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WhatsUp Gold and Plugins Training Course
WhatsUp Gold Instructor-Led Training provides proven problem-solving
skills through a series of practical, “how to” lessons within the context
of real-life scenarios. This course delivers technically rich content and
features a series of thought-provoking hands-on lab exercises under
the guidance of industry expert instructors.
Training Course Curriculum
Lesson 1: Getting Started
Lesson 2: Document your Network Devices
Lab 1: Run a Device Discovery using an IP Range Scan
Lab 2: Configure SNMP Credentials and run an IP Range Scan
Lab 3: Configure and run a SNMP Smart Scan with Layer 2
Discovery
Lesson 3: Map your Network Devices and Connections
Lab 4: Organize your Devices into Dynamic Device Groups
Lab 5: Create a Network Diagram of Devices and Links
Lab 6: Make changes to multiple devices at once using Bulk
Field Change
WhatsUp Gold Products:
WhatsUp Gold Premium
WhatsUp Gold Distributed
Scalability Pollers
WhatsVirtual
WhatsConfigured
Flow Monitor
Training Audience:
Network Managers who
may have some WhatsUp
Gold experience or may
be new to WhatsUp Gold
Class Length: 3 Days
Class Delivery Options:
Online (Live Webinar)
Onsite (Customer Site)
Open (Regional) Classes
Lesson 4: Monitor Devices and Assess the Performance of your
Network
Lab 7: Configure an Active Monitor to poll a service on a
device
Lab 8: Configure an HTTP Content Monitor to check the
content of a web site
Lab 9: Configure a Critical Monitor on a high-value asset
Lab 10: Create a Custom SNMP Active Monitor, using the MIB
Walker to select device conditions
Lab 11: Create a Passive Monitor for Windows Events
Lab 12: Enable the Default Disk Utilization Performance
Monitor

Lesson 5: Create Alarms, Actions, and Alerts
Lab 13: Create and Apply a Web Alarm Action
Lab 14: Create and Apply a Service Restart Action
Lab 15: Create and Apply an Action Policy
Lab 16: Customize Email Messages using Percent Variables
Lab 17: Configure an Alert Center Notification Policy
Lab 18: Set an Alert Center Threshold
Lesson 6: Create Reports and Dashboards
Lab 19: View and Filter the State Change Timeline Reports
Lab 20: Schedule Reports to be Automatically Sent
Lab 21: Create a Custom Home Dashboard
Lab 22: Filter and Refine Reports
Lab 23: Seach the Asset Inventory Report using Standard Fields
Lab 24: View Wireless Statistics
Lab 25: Track Wireless Usage by Individual Wireless Clients
Lab 26: Detect Rogue Wireless Networks and Exclude Known Rogue Networks
Lesson 7: Perform System Administration and Maintenance
Lab 27: Add a New User Account with Administrative Privileges
Lab 28: Create a User Group with Limited User Rights
Lab 29: Create User Accounts and Manage Passwords Using Active Directory
Lab 30: Schedule a Task to Back-Up the WhatsUp Gold Database
Lab 31: Monitor Services and Resources in use by WhatsUp Gold
Lab 32: Run the Diagnostics Report and Evaluate Poller Performance
Lab 33: Install and Configure Clustered Pollers
Lesson 8: WhatsUp Gold Distributed
Lab 34: Monitor Remote Sites from a Central Location
Lesson 9: WhatsUp Gold Plugins
Lab 35: Monitor Statistics of a Virtual Host, using WhatsVirtual
Lab 36: Receive an Alert when a Device Configuration is changed, using WhatsConfigured
Lab 37: Analyze Network Traffic sent by your WhatsUp Gold Server, using Flow Monitor
Lab 38: Analyze Devices with high number of Failed Connections, using Flow Monitor