WhatsUp Gold

Bedford, MA, USA
1996
  |  By Doug Barney
There is no question that wireless networks are taking over. Offices may still have Ethernet cables to each cubicle, but they usually go unused. Wi-Fi is the new LAN. So many devices, tablets, smartphones and even some laptop-type devices, are now wireless only. Today, Wi-Fi is often the primary way end users connect. “While a wired Ethernet connection is generally faster and more reliable, it forces users to be tethered to their desks.
  |  By Doug Barney
Virtualization is everywhere. We think of virtualization as beginning with PC-based servers then moving onto Linux boxes. But the origins are very different, going all the way back to 1968, when IBM invented virtualization with the release of the IBM System/360 Model 67 mainframe. We all know where it has gone since. PCs, storage and even networks are virtualized. Nowadays, enterprises and SMBs have a wealth of virtual devices and services they must manage and secure, with servers still leading the way.
  |  By Doug Barney
What is one thing IT can do to make end users the happiest? Deliver a killer network with blazing speed and rock-solid reliability, that’s what. You can’t get that just by tossing in a bunch of bigger, faster pipes. Pipes are not the only answer. You need a holistic view of your network to build a complete and comprehensive plan to keep all your connections on top.
  |  By Doug Barney
Ever try to fix a network problem with a blindfold on? Do you wonder why users are complaining about crashes and shoddy performance without knowing where to look? This sorry state is because you can’t SEE the network, which makes it murder to DO anything about it.
  |  By Greg Collins
At Progress, we understand the challenges faced by IT teams in maintaining operational networks. Everything we do is to best serve those tasked with maintaining more seamless operations for an entire environment including network systems, servers, applications and services. We want to confirm that the greenest, first-day sysadmin can sit down in front of a product like Progress WhatsUp Gold and figure out how to use it in minutes.
  |  By Doug Barney
G2 software reviews are not your traditional take on a product, where they put it in a lab or, more likely, someone’s home office and see how it goes. No, G2 reviews are driven by actual users who have put the tool through its paces and generally rely on it every day. That’s why being chosen as a leader in the G2 Grid® Report for Network Monitoring Tools report is such an honor – because G2 didn’t choose WhatsUp Gold, you did!
  |  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.
  |  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.
  |  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.
  |  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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This video shows the steps to register WhatsUp Gold as a client application with Microsoft Azure for OAuth 2.0 authentication. Then, it walks through the process to configure your WhatsUp Gold email settings to use OAuth 2.0 as your authentication method.
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This video reviews the steps you can take to reduce the size of your WhatsUp Gold database using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), as well as the areas you should examine to keep your database from growing too large in the future.
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A monitoring solution cannot monitor all potential failure points directly out of the box, which is why being able to customize your monitoring solution is pivotal. Network availability and performance are crucial for your company’s day-to-day operations. Customers, employees, executives and business partners rely on easier access to your applications, services and data.
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Sometimes, WhatsUpGold merges a newly added device with an existing device in your monitored network. Watch this video to learn how to troubleshoot and correct a missing or merged device.
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Watch this video to learn how to research and troubleshoot your actions and action policies in WhatsUp Gold, so you can properly be notified when devices change states from Up to Down and back to Up.
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Watch our webinar and learn how to find backups or file transfers running during peak load periods.
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Watch this video to learn what port exhaustion is, and how to diagnose and address it on your WhatsUp Gold server. Find more information on WhatsUp Gold: For all your Community news, technical content, and access to all things WhatsUp Gold check out our Community Hub. You'll also find our Forum for questions about our platform and sharing with other Community users.
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This video explains the most common reasons why WhatsUp Gold may not have assigned the role, sub role, or monitor that you would normally expect for a device in your monitored network.
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Watch this video to learn how you can use the WhatsUp Gold SNMP MIB Walker to identify and monitor the configuration and status information stored on your SNMP-enabled devices. You’ll also learn to troubleshoot missing credentials and other issues that can prevent you from reading a MIB file.
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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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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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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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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.
  |  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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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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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.

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.