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WhatsUp Gold

Which edition of WhatsUp Gold is right for you?

WhatsUp Gold Standard Edition

WhatsUp Gold Standard Edition Network Monitoring Software

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 Edition Enterprise Network Monitoring Software

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 Network Monitoring Software

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

Features Standard Premium Distributed
Web Console & Mobile Access to manage your network on the go- anytime, from anywhere included included included
Alert Center: Single Console for alerts, alert acknowledgments and notifications across your infrastructure included included included
Supports full suite of WhatsUp Gold plug-ins – IT Management in a single pane of glass included included included
Integrated SQL database format for trend data and complete system inventory reporting of hardware, software, firmware, and patches. included included included
Performance monitors (CPU utilization, Disk space and utilization, Interface utilization, Memory, Ping Latency) included included included
Custom actions using Jscript or VBscript (e.g. to restart services/systems) included included included
Fully integrated Layer 2/3 discovery and topology mapping with asset/inventory reporting included included included
Scheduling Engine to automate basic maintenance tasks (e.g. database backups) included included included
Leverage Scalability Pollers for monitoring of up to 20,000 Devices and 100,000 Monitors included included included
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 not included included included
Enhanced real-time network monitoring with Split Second Graphs and Instant Info not included included included
WMI Application monitoring not included included included
Out-of-the-Box Hardware monitoring - UPS, Printer, Fan, Power Supply, Temperature not included included included
Drop-in support for Powershell monitoring and action scripts not included included included
HTTP/HTTPS/FTP Synthetic Transaction Monitoring not included included included

Discovery, Mapping and Inventory

Features Standard Premium Distributed
Leverages Layer 2/3 technologies including ARP, SNMP, SSH, ICMP, IP range scan and SmartScan to discover all network assets and their interconnections included included included
On-demand or scheduled discoveries included included included
Auto or manual generation of topology maps showing complete Layer 2/3 connectivity included included included
Full customization of topology maps (background images, hierarchical/radial formats, etc.) included included included
Extensive asset/inventory reporting such as serial number, OS version, patches and warranty info included included included
Pre-defined scanning templates for Role-based identification of devices not included included included

Monitoring

Features Standard Premium Distributed
Performance monitoring via SNMP included included included
CPU utilization, Disk space and utilization, Interface utilization, Memory, Ping Latency included included included
Application & server monitoring (Windows, Unix and Linux) via SSH & WMI not included included included
Pre-configured active and passive monitors not included included included
Exchange 2000/2003/2007/2010, SQL Server 2005/2008) not included included included
SQL Query Monitor for Microsoft SQL Server, My-SQL and Oracle not included included included
em>Hardware monitoring - UPS, Printer, Fan, Power Supply, and Temperature not included included included
HTTP/S Synthetic Transaction Monitoring (Content Check) not included included included
FTP Synthetic Transaction Monitoring not included included included
Email Route not included included included

Alerts, Notifications & Reports

Features Standard Premium Distributed
Over 200 out-of-the-box reports available in web-based included included included
Reporting data export to: email, Excel, PDF, CSV formats included included included
Email, Alpha/Text Pager, SMS, Web Alarms, Windows Popups, Sound, SNMP Traps, Service Restart, External Scripts included included included
Configurable alert/alarm escalation to comply with pre-defined escalation procedures included included included
Advanced alert suppression & blackout reporting: Get suppressed alerts when it fits your schedule included included included
Dashboard Manager not included included included
Support for instant access to real-time data via Instant Info not included included included
Configurable alert/alarm escalation to comply with pre-defined escalation procedures included included included

Distributed Networks

Remote IP Services not included not included included
Remote SNMP Monitoring not included not included included
Remote WMI Monitoring not included not included included
Remote Device Dependencies not included not included included
WAN Device, Port and Link Monitoring not included not included included
Remote Alert roll-ups not included not included included
Remote Reporting roll-up not included not included included
Remote Monitoring survivability not included not included included

Plug-In Modules

Features Standard Premium Distributed
Flow Monitor & Flow Publisher
Know and analyze how and by whom your network bandwidth is being consumed

Integrates with all versions
of WhatsUp Gold

WhatsConfigured
Automate change and configuration management processes and secure your configuration data

Integrates with all versions
of WhatsUp Gold

WhatsVirtual
Discover, map, monitor and manage your virtual and physical resources-from a single Web console

Integrates with all versions
of WhatsUp Gold

VoIP Monitor
Assure your network supports and maintains acceptable call quality for Voice over IP
Integrates with all versions
of WhatsUp Gold