WhatsUp Gold Premium Edition
Network, Server, and Application Monitoring
Introducing our new Alert Center, Monitoring and Discovery Enhancements and extended Flow Monitor Plug-in
An Even More Comprehensive WhatsUp Gold
Power Forward with WhatsUp Gold 14.2
This is one release that we know you7rs ll love! It’s packed with features that were on the top of the list for many of you. And it’s designed to make WhatsUp Gold and its plug-ins even more intuitive, user friendly and a time saver - with enhanced automation, reliability and expanded coverage for managing your network, server and application infrastructure.
All in all, this is IT Management Made Simple as never before.
New for all WhatsUp Gold Versions:
Business Hour Reporting
Need to provide SLA reports based on specific Business Hours to your customers or your management? WhatsUp Gold now makes it easy to set up multiple sets of Business Hours as required and apply them to Group and System reports. Business Hour settings are easily accessible from the date range picker on these reports.
Scheduled PDF Reports
Need to easily share reports with your management and business counterparts? You can now email PDF versions of reports on the fly or schedule them for regular delivery directly from an individual report or workspace page. All scheduled PDF reports can be managed via the WhatsUp Gold web interface.
Blackout Summary Notifications
Wonder if there were events that you missed when your devices were under blackout? You can now easily get updated at a glance with Blackout Summary Notifications when you return.
Multiple Data Points on a Single Graph
Need visualization for multiple CPU, disk or memory utilizations on a single performance chart? WhatsUp Gold now provides just that with the added flexibility of dynamically including or excluding any of the components as you need.
New SMS Alerts
Want to receive Alert Center messages when you are away from your computer or email? WhatsUp Gold now supports SMS alerts directly to your phone from Alert Center. And it comes with the capability for customizing the SMS message for e.g. with “percent variable” information so that you know how to respond.
Agentless Unix and Linux Monitoring with SSH
(not available in Standard edition)
Looking for a truly agentless method for monitoring your Unix or Linux systems? WhatsUp Gold offers three new ways to monitor and manage Unix/Linux systems –a new Active Monitor, a Performance Monitor and a new Action type. Using the built-in SSH credentials, WhatsUp Gold can log into the Unix/Linux systems and execute a command. The command output is checked against the expected response to assess success / failure for an Active Monitor, or numerical outputs are stored and graphed over time in the Performance Monitor. New Action types enable you run custom scripts on an on-demand or scheduled basis as required.
Introduced in version 14.2
Announcing two NEW WhatsUp Gold Plug-ins:
WhatsVirtual
The WhatsVirtual plugin enables the automatic discovery and mapping of VMware ESX/ESXi host and guest (virtual) machine roles. Visual maps show the connections between the host system and its associated virtual machines, even those in suspended modes.
WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager
WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager delivers increased reliability to your management efforts with the automatic, bi-directional failover of the WhatsUp Gold v14.2 platform through a redundant architecture of Primary and Secondary WhatsUp Gold servers. When the Primary is unable to continue monitoring or encounters failure in component services, Failover Manager ensures automatic transfer of monitoring responsibility to the Secondary system. Failover Manager works with all WhatsUp Gold versions.
Powerful Enhancements for Existing WhatsUp Gold Plug-ins:
Flow Monitor - Expanded Flow Protocol Support
Flow Monitor now offers expanded support for the IPFIX protocol as well as for Cisco ASA firewalls (Cisco calls it NetFlow Security Event Logging or NSEL). With existing support for NetFlow, J-Flow and sFlow formats, this expands Flow Monitor support to nearly all flow enabled devices.
95th Percentile Reporting
Many service providers charge for bandwidth on the 95th percentile basis – also called the burstable billing method. Flow Monitor now offers an easy way to monitor your 95th percentile bandwidth consumption from within the Interface Overview report.
WhatsConfigured - Policy Based Monitoring
Policy based monitoring allows you to define a policy in WhatsConfigured that will be audited whenever device configurations are backed-up. Policies can also be verified on-demand against existing configuration back-ups. And if a configuration back-up fails the policy audit – you will immediately get notified.
Custom Script Import/Export
As a WhatsConfigured user you may have created many custom tasks to collect selected configuration information from your devices. Now with custom script import/export capability you can easily share these custom task settings within the community portal. Moreover, custom tasks can now be run on demand – so that you can quickly verify/backup selected configuration information when you need to.
Global Configuration Search
Global search allows you to search any or all of the configuration files that are stored in the WhatsConfigured database. The search can be performed against a single device or all devices and even be limited to only a selected number of last archive updates.
WhatsConnected - Auto Device Dependencies
WhatsConnected now supports the option for automatic creation of device dependencies when exporting to WhatsUp Gold. This capability automatically populates device maps and sets up polling dependencies based on this information within WhatsUp Gold.
Scheduled Layer 2 Discovery
You can now run scheduled Layer 2 discovery with WhatsConnected at regular intervals keeping your network information up to date. As scheduled discoveries are run, they automatically update the discovery files with new connectivity information.
Powerful New Reporting
WhatsConnected now includes three new out-of-the box reports for comprehensive insight into network assets and their dependencies –
- The Asset/Inventory report provides a view of the assets discovered by WhatsConnected as well as tools to sort and filter the assets that appear in the view.
- The Device Connectivity report provides a list of the devices connected to a network device as well as tools to sort and filter the assets that appear in the view.
- The new Bridge Port Utilization report provides a view of port usage (total available and used) on networking equipment.
Introduced in v14.1
Can you believe it? An even more comprehensive WhatsUp Gold! With v14.1 we are pleased to introduce some exciting new features and capabilities to the WhatsUp Gold product family, including our new WhatsConfigured Configuration and Change Management Plug-in, and the extension of our core monitoring capabilities to include wireless network monitoring.
The addition of v14.1's WhatsConfigured plug-in adds a new dimension to our already broad management capabilities. Our goal with v14.1 was to provide you, the network administrators and managers of the world, with one simple integrated solution to manage the availability, performance and configuration of your network. No more jumping from one application to another, maintaining configuration data in multiple files, or using outdated toolsets. With v14.1 we give you the time-savings and management efficiency only an integrated application can offer.
If you're not already using WhatsUp Gold, now's the time to join the millions of satisfied users around the world.
WhatsConfigured: Configuration & Change Management
Introducing the new WhatsConfigured plug-in, a fully integrated solution to automate network device configuration rollout, backup, storage, and change management processes. WhatsConfigured saves you valuable time by eliminating manual and repetitive configuration tasks and replacing them with an automated solution that ensures complete accuracy and control.
Wireless Network Monitoring
With WhatsUp Gold Premium, Distributed and MSP editions you can seamlessly monitor wireless network performance including access point utilization, user traffic and alert on radio failures, right along with wired network fault and performance management . WhatsUp Gold provides you with exactly what you need to manage your critical infrastructure from a single management console. Not included in Standard edition
Enhanced Report Delivery
With v14.1, you can now deliver report data and graphical elements to your key stakeholders via PDF. The PDF export feature is supported on all versions of WhatsUp Gold. All full reports in WhatsUp Gold can be exported to PDF, as well as many other business critical reports, including many Flow Monitor reports.
Introduced in version 14
Could we make our award-winning network management solution even easier to set up, operate and manage? Yes we could, and we did it with the new v14!
V14 extends WhatsUp Gold's proactive monitoring, reporting and manageability features - cementing its position as the most simple, cost-effective and complete network and application management tool available in the market today.
Industry Leading Alert Management Platform
The new Alert Center centralizes alert and notifications configuration and management in one single interface. The new threshold monitors enable intelligent monitoring of the infrastructure - generating alerts based on a combination of performance levels tracked over time. Critical monitors ensure you don't waste your time with alert storms and false notifications. In-depth WhatsUp Gold server self-monitoring ensures your installation operates at peak performance 24/7. Put simply, Alert Center has no competition, it's the best alert management platform available today.
Enhanced Discovery
With improved intelligence and automation, WhatsUp Gold Discovery engine provides quicker, more accurate identification of devices and their roles in the network. Once discovered, preconfigured monitors are automatically started eliminating the need for manual intervention unless you want to customize the out-of-the-box settings. Even better, with the enhanced Discovery engine, all features are now accessible through the WhatsUp Gold web portal enabling anywhere, anytime operation.
Flow Monitor
Our flow management solution has been renamed Flow Monitor, and now supports all popular flow formats - NetFlow, J-Flow and sFlow. We've added several new threshold based monitors to provide you with deeper insight into application usage on the network.