WhatsUp Gold editions

WhatsUp Gold is available in four editions. Each edition tailors WhatsUp Gold's features to meet the diverse needs of WhatsUp users, from small networks to those spanning multiple geographic locations.

WhatsUp Gold Standard Edition provides core network management features.
WhatsUp Gold Premium Edition provides all of the network management capabilities of WhatsUp Gold Standard Edition, plus advanced management for Microsoft® Exchange™, Microsoft® SQL Server™, and SMTP email servers. Premium Edition also includes several features that let you monitor performance data in real time, as well as support for application monitoring using Microsoft's WMI™.
WhatsUp Gold MSP Edition gives managed solution providers the ability to use all of the features of WhatsUp Gold Premium Edition to monitor their customers' remote networks from a central location in the managed solution provider's network operations center. Managing multiple company networks at once has never been easier.
WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition extends the features of WhatsUp Gold Premium Edition to companies whose networks are segmented across multiple geographic locations. WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition can detect issues at any of the company sites and then report the issue to the affected site and to a central location.

Each edition includes a different set of features. The table below shows which features are available in each edition. If a feature is not shown in the table, it is available in all editions.

	Standard Edition	Premium Edition	MSP Edition	Distributed Edition
Application and Hardware Management
Monitor Microsoft Exchange
Monitor SQL Server and MySQL
Monitor applications via WMI
Monitor device hardware, such as cooling systems, power supplies, and temperature monitors
Monitor printers and APC UPS devices
Monitor web content
Monitor device network statistics
Monitor device file and folder properties
Monitor email and FTP servers
Monitor wireless access points (WAPs)
Monitor Unix/Linux environments over SSH
Real-time Monitoring
View real-time data about devices in logs and Dashboard reports
Quickly access real-time data via InstantInfo popups
Monitor performance data with the Web Performance Monitor
View real-time information about tasks running on a device using the Web Task Manager
Distributed Monitoring
Monitor devices on networks segmented across multiple geographic locations
View report data from multiple remote sites from one central location
Optional Plug-ins
WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor. This plug-in provides insight into how efficiently your network is performing and how bandwidth is utilized, giving you detailed information to assess network quality of service and quickly resolve traffic bottlenecks. For more information, see the WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor User Guide on the WhatsUp Gold web site.
WhatsUp Gold WhatsConfigured. This configuration management plug-in automates, and reduces the time and effort required to backup, compare, and upload configuration files for networking devices and alerts when configuration changes are detected. For more information, see the WhatsUp Gold web site.
WhatsUp Gold WhatsVirtual. This plug-in lets you monitor virtual environments using WhatsUp Gold. The WhatsVirtual plugin provides WhatsUp Gold with the ability to discover, map, monitor, alert, and report on virtual environments. For more information, see the WhatsUp Gold web site.
WhatsUp Gold VoIP Monitor. This plug-in delivers the ability to monitor and report on your network's capacity to support and maintain acceptable performance for VoIP call quality. For more information, see the WhatsUp Gold web site.
Optional applications
WhatsUp Gold WhatsConnected. This plug-in is a Layer 2/3 network mapping tool that discovers, maps and documents your network down to the individual port, making it simple to visualize the physical topology and understand device interconnections. For more information, see the WhatsUp Gold web site.
Access from mobile devices
WhatsUp Gold Mobile Access. Allows you to conveniently view your network's status from a mobile device at any time. For more information, see the WhatsUp Gold Mobile Access User Guide.

WhatsUp Gold optional plug-ins are available for use with any of the WhatsUp Gold editions. These plug-ins broaden your monitoring and reporting capabilities to give you a more complete picture of your network and its many components. For more information, see the WhatsUp Gold web site.

WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor plug-in for WhatsUp Gold leverages Cisco NetFlow, sFlow, and J-Flow data from switches and routers to gather, analyze, report, and alert on LAN/WAN network traffic patterns and bandwidth utilization in real-time. It highlights not only overall utilization for the LAN/WAN, specific devices, or interfaces; it also indicates users, applications, and protocols that are consuming abnormal amounts of bandwidth, giving you detailed information to assess network quality of service and quickly resolve traffic bottlenecks. WhatsUp Flow Monitor protects network security by detecting virus and worm activity on the network. Comprehensive reporting takes the raw real-time network traffic data from routers and switches and presents you with useful information to understand trends, utilization, and where network bandwidth is consumed. For more information, see the WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor User Guide on the WhatsUp Gold web site.
WhatsUp Gold WhatsConnected plug-in for WhatsUp Gold provides layer 2/3 network discovery and topology mapping to visually depict device connectivity down to the individual port. It also employs deep device scanning that provides detailed Information about discovered devices in a simple device list view, a device category view, and a detailed topology view. You can publish any of the network maps as a network diagram in Microsoft® Visio™ or export detailed device information to WhatsUp Gold to automate the creation of detailed network topology map views. WhatsConnected also includes Layer 2 Trace and IP/MAC Finder tools to validate connection paths and report real-time availability data on devices. For more information, see the WhatsUp Gold web site.
WhatsUp Gold VoIP Monitor plug-in for WhatsUp Gold measures your network's ability to provide the quality of service (QoS) necessary for your VoIP calls on your LAN and WAN links. After a simple setup, the VoIP Monitor accesses Cisco IP SLA (service level agreement) enabled devices to monitor VoIP performance and quality parameters including jitter, packet loss, latency, and other performance values. The plug-in's full integration with WhatsUp Gold allows you to easily view graphs and metrics for bandwidth and interface utilization and troubleshoot network issues that affect VoIP performance. For more information, see the WhatsUp Gold web site.