New Features in WhatsUp Gold v12.0.
WhatsUp Gold v12.0 release introduces a total of 20 new features and functional enhancements across all versions of the product family. New feature and functional enhancements highlights include: Split Second Graphs for workspaces and dashboards, High Speed Counters and a number of new tools for SNMP. A chart that maps features and/or functional enhancements applicable to each member of WhatsUp Gold product family is provided later in this document.
WhatsUp® Gold delivers comprehensive and easy to use application and network monitoring that allows IT managers to turn network data into actionable business information. By proactively monitoring all critical network devices and services, WhatsUp reduces costly and frustrating downtime that can impact business. With an all new web based interface, WhatsUp Gold lets you take control of your network infrastructure and applications to reclaim time and resources for the important strategic work that drives results. In a market-place overwhelmed with complexity, WhatsUp Gold provides simple deployment, robust scalability, groundbreaking usability and fast return on investment. Be the first to know with WhatsUp.
WhatsUp Gold comes as either the Standard Edition, Premium Edition or the Distributed Edition and includes many useful new features including:
- Workspaces provide a configurable "personal dashboard" with 100+ customizable reports
- 50 new and enhanced Full Reports
- Scalable New Web Framework
- Enhanced IPv6 monitoring
- WhatsUp Engine Monitoring Tools
- New monitoring tools and enhancements
- Multi-SNMP variable probing and trending
- Bulk field change for passive monitors and maintenance
- Performance enhancements in web server and engine
WhatsUp Gold is used to monitor the health, performance and availability of an organization's network devices (router, network switch, firewall, printer, etc.) Linux, UNIX and Windows servers and associated applications and desktop computers. WhatsUp Gold can be installed on any system on the network and it uses a SQL Server database to store network devices and network configurations.
WhatsUp Gold is available in four editions:
Standard Edition
Standard is for single-location networks.
Premium Edition
Premium adds the ability to monitor the availability of application services on Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server servers. Premium also provides support for application monitoring using Microsoft's WMITM, which allows users to monitor performance counter values and trigger alarms based on thresholds.
Distributed Edition
Distributed extends Premium Edition to support networks that are segmented across multiple geographic locations.
MSP Edition
MSP gives managed solution providers the ability to use all of the features of WhatsUp Gold Premium Edition to monitor their customers' remote networks from a central location in the managed solution provider's network operations center.
NetFlow Monitor
Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold NetFlow Monitor collects, analyzes, and reports on NetFlow data from routers, switches, and other network devices, making visible trends and patterns in network bandwidth utilization.