Tools for Engineers » The Most Trusted Tools in Network Management

SolarWinds Engineer’s Toolset puts a powerful array of must-have network management tools at your fingertips to help you easily and effectively manage and troubleshoot your network – in one complete and affordable package.

You’ll never troubleshoot your network the same way again. Take control of your day and your network with powerful, timesaving features, including:

• 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 Real-Time Interface Monitor, SNMP Real-Time Graph, and Advanced CPU Load.
• Perform robust network diagnostics for troubleshooting and quickly resolving complex network issues with tools such as Ping Sweep, DNS Analyzer, and Trace Route.
• Deploy an array of network discovery tools including Port Scanner, Switch Port Mapper, and Advanced Subnet Calculator.
• Manage Cisco® devices with specialized tools including Real-time NetFlow Analyzer, Config Downloader, and Config Compare.

Standard Toolset offers fundamental network management and discovery tools that are ideal for basic network management and troubleshooting. Standard Toolset enables you to:

• Perform network discovery and diagnostic tasks with IP Network Browser, Subnet List, Trace Route, Ping, Enhanced Ping, and Ping Sweep tools
• Monitor network performance with Bandwidth Gauges, Watch It!, and Router CPU Load
• Conduct remote management tasks with Wake-On-LAN, TFTP Server, and NetFlow Configurator

Not sure which SolarWinds Toolset is right for you? Compare Standard Toolset to Engineer’s Toolset.

Kiwi Syslog Server is one of the most trusted Windows®-based syslog servers on the market. Easy to set up and configure, it offers a feature-rich solution for receiving, logging, displaying, and forwarding syslog messages from network devices, such as routers, switches, Unix hosts, and other syslog-enabled devices.

Kiwi Syslog Server makes it easy to:

• Receive and manage syslog messages from your network devices
• View syslog messages in multiple windows simultaneously
• Filter messages by host name, host IP address, priority, message text keyword, or time of day
• Create advanced alerts based on message content, message volume, or meta data
• Automatically perform actions based on alerts, including sending email, forwarding messages, triggering audible alarms, sending SNMP trap messages, and paging IT staff
• Produce trend analysis graphs and email syslog traffic statistics

Kiwi CatTools simplifies daily management tasks by enabling you to backup and manage network configurations from your desktop. With CatTools, you can quickly schedule batch jobs and implement bulk configuration changes across routers, switches, and firewalls. Plus, CatTools can notify you of configuration changes via email and generate basic reports.

Kiwi CatTools enables you to:

• Manage configurations from your desktop for network devices, including routers, switches and firewalls
• Schedule configuration backups and changes
• Generate network device configuration reports, such as port, MAC, ARP and version details
• Automatically receive email notifications about configuration changes
• Compare startup and running configurations of network devices

Free Network Tools are our way of giving back to the networking community. We hope you enjoy these desktop applications and that they simplify network management in your environment!

• TFTP Server: Our Most Popular Free Network Tool
  Simultaneously upload & download executable images and configurations to routers, switches, firewalls, and other network equipment.
• NEW! IP Address Tracker - scan, track, and consolidate your IP address information in one easy place, saving you time and eliminating errors (and headaches)!
• NEW! IP SLA Monitor: Harness Cisco® IP SLA to Analyze Performance Between Sites
  Quickly troubleshoot network slowdowns between sites and easily understand device-to-device performance using sophisticated Cisco® IP SLA operations.
• NEW! Free Kiwi Syslog Server: Receive & Manage Syslog Messages from Your Network Devices
  Receive, log, display, and forward syslog messages from network devices with this easy-to-use Syslog Server.
• NEW! Free Kiwi CatTools: Manage & Backup Network Configs from Your Desktop
  Simplify daily management tasks with the ability to manage and backup network configurations, schedule batch jobs, and implement bulk changes right from your desktop!
• VM Monitor: Got Virtualization? Get Visibility with a Free Monitoring Solution from SolarWinds!
  Continuously monitor a VMware® ESX Server and its virtual machines with at-a-glance virtualization health statistics!
• Real-Time NetFlow Analyzer: Unlock the Power of NetFlow on Your Network
  Capture and analyze NetFlow data to see what types of traffic are on your network, where it’s coming from, and where it’s going!
• Exchange Monitor: Your Real-time Desktop Dashboard for Exchange Server Health
  Get real-time insight into Exchange performance, mail queue sizes, and host server health with this new free tool!
• NetFlow Configurator: Automate NetFlow Configuration on Cisco Devices
  Remotely and quickly configure NetFlow v5 via SNMP on supported Cisco® devices. Don’t wait another minute to go with the flow!
• Advanced Subnet Calculator: The Best Free Network Tool of Its Kind
  Calculate a Subnet Mask for an IP address range and more with four powerful subnetting tools in one package.
• Wake-On-LAN: Remotely Power up PCs
  Power up a remote PC on the network using a “Magic Packet” that is almost too good to be true.