Performance monitors are the WhatsUp Gold feature responsible for gathering data about several performance components of the devices running on your network, for example CPU and Memory utilization. The data is then used to create reports that trend utilization and availability of these device components.
WhatsUp Gold performance monitors gather data from the following five device components:
Additionally, you can create custom performance monitors to track specific performance monitors for APC UPS, Printer, Active Script, SNMP, SSH, and WMI performance counters.
Performance Monitors are configured in the Performance Monitor Library and added to individual devices through a device's Device Properties dialog. From the Device Properties Performance Monitor dialog, you can add:
Note: Unlike the other performance monitors, because a printer monitor is specific to an individual printer device, the Printer Performance Monitor can only be added as an individual performance monitor in the Device Properties Performance Monitor dialog.