End User Network Experience Monitors
Use monitors to enhance your end user network experience
When it comes to improving network performance and user experience, network user experience monitors can let you more easily keep track of key elements of your network potentially affecting end users.
SolarWinds® ipMonitor® is built with more than a dozen monitors specifically designed to help IT teams identify potential network issues before end users feel their impact, including:
- Bandwidth - Measures the amount of inbound and outbound traffic and link status of a given network interface
- Network Speed - Tests the speed of a transaction between ipMonitor and another point on a network
- Link User Experience - Tests any links (HREFs) it locates within a specified webpage to ensure links can be successfully accessed by visitors
Keep track of web server and email server functionality to help ensure seamless end user experience
With ipMonitor, you can easily set up monitors to provide performance insight into web servers and email servers to increase visibility into factors important for user experience, such as:
- DNS User Experience - Lets you test the ability of a Primary and/or Secondary DNS server to respond to a record query
- FTP User Experience - Can test an FTP server’s ability to accept incoming sessions, process user logons, and then transmit the requested file
- HTTP User Experience - For testing a web server’s ability to accept incoming sessions and transmit a requested resource, such as a webpage or the results of a CGI script
- User experience monitors for IMAP4, MAPI, or POP3 - Each monitor can test the relevant mail server’s ability to receive and distribute email, as well as the users’ ability to log in from the enabled client and manage their email
Monitor SNMP and performance counter test data to improve end user experience
ipMonitor is designed to make it easier to get started using SNMP monitors with the ability to customize with less initial input. You can use the Custom SNMP Wizard to retrieve and analyze data from SNMP-enabled network devices, services, and applications. Then, you can use the SNMP Trap monitor, which doesn’t poll resources at timed intervals, to listen for incoming SNMP traps and perform tests on the data it receives.
ipMonitor also offers monitors for Exchange Server 2007/2010 and SQL Server built to leverage performance counters to test subsystem performance, which can help you more easily determine overall server and system health, identify performance degradation, determine the exact failure point, and take corrective actions before outages occur and potentially affect end users.
Additionally, ipMonitor also includes a Windows Monitor designed to help you verify crucial performance counter values against a Windows system, including:
- Disk Read, Disk Write, Pages, and Context Switches per second
- Page File Usage %
- Processor Queue Length
- Number of processes
Other monitors included in SolarWinds ipMonitor
In addition to the many end user network experience monitors included in SolarWinds ipMonitor, there are nearly 40 other monitors to help you monitor performance for your network, server, VMware hosts, and applications. These monitors include:
- Event Log - Finds information within Error, Warning, Information, Success Audit, and Failure Audit events located in Windows event logs
- File Directory - Regularly tests the content and structure of a directory to detect changes outside your boundaries
- Battery - Tests how much charge is remaining in a battery to give you an accurate picture of battery health and current operational conditions
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Why are end user network experience monitors important?
End user network experience monitors can help IT teams more easily keep track of how the network may be impacting end user experience by helping them locate potential issues before they have a significant impact.
If end users don’t have a good experience using your web application or website—both of which are often heavily dependent on your network performance—they are likely to leave and possibly never return. Losing potential (or existing) customers due to a poor network experience can be costly.
Network experience monitors can also help IT teams stay on top of end user network experience more easily using the included alerting and automated remediation actions to quickly address issues in need of attention, as many basic fixes can be easily automated.
How do end user network experience monitors work?
End user network experience monitors work by keeping track of critical elements of the network that could affect end user experience. Each monitor is designed to measure a specific metric like bandwidth or run tests to check how an element of your network can perform its normal function.
For example, a monitor that measures IMAP4 user experience works by running tests to check an SMTP server's ability to receive and distribute emails to ensure users can log in.
How do end user network experience monitors work in ipMonitor?
SolarWinds ipMonitor is built to serve as a powerful monitoring tool that makes it easier to keep track of end user network experience with its large number of included monitors focused on tracking user experience. ipMonitor is designed to go far beyond simple availability checking to give you fuller visibility into the quality of your end user’s experience.
Once you add the monitors you want (a simplified process using native configuration wizards), you can easily check the state of monitors from your ipMonitor dashboard. If you see a monitor you want to dig into further, you can click on it to get more details.
ipMonitor also comes with advanced alerting features that automatically sends an alert when any of the monitors detect an issue to make sure the right members of your team know they need to take a closer look. These alerts are also configurable, so you can make sure you’re never alerted too often or too rarely.
Included end user network experience monitors
SolarWinds ipMonitor includes more than a dozen different monitors designed to help you track, improve, and maintain end user network experience, such as:
- ADO User Experience (SQL Query) monitor
- Bandwidth monitor
- Network Speed monitor
- FTP User Experience monitor
- SQL Server monitor
- DNS User Experience monitor
- Exchange Server 2007/2010 monitor
- HTTP User Experience monitor
- IMAP4 - User Experience monitor
- ipMonitor monitor
- Link User Experience monitor
- MAPI User Experience monitor
- POP3 User Experience monitor
- SNMP monitor
- SNMP Trap monitor
- Windows monitor
List of monitor categories included in ipMonitor
Network user experience monitoring is just one of many monitor categories included in SolarWinds ipMonitor. The solution comes with more than 55 monitors in the following categories:
- End User Network Experience Monitors
- Windows Application and Service Monitors
- Database Availability Monitors
- Network Infrastructure SNMP Monitors
- VM Host Monitors
- Network Equipment Health Monitor
- Common Port Monitors
With so many different categories of monitor, ipMonitor is designed to make it easier to stay on top of the performance of many key elements of your infrastructure, so you can increase uptime, productivity, and end user satisfaction.
Why are end user network experience monitors important?
End user network experience monitors can help IT teams more easily keep track of how the network may be impacting end user experience by helping them locate potential issues before they have a significant impact.
If end users don’t have a good experience using your web application or website—both of which are often heavily dependent on your network performance—they are likely to leave and possibly never return. Losing potential (or existing) customers due to a poor network experience can be costly.
Network experience monitors can also help IT teams stay on top of end user network experience more easily using the included alerting and automated remediation actions to quickly address issues in need of attention, as many basic fixes can be easily automated.
Improve network performance with end user network experience monitors
ipMonitor
- Monitors specifically designed for end user network experience monitoring
- Set up ipMonitor and specific monitors typically in minutes
- Get alerted whenever a monitor detects an issue
