IPSWITCH WhatsUp Gold

New Features

What's new in WhatsUp Gold v16?

Wireless Infrastructure Management included (WhatsUp Gold Premium)

Allow monitoring of wireless infrastructure performance historically or in real time. It supports Wireless LAN controllers from Cisco and Aruba hardware vendors and allows you to receive alerts for excessive bandwidth consumption, signal strength degradation and access point saturation. Be vigilant of unauthorised activity on your wireless network and be alerted of rogue wireless access points. Know where your wireless users are at all times and how much bandwidth they consume on their devices with real-time alerts and scheduled reports.

Wireless features are available in WhatsUp Gold Premium.

Integrated layer 2 discovery, mapping, inventory and asset tracking

You no longer need to buy a separate networking mapping and asset tracking tool. Get rich functionality for Layer 2 discovery and mapping, port-to-port connectivity information, inventory and asset tracking directly in the WhatsUp Gold web console.

WhatsUp Gold scalability pollers and distributed polling architecture

WhatsUp Gold now supports up to 20,000 devices and 100,000 monitors per WhatsUp Gold server. So no matter what your size, WhatsUp Gold gives you a single pane of glass view of your entire infrastructure.

PowerShell/.NET scripting support for monitoring and alerting

New PowerShell/.NET support makes it easy to track your Active Directory, Exchange, SQL and other Windows services with direct access to Windows/.NET management methods and functions.

Support for formatted WMI counters and SQL query performance monitors

New SQL query and WMI formatted monitors enable administrators to customise their monitoring for specific business-critical data.

Alert Center thresholds based on average CPU across multi-CPU systems

Stay ahead of CPU-related device performance problems by evaluating average CPU consumption across the device rather than by individual CPU.

And more...

• Scheduling engine for maintenance tasks - automate your housekeeping and basic maintenance tasks such as database backups and optimisations.
• Bulk database operations - simplify WhatsUp Gold administration by inserting multiple records into the WhatsUp Gold database with a single transaction.
• Oracle SQL support - WhatsUp Gold now includes Oracle DB support in the SQL query monitor.

Editions

WhatsUp Gold Standard

Essential network monitoring and management priced right for small and mid-sized businesses. The Standard edition includes:

• 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 utilisation, Disk space and utilisation, Interface utilisation, 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.

WhatsUp Gold Premium

Ensure IT infrastructure health and availability across mission-critical networks for enterprise and government. The Premium edition additionally includes:

• Fully integrated Wireless Network Mapping and Monitoring for Cisco and Aruba LWAPs and Controllers with auto-mapping, bandwidth utilisation 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
• Unix and Linux servers monitors and actions via SSH
• Drop-in support for Powershell monitoring and action scripts
• Pre-configured active/passive monitors
• HTTP/HTTPS/FTP Synthetic Transaction Monitoring.

WhatsUp Gold Distributed

Scalable and affordable enterprise IT and network management for distributed networks. Featuring:

• 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.

WhatsUp Gold WhatsConfigured (optional plug-in)

This configuration management plug-in enables effective management of one of the most critical assets on your network—device configurations. It automates the key configuration and change management tasks required to backup, compare, and upload configuration files for networking devices. WhatsConfigured maintains and controls configuration files and alerts when any configuration changes are detected.

WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor (optional plug-in)

Leverages Cisco NetFlow, sFlow, J-Flow, and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) data from switches, routers, and Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) to gather, analyse, report and alert on LAN/WAN network traffic patterns and bandwidth utilisation in real-time. It highlights not only overall utilisation for the LAN/WAN, specific devices, or interfaces; it also indicates users, applications, and protocols that are consuming abnormal amounts of bandwidth, giving you detailed information to assess network quality of service and quickly resolve traffic bottlenecks. Comprehensive reporting takes the raw real-time network traffic data from routers and switches and presents you with useful information to understand trends, utilisation, and where network bandwidth is consumed.

WhatsUp Gold WhatsVirtual (optional plug-in)

This plug-in lets you monitor virtual environments using WhatsUp Gold. The WhatsVirtual plug-in provides WhatsUp Gold with the ability to discover, map, monitor, alert and report on virtual environments.

WhatsUp Gold VoIP Monitor (optional plug-in)

This plug-in for WhatsUp Gold measures your network's ability to provide the quality of service (QoS) necessary for your VoIP calls on your LAN and WAN links. After a simple setup, the VoIP Monitor accesses Cisco IP SLA (service level agreement) enabled devices to monitor VoIP performance and quality parameters including jitter, packet loss, latency, and other performance values. The plug-in's full integration with WhatsUp Gold allows you to easily view graphs and metrics for bandwidth and interface utilisation and troubleshoot network issues that affect VoIP performance.

System Req.

Operating system and virtual environment requirements

• Windows 7 Ultimate (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows Vista Ultimate with SP2 (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows Vista Business with SP2 (32-bit, 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit), Windows Server 2008 (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows Server 2003 (32-bit, 64-bit)
• Supports VMware ESX 3.5, 4.0, 4.1; ESXi 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0; Hyper-V Server 2008 R2.

Database requirements

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition 32-bit Local/Remote
• SQL Server 2005 Standard or Enterprise 32-bit or 64-bit Local/Remote
• SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2 Standard or Enterprise 32-bit or 64-bit Local/Remote
• SQL Server Cluster 2005, 2008, or 2008 R2 Enterprise or Datacenter 32-bit or 64-bit Remote only (not supported on Windows Vista/Windows 7)
• Supports English versions only, note that WhatsUp Gold will not function properly if the 'no count' option or replication feature is enabled.

Web server requirements

• Requires IIS 7.x or 6.x (if using Windows Server 2003).

Framework and accessibility requirements

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0, included in installation program
• .NET Framework 2.0 or 3.0 or 3.5, required by the installation program
• Microsoft Windows Scripting Host v5.7 (or later)
• Microsoft SAPI 5.1 (required for Text-to-Speech actions).

Web and mobile interface requirements

• WhatsUp Gold Web interface: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0, 8.0, and 9.0; Firefox 11.x; or Chrome 18.x
• WhatsUp Gold Mobile interface: Mobile Safari 4.2, 5.x; Microsoft Internet Explorer Mobile 6.1.x; or Opera Mini 4.2.

Hardware requirement guidelines

100 devices/500 monitors

• Dual-core processor 2.4GHz or more
• 4GB RAM
• SQL Server 2008 Express Edition
• 15GB storage
• 100Mbps/1Gbps network.

2,500 devices/12,500 monitors

• Quad-core processor 2.4GHz or more
• 8GB RAM
• Dedicated Microsoft SQL Server 2005 / Microsoft SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2 Standard 64-bit
• 15GB storage in RAID 1 for OS/Application, 4x100GB in RAID 10 for database files
• 100Mbps/1Gbps network.

20,000 devices/100,000 monitors

• Eight-core processor 2.4GHz or more
• 8GB RAM for WUG Server, 32GB (64GB recommended) for dedicated SQL server
• Dedicated Microsoft SQL Server 2005 / Microsoft SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2 Standard 64-bit
• 15GB storage in RAID 1 for OS/Application, 8x250GB in RAID 10 for database files, 2x100GB in RAID 0 for log files, 2x250GB in RAID 0 for temp database files
• 1Gbps network.