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By Doug Barney
Network monitoring is perhaps the most indispensable tool in a network professional’s toolbox because it offers a deep understanding of IT infrastructure. Many IT pros use network monitoring daily the same way a teenager stares for hours at TikTok. Progress WhatsUp Gold has been making IT lives easier since its beta release in 1996. Here are the ten most popular how-to videos to help you make the most out of WhatsUp Gold.
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By Doug Barney
Active Directory (AD) is in many ways the lifeblood of your network, especially in terms of user and identity management. AD has become the core directory service for most enterprises, keeping track of users and IT assets, allowing all these to be identified and manipulated. Because Active Directory houses all these identities and logs the enterprise’s IT assets, IT can spot breaches and abnormal behavior through this directory data.
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By Doug Barney
Quality of service (QoS), in network and telephony, parlance has both specific and less precise but more practical meanings. In general, quality of service can be viewed as measuring the performance of a network or telephone service, thereby providing an indication of its quality.
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By Doug Barney
A network key performance indicator (KPI) is a measurement and a benchmark to achieve optimal network performance goals. To support these goals, measuring actual performance against the KPI goals helps the network team make decisions to improve and sustain network performance and service levels and meet the KPI objective.
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By Colin Barry
In the early 90s, it was easier—and more affordable—to register a domain name with the same as a company’s. Now, it requires other services to register it and keep it from potential competitors. Despite the process change, registering a domain name is still one of the most crucial aspects of supporting a business online. This blog details the behind-the-scenes processes on how domain names become accessible content to users, starting with what a Domain Name System (DNS) is.
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By Doug Barney
The vast majority of IT infrastructure problems relate to the network. Afterall, most of IT infrastructure IS the network. Makes sense. But its immensity and complexity make the network a bear to troubleshoot and root cause analysis as tricky as finding the proverbial needle in the network haystack.
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By Doug Barney
Network downtime is no fun for anyone. End users (tied to their computing devices) don’t know what to do, customers and partners can’t do business with you and IT pulls out more hair than a barber shop floor. Network downtime leads to lost productivity, business and precious IT time. Here are a few uptime facts to consider: The answer to all these ills is to avoid network downtime in the first place by ensuring the opposite: network uptime.
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By Colin Barry
Deploying an infrastructure in the cloud has become THE standard across the industry. According to O’Reilley Research, more than 90% of organizations are on the cloud or are using it in some capacity. As reported by Precedence Research, cloud deployment will surpass $1 trillion by the year 2028. But with the adoption of a new platform comes the need for tools and best practices to keep it up and running efficiently, which includes cloud-based monitoring.
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By Greg Collins
Networks are the lifeblood of organizations. They facilitate data flow, applications, and services while keeping operations running smoothly. However, there’s a critical challenge that often goes unnoticed – network visibility gaps. Progress WhatsUp Gold release 2023.1, available as of December 19, 2023, is set to change that. This release includes several exciting updates meant to close gaps in Network Visibility.
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By Doug Barney
When the concept of Zero Trust emerged in 2010, it marked a sea change in how IT and network security are handled. The term, invented by Forrester Research analyst John Kindervag, is loosely based on the “never trust, always verify” motto. So why is this a sea change? Before 2010, IT focused on perimeter defenses and the concept of DMZs — areas of the network they deemed safe based on the protection they implemented.
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By WhatsUp Gold
Watch this video to learn how to can implement multi-factor authentication in WhatsUp Gold by leveraging an external OpenID provider.
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By WhatsUp Gold
Watch this video to learn how SNMP credentials are used in WhatsUp Gold, and how you can recognize and fix common issues caused by invalid or missing credentials.
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By WhatsUp Gold
IT Infrastructure (ITIM) tools can take time to learn. That’s even true for WhatsUp Gold, which receives excellent reviews on third party sites for its ease of customization, ease of implementation and vendor support. Thankfully, with WhatsUp Gold, you have many resources at your disposal, including the knowledge base, online documentation, YouTube Channel and community forums.
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By WhatsUp Gold
WhatsUp Gold Alert Center detects and notifies you of critical messages, failures, and other key events based on thresholds you have configured on your monitored devices. This video explains possible reasons and troubleshooting steps you can take if you feel you are missing alert notifications.
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By WhatsUp Gold
This video gives suggestions for reducing the number of unexpected or unwanted alert notifications that you receive from the WhatsUp Gold Alert Center.
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By WhatsUp Gold
WhatsUp Gold Alert Center detects and notifies you of critical messages, failures, and other key events happening within your environment. Watch this video to learn how to set up alert notifications, so you can generate an email message when a problem occurs, or escalate an ongoing issue via a series of emails.
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By WhatsUp Gold
WhatsUp Gold Alert Center detects and notifies you of critical messages, failures, and other key events happening within your environment. Watch this video to learn how to configure the thresholds and parameters that determine when an alert is generated.
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By WhatsUp Gold
Watch this video to learn about the most common reasons why a device or monitor might display an Unknown status in WhatsUp Gold. Then, you’ll find ways to research and correct these issues to gain more insight into the health of your network.
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By WhatsUp Gold
Today’s IT infrastructure is an increasingly complex mix of servers, clouds, devices and applications. End-to-end visibility is necessary for network and system administrators to address outages, hardware failures, software performance issues, traffic bottlenecks and potential security threats.
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By WhatsUp Gold
WhatsUp Gold’s Configuration Management tool is a seamless add-on to the interface; Configuration Management lets you centralize and automate all your management tasks and securely back up device configurations. Watch this webinar and learn how to: Automate configuration management tasks, backups and recovery Bring consistency to your configurations across your device roles Meet security and compliance guidelines with alerting, archiving and automated reporting.
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By WhatsUp Gold
With the REST API Monitoring in WhatsUp Gold's Application Performance Monitoring (APM), you can monitor applications by creating components in a custom Application Profile. For example, if you need to monitor PAS for OpenEdge, you can use the integrated Application Profile to query its OEManager and HealthCheck APIs. Our team of engineers has developed a comprehensive technical guide detailing exactly how to set up this kind of functionality in WhatsUp Gold.
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By WhatsUp Gold
Network Monitoring For Dummies helps you recognize best practices for monitoring and managing your organization's network, how to grasp network monitoring fundamentals, define alerts and actions, and much more. In this special edition, you'll learn best practices and key concepts for network monitoring from WhatsUp Gold's Product Expert Mark Towler and author and editor Doug Barney.
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By WhatsUp Gold
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research determined that network infrastructure teams are challenged to monitor infrastructures that include hybrid public and private clouds. Their findings are that teams need to be more strategic in building their network management toolset. Based on this latest research from EMA, this white paper offers a guide to building the ultimate network management toolset.
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By WhatsUp Gold
It's no secret: if you manage a network, every device connected generates a log. These logs tell an extremely important story about events that have happened on your network and are a vital part of helping you easily understand network activities, user actions and more. With WhatsUp Gold's Log Management you can monitor, filter, search, and alert on logs for every device in your network while also watching for meta trends like log volume changes.
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By WhatsUp Gold
Something we've said before is, "You can't protect what you can't see," and it's so true. How can you protect your network if you can't see ALL of it? Enter: Network Discovery. Network Discovery is the fundamental principle of network monitoring and management. At its core, the process of discovery allows you to find and identify everything connected to your network. It allows you to see what's on your network, how to figure out what's connected, and more.
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By WhatsUp Gold
In today's world, monitoring your servers is more important than ever before. With proper monitoring, you can understand system resource usage and identify performance-related issues like utilization, downtime, and response time. As a network or system admin, you know how vital server uptime is. On the reverse, how downtime can be detrimental to your business and your staff's productivity, resulting in loss of sales and, therefore, loss of revenue.
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WhatsUp Gold provides complete visibility into the status and performance of applications, network devices and servers in the cloud or on-premises.
Quickly identify and resolve issues in your hybrid cloud through intuitive workflows, system integrations, and unmatched out-of-the-box functionality.
What Can You Monitor with WhatsUp Gold?
- Application Performance: Easily monitor the performance of Linux systems, Apache web servers and Microsoft applications.
- Bandwidth Consumption: Analyze bandwidth consumption across networks, servers, applications and more.
- Cloud-based Resources: WhatsUp Gold gives you comprehensive visibility and control of AWS and Azure cloud environments.
- Network Performance: WhatsUp Gold helps you find and fix problems before your users are impacted.
- Hyper-V and VMware: Get powerful visibility to physical, Hyper-V and VMware environments.
- Wireless Networks: WhatsUp Gold can visualize and assure the performance of your wireless networks.
Simplify the Management of Your Complex IT Infrastructure.