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SolarWinds ipMonitor

Overview

What is SolarWinds ipMonitor?

SolarWinds ipMonitor is a lightweight performance monitoring tool. It enables monitoring from a single console and out-of-the-box visibility, with some automation available.

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SolarWinds ipMonitor is highly regarded for its fault and availability monitoring capabilities, which are crucial for ensuring the smooth …
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Great resource!!!

9 out of 10
July 03, 2020
I have utilized IP monitor for smaller network projects for over the past 10 years and it has assisted with giving some visibility into …
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ipMonitor Review

9 out of 10
October 24, 2019
Incentivized
We are using it within the IT office to monitor uptime of equipment and services. This has significantly helped to improve uptime and …
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Popular Features

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  • Alerts (23)
    8.2
    82%
  • Network monitoring (24)
    8.0
    80%
  • Network mapping (19)
    6.6
    66%
  • Customizable reports (23)
    4.2
    42%
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Pricing

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ipMonitor - 500 Monitors

$1570

On Premise
installation

ipMonitor - 1000 Monitors

$2620

On Premise
installation

ipMonitor -2500 Monitors

$5770

On Premise
installation

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.solarwinds.com/ip-monitor

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Network Performance Monitoring

A network performance monitoring system monitors the entire network for performance problems and collects performance data such as network traffic analysis performance bottlenecks, etc.

6.7
Avg 8.2
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Product Details

What is SolarWinds ipMonitor?

SolarWinds ipMonitor is a centralized monitoring tool. It offers a lightweight program for agentless monitoring from a single console for performance and availability of networks, servers, and applications. IpMonitor can be up and running in minutes for out-of-the-box visibility into systems environment through a web interface. IpMonitor offers some automation, including network auto-discovery and remediation actions.

SolarWinds ipMonitor Features

Network Performance Monitoring Features

  • Supported: Automated network device discovery
  • Supported: Network monitoring
  • Supported: Alerts
  • Supported: Network mapping
  • Supported: Customizable reports

SolarWinds ipMonitor Screenshots

Screenshot of Screenshot of Screenshot of Easy to navigate GUI interfaceScreenshot of Remediation FunctionalityScreenshot of Network Discovery Wizard

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SolarWinds ipMonitor Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo

SolarWinds ipMonitor Downloadables

Frequently Asked Questions

SolarWinds ipMonitor is a lightweight performance monitoring tool. It enables monitoring from a single console and out-of-the-box visibility, with some automation available.

PRTG Network Monitor, Nagios Core, and Zabbix are common alternatives for SolarWinds ipMonitor.

Reviewers rate Alerts highest, with a score of 8.2.

The most common users of SolarWinds ipMonitor are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

SolarWinds ipMonitor is highly regarded for its fault and availability monitoring capabilities, which are crucial for ensuring the smooth operation of business-critical components. Users rely on the tool's wider visibility and 24/7 monitoring to detect and address issues with remote network devices, critical application services, and URLs. Adding new devices to ipMonitor for monitoring purposes is a seamless process, contributing to its ease of use. While some customers may not heavily utilize ipMonitor, they appreciate its significant impact on their organization and consider it a game-changer in the IT sector. The tool's automatic remediation feature helps mitigate downtime caused by failures.

ipMonitor excels in monitoring EC2 instances on Amazon, providing highly responsive resource monitoring. It offers basic network and system monitoring functionalities that prove invaluable for small to medium networks, particularly in IT departments. Troubleshooting network and system problems becomes more efficient with ipMonitor, although it does not offer the same extensive functionalities as SolarWinds NPM. Over the past decade, the tool has provided users with visibility and reporting capabilities for network projects. It serves as both a local monitoring solution and complements the Orion Network Performance Monitor. For IT departments seeking to oversee the status of network devices and minimize response time, ipMonitor saves time by providing automated monitoring similar to a NOC.

IT professionals rely on SolarWinds ipMonitor to monitor servers, services, and devices via SNMP and Ping protocols. The tool ensures server performance by tracking essential aspects such as ping response, resource usage, and service availability. In addition to observing performance, ipMonitor excels in detecting critical problems throughout the entire infrastructure of a business network. With its scalability and variety of tools and features, ipMonitor is utilized in PROD/DEV environments to manage IP addresses, DNS zones, VLAN zones, alert unresponsive services, and identify system failures.

The simplicity of setting up and configuring ipMonitor makes it an affordable choice for small and medium businesses. Users appreciate the product's simplicity and the support provided by SolarWinds. The ability to display system sensors on a wall TV screen improves uptime and response time, further enhancing operational efficiency. Data centers also leverage ipMonitor to ensure the operational status of critical services and servers. Finally, SolarWinds ipMonitor is used to analyze network traffic flow for switches in various technology departments, providing valuable insights into network performance.

Comprehensive Network Monitoring: Many users have praised ipMonitor for its comprehensive network monitoring capabilities. They mentioned that the software can monitor network flow with great detail and accuracy, providing valuable insights into network performance.

Vendor-Agnostic Compatibility: Several reviewers highlighted ipMonitor's compatibility with all vendors. They appreciated that the software can work with different network devices and vendors, allowing for centralized monitoring of the entire network using a single application.

Efficient Log Analysis: Users have found ipMonitor's log file capture and analysis to be quick and accurate. This feature enables efficient troubleshooting and identification of network issues, enhancing the overall performance of the system.

Outdated and unintuitive UI: Several users have mentioned that the product's user interface is outdated and not intuitive, causing difficulties in navigating through the software. They have found it challenging to use due to its lack of modern design elements and user-friendly features.

Slow scan times: Users have reported that scans in the product can sometimes take a very long time, resulting in delays when trying to complete tasks. This issue has been highlighted by multiple reviewers who emphasize the need for improved scanning performance to enhance productivity.

Overwhelming configuration options: Some users felt overwhelmed by the numerous configuration options available in the product, making it difficult to navigate and configure to their specific needs. Simplifying the configuration process or providing clearer guidance on how to utilize these options effectively would greatly alleviate this concern.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Umair Mehboob | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have deployed all our EC2 instances on Amazon and ipMonitor was used to monitor all the instances. ipMonitor is a very responsive tool in terms of monitoring your resources. We had in-house and cloud-based resources which were monitored through ipMonitor and the best part was the responsiveness. We were monitoring the server health checks with storage and resources usage through ipMonitor.
  • Server Health Checks
  • Website responses
  • Applications monitoring
  • Costing
  • Scope of monitoring must be customised
  • SNMP configuration needs to be more simple
ipMonitor is well suited if you only want to monitor the server health, website responses, and applications health. ipMonitor serves you well in case you do not want to install agents in client machines as this will communicate through the SNMP port. In case, you need to customize the monitoring tool, you cannot perform it with ipMonitor. Adding host in ipMonitor may be a little tricky.
Rekha Yadav | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SolarWinds ipMonitor is being used as simple fault and availability monitoring of our remote network devices IP and some of the critical application services and URLs. This tool has a wider visibility in terms of operations as there is a quick response team aligned and monitoring objects very closely and 24*7 of business critical components.
  • network Monitroing
  • Servers and Services Monitoring
  • Alerting and reports
  • Modern Dashboard
  • More custom capabilities of monitoring
  • Detailed network monitoring such as for netflow
  • Integration with 3rd party tools
  • integration with native SolarWinds on-premises products
SolarWinds ipMonitor is well suited in situation where customer do not wants to hold the responsibility of underlying monitoring infrastructure management such as Servers, Database, website and their high availability. And of course when you need Network, Servers, Services fault and performance monitoring. When you have specialized network monitoring requirement such as Configuration backup, netflow traffic analysis then this is not the right tool.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We're using SolarWinds ipMonitor, in addition to other SolarWinds modules such as Application monitor and Network Performance monitor, since 2017 as our global solution for monitoring.
It's been used to monitor connectivity status (response to ping, usage, availability) of thousands of network equipment and servers from all our sites in more than 40 countries. It's also configured to alert the proper technicians/analysts/teams responsible for each equipment.
  • Monitoring/alerting.
  • Reporting/dashboards.
  • Ping and service monitor.
  • Equipment discovery.
  • Could have a more friendly user interface (SLW platform is very complex in general speaking).
  • Alerts could be more flexible and easy to configure.
It does a pretty decent job when it comes to monitoring. It is able to monitor a wide range of protocols/services (ICMP, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP) and it has a good set of configurations for alerting. Of course, there are some 'more-flexible' tools and easier to manage, but SolarWinds ipMon is also a good choice.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IPMonitor to monitor all of our servers, both production, and test for various things such as response to ping, resource usage, service availability, and to alert the proper staff when needed.
  • Monitoring servers and services.
  • Alerting on change of state.
  • Reporting historical data on availability.
  • Sometimes it is difficult to stop IPMon from alerting on regular usage that spikes resources.
IPMon is well suited to monitor server resource usage and uptime. It does this job perfectly. If you want to get more involved custom alerting, it can get a little tricky. Also, the historical data is not stored in a way that is easily exportable for outside reporting.
October 24, 2019

ipMonitor Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using it within the IT office to monitor uptime of equipment and services. This has significantly helped to improve uptime and response time as needed. We are very happy with the product and would recommend it. I am sure there are other products that have more bells and whistles but SolarWinds ipMonitor does more than people think.
  • Ping monitor.
  • Service monitor.
  • Reporting. It makes it so much easier for board reports on uptime.
  • More complex monitoring.
  • Could be a touch easier to manage.
Good for monitoring pings, SMTP, HTTP, HTTPS. The ping monitor has been critical for business operations. We can figure out very quickly if a building or floor is down. After ping, being able to monitor certain services has been helpful with different systems and deliverables for the IT team. Reporting is simple to configure and use effectively.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Department level. Monitoring about 80 servers. Configured to monitor ping, selected services start/stop, CPU and RAM levels, notify engineers of trouble or impending trouble.
  • Monitoring of server basic status items like ping, memory and CPU levels. Configuring alerts based on event log event IDs. If you don't need the advanced features of some other monitoring systems, ipMonitor is much simpler to configure and use.
  • Configuration is simple and easy, menus are clear and simple to follow. Alerting is straightforward to configure also.
  • Switched to Idera because of a need in the department for more advanced features such as triggering scripts for certain events. The downside is it is much more complex to configure and use.
For basic monitoring, ipMonitor is easy to configure and use. At the simpler end of the scale, I would highly recommend it. If you have a need for more advanced features and complexity like triggering scripts in response to events then another product might be required.
Mike Maner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use ipMonitor to manage our monitoring of software and hardware resources network-wide.
  • ipMonitor is well suited to use SNMP sources to monitor up states and usage such as network interfaces
  • ipMonitor does a great job of measuring bandwidth usage and delivering a long term 'picture' of usage
  • ipMonitor has an exceptional interface that is easy to use and simple to navigate
  • ipMonitor network maps could be simpler to manage and have more options for device representation
If you are looking for a way to 'set it & forget it' with regards to network hardware and software, ipMonitor is for you. It's a perfect mechanism for monitoring usage and up states network-wide.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SolarWinds is used in the Technology department to analyze network traffic flow for all switches throughout the district.
  • Network monitoring. Can monitor network flow with great detail and accuracy.
  • Vendor agnostic monitor and log analysis. It works with all of our vendors and I can use a single application to monitor my network instead of three separate pieces.
  • Log file capture and analysis is quick and accurate.
  • Auto capture of devices across the network is time consuming
  • Setting up rules and permissions
  • Distributed roles and responsibilities can be a little too confined to a determined box
The price of the solution brings it to the top of any evaluation list. With the services that are provided, it is an easy purchase for all the advantages it provides.
Christian Gaarn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The entire organization is using IPmonitor for the monitoring of servers and some services, via SNMP and Ping.
  • The default dashboard is well designed and simple to use. It shows what is needed at-a-glance.
  • The setup of new servers is simple and I like the process explorer functionality
  • "Top 10" lists are useful
  • I find some of the reporting visualizations confusing when drilling down to devices and seeing availability and response times.
A simple setup, and monitor creation is good -- but customization is more difficult
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