WhatsUp Gold network monitoring

Monitor Windows, Linux, Apache, Java and custom applications. Use out-of-the-box profiles to assure that you meet your SLAs. Automatically discover and leverage best practice monitoring profiles for applications, server services and processes. Easily create custom application profiles for your in-house applications. Powerful application monitoring tools include the ability to record web transactions data to generate scripts and monitor the response times of web-applications. Quickly isolate the root causes of performance problems with features that include:

· Built-in monitoring profiles for common applications like Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, and Active Directory

· Customization enabled by editing existing profiles or creating your own custom profiles

· Dashboard and reporting tools let you view the health of all the applications, individual application or troubleshoot at the component level.

https://www.ipswitch.com/application-and-network-monitoring/whatsup-gold/application-performance-monitoring

Assure the performance of critical apps and services by gaining visibility into network bandwidth utilization. WhatsUp Gold provides granular detail into which users, end-points, applications or protocols are consuming bandwidth. With the addition of Network Traffic Analysis , your network devices can send flow records to port 9999 on the WhatsUp Gold server. We support a wide variety of flow protocols including Netflow, NSEL, sFlow, J-Flow and IPFIX and includes features like:

· A centralized view of network traffic data with built-in reports

· Top application reports using Cisco's NBAR classification data

· CBQoS reports for the details on class-based policies

· Report filters for specific interfaces, ports, applications, or protocols

· Threshold-based alerting on conditions like traffic spikes or bandwidth usage policy violations.

https://www.ipswitch.com/application-and-network-monitoring/whatsup-gold/network-traffic-analysis

Support compliance requirements for HIPAA, SOX, FISMA and PCI DSS and other regulations. Streamline configuration backup, archiving and restoration. The Configuration Manager gives you a set of tools that will automate the process of backing up configurations for network devices that support Telnet or SSH. Other features include:

· Alerts for configuration changes (authorized or not)

· Audits that compare running configurations against defined policies

· Built-in scripts for SNMP string changes, user name adds/removals, configuration backups

· Easy access to configurations from the device properties page

· Compliance reporting from out-of-the-box templates

· Policy monitoring data on all changes and backups.

https://www.ipswitch.com/application-and-network-monitoring/whatsup-gold/configuration-management

Get immediate value through comprehensive discovery. WhatsUp Gold network monitoring begins with powerful Layer 2/3 discovery of devices and any networked server. Generate a detailed interactive map of the core, Windows, wireless and virtual resources for an end-to-end view of your infrastructure. Discovery and Mapping tools include:

· Scope of discovery determined by individual IP addresses, seed scan, IP address ranges, or subnets

· Easy to add credentials including SNMP, Windows domain administrator, ADO, Telnet/SSH, VMware, JMX and SMIS

· Scheduling for ad hoc or recurring discoveries

· Built-in device roles, which can be customized or added to, assign monitors based on device type

· Map overlays for virtual, wireless, dependencies and connectivity

· Automatic device group population and user-created static or dynamic grouping

· Map customization with text data, images and custom arrangements of devices to create a network diagram

· Dependencies between devices are used to reduce alert storms and polling overhead

https://www.ipswitch.com/application-and-network-monitoring/whatsup-gold/automated-discovery

Discover, map, monitor, alert and report on VMware and Hyper-V performance, resource allocation and consumption for hosts and guests and clusters in your network. Virtual Monitoring gathers performance statistics for the host server and guest, maps out the virtual environment, and allows users to be notified based on information in event logs coming from the Hyper-V/VMware management server.

You can also discover management services (such as VMware vCenters) or individual hypervisors (Hyper-V, ESX/ESXi) running in an unmanaged environment. Using management services to discover virtual machines provides monitoring and logging continuity required in high-availability, fault tolerant or workload managed environments.

https://www.ipswitch.com/application-and-network-monitoring/whatsup-gold/virtualization-monitoring

Gain more visibility to remote networks. The distributed network monitoring feature extends the capabilities of WhatsUp Gold to multiple remote networks, allowing a central installation server and one or more remote installations.

Monitor remote installations from a designated central server. Leverage distributed reports to create remote site dashboard views. A number of remote installations can send data back to the central server creating a unified view for managing multiple remote networks.

https://www.ipswitch.com/application-and-network-monitoring/whatsup-gold/distributed-monitoring

Assure minimal monitoring downtime.Automatically switch WhatsUp Gold from a primary server to a standby server when the primary system is not functioning normally. The Failover Console displays primary server and secondary server data including:

· The machine's host server address

· Machine status states including: Active - currently polling the network, Standby - ready to assume network polling, Down - unable to perform network polling, or Unknown

· The state of attempted communication between the primary server and secondary server Possible states include Unknown, Connection, Service, Good credential or Bad credential

· The last time the machine successfully sent a heartbeat message to the other machine

https://www.ipswitch.com/application-and-network-monitoring/whatsup-gold/failover-manager

Keep ahead of network performance and availability issues with powerful Active, Passive and Performance monitors and alerting features including:

· Active Monitors which poll devices for an up/down or yes/no response

· Passive monitors which include support for SNMP traps, Syslog, and Windows Event Logs from networked devices and servers

· Performance monitors using protocols such as SNMP, SSH or WMI to track utilization data of CPU, disk, memory etc.

· Real-time performance monitors for SNMP polling for on-demand troubleshooting

· Action policies that define whether email alerts, SMS alerts, service restarts or web alarms are sent to notify you of state changes of monitored devices

· An Alert Center that centralizes alerts and policies you’ve applied

WhatsUp Gold provides a range of built-in reports for network performance, inventory information and device availability. Reporting features include:

· Easy-to-use data sorting, addition or removal of columns

· Depending on the report context you can also apply timeframes or business hour filters