WhatsUp Gold Premium Edition

Overview:

WhatsUp Gold® Premium Edition provides an extensive, cost-effective, out-of-the-box SNMP network management and WMI application monitoring solution for networks of all sizes. Get a more intimate view and complete control of your network with WhatsUp Gold.

WhatsUp Gold:

• Discovers and maps all your network devices and systems automatically
• Notifies you proactively as problems occur on your network
• Presents both instantaneous and historical reporting
• Provides reliable anytime, anywhere network management

In today’s business environment, the network is the business. Without it, doing business as we know it would simply not be possible. From e-commerce, email, and IM to VoIP, video, and collaboration, a robust, well-managed network is vital to achieving business success.

WhatsUp Gold Premium Edition provides a comprehensive, easy to use application to network managers. With an enhanced discovery engine and powerful mapping capabilities, WhatsUp Gold shows you your entire network within minutes of installation. Predictive SNMP and WMI monitoring, along with powerful alerting and notification features help you quickly identify and resolve network problems. With the Alert Center, you can easily organize and manage all of your alert and notification information. Intuitive Windows and Web-based interfaces use dashboards to deliver real-time access to more than 200 reports, giving you vital information on keeping your network strong and healthy. WhatsUp Gold also offers mobile access to the status of your network, as well as enhanced SNMP security with SNMP v3 discovery and traps.

Manage and configure all alert information and notification policies with the innovative Alert Center.

Intelligent and Easy to Use

With WhatsUp Gold’s intelligent management platform, you will have complete visibility into your entire IT infrastructure with minimal care and feeding. If a problem occurs, WhatsUp Gold quickly informs you if network resources are being taxed beyond their intended use, enabling you to proactively respond and correct the situation before any service is disrupted. Using the latest standards in network management protocols, WhatsUp Gold makes your job easy – by ensuring your infrastructure is running and performing at the desired level of service.

Extensive Network Monitoring

WhatsUp Gold does not rely on just the basics for managing your network. Instead, a sophisticated strategy of both active and passive monitoring mechanisms is used to track the status and health of network devices. For example, periodic active monitors like Ping or polling an SNMP MIB can provide availability and performance characteristics. Enhancing that data, WhatsUp Gold can preemptively alert you to changes in device status by listening for SNMP traps and analyzing syslog messages from the devices which comprise your infrastructure.

Going Beyond Availability

WhatsUp Gold performance monitoring extends your network visibility beyond simple up-down availability. Performance metrics like CPU, memory and interface utilization provide deeper insight into the health of all networked devices over time. Configurable threshold monitors enable predictive monitoring of devices, systems and services so you can prevent failures from occurring in the first place.

Comprehensive Troubleshooting

WhatsUp Gold’s network, system, and application monitoring capabilities provide context-based visibility into performance problems, enhancing your triage skills and enabling you to minimize the time spent on problem resolution. For example, with a quick glance you can see which services and applications are impacted if the device goes down. With this information in hand, you can quickly prioritize trouble tickets and deal with the most business critical problems first.

Scalable Product Family Architecture

WhatsUp Gold Premium is part of the Ipswitch™ WhatsUp Gold family of network management solutions that also includes WhatsUp Gold Standard, WhatsUp Gold Distributed, and WhatsUp Gold MSP. The WhatsUp Gold product family grows with you as your network expands in size and complexity. This smooth, transparent migration path supports your needs and delivers the lowest possible total cost of ownership. There’s no need to evaluate, configure, and learn a new product as your network changes. Product functionality is extensible though the addition of plug-ins for Flow Monitoring, VoIP Monitoring and Layer 2/3 Discovery and Mapping. From single-site to multisite networks, WhatsUp Gold provides a consistent user interface, management structure, and reporting capabilities. 

Features:

What's New:
 

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Could we make our award-winning network management solution even easier to set up, operate and manage?
Yes we could, and we did it with the new v14.0!

V14 extends WhatsUp Gold’s proactive monitoring, reporting and manageability features - cementing its position as the most simple, cost-effective and complete network and application management tool available in the market today.

Industry Leading Alert Management Platform

The new Alert Center centralizes alert and notifications configuration and management in one single interface. The new threshold monitors enable intelligent monitoring of the infrastructure - generating alerts based on a combination of performance levels tracked over time. Critical monitors ensure you don’t waste your time with alert storms and false notifications. In-depth WhatsUp Gold server self-monitoring ensures your installation operates at peak performance 24/7. Put simply, Alert Center has no competition, it’s the best alert management platform available today.

Enhanced Discovery

With improved intelligence and automation, WhatsUp Gold Discovery engine provides quicker, more accurate identification of devices and their roles in the network. Once discovered, preconfigured monitors are automatically started eliminating the need for manual intervention unless you want to customize the out-of-the-box settings. Even better, with the enhanced Discovery engine, all features are now accessible through the WhatsUp Gold web portal enabling anywhere, anytime operation. 

Flow Monitor

Our flow management solution has been renamed Flow Monitor, and now supports all popular flow formats – NetFlow, J-Flow and sFlow. We’ve added several new threshold based monitors to provide you with deeper insight into application usage on the network. 

WhatsUp Gold Premium vs. SolarWinds Orion:

Features	Description	WhatsUp Gold Premium	Solarwinds Orion
Application Monitoring	Application monitoring included at no extra cost		X
IPv6 Support	Discovery and monitoring of IPv6 enabled devices and systems is critical to an overall effective network management strategy.		X
Built-in MIB Management and Validation	Drag, drop and validate standard and enterprise MIBs instantly. No requirement to access external vendor site to add MIBs.		X
Configurable Monitors	Provides the capability to develop unique monitors for custom monitoring.		X
Distributed and Multi-site Environments	Enable survivable multi-site monitoring with minimum impact on bandwidth		X
Configurable Dashboards	Built-in NOC-like views for instant visual status of up/down status, response time, and critical system details and addition of external web-site feeds.		X
Drag and Drop Web Interface	Configurable management interface provides maximum flexibility to move and add reports to access most relevant status information instantly.		X
Layer 2 Discovery, Mapping and Visualization	Integrated discovery, mapping and visualization provides port-to-port connectivity with automated creation of monitors for devices and links.		X
Bulk Monitor Changes	Rapid deployment of monitor configuration changes to common devices.		X
Configurable Split-Second graphing for both SNMP and WMI	Instantly access real-time information about status of devices, interfaces and services.		X
Reporting	Over 200 configurable reports with both real-time status and historical trending data.		Partially Included

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 XP Professional SP2 (or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2 (or later), Windows Vista Ultimate (SP2 recommended), Windows Vista Business (SP2 recommended), or Windows Server 2008 (SP2 recommended)
• 32-bit and 64-bit support for the following virtual server environments: VMWare ESXi 3.0 or later and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008.
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (included), SQL Server 2005 Standard or Enterprise Edition or MS SQL Server 2008 Standard or Enterprise Edition (optional)
  • Important: WhatsUp Gold does not support non-English versions of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
• 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
• 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)

Hardware Requirements:
 

Documentation:

Download the Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Distributed Datasheet (PDF).