Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide - Ipswitch Documentation Server

WhatsUp Gold Overview
In This Chapter
Welcome to Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold ........................................................... 17
WhatsUp Gold editions .................................................................................... 19
New in Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold ..................................................................... 23
Sending feedback ............................................................................................... 23
Finding more information and updates ..................................................... 23
Getting Familar with WhatsUp Gold ............................................................ 25
Welcome to Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold
Welcome to Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold, the powerful network monitoring solution designed to
help you protect your changing business infrastructure. WhatsUp Gold provides standardsbased
monitoring of any network device, service, or application on TCP/IP and Windows
networks.
WhatsUp Gold lets you discover devices on your network, initiate monitoring of those
devices, and execute actions based on device state changes, so you can identify network
failures before they become catastrophic.
Discovery and Mapping
The WhatsUp Gold roles-based discovery process searches for devices on your network and
helps determine the type of device based on the device attributes.
Device roles do two things:
Specify the criteria that a device must match to be identified as the device role.
Specify the monitoring configuration that is applied to the device when it is added to
WhatsUp Gold.
After devices are discovered, you can add them to the WhatsUp Gold database and view
monitored devices as a list of devices or as a graphical map.
Polling/Listening
WhatsUp Gold actively polls devices to determine their status. You can use active monitors to
poll services on a device and passively listen for messages sent across the network.
Performance monitors track device performance by checking and reporting on device
resources, such as disk, CPU, and interfaces.
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