Creating Monitors

After you Promote Discovered Devices to managed devices, you can:

• View monitor setup. View monitors associated with one or more selected devices. Some monitors are automatically associated with the device after network discovery. Ping, CPU Utilization, and Disk Utilization, for example are typically associated with a device when you run discovery with with SNMP or WMI credentials.
• Switch monitors On or Off. Monitors associated with a device might not be On by default. For example, Interface Utilization monitor is turned Off by default while Ping monitor is turned On.
• Assign additional monitors. As you determine your site's needs, you can create custom monitors based on the monitor types in the Monitor Library or by cloning (copying) one you have already created.

View Monitor Setup

To view the Monitor Setup Page for a device:

1. Select a device on the My Network Map.

   The Device Properties Card displays.

2. On Device Properties, click Device Monitor Setup ().
3. The Monitors table displays with current monitor setup.

Switch Monitors On or Off

1. Select one or more devices on the My Network Map or the collapsible device grid.
2. Switch monitoring for a single monitor type On or Off by either:
   • Single Device. From the Device Card, click Device Monitor Setup (). Then select the monitor switch On/Off ().
   • Bulk Apply. Select devices individually (press and hold Ctrl and click on each device icon to select) or use bulk select (). Then use Bulk Apply () to select the monitor you want to switch On/Off ().

Assign Additional Monitors

You can assign new or existing monitors to a device.

To assign monitors to a device:

After you have created monitors based on monitor library types, you can assign them to your managed devices.

1. Select one or more devices on the My Network Map or the collapsible device grid.
2. Click to access the Monitors window.
3. Select the monitors you want to apply, and click the Apply to selected devices button.

To add a new monitor:

You can add new monitor instances to the monitor library based on an existing monitor or 'built in' monitor type.

1. Click the 'add' button (), choose a monitor type, and configure it.
2. Assign your monitor to a device, many devices, or a device group.
3. Switch On/Off the monitor. (For example, some monitors are switched Off by default.)

Available Monitor Types

WhatsUp Gold provides active, passive, and performance monitors.

Active Monitoring. Active polling, measurements, and user simulation.

Passive Monitoring. Monitoring that does not generate network traffic.

Performance Monitoring. Historic device availability and resource capacity usage.

See Also Configuring the WhatsUp Gold Application Running Discovery Working with Credentials Grouping Devices Creating Alerts Creating Actions and Action Policies Configuring Application Monitoring Performance Tuning Polling Activity WhatsUp Gold Settings Customizing the My Network Map