Getting Started

The main window and menu items highlight the individual tasks and complete workflow available for leveraging the core network, infrastructure, and application management capabilities of WhatsUp Gold.

The steps for managing your network and application infrastructure with WhatsUp Gold include:

Discover and explore your network. Use the network map and grid to browse the roles, dynamic groupings, and topologies.
Apply monitors.
Reveal and share monitor operational status and trends through dashboards.
Analyze historic and forensic data by way of reports, logs, charts, and graphs.
Group monitors and associate them with actions to implement policy for specific standards.

Step-by-Step Guide

When managing your network infrastructure, host devices, and virtual devices in WhatsUp Gold, the typical workflow includes:


Step 1: Discover devices on your network	Run initial discovery scan with associated credential types. Discover devices based on IP address(es) or hosts file. Perform batch ('seeded') discovery walking network segments, using an IP address or range as a starting point. Additional details and device-configuration scenarios are outlined in Getting the Most from Your Scan.
Tip: Scan for managing hosts and services (such as WLAN controllers, cloud management service endpoints, and vCenter, VMware and Hyper-V hosts) with appropriate credentials and scan depth. This 'top-down' approach enables WhatsUp Gold to track and maintain parent-child relationships and identify associated WLAN APs, cloud resources, virtual machines, and more.
Step 2: Add discovered devices to WhatsUp Gold managed devices (enable device-level monitoring)	Begin managing discovered devices (apply monitoring). View and work with managed devices from My Network.
Step 3: Set up monitors ...	View current monitors for a selected device in Device Properties. Select or 'bulk select' devices and switch on/off individual monitor types. Associate new custom monitors with device profiles (device roles) . Add, re-use, and customize specialized active, passive, and performance monitors and credential sets as needed.
Step 4: View detailed reports and summaries of device statistics and status	View, share, export, distribute and manage charts and report data. Leverage and customize dashboards and NOC views (Home, Device Status (Device Status, Device Status), for example). Schedule periodic distribution of stakeholder charts, reports, and service-level collateral.
Step 5: Create user roles, policies, chains of notification, and automate corrective actions for handling network, device, and application alerts and events.	Create additional users and user roles. Create alert thresholds and alert policies. Create corrective actions and action policies. Install application and application platform monitors. Apply configuration management controls and actions to critical infrastructure. Create/implement notification schedules. Analyze network traffic and flow data.