Performance monitors overview

Performance monitors are the WhatsUp Gold feature responsible for gathering data about the performance components of the devices running on your network; for example, CPU and memory utilization. The data is then used to create reports that trend utilization and availability of these device components.

WhatsUp Gold performance monitors gather data from the following components:

• CPU utilization
• Disk utilization
• Interface utilization
• Interface traffic
• Memory utilization
• Ping availability
• Ping response time

Additionally, you can create custom performance monitors to track specific performance monitors for Active Script, APC UPS, PowerShell Scripting, Printer, SNMP, SQL Query, SSH, Windows Performance Counter, WMI Formatted, and WMI performance counters.

Performance Monitors are configured in the Performance Monitor Library and are added to individual devices through a the Device Properties dialog. From the Device Properties Performance Monitor dialog, you can add:

• Pre-configured (standard) Performance Monitors
• Device-specific (custom) Performance Monitors

For more information, see Enabling global performance monitors and Creating custom performance monitors.

Note: Printer monitors are specific to individual printer devices; as such, the Printer Performance Monitor can only be added as an individual performance monitor in the Device Properties Performance Monitor dialog.

See Also Using Performance Monitors Using the Performance Monitor Library Working with Performance Monitors Adding and editing an Active Script Performance Monitor Adding and editing an APC UPS Performance Monitor Adding and editing a PowerShell Scripting performance monitor Example - PowerShell performance monitor scripts Adding and editing a Printer performance monitor Adding and editing an SNMP Performance Monitor Adding and editing a SQL Query performance monitor SQL Query Builder Adding and editing an SSH performance monitor Adding and editing a Windows Performance Counter Monitor Adding and editing a WMI Formatted Performance Monitor Adding and editing a WMI Performance Monitor