Whether you are responsible for a small campus or the entire nation, this toolset lets you take control of network management. The SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor can monitor and alert on Availability, Bandwidth Utilization, CPU Load, Memory and Disk Space utilization. It even includes custom alerting that sends a scripted message to your digital phone when a outage or performance threshold is triggered.  With the SNMP Graph you can monitor any SNMP managed device. The Real-Time Interface Monitor can display many statistics from Routers and Switches simultaneously. The Advanced CPU Load allows you to monitor the real-time load on your routers while the CPU Gauge displays a single switch, server or router's CPU performance.

SolarWinds has, at its core, one of the fastest, most robust discovery engines in the industry.  A single Engineer's Edition toolset has the capacity to discover and document from a single device to multiple class B's.  The award winning IP Network Browser and Network Sonar are the most popular discover tools. The New Switch Port Mapper is an auto-discovery Layer 2 & Layer 3 Port Mapper. Other discovery tools included in this Engineer's Edition Toolset are: MAC Address Discovery, Subnet List, SNMP Sweep and DNS Audit.
 

The SolarWinds Engineer's Edition Toolset contains several tools specifically designed to provide a simple graphical interface for management of your Cisco Routers.  From the Config Downloader to the Config Uploader to the Config Editor/Viewer this toolset makes managing router Configs much easier.  You can even Compare Running vs. Startup Configs on your remote Cisco routers. With the Advanced CPU Load monitor you can actually view real-time load on routers. Other tools included are: Proxy Ping, Router Password Decryption, Router Security Check, Configuration Management and CPU Gauge. NetFlow Realtime Tool Stores up to one hour of Cisco NetFlow data and displays inbound and outbound traffic separately for granular analysis and troubleshooting.
 

The Network Monitor is a fully interactive management application that allows you to monitor selected devices and send alerts on outage conditions.  Another handy tool is the Watch It! utility which lets you keep your thumb on the pulse of your network. A very nice Syslog Server is also included in this suite of tools.
 

DNS Blacklists are a popular tool used by e-mail administrators to help block reception of SPAM into their mail systems.  By configuring mail servers to consult DNS Blacklists before accepting an email message, e-mail administrators can block a large percentage of incoming SPAM. SolarWinds.Net Spam Blacklist allows you to test the IP addresses of your mail servers and verify that your mail servers have not been blacklisted.  
 

In addition to a vast collection of basic networking tools this Networking Toolset includes a very powerful MIB Browser with over 220,000 precompiled OID's. With this MIB Browser an engineer can query any remote device for software and hardware configurations via SNMP. With it you can also walk a MIB tree with the MIB Walk utility. With Update System MIBs and MIB Viewer you can not only view MIB details but modify them remotely. With the SNMP Graph utility you can remotely graph and monitor any MIB.

The advanced security tools allow you to not only test your internet security with the SNMP Brute Force Attack and Dictionary Attack utilities but also validate the security on your Cisco Routers with the Router Security Check.  The Remote TCP Reset remotely display all active sessions on a device and the Password Decryption lets you decrypt Type 8 Cisco Passwords. The Port Scanner allows testing for open TCP ports across IP Address and port ranges or selection of specific machines and ports
 

The Solarwinds Engineer's Edition Toolset includes many utilities for managing the day-to-day operation of your network. These are not basic normal tools. SolarWinds offers multi-threaded utilities that out perform the industry. Some of these tools included are:  Ping, Ping Sweep, Enhanced Ping, Trace Route, Proxy Ping, TFTP Server, WAN Killer (a traffic generator) and Wake-On-LAN that can "turn on" and power up a server remotely.
 

To round out the toolset SolarWinds includes a broad assortment of tools to assist in managing your IP Address space.  No more Excel Spreadsheets, let SolarWinds Auto-discovery document your IP address space.  Tools included are: IP Address Management, DHCP Scope Monitor, Advanced Subnet Calculator, DNS / WhoIs Resolver, DNS Analyzer and DNS Audit.
 

A couple tools included in the Engineer's Edition Toolset don't fall into a specific category and have been labeled as "Miscellaneous".  These additional tools are unique and are far from trivial.  The SolarWinds TFTP Server is the ONLY multi-threaded TFTP Server available and the WAN Killer is a very useful traffic generator for loading and testing networks. SolarWinds also has FREE tools available for download.