Using Admin features
From the Admin tab, you can access the following features:
- . Use the Admin Panel to start, stop, and restart WhatsUp Gold services. The Admin Panel also provides a list of all your WhatsUp Gold processes, along with a real-time state. The Admin Panel also provides information about the type and size of databases used by WhatsUp Gold.
- (active, passive, and performance). Use the Monitor Library to configure new or existing monitors. The Monitor Library includes separate libraries for active monitors, passive monitors, and performance monitors. After configuring a monitor, you must apply it to a device.
- . The Action Library displays all actions currently configured for use in WhatsUp Gold. WhatsUp Gold includes five pre-configured actions. These actions also display in the Action Library. As you create new actions, they are 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 Manage Service Options feature, you can manage WhatsUp Gold server settings, for 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 tool, 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.
- . Use LDAP credentials 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 UI for translation, or, you can translate one page each time.
- . User accounts allow users to log in to 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 from the Manage Users tab.
- . From here you can manage default global Email settings.
- . Use the Preferences feature 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.