Using Admin features
From the Admin tab, you can access the following features:
- . The Admin Panel allows you to start, stop, and restart WhatsUp Gold services. This feature provides a list of all your WhatsUp Gold processes, along with a real-time states, as well as information about the type and size of databases used by WhatsUp Gold.
- . The Monitor Library (active, passive, and performance) allows you to configure new or existing monitors. The Monitor Library includes separate libraries for active monitors, passive monitors, and performance monitors.
- . The Action Library displays all actions currently configured for use in WhatsUp Gold. WhatsUp Gold includes five pre-configured actions. These actions display in the Action Library. As you create new actions, they are also added to the Action Library.
- . The Action Policy Library displays a list of action policies.
- . The Credentials Library stores login, community string, and database connection information in a central area for Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Telnet, SSH, ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), and VMware connections used in WhatsUp Gold.
- . Recurring actions provide the ability to fire actions based on a regular schedule, independent of the status of devices. Among other things, this can be used to send regular heartbeat messages to a pager or cellular phone, letting users know the system is up and running.
- . The Report Scheduler feature allows you to manage all scheduled reports that the WhatsUp Event Analyst Service is responsible for producing on a regular basis.
- . From the Server Options feature, you can manage WhatsUp Gold server settings (example; height and width of maps and the maximum number of passive monitor records).
- . The SNMP MIB Manager provides a list of all of the MIB files installed in the WhatsUp Gold MIB directory. Using this feature, you can import new MIB files to the MIB Manager. SNMP MIB Manager validates imported MIB files and flags errors if there is a problem with a file.
- . The LDAP credentials feature allows you to configure LDAP or Active Directory (AD) credentials and to configure WhatsUp Gold to connect with an Active Directory server to import group information from a Microsoft Domain Controller into WhatsUp Gold.
- . The WhatsUp Gold translation features allows you to change the language in which WhatsUp Gold appears. You can export the entire user interface for translation, or, you can translate one page each time.
- . User accounts allow you to log into the web interface of WhatsUp Gold and control access to data and functionality either through direct assignment of user rights or by membership in a user group. You can also access group information.
- . The Polling Configuration Library allows you to manage all pollers configured for use with WhatsUp Gold.
- . The Task Library allows you to schedule engine tasks through the WhatsUp Gold web interface.
- . The Email Settings feature allows you to manage default global email settings.
- . The Preferences feature allows you to change various Web user options. Changes made here only change settings for the current user web account.
- . WhatsUp Gold comes with a several pre-configured dashboard views. You can create your own dashboard views to use in addition to the pre-configured views. You can create as many as you feel necessary to organize your system for efficient reporting.