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Extending WhatsUp Gold with custom
scripting
In This Chapter
Extending WhatsUp Gold with scripting.................................................. 909
Scripting Active Monitors .............................................................................. 910
Scripting Performance Monitors ................................................................. 926
Scripting Actions ............................................................................................... 936
Using the SNMP API ......................................................................................... 942
Extending WhatsUp Gold with scripting
This section explains how to use the native development tools included in WhatsUp Gold to
extend the product beyond its stock capabilities with Active Script Active Monitors,
Performance Monitors, and Actions.
WhatsUp Gold includes three types of Active Scripts, which allow you to write custom JScript
and VBScript code to do tasks that WhatsUp Gold cannot natively perform.
Active Script Active Monitors perform specific customized checks on a device. They
report their status as a success or failure, and the monitor's status effects the device's
status in the same way that stock active monitors do. For more information, see
Scripting Active Monitors (on page 910).
Active Script Performance Monitors track specific values over time and can be used
to generate logs and graphs of historical data. For more information, see Scripting
Performance Monitors (on page 926).
Active Script Actions can be configured to trigger when an active monitor's state
changes. They can be programmed to perform a variety of tasks, from running
automated remediation scripts to posting data to external, third party services via
API. For more information, see Scripting Actions (on page 936).
About Active Script languages
Active scripts can be written in JScript or VBScript. For more information on either of these
languages, consult the MSDN Language Reference for that language.
MSDN JScript User's Guide (http://www.whatsupgold.com/msdnjscript)
MSDN VBScript User's Guide (http://www.whatsupgold.com/msdnvbscript)
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