitor 6.3. This version includes the following enhancements: Support for EMC XtremIO arrays Support for Pure Storage arrays Storage Resource Monitor 6.3 is available for download in your customer portal for those customers under active Storage Resource Monitor maintenance. You can view the full […]

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Kiwi CatTools 3.11. This version includes the following enhancements: IPv6 support SSL/TLS email support Variations for HP.Switch.2500, RedHat Linux, Checkpoint VPN & Huawei General HP Procurve software updates ARP report support for Checkpoint firewalls. Kiwi CatTools 3.11 is available for download in your customer portal for […]

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Network Configuration Manager 7.5. This version includes the following enhancements: F5 LTM/GTM User Configuration Set (UCS) backup & restore F5 LTM/GTM inventory reports F5 LTM/GTM DISA STIG reports Binary configuration support NetPath integration Network Configuration Manager 7.5 is available for download in your customer portal for […]

FSM is a new product, now part of the SolarWinds portfolio, which can perform analysis and reporting around security rules that are in your firewall and router configurations. Even though the product is called “Firewall Security Manager”, it is also very much applicable to the security rules of your routers. So think of “Firewall” as […]

  It took longer than usual to build this release but I can honestly say this is our biggest release in years. NPM 12 is almost ready. NetPath NetPath started as something we were fiddling with in the lab. We came up with some really cool tech tidbits like: Discovering the entire, complex path that […]

We have reached the Release Candidate (RC) status for Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) 6.3. RC is the last step before general availability and is a chance for existing customers to get the newest functionality before it is available to everyone else. This RC contains the following enhancements: Support for EMC XtremIO arrays Support for Pure […]

If you have used Network Topology Mapper, you know it’s of great use for visually seeing and tracking changes of your network, onto a map. In past blogs we have highlighted how NTM integrates with NPM. If you missed it you can check out my blog post here. For this blog, we will see how […]

I am excited to announce that Database Performance analyzer 10.1 with support for Oracle 12c multitenant is now available in the customer portal and for free evaluation from the SolarWinds Website. What’s so special about DPA 10.1?  Let’s take a look! Support for Oracle 12c Multitenant Monitor Oracle Pluggable Databses (PDBs) Automatic Grouping of PDBs […]

Not all virtual environments are alike, the default out-of-the-box configuration of the virtual appliance is not necessarily best suited to environments of all sizes, and those particularly large environments may want to consider adjusting some of those default settings for optimal performance.  To take advantage of the features that have been added to VMAN over […]

Microsoft’s Windows Management Instrumentation, better known as WMI, is powerful remote API that’s available with all Windows desktop and server operating systems since Windows NT 4.0. It’s enabled by default and requires no configuration to utilize. It’s this simplicity, coupled with the vast array of valuable system information that makes it invaluable for agentlessly monitoring […]