Using Device Roles

When WhatsUp Gold discovers devices, it tries to determine the type of each device so that it can monitor them appropriately. To determine a device type, WhatsUp Gold compares the discovered attributes of each device to a set of criteria called device roles.

Device roles do two things:

• Specify the criteria that a device must match to be identified as the device role.
• Specify the monitoring configuration that is applied to the device when it is added to WhatsUp Gold.

WhatsUp Gold provides more than 15 default device roles that are used to identify most common network devices. If your network includes devices that are not identified by this default set, you can create custom device roles.

In This Section Configuring device role settings Configuring device role identification settings Using the percent variables in the Discovery Console Managing device roles