Challenges
- IT administration and management challenges that prompted you to purchase SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor:
- Inability to identify why servers are running slow
- Lack of visibility into application health and availability
- Too much manual effort and time spent on finding the root-cause of issues
- Lack of centralized monitoring across multiple sites in the network
- Evaluated Nagios and found it difficult to get up and running. Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor over Nagios.
Use Case
- Purchased Server & Application Monitor for the following key features:
- Out-of-the-box monitoring templates for multi-vendor applications
- Ability to modify or build new templates for custom application monitoring
- Application dependency mapping with underlying infrastructure using AppStack™ dashboard
- Server monitoring and IT asset inventory management
- Integration with SolarWinds® IT management solutions
- Applications primarily monitored using Server & Application Monitor:
- Microsoft Exchange Server
- Windows
- Linux
- IIS
- SQL Server
- Active Directory
- SharePoint
Results
- Identifies and troubleshoots application issues 60-80% faster after deploying Server & Application Monitor.
- Saw a 40-60% decline in application and server downtime since they started using Server & Application Monitor.
- Realized ROI in 1-3 months after buying Server & Application Monitor.
- Rates SolarWinds as 5 out of 5 stars.
