Why are you licensing by monitors instead of by servers?
Customers have told us that monitor-based pricing is much more flexible than server-based pricing. In the latter model, the cost for a server with a single important process is the same as a server with several applications comprising multiple processes, services, ports, and user-experience monitors. Monitor-based pricing provides a better correlation of price to value.
Is Server & Application Monitor closely integrated with Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and other SolarWinds products?
While Server & Application Monitor is available in a stand-alone environment with its own database, alerting engine, web console and reporting infrastructure, it can be integrated with Orion NPM and other SolarWinds products. When integrated, users can see performance data for applications, servers, storage, and network devices and interfaces in a single view.
How does Server & Application Monitor collect data?
Server & Application Monitor employs a highly-scalable, application-specific job engine that leverages scripts and multiple protocols, including WMI, the VMware API, and SNMP.
Is Server & Application Monitor ready to meet the needs of large enterprises?
Absolutely. Server & Application Monitor serves the full spectrum of corporations, from small/medium businesses to some of the largest enterprises in the world. A single Server & Application Monitor poller can handle thousands of monitors, but for those customers who need even more capacity, it's easy to scale through the provision of low-cost additional polling engines.