Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide - Ipswitch Documentation Server

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
Enabling the polling engine
To enable or disable the WhatsUp polling engine:
1 From the console main menu, click Configure > Program Options.
2 Click the General icon.
3 Select Enable polling engine to turn on polling. Clear the selection to turn polling off.
4 Click OK to save changes.
Tip: In the bottom right corner of the WhatsUp Gold console, the Polling icon shows if the
engine is active.
Enabling actions
To enable or disable the WhatsUp Gold actions:
1 From the console main menu, click Configure > Program Options.
2 Click the General icon.
3 Select Enable actions to enable actions. Clear the selection to disable all actions.
Important: If you disable WhatsUp Gold actions, any configured actions or action policies do
not run.
4 Click OK to save changes.
Enabling performance monitors
To enable or disable WhatsUp Gold performance monitors:
1 From the console main menu, click Configure > Program Options.
2 Click the General icon.
3 Select Enable performance monitors to enable WhatsUp Gold performance monitors.
Clear the selection to disable all performance monitors.
Important: If you disable performance monitors, WhatsUp Gold ceases to gather device data
using any of the default or custom performance monitors that exist in the Performance
Monitor Library.
4 Click OK to save changes.
Enabling WhatsVirtual event collection
To enable or disable WhatsVirtual event collection:
1 From the console main menu, click Configure > Program Options.
2 Click the General icon.
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