Device Status

The Device Status dashboard displays information about the current health of the selected device. Upon accessing Device Status, dashboard reports containing general information for the selected device including overall status and individual active monitor states as well as assigned attributes and any custom links and notes can be seen at the center of the interface. Use the following controls for common functions applicable to device monitoring at right:

• Click to add a new tab (an empty or preconfigured dashboard "view") to the Device Status dashboard.
• Click to access a menu of actions applicable to the current view.

  Note: See Working with Dashboards in WhatsUp Gold to learn about WhatsUp Gold dashboarding capabilities and customization.

More detailed information about the health of specific aspects of the selected device can be found by navigating between views at the top of the interface. The dashboard views displayed are dependent upon the device role and information gathered during discovery and do not appear if not applicable to the selected device.

• Monitoring lists monitors applied to the device, active monitor states, down interfaces, and the last ten entries in both the State Change Timeline and Action logs.
• Disk/CPU/Memory displays dashboard reports graphing utilization data for drives, processors, both physical and virtual memory, as well as ping response times for the selected device.
• Router/Switch/Interface graphs utilization data for communication interfaces for the selected device.
• General

See Also Devices Device Properties Panel Device Management Actions Device Groups Dynamic Groups