SolarWinds Offers New Free Tool to Monitor Server Health

PRESS RELEASE — AUSTIN, TX–(Marketwired – Oct 21, 2015) – SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable hybrid IT infrastructure management software, today launched SolarWinds® Server Health Monitor free tool, the latest to join more than 30 free tools from SolarWinds’ comprehensive IT management product family. SolarWinds Server Health Monitor provides IT professionals with detailed visibility into multi-vendor server infrastructure.

“Monitoring the underlying IT infrastructure that supports the health and performance of business critical applications is a necessity for IT pros to ensure business continuity,” said Nikki Jennings, group vice president, product strategy, SolarWinds. “Understanding the performance of server infrastructure is a big part of the performance of the entire IT infrastructure, and is a key metric that all IT pros should have clear visibility into. SolarWinds now provides IT pros with a free tool that offers insight into health status and availability of multi-vendor server hardware to pinpoint the cause of performance issues faster.”

SolarWinds Server Health Monitor free tool supports monitoring of up to five server nodes, empowering IT pros to:

• Monitor critical server hardware components, including metrics on fan speed, temperature, power supply, CPU, battery and more.
• Quickly identify server hardware issues impacting server and application performance.
• Monitor hardware health metrics for Dell^® PowerEdge^®, HP^® ProLiant^® and IBM^® eServer xSeries servers, and VMware^® ESX^®/ESXi^™ hypervisors.

Extended Server and Application Monitoring
For IT pros seeking advanced monitoring of server performance, resource utilization, processes, services, and event logs, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor provides agentless server monitoring. Additionally, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor provides detailed performance metrics for over 200 applications out of the box including Exchange^®, SQL Server^®, AD^®, and IIS^®.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is an integral part of the application stack dashboard and, when integrated with other infrastructure monitoring tools from SolarWinds, delivers contextual performance insight across the application, server, virtualization and storage layers.

Pricing and Availability
SolarWinds Server Health Monitor free tool supports monitoring of up to five server nodes and is available for download now.

The pricing of SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, that scales to support hundreds of servers and thousands of applications, starts at $2,995 USD* including the first year of maintenance. For more information, including a downloadable, free 30-day evaluation, visit the SolarWinds website or call 866.530.8100.

*Price as of October 20, 2015. Pricing many vary based upon the jurisdiction and applicable currency. Please contact a local SolarWinds sales representative to find pricing specific to your jurisdiction.

Additional Resources

• Blog Post: Free Server Health Monitor Quick Reference Guide

About SolarWinds
SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI) provides powerful and affordable hybrid IT infrastructure management software to customers worldwide from Fortune 500^® enterprises to small businesses, government agencies and educational institutions. We are committed to focusing exclusively on IT Pros, and strive to eliminate the complexity that they have been forced to accept from traditional enterprise software vendors. Regardless of where the IT asset or user sits, SolarWinds delivers products that are easy to find, buy, use, maintain, and scale while providing the power to address all key areas of the infrastructure from on premises to the Cloud. Our solutions are rooted in our deep connection to our user base, which interacts in our thwack^® online community to solve problems, share technology and best practices, and directly participate in our product development process. Learn more today at http://www.solarwinds.com/.