RealTime Performance Monitor Report
WhatsUp Gold RealTime Performance monitor (RPM) report returns quick observations when informed decisions can't wait between polling intervals. RPM works best for 'eyes-on' performance checks of individual devices, traffic between specific endpoints, and occasional 'zooming in' on capacity utilization metrics.
Like Network Traffic Analyzer, RPM sessions generate traffic on your network. They also give more work to the WhatsUp Gold Poller. For this reason, RPM limits the number of sessions that can be open at one time for a single deployment of WhatsUp Gold.
: It is best to use RPM for decision support during critical periods, troubleshooting, or in environments where polling does not interfere with normal network traffic such as when devices run dedicated management NICs.
RPM monitor provides several advantages:
- Provides a rich, platform-agnostic tool for viewing real-time capacity utilization (an alternative, for example, for Task Manager on Windows or Top on Linux and Unix).
- No remote login is needed. No SSH/Powershell/Remote desktop commands are necessary.
- Polling interval (time between observations) is split by seconds rather than minutes.
- Catch visual signatures of bursty periods that would otherwise be smoothed and normalized by the polling interval.
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tips and guidelines... Guidelines for using the RPM monitor
Keep these hints and guidelines in mind when setting up RPM reporting.
- RPM leverages a performance monitor. (You cannot use it for WhatsUp Gold passive or active monitors.)
- Ensure the relevant performance monitor on the managed device is enabled. (Otherwise, RPM will not be an option for the measurements that monitor provides.)
- Active Script, Storage Array, HyperV Host Machine, HyperV Host Event Log are not available for RPM.
- Except for the Refresh Interval setting, RPM inherits its configuration from the particular performance monitor running on the managed device.
Generate a report
. Choose a device to observe.
Use the Select Device dialog for a single device:
Control
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Purpose
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Device 
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Browse and choose a single device.
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. Choose a monitor to return RPM monitor performance statistics for.
. Optimize the polling interval to match the task and the monitor.
Chart and visualize data over time (aspect of single device )
Charting and visualization is available when you select an aspect and device.
Control
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Purpose
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Summary Config
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Include table of aspects (if applicable).
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Chart Type
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- Line/Area. Scatter graph that connects adjacent measurements with straight lines.
- Spline/Area Spline. Choose a graph with a smoothed appearance where adjacent samples exhibit a gradual slope.
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Chart Options
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- Legend, Grid Lines, Range Selector. Include legend, grid lines, and range selector for readability.
- Trend Lines. Present data with a smoothed average to show trend.
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Refresh Interval
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- Select an interval for polling the management information on the device.
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: Trend lines represent a moving average that can be compared with line and area graphs to reveal peak and sub peak intervals, periods of burstiness, latency, and interruption.
Control the observation stream
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Stream observations. - .
Stop observations. - .
Clear and restart the observation stream.
Export as XML
Most generated RPM report data can be exported as XML by selecting (
) from the Report Actions (
) menu.
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Export RealTime Performance Monitor Report data and leverage graphed data outside of WhatsUp Gold.
Viewing Performance Real Time