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IT Management: WhatsUp Gold Monitors Physical and Virtual Systems

By Cameron Sturdevant on 2011-07-01


WhatsUp Gold version 15 is a graphical reboot of the network and system monitoring and reporting tool. The new ribbon interface should ease administrative access to the myriad of monitoring tools while also neatly presenting VMware resources in the improved WhatsVirtual module. WhatsUp Gold version 15 is a tool for traditional IT managers who need information on a single screen but may not have the means to dedicate a staff member to a management tool. Thus, WhatsUp Gold focuses on providing performance information in a no-nonsense green-yellow-red console that can now be integrated with Microsoft Windows Active Directory to ease the administration of WhatsUp Gold users. WhatsUp Gold became available on June 9 and costs $1,595 for a 25-user license. The WhatsVirtual plug-in also became available the same day and costs $1,495 for 25-device license.

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A veiw of the eWEEK Labs “Nebula” cluster shows our virtual infrastructure.

Devices

Drilling down in a list view, you see details of the physical and virtual systems in our VMware infrasturcture.

Device Status

A detailed view of a virtual machine shows that it was briefly unavailable (far right) but that the system is currently up and running.

Device Discovery

Discovered devices (right) were correctly identified as a mix of physical and virtual machines.

Properties

Device properties can be custom tweaked to ensure they match the actual device.

WhatsConntected

A deep dive on device detail shows that the virtual machine on which WhatsUp Gold was installed in a Windows system running inside the VMware infrastructure.

Ping

WhatsUp Gold is a traditional network management tool and comes loaded with network engineer diagnostic tools including the venerable ICMP Ping utility.

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