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Network Management Tool
Amy Auburger
Product Overview
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Made by Ipswitch
Affordable alternative to expensive & complicated
Network Management Systems
Easy-to-use network layout and design tool
Monitors the status of your network
Identifies & resolve problems fast
Latest Version – v8.03
System Requirements
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Intel Pentium or equivalent
30MB of Disk Space (100MB recommended)
64MB of RAM (256MB recommended)
Windows NT 4.0 sp6 or later, Windows 2000,
Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP,
Windows 2003 Server
Key Features
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Mapping – maps an accurate representation of your network
Monitoring – allows you to monitor the status of your network
devices, services, and resources
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Notification – alerts you when mission-critical network devices or
services go down
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Reporting – allows you to keep track of device and application
availability
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Web Access – enables you to use a web browser to access
mapping, monitoring, and notifications functions from your computer
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Mapping
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To create a map, select New Map Wizard from
the File menu.
Mapping
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Discovery Methods
Mapping
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Discover using SNMP Smartscan
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Discover using ICMP
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scans a range of IP addresses and maps the devices that respond to a
message sent via the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP). The
Discover Devices wizard will prompt you to enter a range of the IP
addresses in your network.
Discover using Network Neighborhood
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discovers and maps devices by reading SNMP data on a device
(preferably a router) in your network. If your network has a router with an
SNMP agent, SmartScan is a powerful way to discover and map your
network, as it can create maps and subnet maps that reflect your
network’s hierarchy. Based on the information it finds, SmartScan will
continue to "scan" your network until it has mapped all devices.
if you want to import devices that WhatsUp Gold can find via the Microsoft
network. (These are the same devices that are listed when you browse the
network neighborhood on your desktop.)
Mapping
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Import devices from your Registry
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Import devices from a Host File
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if you want devices that are referenced in the TCP/IP, Microsoft
Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator configurations (in the
Windows registry) to be added to the map.
this may be empty unless you have specifically added devices
to the hosts file.
Mapping
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Creating a blank map
Mapping
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Sample blank map
Monitoring
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Once you have created or loaded a network map, you can setup
WhatsUpGold to continuously monitor the network, or you can
initiate a single “poll” of the network.
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One poll of the network involves checking each monitored device in the
networking map.
Each “check” consists of WhatsUpGold sending a poll request to a
device and tracking the response.
For each monitored device, you can choose from a set of options in
the device properties to determine how the device is monitored and
define what action to take if the device does not respond to a
check.
On each device, you can determine which services are running on
that device (such as HTTP, SMTP, POP3, DNS) and you can select
those services you want to monitor. It monitors a service by
communicating with the default port that the service runs on.
Monitoring
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The following are default conventions used to indicate the
status of the network devices.
 The device is up (responding to polling).
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 Devices that have missed one poll have a light green diamond
shaped background.
 Devices that have missed two polls have a yellow diamond shaped
background.
 Devices that have missed three polls, the points on the yellow
diamond become longer.
 After the device misses polls four through seven, the diamond
becomes red.
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 After missing eight polls, the diamond becomes a red burst (device is
down).
Device Monitoring
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You can use Monitor in device properties to:
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Turn monitoring on or off for a device (the default is on).
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Specify how often to poll the device.
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Specify the number of seconds to wait for a response.
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Specify any up or down dependencies.
Device Monitoring
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To display information associated with any of the displayed devices,
right click the device, and select Quick Status, and click Status to
view its properties.
Device Monitoring
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Device Monitoring
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Device Monitoring
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Service Monitoring
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On each device, you can determine which services are running on that device
(such as HTTP, SMTP, POP3, DNS) by right clicking the device, selecting
Properties, then the Services tab.
Service Monitoring
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The Monitors and Services dialog box displays the monitors &
services that have been defined. Once defined here, a monitor or
service can be applied to one or more devices.
You can get to the Monitors & Services dialog box, from the
Configuration menu, then select Monitors & Services.
Notification
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Helps keep your mission-critical network up and running 24
hours a day
WhatsUpGold provides the following types of notifications:
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Notifications can be used in the following ways:
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Visual alerts
Sound an alarm
Send notification via a beeper, pager, or email
Make an entry in the log file
To indicate that a device or service is down.
To indicate that an SNMP trap has been received for a device.
To send a recurring network status report.
Notification
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Setting up notifications involves two steps:
 You first define the notifications that you will want to use. From
the Configure menu, select Notification Library menu to allow
you to view the types of notifications installed on the system. By
selecting one of the notification types, you can define a
notification of that type.
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Notification
 Then, you can enable a notification action for a particular
device, selected devices, or all devices. You can do this one of
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Right click on a device, select Properties, then select the Alerts tab.
From the View menu, select Notifications. Once you select a device, it will
open the properties for the device, then you can select the Alerts tab.
Reporting
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From the Reports menu, you can create:
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Outage Reports – show device up and down state changes,
service up and down state changes, and activities such as
map open and close.
Statistics Reports – show the accumulated polling statistics
by device.
Performance Graphs – show devices by best or worst
performance based on aggregated polling statistics.
Outage Reports
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To create an Outage Report:
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Select Outage Report from the Reports menu. The following dialog box will
appear.
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Select the Map Name of the map for which you want a report.
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Select the Report Type (Summary, Detail, Raw Data).
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Select the Start date and End date.
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Click OK to generate the report.
WhatsUpGold generates and displays the report in the Report Window. From this Window, you
can save the data to file, print it, or copy data to another application.
Statistics Reports
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To create an Statistics Report:
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Select Statistics Report from the Reports menu. The following dialog box will
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Select the Map Name of the map for which you want a report.
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Select the Report Type (Summary, Detail, Raw Data).
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Select the Start date and End date.
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Click OK to generate the report.
Performance Graphs
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To create a Performance Graph:
Select Performance Graph from the Reports menu, and click Add (to create a new
job) or click Edit (to edit an existing job).
To create the desired report, select it and click Do Report.
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When you create a Performance Graph, you can choose:
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the time interval – daily, weekly, or monthly
the graph format – bar chart or area chart
how to sort the data – by device name; ascending or descending order
which maps or devices to include in a graph
Web Access
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WhatsUpGold provides a web server that lets you view the status of your
network from any web browser.
To setup the web server:
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From the Configuration menu, select Web Server, and click General.
Select Enable Web Server.
Web Access IP Security
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There are two ways you can restrict access to the web server:
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To deny access to a specific computer or group of computers:
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Require a User ID and password to view data on the WhatsUpGold web interface.
Specify an IP address or set of IP addresses that are either granted access to the web
site or are denied access.
From the Configuration menu, select Web Server, and click IP Security.
Select Granted Access, then click the Add button. The Deny Access On dialog box
appears.
Web Access User Security
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There are two default user accounts for web access:
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To add user accounts for web access:
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Admin
Guest
From the Configuration menu, select Web Server, and click Users.
Select Enable Web Security (if this is not selected, web users will be able to logon
without specifying user ID or password.
Click Add User button. The Add User dialog box appears and displays all available
maps that you can assign to your user.
You will also need to set the desired username and password.
Summary
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Affordable alternative to expensive & complicated
Network Management Systems
Easy-to-use network layout and design tool
Monitors the status of your network
Identifies & resolve problems fast
Offers many key features such as Mapping,
Monitoring, Notifications, Reporting, and Web Access