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ipMonitor
What Is ipMonitor?
SolarWinds ipMonitor is designed to provide essential, affordable IT monitoring for network devices, servers, and applications. From a single console, you can see the status of your devices, CPU, memory, and disk usage, and any performance issues with your critical processes. ipMonitor is lightweight and can typically be up and running in minutes. It's a self-contained, dependency-free solution that's built so you can skip the hassle and expense of additional components.
Who Uses ipMonitor?
Network admin/engineers, systems admins, IT admins, IT generalists, and application owners in companies that need lightweight, affordable monitoring.
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Reviews of ipMonitor
ipMonitor by SolarWinds
Comments: My techs love this software. it is run with Windows startup and their preferences and watched IP's load quickly and efficiently. They give anything SolarWinds a great big fat thumbs up! I on the other hand only know the basics of it, and know it gives me exactly what I want in regards to IP Monitoring on my desktop. (mind you my tech had to set it up for me...)
Pros:
Very much a large and robust piece of software. Gives me a lot of abilities to manage my IP network.
Cons:
Too many settings, didn't seem to have a basic user interface as opposed to having an advanced only user interface. Too many options for the layman.
Alternatives Considered:
ipMonitor no longer an enterprise product
Comments: When it was unhindered by the 500 monitor limitation, this was the best NOC product I've used to date. It was easy to configure, easy to monitor and act upon monitor status changes, and it required little administrative overhead once initialized. Now, with the limitations discussed above, it's relegated to an entry-level product for startups and small businesses.
Pros:
The NOC UI is one of the most intuitive and actionable when configured correctly. Inexperienced NOC techs can quickly become proficient at responding to alerts or status changes with this system.
Cons:
The limitation on the number of monitors is problematic for all but the smaller end of the SMB market. I expect this change was implemented to drive customers to the Orion suite, which is much more costly and time-intensive to administer.
IPMonitor is a decent server monitoring solution
Comments: I used this software from about 2005-2016. It was effective, but could definitely use some UI changes as it didn't really change much at all in the time I was using it. It was really good and detailed when it came down to identifying problems and running reports, but could throw some false alarms from time-to-time. I would recommend this if the price is reasonable, but could also have a learning curve for new users that is not ideal.
Pros:
It was easy to keep track of server status' It had alarms you could set to go off if a server was having issues.
Cons:
The interface was dated and clunky to use. It would throw a lot of false alarms sometimes.
SolarWinds Response
5 years ago
Thank you for the review. We're excited to confirm that ipMonitor has a new GUI (Graphical User Interface) released with Version 11. Our new GUI makes it easier to navigate the product and provides additional real estate on the NOC view. ipMonitor delivers centralized monitoring for small businesses and organizations, with three affordable tiers of monitoring, starting at just $1,495 with no recurring monthly fees. Try a free 14 day trial.
IP Monitor - not so cost effective but meets the requirements in very highly basis
Comments: Using IP Monitor since long back as we are mid-size company easy visibility to network and devices very much helpful in reporting to clients through the acceptance process. It is been a valuable process and asset to our organization may be not so cost-effective but acceptable with its features.
Pros:
we were looking for IP management of our network devices, servers, VMware hosts on a very high basis. we looking for agentless monitoring. many tools IP monitoring thinks Pinging is just enough but in reality, only administrators knew its importance. The visibility which it gives is really satisfying for us. at least it came to us at very affordable pricing so we were very happy about it.
Cons:
IP Monitor interface could be more effective, alerts could less dry, rebooting the IP monitor trigger every monitor we have sent an email. in the end, we need to submit it to managers reports which not so effective for us. cofiguration management.
Quick and easy overview of Up/Down status
Comments: I started with IPMonitor, and quickly saw the business benefits coming from it, but later switched to the more comprehensive Network Monitor solution from SolarWinds which have much deeper reach into the network and server monitoring.
Pros:
What I like most id the ease of use with SolarWinds IP Monitor. It is SO easy to get up and running, and it will deliver results right away. It's super easy to add new devices to be monitored, and removed once they are no longer needed. There is also a free version to try out before committing to a purchase.
Cons:
The pre-build reports could be better, but with a little bit of extra effort, it's possible to create some pretty useful reports.
