Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide - Ipswitch Documentation Server

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
Example: monitoring router bandwidth
You can configure WhatsUp Gold to gather bandwidth usage on your SNMP enabled devices
(routers, switches, etc.) and then track that usage through performance logs. For bandwidth
monitoring, the Interface Utilization monitor is the most useful as it illustrates percent
utilization and throughput.
The Interface Utilization monitor gathers statistics on the volume of bytes traveling to and
from the active interfaces on a device. You can collect data on all interfaces, active interfaces,
or specific interfaces. This monitor is configured and enabled through Device Properties >
Performance Monitors.
Note: Before you can configure the monitor for a device, you must enable SNMP and assign
the proper credentials via the Credentials Library (on page 836). The Performance Monitoring
system uses these credentials to connect to the device during the configuration process, and
during normal performance gathering. For more information, see Enabling SNMP on
Windows devices (on page 259).
Configuring the monitor
The Interface Utilization Performance Monitor is one of the default performance monitors
installed with WhatsUp Gold, and needs no global configuration to configure the monitor for
a single device.
To configure the Bandwidth Monitor:
1 In either the Details or Map View, right-click on a device, then select Properties from
the right-click menu.
2 Select Performance Monitors on the Device Properties dialog.
3 Select the Interface Utilization monitor from the list.
4 Click Configure to set up the monitor for the device. WhatsUp Gold scans the device
and discovers the interfaces on the device.
When the scan completes, the Configure Interface Data Collection dialog appears. If the
credentials for the device are not configured properly, the scan fails (return to the
Credentials Library to fix it). If the device is not SNMP-enabled, the scan fails.
5 Select the interfaces you want to collect data for. From the Collect data for list, select
All, Active, Specific, or Custom active. If you select Specific, select just the interfaces
you want to monitor in the list below. By default, active interfaces are measured.
6 On the Configure Interface Data Collection dialog, enter a time interval (in minutes) for
how long you want the application to wait between polls in the Data collection
interval box. The default is 10 minutes. See Program Options - Report Data (on page 815)
for more information on data collection and roll-up.
7 Select Collect errors and discards data for selected interfaces to record this data.
8 Optionally, click Advanced to change the retry and timeout settings for the SNMP
connection to the device. Click OK to save the changes to the Advanced Settings.
9 Click OK to save the Interface Utilization configuration.
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