WhatsUp Gold lets you know what's on your network. Automatically discover all resources and map their connectivity. Build an accurate picture of your network devices, systems and their interconnections, using Layer 2 and 3 network technologies, including ARP, SNMP, ICMP, SSH, LLDP, WMI, Telnet and more.
Easily schedule network discoveries or run them on-demand.
Simplify The Complexity Of Managing Your IT Environment
To help you ensure the availability and performance levels your organization needs from your IT infrastructure, WhatsUp Gold offers an integrated IT monitoring suite at an affordable price. WhatsUp Gold helps you manage networks, including wireless, as well as applications, servers and virtual assets.
In addition, network configuration management, layer 2 and 3 discovery, traffic flow monitoring and more come together in one package that is easy to install and quick to deploy and tailor to your environment.
WhatsUp Gold offers the most functionality at the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry, backed by over 20 years of network management experience and deployments on over 150,000 networks worldwide. Modular architecture allows you to purchase and implement WhatsUp Gold capabilities in phases that meet your goals and priorities.
Key Features
Discovery
- Complete Layer 2 and 3 discovery
- ARP, SSH, SNMP v1-3, IPv4/6 address range, ICMP, LLDP, Smartscan, hosts file…
- Infrastructure assets - network devices, WAPs and LAN controllers, servers, deployed software, VMware VMs, VLANs and port-to-port connectivity
- On-demand or scheduled discovery
- Scan partial or entire network
- Automatically update maps and inventory Mapping
- Detailed Layer 2/3 topology maps with wired, wireless, physical and virtual infrastructures
- Physical and IP connectivity, VMware host-guest relationships, VLAN and subnet views, physical system location
- Full map customization
- Visualization of device dependencies and multi-level topology
- Layer 2 Trace Route utility
- Save, print or share maps with your team Monitoring
- SNMP, SSH and WMI Support
- Wireless infrastructure: bandwidth consumption, client count, rogue count, RSSI data, CPU utilization, signal-to-noise ratio and memory utilization
- Up to 20,000 devices and 100,000 monitors with single WhatsUp Gold server
- Enhanced real-time monitoring with Split - Second Graphs and InstantInfo
- WMI application monitoring
- Hardware monitoring (i.e. UPS, printer, fan, temperature)
- Synthetic application monitoring
- Custom monitoring: Jscript, VBScript & PowerShell
- SQL Query Monitor for SQL Server, My SQL & Oracle
- MIB Walker, MIB Explorer and MIB Manager
- Performance monitors (i.e. CPU utilization, disk space, memory)
- Preconfigured active/passive monitors
- Support for both 32- and 64-bit counters Inventory
- Comprehensive asset and inventory reporting
- Device & asset information: hardware, software, firmware, model, power supplies, serial number
- Systems inventory information: OS version, patches and warranty information
- Configuration information: interfaces, bridge ports, switch ports and VLANs
- IP/MAC Address Finder utility Alerts, Reporting & Management
- Centralized alerting for all performance issues, traffic bottlenecks and configuration errors
- 200+ customizable dashboard reports
- Configurable multi-escalation policies
- Blackout reports/alert suppression
- Role-based management with Active Directory integration
- Scheduling of recurring reports and report distribution
- Report export as email, Excel® or PDF
- 18 types of configurable alerts including email, pager and SMS text Security
- FIPS 140-2 encryption and validation, Cert #1051 by NIST
- Auto detection of a FIPS 140-2 validated operating system
- Role-based access control and integration with Active Directory and LDAP services
Which edition of WhatsUp Gold is right for you?
WhatsUp Gold Standard Edition
WhatsUp Gold Standard Edition is a feature-rich yet affordable network management
solution for small to mid-sized businesses. It's easy-to-use, proactive network infrastructure monitoring and management. WhatsUp Gold Standard includes an
integrated Alert Center, Layer 2/3 discovery, mapping and asset reporting and the ability to extend its functionality with any of the WhatsUp Gold plug-ins. It provides
the absolute best price-performance ratio of any network management solution on the market.
WhatsUp Gold Premium Edition
WhatsUp Gold Premium is an enterprise-grade IT management solution to monitor and
manage your network's performance, configuration and connectivity across wired, wireless, physical and virtual devices. WhatsUp Gold Premium combines proactive
monitoring of your infrastructure, systems and applications with powerful alerting and notifications to keep you informed of potential problems in real time. When issues
arise, intuitive dashboards provide access to the business-critical information you need.
With its extensive monitoring capabilities and ability to scale to tens of thousands of managed devices, WhatsUp Gold Premium is an ideal solution for networks of any size or complexity.
WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition
WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition is the perfect solution for scalable and secure
management of larger networks with multiple autonomous sites. It gives each site the full management functionality of WhatsUp Gold Premium for complete control of their
local network. Critical data is rolled up to a central NOC for real-time visibility into the status of infrastructure, systems and applications across the entire network.
Compare WhatsUp Gold Editions
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Web Console & Mobile Access to manage your network on the go- anytime, from anywhere |
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| Alert Center: Single Console for alerts, alert acknowledgments and notifications across your infrastructure |
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| Supports full suite of WhatsUp Gold plug-ins – IT Management in a single pane of glass |
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| Integrated SQL database format for trend data and complete system inventory reporting of hardware, software, firmware, and patches. |
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| Performance monitors (CPU utilization, Disk space and utilization, Interface utilization, Memory, Ping Latency) |
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| Custom actions using Jscript or VBscript (e.g. to restart services/systems) |
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| Fully integrated Layer 2/3 discovery and topology mapping with asset/inventory reporting |
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Scheduling Engine to automate basic maintenance tasks (e.g. database backups) |
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| Leverage Scalability Pollers for monitoring of up to 20,000 Devices and 100,000 Monitors |
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| Fully integrated Wireless Network Mapping and Monitoring for Cisco and Aruba LWAPs and Controllers with auto-mapping, bandwidth utilization and alerts on rogue access points |
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| Enhanced real-time network monitoring with Split Second Graphs and Instant Info |
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| WMI Application monitoring |
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| Out-of-the-Box Hardware monitoring - UPS, Printer, Fan, Power Supply, Temperature |
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| Drop-in support for Powershell monitoring and action scripts |
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| HTTP/HTTPS/FTP Synthetic Transaction Monitoring |
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Discovery, Mapping and Inventory
| Leverages Layer 2/3 technologies including ARP, SNMP, SSH, ICMP, IP range scan and SmartScan to discover all network assets and their interconnections |
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| On-demand or scheduled discoveries |
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| Auto or manual generation of topology maps showing complete Layer 2/3 connectivity |
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| Full customization of topology maps (background images, hierarchical/radial formats, etc.) |
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| Extensive asset/inventory reporting such as serial number, OS version, patches and warranty info |
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| Pre-defined scanning templates for Role-based identification of devices |
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Monitoring
| Performance monitoring via SNMP |
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| CPU utilization, Disk space and utilization, Interface utilization, Memory, Ping Latency |
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| Application & server monitoring (Windows, Unix and Linux) via SSH & WMI |
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| Pre-configured active and passive monitors |
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| Exchange 2000/2003/2007/2010, SQL Server 2005/2008) |
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| SQL Query Monitor for Microsoft SQL Server, My-SQL and Oracle |
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| em>Hardware monitoring - UPS, Printer, Fan, Power Supply, and Temperature |
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| HTTP/S Synthetic Transaction Monitoring (Content Check) |
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| FTP Synthetic Transaction Monitoring |
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| Email Route |
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Alerts, Notifications & Reports
| Over 200 out-of-the-box reports available in web-based |
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| Reporting data export to: email, Excel, PDF, CSV formats |
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| Email, Alpha/Text Pager, SMS, Web Alarms, Windows Popups, Sound, SNMP Traps, Service Restart, External Scripts |
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| Configurable alert/alarm escalation to comply with pre-defined escalation procedures |
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| Advanced alert suppression & blackout reporting: Get suppressed alerts when it fits your schedule |
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| Dashboard Manager |
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| Support for instant access to real-time data via Instant Info |
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| Configurable alert/alarm escalation to comply with pre-defined escalation procedures |
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Distributed Networks
| Remote IP Services |
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| Remote SNMP Monitoring |
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| Remote WMI Monitoring |
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| Remote Device Dependencies |
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| WAN Device, Port and Link Monitoring |
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| Remote Alert roll-ups |
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| Remote Reporting roll-up |
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| Remote Monitoring survivability |
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Plug-In Modules
Flow Monitor & Flow Publisher
Know and analyze how and by whom your network bandwidth is being consumed
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WhatsConfigured
Automate change and configuration management processes and secure your configuration data
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WhatsVirtual
Discover, map, monitor and manage your virtual and physical resources-from a single Web console
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VoIP Monitor
Assure your network supports and maintains acceptable call quality for Voice over IP
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The WhatsUp Gold Suite of Integrated Plug-Ins
Integrated IT Management From a Single Pane of Glass
- WhatsVirtual.
Integrated monitoring for your virtualized datacenter environments, with visibility into physical and virtual resources from one console.
- WhatsConfigured.
Powerful, affordable and easy-to-use configuration management that automates network device configuration file backup, restore, storage and change management processes.
- Flow Monitor.
In-depth insight into network performance, allowing you to analyze, alert and report on network traffic and bandwidth utilization in real-time to ensure quality of service.
- Flow Publisher.
In-depth visibility into your network traffic for every device - whether they natively support flow monitoring or not - extending the power of Flow Monitor.
- VoIP Monitor.
Monitor and report on your network's capacity to support and maintain acceptable call quality for Voice over IP.
- Application Performance Monitor
Visibility into application health, allowing you to quickly isolate and resolve performance issues from any source before users and critical applications are affected.
WhatsUp Gold Documentation
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