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We all know that whenever there is an application performance issue, the blame game between the network team and the application team goes into overdrive. Network engineers say there's an application issue and sys admins blame it on the network. So, how do you determine where the problem really is? With integrated network,…
THE BIG SCOOP – SOLARWINDS IS APM MARKET LEADER SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) sweeps all six APM Software Brand Leader Awards! In September 2013, IT Brand Pulse conducted a survey of IT professionals. The respondents were asked which vendors they perceived as the leader in the following 6 categories for APM…
Manage Engine recently wrote a response to our comparison post on Manage Engine’s Applications Monitor versus SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM). They are spot on in their response that SolarWinds provides only conventional server and application monitoring capabilities. The reason why we do this is because that…
We’ve received an email from Manage Engine proposing that they would like an “independent” expert to work on a comparison of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor and Manage Engine’s Applications Monitor. Their idea is to ask an “independent expert” [READ: ANALYST] who covers the application performance management…
A gift from us to you…better application performance! Just what you wanted, right? And no, this isn’t the white elephant gift you get stuck with every year. Troubleshooting web-based application performance is a common task for IT personnel, but not necessarily a simple one. So many different issues can cause performance…
Microsoft SharePoint deployment has become critical in organizations, serving as a collaboration and document sharing tool. SharePoint has become so essential in enterprises that it’s also widely being deployed on virtual environments. Virtualized or not, we look to have the service up and running at all times. This is…
Hey all, I'm wondering if there is a way to get a list of installed packages on my linux servers through Solarwinds/SAM? Thanks
It’s not a new issue that we face in our jobs to deal with poorly performing applications running on virtual machines. We know it would be a problem if a virtualized application were to fail, for it to not be available during a critical business process, or for some key performance thresholds to dip. The complexity of this…
It would help our company a great deal to be able to measure the number of running copies of a certain process running on a server. I would like to be able to view the processes currently running and manipulate the data representation. We would like to see charts and graphs associated with time. With this data, we can…
I have one server that will not return the status of for the services being monitored. AND, the cpu information is not returned for this node. We ran the shell command 'get-wmiobject -class win32_service -computer name.domain.local and the service statuses are returned. The application template used for this server was…
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