Experience the Future of Network Mapping Tools

Detect and Map Device Dependencies

WhatsUp Gold detects downstream dependencies that allow alarm suppression. For instance, if a router fails then devices downstream from the router (from the perspective of the ping or poll device) will register as unavailable on the monitoring screen and will trigger alerts. Such scenarios can result in confusing alert storms and delay the fault isolation process. WhatsUp Gold automatically detects such dependencies thereby suppressing downstream alerts.

Visualize Interface Utilization

WhatsUp Gold monitors bandwidth usage and provides a visual representation or ‘heat map’ of the status of links between your devices. With one click you can see which interface links are fine (green), becoming congested (yellow) or approaching capacity (red). These thresholds are customizable and you can trigger alerts if any links exceed a set threshold. This overlay lets you see network congestion at a glance and helps you not only optimize network bandwidth usage, but also architect your network effectively.

Customize Your Network Maps

The default map in WhatsUp Gold shows the live status of your devices and automatically arranges them based on role and connectivity information gathered during the discovery process. You can tailor custom maps to meet your specific network monitoring needs with tools to organize, annotate, and enhance your network map. You can even add your own background images to create custom maps of your office or organize subnets into logical groups.

Map Wireless and Virtual Environments

Discover and map your wireless network, virtual and cloud-based servers to quickly assess the health of your entire infrastructure. WhatsUp Gold automatically generates dynamic wireless maps of all WLCs, Access Points and SSIDs. Enabling the wireless overlay allows you to see the relationship between your wired and wireless networks. Virtualization overlays automatically generate dynamic maps of your Hyper-V and VMware infrastructure, displaying hosts and guests, host/guest relationships, clusters, and real-time status.

Dynamic Network Maps

With networks growing at exponential speeds, your network management software must be able to automate resource discovery and mapping. A dynamic map is especially useful in virtual environments, where virtual machines can be added with ease. Integrated map-based configuration management and troubleshooting tools are additional pluses.

WhatsUp Gold automatically discovers and maps new devices, port-to-port connectivity changes, or updates to physical-to-virtual associations without end user intervention. You can also schedule network scans to update your maps at pre-configured intervals.