ipMonitor delivers fast, affordable, and easy-to-use network monitoring that ensures you always know exactly what’s up with your network, servers, and applications
Network Monitoring
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Monitor availability, responsiveness and performance quality out-of-the-box
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Automatically discover resources that need to be monitored
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Quickly set up monitors for infrastructure equipment and applications
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SolarWinds ipMonitor delivers entry-level network monitoring that installs in minutes and begins monitoring critical infrastructure immediately. ipMonitor takes the guesswork out of network monitoring by automating setup, discovery, and monitoring, making it quick and easy to get started.
When ipMonitor is installed, it quickly auto-discovers network devices and then provides recommended settings for monitoring these devices to ensure comprehensive network monitoring and availability monitoring of critical infrastructure. Additionally, ipMonitor ships with more than 50 preconfigured monitors for routers, switches, servers, and applications like Microsoft® Exchange, SQL Server™, and Active Directory®. Together, these features ensure that you’ll be monitoring your infrastructure in literally minutes.
ipMonitor provides out-of-the-box monitoring for critical infrastructure components, such as:
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Windows® NT, 2000, XP, 2003
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Microsoft® Exchange, IIS, SQL, Site Server, Transaction Server
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RAS, WINS, DHCP
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Oracle® SQL
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Dell® & Hewlett Packard® servers
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Cisco® routers
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Foundry Networks® switches
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APC® back-up power protection systems
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NetBotz® environmental monitors
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Memory, disk space, fan, CPU & battery
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Inbound, outbound, & percentile bandwidth
Auto-Discovery of Network Devices
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Scan the network to auto-discover network devices and servers
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Discover network device attributes
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Query a server or device for possible monitors that can be added
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Add new monitors with a few mouse clicks
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ipMonitor automatically scans your network and assembles a list of potential resources to monitor. Using the Startup Wizard, ipMonitor enables you to have full control over the range of IP addresses that are scanned for discovery and the types of discovery methods that are used (e.g., DNS, ICMP/PING, and SNMP); it also allows you to prevent specific servers, workstations, and devices from being scanned.
The ipMonitor Discovery Wizard offers a multitude of scanning methods, including IP address range, DNS zone, host import and network neighborhood; but also goes one step further by discovering device attributes, classifications and Layer-3 topology information. Additionally, ipMonitor makes it easy to add multiple SNMP Communities and any custom ports that are in use in your environment. As ipMonitor scans the network, you can even view the real time status of the scan.
In just minutes, ipMonitor returns a list of resources that were found during the network discovery process. You can quickly navigate through this list to determine which resources should be monitored and then launch the Add Server Wizard from within the same page to query the device or server to determine which pre-configured monitors can be utilized for that equipment.
Scan results are automatically cached by ipMonitor, allowing you to return to the results list and add monitors for specific devices at any time after the initial scan. This means that there is no need to rediscover the network each time the wizard is used, resulting in considerable time savings when large networks or many resources are involved.
Out-of-the-Box Monitors for Business-Critical Applications
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Monitor your infrastructure in literally minutes with more than 50 preconfigured monitors for routers, switches, servers, and applications like Microsoft® Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server™, and Active Directory®
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Collect and analyze critical metrics for each system and application that indicate availability, performance, and service quality
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ipMonitor ensures that you’ll be monitoring your infrastructure in literally minutes with more than 50 preconfigured monitors for routers, switches, servers, and applications like Microsoft® Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server™, and Active Directory®.
These preconfigured monitors collect and analyze critical metrics for each system and application that indicate availability, performance, and service quality. In some cases, the monitor can even take corrective actions to automatically resolve issues before availability or performance are negatively impacted.
Out-of-the box monitoring platforms and protocols include:
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Active Directory
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DNS
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Microsoft Exchange
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FTP
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Web
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IMAP
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Microsoft SQL Server
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SMTP
Complete List of Monitors
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User Experience (UE) Monitors: HTTP UE, HTTP Link UE, POP3 UE, IMAP4 UE, MAPI UE, DNS UE, DNS UE, FTP UE, ADO SQL Query UE
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Custom SNMP Monitors: SNMP Trap, SNMP MIB
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Windows® NT/2000/XP/2003 Monitors: Exchange Server, Exchange Round-trip Email, SQL Server, ADO SQL Query, Service, Drive Space, Active Directory, Kerberos 5, Event Logs, Third Party EXEC, File and Directory
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Resource Monitors: Bandwidth Usage, Battery, CPU Usage, Drive Space, Memory Usage, Temperature, Humidity, Fan SpeedUptime Monitors: PING, SNMP, HTTPS, HTML/ASP, SMTP, DNS over UDP, DNS over TCP, Lotus Notes, Network Speed, HTTP, FTP, POP3, IMAP4, LDAP, NTP, RADIUS, NNTP, Telnet, IRC, Gopher, Finger, WHOIS, RWHOIS, SNPP
SmartMonitor Recommended Settings
ipMonitor automatically recommends monitoring settings for applications and servers on the network. By capturing the knowledge of our expert SolarWinds engineers, we’ve built SmartMonitor® technology right into ipMonitor that offers up recommended settings for monitoring almost everything on your network – which saves you time and eliminates the need for you to navigate the murky waters of configuring settings by hand.
The SmartMonitor feature is designed with three key benefits in mind: accelerating deployment of ipMonitor, ensuring ease of use, and providing optimized monitor settings that are easy and intuitive to implement. After ipMonitor has auto-discovered your network gear and servers, the application presents you with a complete list of found devices and then recommends settings for monitoring each of these devices.
SmartMonitor Recommended Settings take the guess work out of your monitor configuration, reducing deployment time for even the most experienced network administrators.
Device Grouping
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Create dynamic groups — SmartGroups — of devices and monitors based on user-defined filters
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Facilitate management of groups of devices, including quickly assigning alerts to SmartGroups
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Manage monitors based on device properties, contacts, or location
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Automatically add a monitor or specific device type to SmartGroups
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ipMonitor makes it painless to manage lists of devices and their logical organization with enhanced grouping and nested grouping capabilities. ipMonitor SmartGroups are dynamically generated based on the results of a user-defined filter, such as device property, contact profile, or location. When monitors that meet the filter criteria are added to the network, ipMonitor automatically associates them with the appropriate SmartGroup. Keeping your monitors organized for quick and easy management has never been so easy!
SmartGroups also create vital dependencies between monitors and devices, making it easy to assign alerting and recovery actions and eliminating the risk of redundant alerts being issued.
A centralized view of device and monitor groups is displayed in a Windows® Explorer-style tree format that offers one-click navigation to the properties and settings for that element, making it significantly easier and faster to manage groups of devices.
Network Mapping
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Dynamically update network maps as devices are added
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Create and edit all elements of network maps through ipMonitor's Web interface
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Drill down through network maps to device and monitor level for quick problem resolution
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Customize the look and feel of your network maps
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Get a bird’s eye view of your network infrastructure with ipMonitor’s new automated network mapping feature. ipMonitor auto-discovers network devices and creates rich network maps that give you a graphical representation of your network's layout. Network maps can be customized to show the connection between elements or to add nested elements as you see fit.
As an added bonus, when new devices and monitors are added to your network, ipMonitor’s network maps will update dynamically to reflect changes and display the new elements. Plus, network maps enable you to visually monitor network health with status indictors that offer drill-down capabilities for quick problem resolution. One click in the map interface will take you directly to the status level of the chosen monitor or device.
The look and feel of each network map can be customized to show either a geographic- or device-centric view, and it can all be done through ipMonitor’s cutting-edge Web interface!.
Support for SNMP & WMI
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Retrieve and analyze data from devices, servers, and applications using SNMP v1/2
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Manage Windows® devices and applications via WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation)
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Browse and search ipMonitor's internal MIB database or create a custom MIB database
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ipMonitor utilizes multiple "interrogation methods" to collect data from monitored devices, including SNMP, WMI, and RPC. ipMonitor automatically selects the method best suited to the device type, ensuring that you are always presented the most accurate and complete data available.
SNMP Monitoring
ipMonitor supports two methods for testing and analyzing data from SNMP-enabled servers, network devices, and applications:
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Polling: The SNMP Monitors poll devices, servers and applications on timed intervals to retrieve and analyze specified data.
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Listening: The SNMP TRAP Monitor listens for incoming traps sent by SNMP agents and analyzes the data it receives against specified rules.
WMI and RPC Monitoring
ipMonitor relies on WMI and RPC to deliver advanced monitoring of Windows devices, servers, and applications. Leveraging support for WMI and RPC, ipMonitor provides monitoring for many Microsoft technologies, including:
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Monitoring the health of SQL servers
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Monitoring Exchange performance, queue, and RPC counters
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Ensuring Windows services are running
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Testing the Kerberos 5 authentication server's ability to serve tickets
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Scanning security, system, and application event logs
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Monitoring available drive space on Windows shares
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Monitoring structure of directories and file properties
End-User Experience Monitoring
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Perform synthetic transactions and analyze test results
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Measure quality of service experienced by end users
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Ensure availability of business-critical equipment and applications
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ipMonitor shows your users the love – even the high maintenance ones. Using synthetic transactions, ipMonitor serves up end-user experience monitoring for applications like e-mail, Web, and database services to ensure that your users can’t blame you or the IT infrastructure for missing that deadline. You’ll be alerted to issues before your users ever notice a blip in the availability of business-critical applications.
ipMonitor’s Quality Assurance Monitors perform synthetic transactions and analyze test results to measure the quality of service experienced by end-users. You can use these monitors to perform multiple transaction tests, analyze test results, and measure response time.
With ipMonitor, you can quickly test critical infrastructure equipment and applications, such as SQL servers, commerce solutions and dynamic web applications, to ensure that they are:
Automated System Recovery & Remediation
ipMonitor provides various recovery options that can automatically take corrective action to restore service if a failure occurs.
Use Recovery Alerts to:
Use ipMonitor’s External Process Alert to:
Built-in Database & Web Server
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Send notifications, even in the event of a server failure
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Reduce maintenance with a completely turnkey, all-inclusive monitoring solution
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Do not assume any inherent vulnerabilities or incur associated costs
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ipMonitor stores all collected data in a secure, built-in database, enabling reports to be generated quickly and consistently. The included database makes ipMonitor a self-contained installation, making it easy to maintain and ensuring that the data collected is safe. Additionally, as an all-inclusive solution, ipMonitor eliminates any additional costs that can be inherited through a dependency on third party database structures.
ipMonitor also serves as its own web server, which ensures that email notifications can still be sent out even if the mail server goes down. ipMonitor is designed to be a self-reliant monitoring solution that preserves the integrity of your data and makes sure that you are the first to be alerted of service interruption, before it affects your end users.
Cutting-Edge Web Interface
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Customize ipMonitor’s user interface with support for drag and drop, resizing, and scalable fonts
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Easily visualize network monitoring data with network maps, sophisticated graphs, and reports
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View real-time network monitoring status
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With ipMonitor's updated user interface (UI), all the network monitoring and transactional data that you’ve started collecting is immediately available in an easy-to-use, easy-to-navigate console that delivers visuals like maps, graphs, and reports – ensuring you can say 99.999% when your boss asks about availability. It's never been so simple and affordable to get a clear view of what's up with your network and application infrastructure… in just minutes.
Here's just a sample of ipMonitor’s new and improved UI features:
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Ajax is used to display real-time monitor status information
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Drag and drop technology enables you to resize, reorder, and add columns in high usage areas of the interface, without requiring a page refresh
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The Relations Navigator offers a top-down look at the way essential ipMonitor elements interrelate with one another
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Screens automatically reflow when resized
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Screens support scalable fonts
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Customizable network maps make it easy to visual network monitoring data
To help you manage large numbers of monitors with relative ease, the list of monitors included in the UI comes equipped with broad search capabilities and various management features. Each administrator and user account can adjust their own set of configuration parameters. For example, individual accounts might be configured to display different network operations views.
Additionally, ipMonitor maintains live state information throughout its configuration screens so you always know the status of resources you are testing.
Customizable Dashboards
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Get centralized summary views that provide instant visibility into the health of your IT infrastructure
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Drag and drop elements to create customized views in seconds
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Drill down to device and monitor level to troubleshoot issues and quickly resolve problems
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ipMonitor’s new and improved dashboards offer centralized, customizable summary views that provide instant visibility into the health of your IT infrastructure.
We understand that every network is different, so we made ipMonitor’s dashboards as customizable as possible, enabling you to get the information you need in the layout you want.
With support for drag and drop, it’s easy to add and remove elements from the view to ensure that you have the reports, statistics, and gauges you need – right at your fingertips.
ipMonitor dashboards also make it easy to identify problem areas at a glance and then quickly resolve the issue. The zero configuration drill down takes you from the dashboard view to the device or monitor level with just one click.
Built-in, Zoomable Reports for Network Analysis
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Easily access status reports via a full-screen NOC view with drill-down capabilities
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Generate reports using a number of out-of-the-box templates, including group, device, and system reports
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Select time ranges and crop reports based on anomalies visible within a graph
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Display clearly-marked test indicators for one hour time periods or less, highlighting failures and other problems encountered during monitor testing
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ipMonitor delivers a full-screen NOC view that will knock your socks off, providing easy-to-view status reports with drill-down into all groups and monitors in your environment. Additionally, Version 9 adds new group, device, and system reports to facilitate out-of-the-box reporting!
From anywhere within ipMonitor's reporting interface, point and shoot zoomable reports make it quick and easy to drill down into ipMonitor’s database of test results to identify exact error messages that triggered alerts. This feature is particularly useful when you are trying to troubleshoot issues and identify the root cause of failures.
Zoomable reports are designed to be highly flexible and to provide immediate access to reporting data. Dragging or resizing a zoom window will cause all other windows using the same time parameters to automatically shift to match the selected time range, giving you an accurate, entirely new report.
Automatic Network Alerting
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Send network alerts via text, email, phone, or pager when quality of service degrades, a predefined content pattern is identified, thresholds are exceeded, or failures occur
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Assign alerts to SmartGroups
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Integrate alerts with other systems
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Automatically escalate alerts
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ipMonitor's comprehensive suite of alerts provides various different notification methods, integration options and recovery actions.
Contact options include:
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Cellular phone using email or text message
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Wireless device using email or net broadcast
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SMS enabled phone, pager or wireless device
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Text pager
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Numeric pager
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Simple beeper
ipMonitor also includes various alert integration options, such as:
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Sending SNMP messages to other management solutions
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Writing to the Windows® Application Event Log
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Writing to text log files
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Send custom email alerts to internal help desk / ticket solutions
ipMonitor’s Alert Escalation makes it easy to share responsibilities among administrators who have varying levels of responsibility. For example, you might configure Alert Escalation to first alert the on-call administrator, and only alert a back-up administrator if a monitor or group of monitors continues to fail.
Secure Network Monitoring
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ipMonitor provides secure network monitoring with a security model that encompasses authentication, authorization, encryption and protection against intrusion.
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ipMonitor's secure network monitoring model is designed to:
ipMonitor's security options include:
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Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to provide secure communication over non-secure channels such as the Internet
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Credentials to apply elevated permissions only as required when accessing Windows® file system objects and services via the network
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Authentication methods to improve security for protocols such as IMAP4, POP3 and HTTP
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IP address filters to restrict specific IP addresses or ranges of IP addresses
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User accounts to precisely control level of usability for different ipMonitor features
ipMonitor uses SSL to safely exchange sensitive information from anywhere on your internal network or the Internet.
SSL protects you by:
ipMonitor supports four different methods of acquiring an SSL certificate:
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Self-Signed Certificates (automatically generated)
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Trusted Certificate Authority. e.g. VeriSign®, FreeSSL™, InstantSSL™
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Stand-Alone Certificate Authority using the Microsoft® Windows® Certificate Services
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Enterprise Certificate Authority using the Microsoft Management Console "Certificates" snap-in
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