WhatsUp Gold Standard Edition

An easy-to-use and cost effective network management solution for small and mid-sized businesses.

For many SMBs, manual network management processes may suffice when there are a few end users and applications. But when business growth occurs, managing multiple endpoints, remote users, and devices manually, becomes a very cumbersome task. It’s time for some automation and proven management processes. As a network administrator at a growing SMB, you need real-time visibility into how your network is performing, its underlying topology, and its dependencies. You want to be alerted when things go wrong and you also want to reduce the number of problems, by developing proactive network management practices. Lastly, as the business grows, you need to understand how to enable structured growth of the network in concert. WhatsUp Gold Standard is a cost-effective network management solution designed to monitor small and mid-sized business (SMB) networks and ensure stable growth in the future. It’s tried, tested, and proven on networks just like yours, and offers the best price-performance value compared to any other network management solution on the market today. With WhatsUp Gold managing your network infrastructure 24x7, you can be assured that you have the necessary visibility and control to meet the demands of your business.

With WhatsUp Gold Standard, you have 360° visibility, actionable intelligence, and complete control to make not only fast decisions, but better ones. When you invest in WhatsUpGold Standard to monitor your network infrastructure, you’re not just buying some software, you’re teaming up with a company that’s been building robust, easy to deploy and hassle free network management solutions for nearly 20 years.

With WhatsUp Gold Standard Edition, you get:

• High performance predictive and pre-emptive monitoring of networks and systems infrastructure and core IP services 24/7
• Highly flexible, automated, and comprehensive network discovery and mapping
• A powerful alert management platform, featuring easy to use alarms, alerts and notification capabilities for real-time operations support
• Quick navigation with intuitive Web and Windows consoles
• Air-tight security and configurable role-based management

What's New:
 

Ready for the new streamlined WhatsUp Gold?

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. 

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: