Misc. network administrator tools

Engineer’s Toolset Listing updated: November 12, 2009

SolarWinds Engineer’s Toolset includes a collection of powerful network management tools, all of which can be easily accessed through an innovative Workspace Studio to quickly resolve issues right from your desktop. With the Workspace Studio, you can organize your tools to tackle troubleshooting challenges and then recall that workspace with a click when you need it – saving valuable set-up time. And shared credential management saves even more time as you switch easily between the tools you need without re-entering credentials.

Take control of your day and your network with powerful, timesaving features, including: 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.
  • Users' Rating: 4.65 [20 votes] - Vote
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WinQuota Pro - Disk Quota Utility Listing updated: August 28, 2009

WinQuota is disk quota management software that has been designed any types of servers, especially on servers with large amount of files, such as file servers, news and mail servers. WinQuota allows managing directories and files size with blocking any operations that enlarge quota limits. WinQuota works fully automatically and administrator intervention is not required to unlock/solve quota overflow. WinQuota offers a possibility to set quota limitations for specified directories and files, including subdirectories, inner mount points, system and sparse files. Disk quota settings can not be exhausted by any kind of operation, including file moving, renaming, copying and other.
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GFI Network Server Monitor Listing updated: April 8, 2009

GFI Network Server Monitor automatically monitors the network & servers for failures. It allows you to identify issues and fix unexpected conditions before your users (or managers) report them to you! Alerts can be sent by email, pager or SMS, for instant problem notification. Actions, such as rebooting a machine, restarting a service or running a script can be done automatically.

Built-in monitoring rules include: Exchange Server 2000/2003, MS SQL, Oracle and ODBC databases, Active Directory & NTDS, Disk Drive health, TCP, UDP, ICMP/Ping, SMTP & POP3 Mail Servers, Printers, Processes, Services, UNIX Shell Scripts (RSH), SNMP & Terminal Server. You can also write custom monitor functions in VBscript and leverage ADSI and WMI, allowing you to monitor virtually anything.

GFI Network Server Monitor tests the status of a service by actually logging on, testing and logging off, rather than deducing a service status from generated events (as other products do), which is the only real way to ensure server uptime!

GFI Network Server Monitor is easy to set up and use, and is competitively priced. A free, fully functional, 30-day trial is available for download on our website.

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  • Users' Rating: 4.24 [152 votes] - Vote
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ipMonitor Listing updated: March 27, 2009

ipMonitor delivers availability monitoring so that you always know what’s happening with your applications, servers, and network devices. With a built-in database and Web server, you don’t need to install anything but ipMonitor.

ipMonitor simplifies network management by: Discovering IP-based network devices and automatically recommending monitoring settings for each device; Performing monitoring of Active Directory, DNS, Microsoft Exchange, FTP, Web, IMAP, MS SQL Server, SMTP, and more; Monitoring end-user experience with synthetic transactions; and more...

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  • Users' Rating: 4.34 [65 votes] - Vote
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DTM DB Stress Listing updated: January 29, 2009

DTM DB Stress is a utility for stress testing the server parts of information systems and database applications, as well as DBMSs and servers themselves. This tool allows you to create and configure a continuous set of requests to the server of the OLAP (query execution) and OLTP (adding, modifying and deleting data in the database) types. At the same time, the user can flexibly change both the number and the priority of this or that type of requests to a database or an application.

The program is useful for any information system developer or any QA department employee who wants to make sure the product under development can work with a large number of simultaneous connections and concurring queries and transactions. Database administrators can use this utility to evaluate the current performance of servers and to make plans about increasing processing power. Built-in data generator for parameters of dynamic SQL statements makes test jobs more flexible. The stress tool supports all common database interfaces: ODBC, IDAPI, OLE DB, or even Oracle Call Interface. DTM DB Stress is a true Win32 application, compatible with: Windows 98 and ME, Windows 2000 family, Windows XP (Home and Professional), Windows 2003.
  • Users' Rating: 4 [2 votes] - Vote
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Network Administrator's Toolkit Listing updated: January 28, 2009

A set of the network management tools designed for the corporate network administration. This toolkit consists of the two components that will monitor your corporate servers availability and performance and inventory user workstations
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Active Administrator Listing updated: January 23, 2008

The main purpose of Active Directory is to provide central authentication and authorization services. Active Directory has native tools for basic administration, but, lack enterprise-class management capabilities that give administrators the ability to view, audit and report on the ever-changing state of their Active Directory infrastructure.

Active Administrator is an Active Directory management and auditing solution that takes over where the management tools supplied with Windows leave off. Active Administrator, the Active Directory solution from ScriptLogic provides administrators the ability to establish, view and enforce delegated security throughout Active Directory management, perform Group Policy management including Group Policy reporting and Resultant Set of Policies (RSoP) as well as auditing and reporting of changes within Active Directory.

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  • Users' Rating: 3.82 [17 votes] - Vote
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Desktop Authority Listing updated: January 1, 2008

Desktop Authority comprehensively manages the Windows desktop throughout the desktop lifecycle, reducing the total cost of desktop and application ownership by enabling administrators to proactively manage, inventory, secure and support desktops from a central location.

With Desktop Authority, you can eliminate logon scripting so you can manage printer deployments, Registry values, drive mappings, application deployment and more from one centralized console.

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  • Users' Rating: 4.33 [3 votes] - Vote
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LanFlow Net Diagrammer Listing updated: October 26, 2007

LanFlow is a drawing tool for laying out, designing, and documenting a network, LAN, internet, vector or other communications system. Drop in components like computers, workstations, routers, and servers and connect them with lines and cables. Choose components from built-in symbols and clip art or add commonly available clip art formats. Use lines to connect your components and add dashes, curves, arrows or complex combinations for a custom look. Enter descriptive text anywhere, using a grid that helps you keep your work symmetrical and aligned. Contains features like full zoom, OLE connectivity to add your diagrams to other documents, poster printing, graphics import and web page export, automatic routing, flow symbols, and more. Includes simple outline components and a full set of 3D network equipment symbols resembling the standards set by Cisco books and documentation.
  • Users' Rating: 4.92 [26 votes] - Vote
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NetWrix Password Manager Listing updated: September 28, 2007

Gives end users the ability to securely manage their passwords and resolve account lockout incidents in a self-service fashion without involvement of helpdesk personnel. This allows organizations to implement strong password policies in Active Directory environments, to meet regulatory compliance requirements and address identity management challenges.
  • Users' Rating: 5 [3 votes] - Vote
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