SolarWinds are a leading provider of windows-based network management, network monitoring and network discovery software applications. With a customer base in excess of 40,000 spanning the military, FTSE & Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen SolarWinds to reduce network downtime, manage network compliance and change and improve staff efficiency.

SolarWinds has developed and brought to market award winning solutions that address the needs of network engineers from performance management to fault monitoring to configuration management. SolarWinds family of products include:

SolarWinds Toolsets

SolarWinds Toolsets is a desktop application providing configuration management, bandwidth and network performance monitoring, discovery and fault management tools.

Orion Network Performance Monitor

Orion is a comprehensive server-based fault, bandwidth and performance management application that allows users to view the real-time statistics and availability of their network from any Web browser.

Orion Network Performance Monitor Modules

Orion Network Performance Monitor also offers modules that extend its capabilities to servers, wireless devices and applications. These modules include Orion Wireless Network Monitor, Orion Application Monitor and Orion Hot Standby Engine.

Orion Network Configuration Management

Orion NCM (formerly known as Cirrus) is a comprehensive, intuitive solution designed to streamline and automate network configuration management including change management, configuration backup, policy management and much more. With integration into the Orion NPM monitoring application, the ability to view 'cause and effect' of configuration changes and issues is clear to see. Supporting network device configurations from Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Load Balancers, Wireless Access Points, and VPN Concentrators, all included out the box!

ipMonitor Network Monitoring for the SMB

SolarWinds ipMonitor delivers an affordable, turnkey solution for network monitoring that is easy to use and installs in just minutes – giving you a clear view of what’s up with your network. Discover why ipMonitor is the new gold standard in network monitoring for SMBs! 

Free Tools

We provide several Free tools to help alleviate some of the day-to-day challenges network engineers face such as uploading and downloading executable images and configurations to devices, computing information about IP addresses and remotely powering on network PCs to retrieve documents. These free tools include TFTP Server, Subnet Calculator Wake-On-LAN and Netflow configurator.

Company History

SolarWinds was founded in 1998 by two brothers, Dave and Don Yonce. From inception, Dave and Don shared a common vision for the company - provide high end intuitive network management software that was not only "best of class" but also affordable and easy to use. Unlike traditional network management frameworks, SolarWinds products can be deployed in hours providing significant ROI in days, not weeks or years.