Using the Web Performance Monitor
The Web Performance Monitor extends the functionality of the Microsoft Windows Performance Monitor to the Web. It is a data collecting and graphing utility designed specifically for the WhatsUp Gold Web interface that graphs and displays real-time information on user-specified SNMP and WMI performance counters. It can be used for a quick inspection of a specific network device.
The graphs can be saved to the database and displayed on workspace views using the Split Second Graph - Performance Monitor workspace report or on the Web Performance Monitor tool. Multiple SNMP and WMI counters can be displayed on a single graph, and the color and scale of each graphed item can be individually configured.
Graphs created with the Web Performance Monitor are saved on a per-user account basis, meaning, graphs are only accessible by the user account that created and saved them.
The Web Performance Monitor has two purposes:
- To provide a Web enabled WMI and SNMP performance counter poller and grapher. It supports WMI for Windows servers, and SNMP for network devices such as switches, routers, and UNIX devices.
- To build and edit graphs for use by the Performance Monitor workspace report. You can use this workspace report to display any saved graph.
To add a WMI performance counter to the Web Performance Monitor:
- Open the Web Performance Monitor.
- From the web interface, click . The GO menu appears.
- If the WhatsUp section is not visible, click . The WhatsUp section of the GO menu appears.
- Select . The Web Performance Monitor appears.
- Click .
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Click the WMI button in the top-right side of the dialog (see the Toolbar buttons table below). The Add WMI Performance Counter dialog appears.
- Enter the appropriate information into the dialog fields.
- Click to save changes.
To add a SNMP performance counter to the Web Performance Monitor:
- Open the Web Performance Monitor.
- From the web interface, click . The GO menu appears.
- If the WhatsUp section is not visible, click . The WhatsUp section of the GO menu appears.
- Select . The Web Performance Monitor appears.
- Select .
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Click the SNMP button in the top-right side of the dialog (see the Toolbar buttons table below).
The Add SNMP Performance Counter dialog appears.
- Enter the appropriate information into the dialog fields.
- Click to save changes.
Web Performance Monitor menu items
The Web Performance Monitor menu is located at the top left corner of the window.
- . This menu item resets the graph back to a blank graph.
- . This menu item lets you change the name of the selected graph.
- . This opens the Load Graph dialog, which displays a list of saved graph files on the Web server.
- . This saves the current graph to the database. If no filename is specified, it launches the Save Graph dialog, which allows a filename to be specified. All files are saved to the WhatsUp database.
- . This opens the Save Graph dialog which prompts you for a filename, and then saves the current graph to disk.
- . This opens the Configure Window Properties dialog. Use this dialog to configure the graph and window properties for the Web Performance Monitor.
- . This launches the Add WMI Performance Counter dialog.
- . This launches the Add SNMP Performance Counter dialog.
- . This launches the appropriate dialog for editing the selected WMI or SNMP performance counter.
- . This removes the selected counter from the list and graph. No changes are saved to disk until the OK button is clicked or the graph is manually saved ( - or - ).
- . This launches help for the Web Performance Monitor.
Web Performance Monitor Toolbar buttons
The Web Performance Monitor Toolbar is located at the top right corner of the window.
Button
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Opens the Add WMI Performance Counter dialog.
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Opens the Add SNMP Performance Counter dialog.
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Opens the appropriate dialog for editing the selected WMI or SNMP performance counter.
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Removes the selected graph item from the list and graph.
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Opens the help topic for the Web Performance Monitor
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For troubleshooting information, see Troubleshooting SNMP and WMI connections.