Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide - Ipswitch Documentation Server

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
Description. Lists descriptive information about the discovery.
Date Saved. Lists the date and time the discovery was saved.
Scheduled. Lists whether the scan is a scheduled scan or a discovery scan. A True
value indicates that the scan is a scheduled scan, while False indicates that the scan is
a discovery or unscheduled scan.
You can select an existing Saved Scan in the list, then View or Delete the scan.
Using Device Roles
When WhatsUp Gold discovers devices, it tries to determine the type of each device so that it
can monitor them appropriately. To determine a device type, WhatsUp Gold compares the
discovered attributes of each device to a set of criteria called device roles.
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.
WhatsUp Gold provides default device roles that are used to identify most common network
devices. If your network includes devices that are not identified by this default set, you can
create custom device roles.
Configuring device role settings
When a device is added to WhatsUp Gold, the initial device configuration is specified by
device role. You can use the Device Role Settings dialog to configure and modify custom
device roles for use with your network.
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