Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide - Ipswitch Documentation Server

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
To provide a Web enabled WMI and SNMP performance counter poller and grapher. It
supports WMI for Windows servers, and SNMP for network devices such as switches,
routers, and UNIX devices.
To build and edit graphs for use by the Performance Monitor dashboard report. You
can use this dashboard report to display any saved graph.
To add a WMI performance counter to the Web Performance Monitor:
1 Click Tools > Web Performance Monitor. The Web Performance Monitor appears.
2 Click Graph > Add WMI Counter.
- or -
Click the WMI button in the upper right corner of the dialog (see the Toolbar buttons
table below). The Add WMI Performance Counter (on page 320) dialog appears.
3 Enter the appropriate information into the dialog fields.
4 Click OK to save changes.
To add an SNMP performance counter to the Web Performance Monitor:
1 Click Tools > Web Performance Monitor. The Web Performance Monitor appears.
2 Click Graph > Add SNMP Performance Monitor.
- or -
Click the SNMP button in the upper right corner of the dialog (see the Toolbar buttons
table below). The Add SNMP Performance Counter dialog appears.
3 Enter the appropriate information into the dialog fields.
4 Click OK to save changes.
Web Performance Monitor menu items
The Web Performance Monitor menu is located at the top left corner of the window.
File menu
File > New Graph. This menu item resets the graph back to a blank graph.
File > Edit Graph Name. This menu item lets you change the name of the selected
graph.
File > Load Graph. This opens the Load Graph dialog, which displays a list of saved
graph files on the Web server.
File > Save Graph. This saves the current graph to the database. If no filename is
specified, it launches the Save Graph dialog, which allows a filename to be specified.
All files are saved to the WhatsUp database.
File > Save Graph As. This opens the Save Graph dialog which prompts you for a
filename, and then saves the current graph to disk.
Windows Properties. This opens the Configure Window Properties dialog. Use this
dialog to configure the graph and window properties for the Web Performance
Monitor.
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