Our Cool Free Tools:
- *NEW* Free Network Config Generator - Who’s the smartest network engineer you know? It’s YOU when you have our new Network Config Generator as your brainy sidekick! Download this free tool and in less time than it takes to say “C-L-I”, you can be running config templates that automatically configure both common and advanced network device features.
- Free IP Address Tracker: Perform IP Address Management the Easy Way- Our new IP Address Tracker frees you from the evils of spreadsheets, delivering powerful and simple-to-use features that give you a unified view of your IP address space and that enable you to manage it
- Free IP SLA Monitor Analyzes the Performance Between Sites - SolarWinds IP SLA Monitor is a free desktop tool that enables you to quickly troubleshoot network slowdowns between sites and easily understand device-to-device performance using sophisticated Cisco® IP SLA operations already built into your network. IP SLA Monitor enables IP SLA on Cisco routers and switches, configures the path-specific operation details, and displays the resulting real-time performance information in an easy-to-read dashboard. Even better, you can import IP SLA monitors into Orion Network Performance Monitor to get a more complete view of your network’s health.
- Free Kiwi Syslog Server – new to the SolarWinds family - Our Free Kiwi Syslog Server is trusted by thousands of network engineers worldwide to simplify everyday network management tasks. Easy to set up and configure, it receives, logs, displays, and forwards syslog messages from network devices, such as routers, switches, Unix hosts, and other syslog-enabled devices.
- Free Kiwi CatTools – new to the SolarWinds family – Our Free Kiwi CatTools enables you to backup and manage network configurations right from your desktop! With Free Kiwi CatTools, you can quickly schedule batch jobs and implement bulk configuration changes across routers, switches, and firewalls. Plus, Free Kiwi CatTools can notify you of configuration changes via email and generate basic reports.
- Real-time NetFlow Analyzer - a tool that captures and analyzes NetFlow data in real time to show you exactly what types of traffic are on your network, where that traffic is coming from, and where it is going. Take the guesswork out of diagnosing network traffic spikes and troubleshooting bandwidth issues with this free network traffic monitoring tool.
- Exchange Monitor - a desktop dashboard that continuously monitors Microsoft® Exchange servers to deliver real-time insight into Exchange services, mail queue sizes, and host server health. Version 1.0.1, released on June 13, 2008, fixes an issue identified in a small subset of early deployments and includes a couple of enhancements.
- TFTP Server - a highly scalable, secure, and service-based TFTP Server that supports unlimited simultaneous transfers and extended option negotiation between client and server, including blocksize, transfer size, and timeout (as specified in RFCs 2347, 2348, 2349). Supports transfers sizes larger than 32MB.
- NetFlow Configurator – an easy-to-use tool for remotely and quickly configuring NetFlow v5 via SNMP on supported Cisco® devices. NetFlow Configurator also facilitates setting up collectors for Cisco NetFlow data, specifying the ports on which the collectors are listening, and enabling monitoring of inbound and outbound (ingress/egress) traffic data per interface.
- Advanced Subnet Calculator – an advanced IP address subnet calculator that supports forward and reverse DNS resolution, response time and address translation. It calculates subnets based on subnet mask, mask bits, host bits, number of subnets and hosts per subnet. It also supports classless inter-domain routing as well as printing and exporting to HTML or Excel.
- Wake-On-LAN – a tool that provides the ability to "power on" a PC remotely. This is accomplished by the generation of a "Magic Packet" to remotely power on PCs attached to networks. When the remote network adapter hears a "Magic Packet" created for its unique MAC address, the network adapter alerts the computer to power on. If Wake-On-LAN has been enabled in the computer’s BIOS settings, the system will power on as if the power button had been pressed.
- SNMP Assistant - a light-weight Windows System Tray utility that allows interaction with ipMonitor’s web-based MIB database repository called SNMP Center. The SNMP Assistant is designed to run in the background while you browse through SNMP Center, allowing you to scan and collect information from your SNMP-enabled network devices and applications. Once the data is gathered and returned, it is then displayed in HTML format within a new browser window.
Other Cool Free Tools
DNSstuff – helps you configure, monitor and fix problems with your domain and email. Their tools and alerts provide insight into your domain from the outside looking in. They pinpoint what’s wrong and offer mitigation steps to fix it. Run a free health check on your domain and mail server today!
Splunk – IT search software that indexes, manages and enables you to search logs and IT data from any application, server or network device in real time. If a machine generates it, Splunk can eat it. Download your own free copy of Splunk.
Wireshark Ethereal – a popular network protocol analyzer with a rich and powerful feature set that runs on most platforms including Windows, OS X, and Linux. It is freely available as open source.
PuTTY – a terminal application for connecting to remote machines using SSH, Telnet and Rlogin network protocols.
BIND – Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an open source implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols and provides an openly redistributable reference implementation of the major components of the Domain Name System.
freeRadius – an open source RADIUS server that includes support for SQL, LDAP, RADIUS Proxying, failover, load balancing, and vendor dictionary files. It can perform authentications via the PAP, CHAP, MS-CHAP, EAP-MD5, EAP-GTC, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, PEAPv0, LEAP, EAP-SIM, and Digest authentication protocols.
Snort - an open source network intrusion prevention and detection system utilizing a rule-driven language, which combines the benefits of signature, protocol and anomaly based inspection methods.
Net-SNMP – a suite of applications for implementing SNMP v1, v2c, and v3 agents using both IPv4 and IPv6. Net-SNMP is available for many Unix and Linux operating systems as well as for Microsoft Windows.
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