The following table shows frequently used logs and what they record. A full list can be found in the WhatsUp Gold Logs Library.
This logger: |
Records the following: |
Triggered and scheduled tasks referred to in WhatsUp Gold as actions. |
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State that triggered the action and the device the action was applied to. |
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System-level events including startup and initialization, shutdown, and restart. |
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Records actions not triggered during a scheduled blackout period. |
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Discovery Scan Log |
History of network discovery scans and including controls to relaunch. |
Error notifications, failure notifications, and unhandled exception messages re-directed from standard error. |
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Reveals both failures and routine health checkpoint messages for the WhatsUp Gold polling engine. |
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Error and failure messages gathered from passive monitors. |
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Error Log - Performance Monitor |
Error and failure messages gathered from performance monitors. |
Configuration record changes based on deployed patterns and policies. |
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Records scheduled tasks that are recurring. |
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SNMP Trap Log (SNMP Trap Log, Syslog) |
History of SNMP trap notifications. |
Records recurring and scheduled report events. |
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Syslog |
Syslog events. (Appropriate syslog listener needs to be configured.) |
Web User Activity Log |
Records user interaction with the WhatsUp Gold web UI. |
Records Windows Event Log entries. (Appropriate WMI listener needs to be configured.) |
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Task Log (Configuration Management) |
Aggregates messages generated by Configuration Management. |
Start vs. Run (Configuration Management) |
Startup vs. running configuration change events tracked by Configuration Management. |
Policy Audit (Configuration Management) |
Configuration Management Policy out of compliance events. |
Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) events. |
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Unclassified Traffic |
Events for traffic over unexpected ports and the network interface that carried the traffic. |
Hyper-V Event Log (Virtual Monitoring) |
Hyper-V virtual machine events received from configured monitors. |
VMware Event Log (Virtual Monitoring) |
VMware virtual machine events received from configured monitors. |
Wireless device and monitoring events. |
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View alert center engine events. |
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Transitions in application monitoring states |
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Resolved actions for all instances or components in the selected application, profile, or selected component. |