About the Task Tray and Desktop Actions icons

WhatsUp Gold installs two task bar icons on your computer.

• The Task Tray icon alerts you to the status of the application as a whole.
• The Desktop Actions icon displays to indicate that support is enabled for Sound, Text-to-Speech, and WinPopup actions for Windows Server 2008 and Vista Enterprise.

WhatsUp Gold Icons

During normal operation, the WhatsUp Gold icon displays the worst state of all devices on your map. In addition, you can enable tooltips to have the icon display any state change that occurs on the system. To do this, right-click on the icon and select or clear Enable Tooltips.

When the WhatsUp Gold polling engine is not running (the service is stopped) this icon appears:

If this is the case, you need to restart the Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Engine service. If the polling engine is not running, then WhatsUp Gold is not connected to the database, and nothing in the application will function properly.

• To turn off the Task Tray Application and icon , right-click on the icon, then click Close Task Tray Application.
• To turn off the Action Alert icon , right-click the icon, then click select Close.