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SolarWinds IT Management Glossary

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What is Managing Servers

Managing Servers in complex network environment can call for frequent manual operations such as rolling out patches and tracking licenses. Utilities designed specifically for managing servers can automate many tasks, reducing the administrator's workload substantially. With the correct utilities in place, managing servers can be a matter of checking simple dashboards and keeping an eye out for alerts when potential problems begin to crop up.

SolarWinds FREE Tools Related to Managing Servers

WMI Monitor

Monitor any Windows® application or server and get amazing insight into real-time performance. Use out-of-the-box, community-sourced, or custom templates to start monitoring immediately using a slick desktop dashboard!

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VM Monitor

Track virtualization health at-a-glance with X-ray vision into your ESX Servers! Our free VM Monitor continuously monitors a VMware ESX Server and its virtual machines and delivers detailed virtual machine health statistics including VM name, guest OS, and VM state, as well as processor, memory, and network usage.

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SolarWinds Products Related to Managing Servers

Server & Application Monitor

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor delivers powerful application and server management capabilities at an affordable price. With automatic application discovery, you'll be monitoring, alerting, and reporting in less than an hour! Learn More »

Hyper9

Hyper9 Virtualization Manager makes it easy to manage all the aspects of your virtual infrastructure by providing the tools to control VM sprawl, eliminate bottlenecks, optimize performance, track configuration changes, manage capacity, and track and showback departmental and business unit usage and costs. Learn More »