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One dashboard view.

You don’t need multiple applications to manage your infrastructure. You need WhatsUp Gold: a single integrated application with the ability to manage your entire infrastructure through one dashboard view. With WhatsUp Gold, everything your IT team needs is in one place, making it easy to efficiently manage and perform routine day-to-day IT management and configuration tasks, find and troubleshoot problems before end users are impacted, and plan for future growth.

From reactive to proactive IT management.

WhatsUp Gold’s proactive monitoring capabilities help you stay on top of what’s happening in your infrastructure and ahead of any potential problems. With WhatsUp Gold, you can easily monitor and manage the infrastructure your business relies upon to keep moving forward, including network hardware, devices, bandwidth, and physical/virtual servers.

Affordably Priced

WhatsUp Gold’s device-based licensing advantage provides you with a solution that’s priced right with no budgeting surprises. With WhatsUp Gold v16, you get all the functionality you need and more, for the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry.

A rock solid investment.

In addition, rest-assured that when you invest in WhatsUp Gold Premium to manage your network infrastructure, you’re not just buying software, you’re teaming up with a company that’s been building rich, easy-to-deploy and hassle-free network management solutions for over 20 years.

With WhatsUp Gold Standard v16, you get:

200+ reports providing real, actionable intelligence accessible through the Web console
A management architecture built on industry standards (SNMP v1-3, TCP, ICMP, SSH)
Proactive monitoring of your networks and systems infrastructure and core IP services
The industry’s leading alert management platform for real-time operations support
One Web-based management console across WhatsUp Gold and its suite of plugins
Flexible, automated and comprehensive Layer 2/3 discovery and mapping
Air-tight security and configurable role-based management (using Active Directory)
A platform that installs and is ready to use in minutes, not hours

WhatsUp Gold Features

Discover

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.

Mapping

Map your entire network. Automatically generate a complete Layer 2/3 topology map of your network with visibility into both physical and IP connectivity, including VMware and VLAN-specific information. Easily customize your maps and drill down into performance stats.

Monitor

Know exactly how your IT environment is performing. Using a combination of both active and passive monitoring technologies, WhatsUp Gold monitors the health, availability and status of your network, systems and application infrastructures. Stay ahead of potential performance issues with early warning notifications via SNMP traps and Syslog messages from your infrastructure devices.

Alert

WhatsUp Gold’s Alert Center gives you a single dashboard view with alerts from across your entire infrastructure. With multilevel escalations, WhatsUp Gold makes it easy to prioritize responses to any problem from performance issues, to traffic bottlenecks, to configuration errors. In addition, Alert Center makes it easy to acknowledge ownership, provide status updates and efficiently manage the resolution process.

Report

Over 200 out-of-the-box reports provide complete visibility into the health and performance of your infrastructure. Through WhatsUp Gold’s web interface, reports can be easily customized to meet a specific audience or need. See network, server and application performance information side-by-side with traffic and configuration data for powerful cross-silo correlation.

Compare WhatsUp Gold Editions

Features	Standard	Premium	Distributed
Web Console & Mobile Access to manage your network on the go- anytime, from anywhere
Alert Center: Single Console for alerts, alert acknowledgments and notifications across your infrastructure
Supports full suite of WhatsUp Gold plug-ins – IT Management in a single pane of glass
Integrated SQL database format for trend data and complete system inventory reporting of hardware, software, firmware, and patches.
Performance monitors (CPU utilization, Disk space and utilization, Interface utilization, Memory, Ping Latency)
Custom actions using Jscript or VBscript (e.g. to restart services/systems)
Fully integrated Layer 2/3 discovery and topology mapping with asset/inventory reporting
Scheduling Engine to automate basic maintenance tasks (e.g. database backups)
Leverage Scalability Pollers for monitoring of up to 20,000 Devices and 100,000 Monitors
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
Enhanced real-time network monitoring with Split Second Graphs and Instant Info
WMI Application monitoring
Out-of-the-Box Hardware monitoring - UPS, Printer, Fan, Power Supply, Temperature
Drop-in support for Powershell monitoring and action scripts
HTTP/HTTPS/FTP Synthetic Transaction Monitoring

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
On-demand or scheduled discoveries
Auto or manual generation of topology maps showing complete Layer 2/3 connectivity
Full customization of topology maps (background images, hierarchical/radial formats, etc.)
Extensive asset/inventory reporting such as serial number, OS version, patches and warranty info
Pre-defined scanning templates for Role-based identification of devices

Monitoring

Features	Standard	Premium	Distributed
Performance monitoring via SNMP
CPU utilization, Disk space and utilization, Interface utilization, Memory, Ping Latency
Application & server monitoring (Windows, Unix and Linux) via SSH & WMI
Pre-configured active and passive monitors
Exchange 2000/2003/2007/2010, SQL Server 2005/2008)
SQL Query Monitor for Microsoft SQL Server, My-SQL and Oracle
em>Hardware monitoring - UPS, Printer, Fan, Power Supply, and Temperature
HTTP/S Synthetic Transaction Monitoring (Content Check)
FTP Synthetic Transaction Monitoring
Email Route

Alerts, Notifications & Reports

Features	Standard	Premium	Distributed
Over 200 out-of-the-box reports available in web-based
Reporting data export to: email, Excel, PDF, CSV formats
Email, Alpha/Text Pager, SMS, Web Alarms, Windows Popups, Sound, SNMP Traps, Service Restart, External Scripts
Configurable alert/alarm escalation to comply with pre-defined escalation procedures
Advanced alert suppression & blackout reporting: Get suppressed alerts when it fits your schedule
Dashboard Manager
Support for instant access to real-time data via Instant Info
Configurable alert/alarm escalation to comply with pre-defined escalation procedures

Distributed Networks

Remote IP Services
Remote SNMP Monitoring
Remote WMI Monitoring
Remote Device Dependencies
WAN Device, Port and Link Monitoring
Remote Alert roll-ups
Remote Reporting roll-up
Remote Monitoring survivability

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