SolarWinds' ipMonitor bags 'Best of the Tests' Award

AUSTIN, TEXAS: SolarWinds, network management software, has announced that ipMonitor, the company’s out-of-the-box turnkey network monitoring solution for the small- and medium-sized business (SMB), has received the Network World 2008 “Best of the Tests” award in the Network Management and Monitoring category.

ipMonitor was awarded the “Best of the Tests” distinction and received 4.7 out of 5 stars based on its superior performance, ease-of-use, and feature functionality. Highlighted features include:

• ipMonitor’s ability to quickly and accurately discover applications, servers, devices and services on the network.
• The solution’s ease-of-use feature that can group results by IP address or domain name and suggest what to monitor more closely.
• Integrated security that utilizes SSL certificates, credentials, password-challenge authentication methods, as well as IP address filters and delegated administrative accounts.

“We are thrilled to have ipMonitor recognized by Network World and believe this recognition validates ipMonitor’s strengths—ease-of-use, security and affordability,” said Kenny Van Zant, chief product strategist, SolarWinds. “We credit much of our continued success to our large and growing technical user community on Thwack for inspiring and influencing our product development.”

Earlier this month, SolarWinds introduced ipMonitor v9.0, designed for SMB’s with less than 500 managed devices. The new version includes industry-leading SmartMonitor technology, a cutting-edge web interface and graphic-based dashboard, network mapping capabilities, out-of-the-box user experience monitoring, and instant monitoring of business-critical applications such as Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory and SQL server.