There are a few things you need to do before WhatsUp Gold can gather the data you need about the devices on your network.
First, you need to install your edition of WhatsUp Gold. For more information about installing WhatsUp Gold and optional plug-ins, see the Release Notes.
After you have installed WhatsUp Gold, you need to discover devices on your network for the application to monitor. The Device Discovery Wizard allows you to choose which devices to add to the database for monitoring.
The Device Discovery wizard automatically detects network devices (workstations, servers, routers, hubs, etc.), scans those devices for services, and lets you select the devices that you want to manage.
After selecting devices, the wizard allows you to configure actions to notify you when changes occur on the monitored devices.
When you close the wizard, WhatsUp Gold creates a new device group of the discovered devices, named with the date, time, and type of discovery.
In WhatsUp Gold, devices are organized through device groups. By default, all of the devices on your network are placed into a Dynamic Group named All devices. Additionally, each time you discover devices a new device group is created containing the devices found in the scan that you choose to monitor. You can create as many Dynamic and non-Dynamic groups as you want to organize your network in a way that is meaningful to you and your monitoring needs.
WhatsUp Gold includes several default monitors. You need to configure new monitors to gather the specific types of information you want about your network. There are three types of monitors in WhatsUp Gold:
Before creating monitors, figure out what type of network information you need, and configure monitors to gather that specific data. Learn more about the monitor types in the WhatsUp Gold Help.