SolarWinds TFTP Server for Windows

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SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor

Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor is tool that's been designed specifically to reduce network outages and improve performance with advanced network monitoring software.* We can report that Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor works, and works well. But then there is a reason that Solarwinds software is widely considered to the number one vendor in network management software. Like all of Solarwinds' products, it's been built by IT pros who know what other IT pros want and need, in order to solve the problem with the least amount of hassle going. SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is a powerful and affordable network monitoring software that enables you to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance problems and outages. As you would expect, the interface is sleek, well-designed and will be intuitive to anyone who has worked on mid-large-scale IT network setups before. The Customizable single-pane-of-glass network monitoring software also means that users can have fully customizable web-based network performance dashboards, views, and charts. As well as that, all Network Managers will be relieved that customisable performance and availability reports come as standard, and there are over 100 out-of-the-box templates to choose from. As well as all the above, the onboard Hardware Health Monitoring does need to be mentioned, as it is a stand-out feature. Being able to monitor, alert, and report on key device metrics, including temperature, fan speed, and power supply are great assets to have in order to help head off problems quickly. More Key Features: Hop-by-hop analysis along critical paths: View performance, traffic, and configuration details of devices and applications that are on-premises, in the cloud, or across hybrid environments with NetPath™ Cross-stack network data correlation: Accelerate identification of root cause by dragging and dropping network performance metrics on a common timeline for immediate visual correlation across all of your network data. Customizable topology and dependency-aware intelligent alerts: Respond to multiple condition checks, correlated events, network topology, and device dependencies. Comprehensive monitoring of F5® BIG-IP® and Cisco ASA family of products: Visualize and gain insight into the health and performance of your F5 service delivery and Cisco ASA environment with Network Insight™ Drag-and-discover network performance charts: Real-time network performance metrics with interactive charts and graphs from your network devices. Overall, SolarWinds®Network Performance Monitor is an impressive piece of software that no IT department or manager should be without. Requirements: Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, and 2016, Quad core processor or better, 4 GB RAM, 20 GB HDD minimum, Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, and 2016.

XAMPP

XAMPP: Web development stack in one pack

Solarwinds Engineer's Toolset

Solarwinds Engineer's Toolset is software for network engineers designed by network engineers. As anyone who has ever worked in the network side of IT can tell you, it can be a nightmare when things just stop working. Even on the best of days, new network issues can show up even when every single patch cable is labelled and hidden behind a padlock. The larger the network, the more problems there could be, and troubleshooting a highly complex network composed of thousands of devices that seems to have a mind of its own can be a nightmare. Having the right network tools can help take a huge amount of stress out of your day and make you seem like a true Scotty in the engine room. Solarwinds Engineer's Toolset is all about making sure that you have the right tools to easily and effectively manage and troubleshoot your network, all in one complete and affordable package. The Engineer's Toolset is transformative and you'll never troubleshoot your network the same way again. It includes a collection of powerful network management tools, all of which can be easily accessed through an innovative Workspace Studio to quickly resolve issues right from your desktop. With the Workspace Studio, you can organize your tools to tackle troubleshooting challenges and then recall that workspace with a click when you need it - saving valuable set-up time. And shared credential management saves even more time as you switch easily between the tools you need without re-entering credentials. Perhaps the biggest and best feature of the Engineer's Toolset is that you'll spend less time on your knees in the dust troubleshooting, and more time directly fixing the actual problem. The Engineers Toolset is all about taking back control of your network and stopping stress related headaches. The included tools are all powerful, timesaving features. You can deploy an array of network discovery tools including Port Scanner, Switch Port Mapper, and Advanced Subnet Calculator. Cut troubleshooting time in half using the Workspace Studio, which puts the tools you need for common situations at your fingertips. Monitor and alert in real time on network availability and health with tools including a Real-Time Interface Monitor, SNMP Real-Time Graph, Advanced CPU Load, and a whole bunch of monitoring Tools. One of the best things about the Engineers toolset is the fact that it puts all the tools you need in one place, and not as a separate bunch of icons and programs on your desktop that don't talk to each other. It allows you to perform robust network diagnostics for troubleshooting and quickly resolving complex network issues with tools such as Ping Sweep, DNS Analyzer, and Trace Route.

SolarWinds Web Help Desk Free

SolarWinds Web Help Desk Free isn't actually a help desk itself. But it gives you the user the ability to run a help desk. Unlike some help desk software out there, this one doesn't cause headaches for its users so that they can actually help people. Solar Winds Web Help Desk Free is firmly focussed on helping desk technicians solve client problems and organize that work across IT assets, reporting, and maintaining an easy to update and search knowledge base. The SolarWinds Web Help Desk Free edition is a deceptively powerful piece of software. Most importantly it's intuitive to use, easy to navigate, and the interface is sleek and well designed. The inbuilt menus are also easy to use and understand, meaning your help desk operatives will spend more time resolving issues for your end-users. Key Features: Incident and problem management. Easy to use. Sleek interface. Ticketing management. Built-in knowledge base. SLA management. Help Desk performance reporting. Web Help can be run from one single, centralized help desk management Web interface, so you can now manage all your end-user trouble tickets and track service request lifecycle from ticket creation to resolution. SolarWinds themselves have a proven track record when it comes to software, and that does show in this utility. The service request and self-service portal for end-users is straightforward and well thought out. It also features fully automated ticket routing and assignment allocation based on your specific needs. As well as this it has an Active Directory and uses LDAP authentication. SolarWinds Web Help Desk Free is available for Windows, Mac, and even Linux. A really nice feature is the way SolarWinds Web Help Desk allows administrators to create and update a knowledge base and frequently asked questions (FAQ) section that clients can access (to see if their problem has already been solved). You can also build an internal-only knowledge repository for technicians to consolidate and internally share content to help them troubleshoot and resolve recurring issues, which is nice. Overall, SolarWinds Help Desk Free is the perfect lightweight help desk tool that is easy to use and scalable with your business. The free version featured here does lack some of the more advanced features such as automated IT asset discovery and the option for customer feedback surveys, but there are no limitations with the features that do come with the free version.

SolarWinds Wake-On-LAN

Wake-On-LAN: Control Your PC Remotely

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor finds and resolves application problems before they become incidents. It provides visibility into your server hardware health, operating system and critical application performance. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor uses one central, customisable dashboard for everything. Monitor over 1,200 vendor applications, servers, databases and storage all from the easy to use web interface. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor offers comprehensive Microsoft monitoring that can be easily customised to suit your specific needs. Key features include: Detect and troubleshoot performance issues faster. Set custom alerts. Monitor cloud applications. Centralised dashboard. Customisable monitoring. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor saves you time. Get up and running in no time with a quick installation process that automatically discovers all the applications, servers, databases and storage in your environment and starts monitoring automatically. It also offers customizable monitoring templates and pre-built alerts and reports to save you time every day. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor monitors the health and availability of both physical and virtual server environments. It quickly identifies the root cause of application problems and identifies the origin of application issues within seconds. By using SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, you can also gain deeper insight to troubleshoot virtualization issues. Overall, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is quick and easy to use software for monitoring the health of all your applications, servers, databases and storage. It provides monitoring and reporting templates to get you up and running quickly, and you can even customise a multitude of options to monitor exactly what you want, how you want it. Interested? SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor includes a full 30-day free trial, so you can test it out before deciding to purchase. Responsible for the network of a large organisation or looking to optimize your home set-up? Check out the range of network and admin tools on FileHippo.

VMware Workstation Player

A virtual machine is a computer defined in software. It's like running a PC on your PC. This free desktop virtualization software application makes it easy to operate any virtual machine created by VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, VMware Server or VMware ESX. Key Features Include: Run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC. Experience the benefits of preconfigured products without any installation or configuration issues. Share data between host computer and virtual machine. Run both 32 and 64 bit virtual machines. Leverage 2-way Virtual SMP. Use 3rd-party virtual machines and images. Share data between host computer and virtual machine. Broad host and guest operating system support. Support for USB 2.0 devices. Get appliance info at start-up. Gain easy access to virtual machines via intuitive home page interface. VMware Player also supports Microsoft Virtual Server virtual machines or Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machines.

SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager

SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is a versatile little tool that can help eliminate network downtime caused by configuration errors. As anyone who has ever worked in IT in almost any capacity knows, almost all IT departments are a) understaffed b) underfunded, and c) under appreciated. As anyone who has ever worked in IT in any capacity also knows, most network problems occur because of recent router and switch configuration changes, and more often than not because Steve in accounts has ‘tried to fix it myself’ again. SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager key features include: Automatically back up and organisation of configuration files. Accurate and relevant alerts for when configuration changes are made. Rolling back a change using an archived configuration. Using templates to standardize and apply changes error free. Approving proposed configuration changes before they are applied. Downloading and installation of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is relatively straightforward. There is a slight learning curve involved, but professionals should be up and running within a few short minutes. The interface is effective and functional, and perfect for users who just want to get things done and move back onto asking if Steve in Accounts has tried turning his PC on and off; again. SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager isn’t free but it does come with a one month trial, which is good. We could write a lot more about SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager and bury right down into specifics, but we appreciate you probably just want to know if the software is any good, and if it will save time and headaches. So, yes it is, yes it will, and again, yes.

SolarWinds IP Control Bundle

The SolarWinds IP Control Bundle is a lovely piece software designed to make network IP conflicts a thing of the past. In the network administration world, IP (Internet Protocol) conflicts can be a frustrating and head wrecking process, causing blood pressures to rise, and strong words to be exchanged. While IP conflicts generally aren’t an issue for small orhome networks, in business, there can be literally thousands of different networked devices with modems, servers, phones, computers, switches, and printers all needing specific IP addresses, on the one network. IP conflicts between just 2 single devices on a Network can cause downtime, and interfere with critical business systems. The SolarWinds IP control Bundle does an awful lot of work to make such issues history, and turn all of the above problems to nothing more than annoying little niggles. The ‘Bundle’ includes the integration of the SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM) and the SolarWinds User Device Tracker (UDT). This allows for a comprehensive two-step resolution of IP conflicts. The SolarWinds IP Control Bundle automatically detects IP conflicts and gives admins the exact MAC address at the root of the problem. The UDT can also locate the where the offending device is located, and that same software can be used the IT admins to shut down the offending port and isolate the device from the network. What’s even better is that the SolarWinds Bundle can fix the conflict by using the DHCP protocols to assign the device in conflict a free address, solving the issue remotely, and saving time spent under a desk switching network cards around. Key Features: Automatic IP conflict detection. IP address and Mac Address identification. Easy location finding of conflict devices. UDT remote use to shut down ports and isolate from networks. DHCP allocation of unused network addresses to solve IP conflict issues. Good support from designers. SolarWinds is something of a must for IT departments, especially in one where employees start loading their own personal devices onto networks. Again, this normally isn’t too much of an issue in a single floor office, but when used on a company network of thousands, it can save invaluable time, and perhaps most crucially, a lot of money.

AnyDesk

AnyDesk for Windows: A remote desktop access software

SolarWinds Network Bandwidth Analyzer Pack

Solarwinds Network Bandwidth Analyzer Pack is proof that good things come in twos. Bundled software can sometimes be a mixed blessing but that's not the case here. SolarWinds Bandwidth Analyzer Pack, a powerful combination of SolarWinds award winning Network Performance Monitor and NetFlowTraffic Analyzer. Solarwinds Network Performance Manager (NPM) is a tool that's been designed specifically to reduce network outages and improve performance with advanced network monitoring software. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) allows you to capture data from continuous streams of network traffic, and convert those raw numbers into easy-to-interpret charts and tables that quantify exactly how the corporate network is being used, by whom, and for what purpose. It is both powerful and affordable network monitoring software that enables you to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance problems and outages. NTA has been built on the Orion Platform, and so is able to provide the ability to purchase and fully integrate with additional network monitoring modules (Network Performance Monitoring, Config Management, WAN Management, VoIP, Device Tracking, IP Address Management), as well as systems, storage, and virtualization management in a single web console. As you would expect, the two programs work well together and integrate to give IT staff and managers an all in one comprehensive tool that has excellent streamlined performance. The interfaces are both sleek, well-designed and will be intuitive to anyone who has worked on mid-large-scale IT network setups before. The customizable single-pane-of-glass network monitoring software also means that users can have fully customizable web-based network performance dashboards, views, and charts. Key Features: Network Performance Monitor: Hop-by-hop analysis along critical paths: View performance, traffic, and configuration details of devices and applications that are on-premises, in the cloud, or across hybrid environments with NetPath. Customizable topology and dependency-aware intelligent alerts:Respond to multiple condition checks, correlated events, network topology, and device dependencies. Drag-and-discover network performance charts: Real-time network performance metrics with interactive charts and graphs from your network devices. Comprehensive monitoring of F5® BIG-IP® and Cisco ASA family of products: Visualize and gain insight into the health and performance of your F5 service delivery and Cisco ASA environment with Network Insight. Cross-stack network data correlation: Accelerate identification of root cause by dragging and dropping network performance metrics on a common timeline for immediate visual correlation across all of your network data. NetFlow Traffic Analyzer: Bandwidth Threshold Alerting: Delivers an instant alert notification, including a list of top talkers when an interface exceeds its bandwidth utilization threshold. Bandwidth Usage by Application: Provides valuable insights into which applications are consuming the most network bandwidth, and tracks application traffic arriving from designated ports, source IPs, destination IPs, and even protocols. Traffic Analysis Dashboard: Delivers a comprehensive, customizable view of your network traffic on a single pane of glass, allowing you to spot potential problems quickly with top ten views of network traffic data. Get to the root cause of bandwidth issues with an intuitive point-and-click interface. Network Traffic Forensics: Enables you to drill down into any element’s traffic using multiple views to get the perspective you’re looking for. You can investigate and isolate excessive network bandwidth utilization and unexpected application traffic. Best of all, the package comes with a free 30-day no-obligation trial, so it costs nothing to find out if the software is right or not for you and your company. We can't say fairer than that.