Server & Application Monitor (SAM)Product Overview & Feature Highlights

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MONITORING & MANAGING YOUR IT LANDSCAPE

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DEEP MONITORING AND BROAD COVERAGE

• Monitor inside and outside the LAN

• Monitor on premises, in the cloud and hybrid networks

• Scale to monitor networks of all sizes

• Monitor geographically distributed networks

• Supports MSP deployment

SolarWinds® Offers Powerful, Affordable, Easy-to-Use IT Monitoring & Management Tools

Serving 150,000+ Customers Worldwide from Fortune 500 Companies to SMBs

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SERVER & APPLICATION MONITOR (SAM)

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• SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers powerful application and server monitoring and performance alerting capabilities for faster problem detection and troubleshooting.o Single Web interface to monitor multi-vendor applications and server infrastructure.o Out-of-the-box monitoring templates for over 200 enterprise applications.o Ability to extend monitoring to virtually any custom or home-grown applications.o Contextual visibility of relationships and dependencies between applications and supporting

infrastructure.o Monitor server hardware health, perform capacity forecasting, and manage asset inventory.

Remediate server issues remotely with built-in management actions.

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MONITOR WHAT YOU WANT HOW YOU WANT

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What SAM Monitors What SAM Delivers

• Applications

• Databases

• Physical Servers

• Services

• Processes

• Event Logs

• Disk Volumes

• Hypervisors

• Virtual Machines

• Availability Monitoring

• Performance Monitoring

• Intelligent Alerts

• Environment Dependency Mapping

• Root Cause Analysis

• Capacity Planning

• Troubleshooting Tools

• Custom Script Execution

• Automated Reports

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KEY BENEFITS TO IT TEAMS

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• Be the first to know: Get alerted on issues before they become large problems and impact

business and end-users.

• Respond faster: Find the root cause of application problems, and fix them quickly.

• Minimize downtime, optimize IT infrastructure, and reduce management overhead.

• Eliminate finger-pointing between systems, network, and virtualization teams.

• One stop shop: No need for multiple tools and custom scripts. Monitor multi-vendor

applications and servers from a single console.

• Everything works out-of-the-box: Use pre-packaged monitoring templates, alerts, and

reports to begin monitoring immediately. No need for professional services for deployment

and customization.

• Capacity planning: Track server resource usage, and be mindful of future resource needs.

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ROI BENEFITS OF USING SAM

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Faster Troubleshooting Reduced Downtime Cost Savings

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MONITORING YOUR ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS

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• SAM monitors over 200 applications out of the box including Active Directory®, Exchange™, Linux®, Windows®, Oracle®, and more.o Monitor health, availability and performance of all your applications.o Identify and solve issues before your users are impacted.o Speed up troubleshooting and time-to-resolution.o In a single click, drill down for quick access to detailed performance metrics.o Visualize applications on topology maps and dashboards for performance analysis.o Monitor applications on-premises and in the cloud.

• Leverage built-in templates for proactive monitoring:o Automatically discover your servers, and applications running on them.o Apply built-in templates, and start getting performance metrics in no time.

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SUPPORTED VENDORS & TECHNOLOGIES

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Operating Systems

Databases

Web Servers

Application Servers

Email Servers

Virtualization

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DEEP MONITORING OF IIS, EXCHANGE & SQL SERVER

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• SAM also offers three out-of-the-box ‘super templates’ called AppInsight™ for Microsoft® Exchange™, IIS™, and SQL Server®. These help solve complex problems via deep performance monitoring.

o Exchange Server Monitoring: View mailbox, database, status, and storage, identify replication issues, and monitor user mailbox activity.

o IIS Monitoring: Monitor the availability of websites and application pools, report SSL certificate expiration, and perform remote actions to start/stop application pools.

o SQL Server Monitoring: Proactively monitor database connections, error logs, SQL agent job status, index fragmentation, long-running queries, and more.

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CUSTOM APPLICATION MONITORING

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• Alongside commercial applications, monitor your custom and home-grown applications from a single console.

o Modify existing templates, or create new templates to monitor custom applications.o Use your existing scripts and import them into SAM to customize monitoring as you need.o Leverage over 800 monitoring templates available for free on SolarWinds online community.

These community-generated templates are available right within the SAM console.

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APPLICATION MONITORING (SCREENSHOTS)

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Exchange Monitoring IIS Monitoring (using AppInsight)

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MONITORING YOUR SERVER INFRASTRUCTURE

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• SAM gives you quick access to performance metrics across your physical and virtual server environment for troubleshooting server problems, and optimizing server workload and hardware utilization.

o Monitor server response time, packet loss, and network latency. o Track CPU, memory, and disk usage, and forecast when capacity will run out. o Monitor server storage volumes, disk usage, and capacity metrics out of the box. o Monitor the health of server hardware and blade enclosure and isolate failures in

components, such as battery, CPU, fan, temperature, memory, etc. o Remotely remediate server issues. Terminate runaway processes, start/stop services, reboot

servers, etc. o Centrally manage and track server hardware and software asset information. Get alerted on

server warranty expiration.

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SERVER MONITORING (SCREENSHOT)

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APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT MAPPING

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• Diagnose and troubleshoot application problems faster with the AppStack™ dashboard. Find out if a slow application issue is due to a performance problem in the application itself or the underlying physical and virtual server infrastructure and storage environment.

o Easily pinpoint the root cause of application issues across physical, virtual, and storage infrastructures.

o Clearly see dependencies and relationships between various elements of the application stack.o With a single click, you can drill deep to identify performance and resource capacity issues.o Get a unified view across multi-vendor applications, servers, hypervisors, and storage arrays.

• Integrates with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, Storage Resource Monitor, and Web Performance Monitor.

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APPSTACK DASHBOARD (SCREENSHOT)

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INTELLIGENT ALERTS & REPORTS

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• SAM comes with a wealth of pre-built alerts and reports that allow you to get started immediately. You can modify them to suit your custom needs, or easily build new alerts or reports from the Web console. o Define device dependencies to help ensure you don’t receive unnecessary alerts and prevent

floods of useless messages. o Configure alerts for correlated events (alert if X and Y are true), and sustained conditions

(alert if Y is true for more than five minutes). o Dynamically calculate baseline thresholds and set up alerts based on network baseline data. o Escalate alerts automatically through a variety of alert delivery methods.

• Automate report generation and delivery with over 100 out-of-the-box reports available in SolarWinds SAM. You can easily modify them or build new reports based on custom requirements.

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FLEXIBLE DEPLOYMENT & SCALABILITY

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• SAM supports both agentless and agent-based monitoring covering applications across your on-premises environment, private, public and hybrid cloud networks.

• The use of agent extends the scope of monitoring to the cloud, across WAN, satellite and VPN connections, and in remote locations, satellite offices and secure locations.

• You can deploy SAM in large and distributed environments across multiple geographies.

• SAM is extremely robust and scalable to meet your growing IT needs. You can easily add additional pollers and expand data collection across tens of thousands of nodes.

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SAM IS PART OF SOLARWINDS ORION® PLATFORM

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Orion® Platform (Modular Deployment)

Server & Application

Monitor

Network Performance

Monitor

Installing SAM Installing NPM

Network Configuration

Manager

Installing NCM More SolarWinds Products

®

Pick and choose the modules you need, and install them and integrate them easily.

Orion platform offers core set of common services such as centralized alerts, reports, UI, dashboards, etc.

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CUSTOMER QUOTES

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• “Server & Application Monitor solves real world problems by assisting with monitoring and being able to make strategic decisions. This is a great product for monitoring your application and server environment.”

George MasonNetwork Engineer, Cari-Med Limited

• “The built-in templates in Server & Application Monitor have been very useful because I don’t have to create a component monitor by myself; everything is out of the box. It is an easy to configure tool with high performance. It is the most complete tool I have used. I would say that it will make your job easier, no doubt.”

Enrique VillaltaSystems Administrator, Logistik Unicorp, Inc.

More customer quotes »

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RESOURCES FOR ADDITIONAL LEARNING

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• Supported Applications »

• Datasheet »

• Interactive Online Demo »

• Evaluator’s Guide »

• ROI Benefits »

• SAM Training Videos »

• Research Brief (by Gleanster) »

• Licensing Guide »

• Case Studies »

• Customer Reviews »

Why Customers Chose

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o SolarWinds over IBM Tivoli

o SolarWinds over HP

o SolarWinds over Nagios

o SolarWinds over ManageEngine

o SolarWinds over WhatsUp Gold

Simplify Application Monitoring & Troubleshooting!

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