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EDITORS' PICK: Spiceworks 5.0: Free Network Monitoring Solution Listing updated: January 20, 2011

Download the Brand New Spiceworks 5.0 – completely free network monitoring software for IT pros and sysadmins. *This is NOT a free trial, "freemium", or stripped down verision.* Spiceworks provides its award-winning IT management software to IT pros around the world. And it's free forever – including live support and all product upgrades! In addition to a state-of-the-art network monitoring and help desk software solution, and access to an online community of more than 1 million IT pros, Spiceworks 5.0 boasts up to 50% faster performance, a built-in free TFTP server for network configurations, SNMP v3 monitoring, active directory management, multi-site help desk support and more! Download today - and share with your peers!

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  • Users' Rating: 4.47 [32 votes] - Vote
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FEATURED: Free SAN Monitor Listing updated: February 16, 2011

SolarWinds free SAN Monitor tool gives you a-glance insight into storage performance & capacity with a slick desktop dashboard that lets you view top LUNs by size, busiest LUNS, & most under-utilized LUNs. You can also drill down into LUN inventory details including: LUN size, physical disks, RAID type, total IOPs, IO response time and more. Allows you to Monitor Dell®, IBM®, & Sun® StorageTek™ Storage Arrays. Download and try it out for yourself. It’s free. Download Now.
  • Users' Rating: 4.5 [4 votes] - Vote
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Free RDP/ Citrix and VMware Recording Listing updated: November 18, 2010

Get the free, award-winning server monitoring tool from ObserveIT. Record and Replay all remote user sessions on your network servers.

Any remote access or console session is searchable and ready for playback! Protocol-agnostic: ObserveIT records Terminal Server, Citrix, Remote Desktop, SSH, VMware and more.

ObserveIT makes easy work out of security audits by generating video and text logs for everything that happens on your servers. (Even for apps that don’t have their own internal logs!)

You’ll be up and running in minutes, and will understand why the world’s leading banks, manufacturers, telco and healthcare companies rely on ObserveIT to generate secure compliance audits, to monitor 3rd-party vendors and to improve system uptime.

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  • Users' Rating: 5 [6 votes] - Vote
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Permissions Analyzer: Free Active Directory Tool Listing updated: January 21, 2011

Now you can quickly see WHO has permission to do WHAT and answer the questions that suck up your time and your patience! See how easy it is to get instantaneous visibility into the effective permissions & access rights for a specific file folder or share drive—all from a cool desktop dashboard! Think of all the time you can save!
  • Users' Rating: 5 [3 votes] - Vote
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Free IP Address Tracker Listing updated: April 30, 2010

Download this FREE desktop tool from SolarWinds and get a unified view of your IP address space. IP Address Tracker shows you which IP addresses are in use – and which are not while eliminating manual errors and ensuring that IP addresses are listed in the right place. Download this FREE TOOL from Solarwinds!
  • Users' Rating: 5 [3 votes] - Vote
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Free VM Monitor Listing updated: April 28, 2010

Download this FREE Desktop Tool - VM Monitor – from SolarWinds and continuously Monitor your Vmware ESX Server and its virtual machines right from your desktop! Get the real-time monitoring you’ve been missing. VM Monitor shows you ESX Server CPU, RAM, and Network RX/TX utilization, number of VM Guests running on that server, VM Guest performance including CPU, RAM, and Network RX/TX utilization. See why more than one million network engineers use SolarWinds free tools to perform their daily network monitoring and management tasks. Download this FREE TOOL from Solarwinds!
  • Users' Rating: 5 [2 votes] - Vote
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Free Network Device Monitor Listing updated: April 8, 2010

Our free Network Device Monitor makes it easy to monitor the real-time performance and health of a single device on your network with a cool desktop dashboard that sends up a bat signal when your device is in trouble. Monitor real-time performance and availability statistics for any device on your network. Get started immediately with an extensive collection of “out-of-the-box” monitors for popular network devices. Create and share custom network device monitoring templates. Compile custom MIBs to monitor virtually any statistic on an SNMP-enabled network device.
  • Users' Rating: 5 [2 votes] - Vote
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Free WMI Monitor Listing updated: April 30, 2010

Solarwinds FREE desktop tool, WMI Monitor, allows you to quickly and easily monitor real-time performance metrics on any Windows server or application with a slick desktop dashboard. Choose from pre-built application templates in the tool! Don’t be the last one to find out when Exchange, Sharepoint or other mission-critical applications go down! Download this FREE TOOL from Solarwinds!
  • Users' Rating: 5 [1 vote] - Vote
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ManageEngine OpManager Listing updated: October 19, 2010

Download the fully-functional FREE network monitoring software, ManageEngine OpManager. The free edition monitors any 10 critical devices on your network and comes with power-packed features including real time performance graphing, customizable dashboards, automatic layer 2 mapping, services and process monitoring, file and folder monitoring, website monitoring, event log & syslog monitoring, SNMP traps processing, robust fault management including email and SMS alerts, and 100+ reports out-of-the-box, to name just a few. Be a part of the growing OpManager community and get answers to your questions from IT experts and fellow users. Note that the number of devices does not include the interfaces on a device, which means each of these devices could have any number of interfaces with complete traffic monitoring! It’s all value and no money! So, why wait? Download your copy today!
  • Users' Rating: 4.89 [9 votes] - Vote
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sl360 Tool Suite Listing updated: November 17, 2010

ScriptLogic sl360 Tool Suite consolidates dozens of network management and network monitoring tools into a single, integrated interface. The tool suite includes Cisco configuration management, server and application monitoring, open source and third party integration, a robust encrypted credential store, the ability to save and flow results between tools, deep network discovery (with network mapping) and syslog server capabilities. All of these tools compliment the extensive real-time monitoring provided by the sl360 Dashboard.
  • Users' Rating: 4.5 [4 votes] - Vote
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