WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition

Overview:

WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition provides scalable and secure management and monitoring of any number of remote sites — out-of-the-box — from a centralized NOC. With powerful device discovery, graphical network mapping, SNMP v1-3 and WMI monitoring, and versatile alerting, notification, and reporting capabilities, WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition provides 360° visibility, actionable intelligence, and complete control. WhatsUp Gold now offers you mobile access to the status of your network, as well as enhanced SNMP security with SNMP v3 discovery and traps.

Built on the award-winning WhatsUp Gold core architecture, WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition allows you to manage complex, geographically-dispersed network environments reliably and effectively, at the lowest possible TCO.

WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition: Scalable and Affordable Enterprise Network Management

Built on the extensible and scalable core architecture, WhatsUp Gold Distributed is a full-featured network, server, and application monitoring solution designed to manage complex multi-site networks. Supporting both central and remote installations, WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition provides local network monitoring and management, as well as the roll up of all critical data to the central site for coordinated action and analysis.

WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition leverages the features of WhatsUp Gold Premium and extends them to provide secure connectivity between a central NOC and any number of remote sites. With powerful network discovery and mapping, real-time SNMP and WMI monitoring, comprehensive reporting, and the industry’s leading alert management capabilities, WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition provides 360° visibility, actionable intelligence and complete control.

For distributed enterprises, network downtime has a wide range of negative consequences — from lost productivity and tarnished reputation to lower revenue and a loss of shareholder value. Historically, organizations with multiple sites and interconnected networks have had to choose between installing disconnected solutions at each location or incurring considerable expense purchasing and supporting complex enterprise solutions.

Powerful remote-site management that minimizes bandwidth by only forwarding alerts to NOC.

No matter how many locations you have, WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition gives you accurate information on all your network installations, all the time. It delivers comprehensive, easy to use application and network management that reveals your entire network in minutes with powerful discovery and mapping capabilities. Proactive and predictive SNMP and WMI monitoring, along with powerful alerting and notification features, let you quickly identify and resolve network problems. Intuitive Windows and Webbased interfaces use dashboards to deliver real-time access to more than 150 reports, giving you vital information to keep your network strong and healthy.

Powerful multisite network management that’s cost-effective and easy to implement.

Highly visual and instantaneous status of the complete infrastructure.

WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition builds on the powerful WhatsUp Gold architecture to deliver a highly scalable, low bandwidth solution for distributed environments that:

• Provides real-time, centralized network management across multiple locations with location-specific dashboards. Continuous monitoring allows you to run each site independently if connectivity is ever lost.
• Decreases processing loads at central location by dispersing monitoring components to each remote site
• Minimizes traffic on WAN links between each remote site and the central monitoring site with localized monitoring
• Reduces false alarms from WAN link or provider equipment failures with alert dependencies
• Delivers unlimited scalability with any number of remote sites supported from a single central NOC
• Provides airtight security between each remote network connection and the central site with 128-bit SSL encryption and SSL over VPN
• Generates actionable intelligence with consolidated information from each remote site. More than 150 reports can be created, including SLA compliance reports.

Benefits:

WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition adds to the core feature set of WhatsUp Gold Premium, by providing a highly scalable and low bandwidth solution with the following benefits:

• A highly efficient distributed architecture as processing loads are handled by remote sites minimizing the overhead at the central location
• Dramatic reduction in false alarms, a frequent pain point in distributed network management through intelligent analysis of device and alert dependencies
• Real-time centralized network management across multiple sites using individualized dashboards
• Continuous uninterrupted monitoring; each site runs independently of the central site
• Actionable intelligence with over 200 reports available to slice and dice consolidated data, including SLAs levels
• Minimal traffic overhead on the network as monitoring is localized at each remote site
• Unlimited scalability, supporting any number of remote sites from a single central NOC
• Air-tight security with support for FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) 140-2 standards and 128-bit SSL encryption between each remote network connection to central site. SSL over VPN can also be configured.

With WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition, you have a tried, tested, and proven solution that provides complete visibility across your diverse network and application infrastructure. It delivers the automation, intelligence and control you need within a single scalable solution, at the lowest possible TCO.

System Requirements:

About Virtual machines
WhatsUp Gold can be installed and will operate on virtual machines powered by VMware and Microsoft Virtual Server, as long as the virtual server's resources meet that of the WhatsUp Gold system requirements.

Software Requirements:

• 32-bit and 64-bit support for the following OS versions: Windows 7, Windows Vista Ultimate (SP2 recommended), Windows Vista Business (SP2 recommended), Windows XP Professional SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2 (or later), Windows Server 2008 SP2, or Windows Server 2008 R2
• 32-bit and 64-bit support for the following virtual server environments: VMWare ESXi 3.0 or later and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
  • Important: If WhatsUp Gold is hosted on VMWare ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, to avoid licensing issues, make sure that you assign a static MAC address to the virtual machine that WhatsUp Gold is operating on.
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (included), SQL Server 2005 Standard or Enterprise Edition, or Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard or Enterprise Edition (optional)
  • Important: If using Microsoft SQL Server Cluster 2005, 2008, or 2008 R2, WhatsUp Gold must be configured to use a remote database. Installing WhatsUp Gold to the cluster is not supported.
    Important: WhatsUp Gold does not support non-English versions of Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005 or Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
• IIS 6, IIS 7, or Ipswitch Web Server
• WhatsUp Gold Web interface, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0, or Firefox 3.0
• WhatsUp Gold Mobile interface, Mobile Safari 2.2, Microsoft Internet Explorer Mobile 6.1, or Opera Mini 4.2
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (required), Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 included in install
  • Important: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is not compatible with Windows SharePoint Services 2.0. If you are running SharePoint Services 2.0, you should not upgrade or install WhatsUp Gold. WhatsUp Gold requires Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and automatically installs this package if not present on the system. For more information about the issue, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article.
• Microsoft Windows Scripting Host v5.7 (or later)
  • Note: Windows Scripting Host is installed with the Windows operating system. To verify your version, run cscript.exe at a command prompt. If you need to update Windows Scripting Host, refer to the Microsoft Windows Scripting Host site.
• Microsoft SAPI 5.1 (required for Text-to-Speech actions)
• WhatsVirtual plug-in supports virtual hosts and virtual machines running on VMware virtual environments including: VMware vCenter Server 4.0 and VMWare ESXi 3.5 or 4.0

Additional software requirements for WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor

WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor has the same base system requirements as WhatsUp Gold v14. In addition, WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor requires:

• WhatsUp Gold v14 Standard Edition, Premium Edition, MSP Edition, or Distributed Edition
• At least one routing device that supports NetFlow versions 1, 5, and 9
  - or -
  At least one routing device that supports sFlow version 2 and 5

Note: WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor performs well in most installations that use SQL Server 2005 Express. However, some large data collections, that require 4 GB of data storage or more or where data is collected and archived over a long period of time, may require 32-bit MS SQL Server 2005 Standard or Enterprise Edition, 32-bit or 64-bit Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard or Enterprise Edition, or 32-bit or 64-bit Microsoft SQL Server Cluster 2005, 2008, or 2008 R2 (all editions except Microsoft SQL Server Express edition).

Hardware Requirements:
 

	Recommended	Required
Processor(s)	WhatsUp Gold: Dual-core Flow Monitor: Quad-core	WhatsUp Gold: Single-core Flow Monitor: Dual-core
Processor Speed	2 GHz or more	2 GHz
RAM	WhatsUp Gold: 4 GB Flow Monitor: +4 GB	WhatsUp Gold: 2 GB Flow Monitor: +2 GB
Hard drive space for application, SQL Server Express Edition dbase application, and supporting framework	3 GB	2 GB
Hard drive space for dbase and dbase logs	WhatsUp Gold: 8 GB or more Flow Monitor: +16 GB or more	WhatsUp Gold: 4 GB Flow Monitor: +8 GB
Network interface card	1 Gbps	100 Mbps
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM	Required if installing from CD-ROM. Not required for download installations.	Required if installing from CD-ROM. Not required for download installations.
Video display resolution	1280 x 1024 or higher	1024 x 768
Sound card	SAPI-capable sound card required for Text-to-Speech actions	Not required
Modem and phone line	Required for pager, SMS, and beeper actions; modem pooling is not supported	Not required
GSM modem	Required for SMS Direct actions	Not required

Note: The WhatsConnected, WhatsConfigured, and VoIP Monitor plug-in system requirements are the same as the WhatsUp Gold requirements. Additionally, the VoIP Monitor requires Cisco IP-SLA compatible devices.

Note: WhatsUp Gold can be installed and will operate on virtual machines powered by 32-bit or 64-bit VMware ESXi 3.0 or later and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, as long as the virtual server's guest OS resources meet that of the WhatsUp Gold system requirements.

Screenshots:

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Documentation:

Download the Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Distributed Datasheet (.PDF)