Welcome to Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold v11

Welcome to Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold v11, the powerful network monitoring solution designed to help you protect your changing business infrastructure. WhatsUp Gold provides standards-based monitoring of any network device, service, or application on TCP/IP and Windows networks.

WhatsUp Gold lets you discover devices on your network, initiate monitoring of those devices, and execute actions based on device state changes, so you can identify network failures before they become catastrophic.

Discovery and Mapping

The WhatsUp Gold discovery process searches for devices on your network and lets you decide which devices you want to monitor. You can view monitored devices as a list of devices or as a map.

Polling/Listening

WhatsUp Gold actively polls devices to determine their status. You can use pre-configured monitors, or create your own, to poll services on a device, and to passively listen for messages sent across the network. Monitors can also report on device performance by checking and reporting on device resources, such as disk, CPU , and interfaces.

Actions/Alerts

Depending on the responses received from polling, or the types of messages received, WhatsUp Gold fires actions to notify you of any change on your network. Actions speed problem resolution through options such as alerting via email or pager, or restarting a service.

Reporting and Workspaces

Reports provide current status, performance, and historical data for devices and monitors. Workspaces let you focus on segments of the network and create your own "views" into the report data. They provide crucial network data in one location, which allows for quick and easy access. WhatsUp Gold offers over 100 summary reports that can be use to customize Workspaces. Each user can have their own Workspace.

WhatsUp Gold Interfaces

WhatsUp Gold offers two types of interfaces, the Windows console interface and the web interface, which offer largely the same functionality. We recommend that you do the initial set up discovery and mapping on the console, then use the web interface for additional setup of monitors and workspaces, users and permissions, and for day-to-day monitoring.

• Windows console interface

  The WhatsUp Gold console is a Windows application, through which you can configure and manage the application and the database that drives it.

• Web interface

  The web interface provides access to WhatsUp Gold functionality, through HTTP or HTTPS, from a web browser. The newest release of WhatsUp Gold has a completely redesigned web interface, which includes improved navigation, enhanced feature set, and more robust reporting. Also new to the web interface are many features that in the past were only available on the WhatsUp Gold console.

  Some of the features now available in the web interface (previously only available on the console) are:

  • The Credentials Library
  • The complete Passive Monitor Library
  • A fully-functioning Device Properties screen
  • The Active Script Action and Monitor