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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
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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 Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

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.

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Reviews

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Anil Pratap Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SolarWinds ipMonitor is simple to administer and has a significant effect on the organization. It is simple to monitor the various IP addresses found inside the organization, and there is no need to do any kind of manual inspection. This tool is a game-changer for the IT sector. Downtime caused by failures may be mitigated using this solution's automatic remediation to restore services, which might include restarting servers, restoring files, and more.
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.
Emma Jones Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SolarWinds ipMonitor is used at the level of the entire infrastructure of our business network. It helps us to carry out the monitoring of each of our network devices, servers, and applications, which facilitates us to observe their performance and to be able to find where, how and when critical problems occur in our network. Its interface is simple and very easy to use and gives the advantage of being able to view, from a single console, the status of the entire infrastructure that is monitored 24/7. We not only observe performance but also we are aware of any device that wishes to harm the network.
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.
Dylan Eikelenboom | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SolarWinds ipMonitor is a monitoring tool for all devices in your internal network. We use it for checking the performance of the devices, as well as monitoring for unknown/rogue devices in the internal network. Any new device in the network will be added to our ipMonitor tool.
Arnab Mukherjee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SolarWinds ipMonitor provides basic Network and System Monitoring for small to medium n/w's. We have used it for monitoring equipment only for some of the departments (IT). It is used for troubleshooting network and system problems. It does not provide all the functionalities what SolarWinds NPM provides.
Nikhil Kumar Sharma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ipMonitor is being used to monitor the availability of network devices, servers and services remotely. Although, SolarWinds ipMonitor is not being used much our customers there are very few which are using still this is not a bad feedback since SolarWinds has other monitoring products are are quite effective and hence ipMonitor is very less used.
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.
July 03, 2020

Great resource!!!

Mike Mozola | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I have utilized IP monitor for smaller network projects for over the past 10 years and it has assisted with giving some visibility into the network and reporting that we were able to produce for burn-in monitoring to successfully complete projects. I have also used ipMonitor in addition to the Orion Network Performance Monitor for local monitoring on a safety system in case access to the centralized management system is unavailable.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use ipMonitor to help oversee the status of dozens of network devices across our organization by keeping track of things like performance, space and uptime. It saves the need to have to have to log in to every device to determine the status of a particular device. It's like having your own automated NOC.
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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use ipMonitor in our platform and infrastructure teams almost exclusively, though other users are able to view the data when needed. We use the application to alert for unresponsive services, the F5 pool status, if a server can ping, and the various other ways that a system or server can fail and that make sense to monitor.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We were looking for a little more out of our server monitoring and out wanted something off the shelf, and ipMonitor was a perfect fit. Easy server configuration, light weight, not overly demanding on resources and the support staff Solarwinds are great to deal with should you have an issue.

Jeremy Mayfield | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used to manage the IP addresses in the infrastructure. It helps manage the DNS zones and monitors for errors. Its allows us the ability to monitor each VLAN zone to better understand how well we are managing sprawl and rogue devices. We have found it to be very useful.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been using SolarWinds IpMonitor for about three years to monitor our infrastructure, mostly for network devices and servers. It is very easy to set up and configure, and I strongly believe is an affordable tool for small and medium businesses price wise.
IpMonitor is a tool we use to display vital system sensors on a wall TV screen in our IT department. It has a pretty informative interface with only the details we need for our operations.
Rob Bates | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ipmonitor is geared towards smaller environments. It's a great alternative product if you need additional monitoring on certain environments, which might fall outside your core monitoring platforms. We already use a lot of the SolarWinds products across the organization. We needed to monitor some DEV environments that we didn't place under our main monitoring umbrella.
February 11, 2019

ipMonitor

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our IT department uses SolarWinds ipMonitor for full network visibility. It allows us to keep tabs on the performance of our network devices and applications. We can configure alerts through various types of notifications to determine when issues arise.
Jason Martin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SolarWinds was brought into our PROD/DEV environments. The infrastructure was growing and we needed a solid product with back end support. A plus is the ability to rescale with a shopping cart full of free tools and further products you can add to the overall package. The NetFlow analyzer was awesome when it came out, we could see everything all shown as traffic flows. The ability to monitor Network, Hardware, and Databases for an infrastructure spanning 4 DC's and 3 different office's spread over hundreds of miles. They are constantly adding tools and features with a community forum that is always growing in depth, with solutions and support.
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We leverage SolarWinds ipMonitor in one of our data centers to ensure critical services and servers are operational in both our DMZ and internal network. The system proves accurate and immediate alerts, so our technicians can mitigate any downtime we are experiencing.
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