I know that as a network manager, having free time is a rare occurrence so it is essential that you stay ahead of the game when it comes to managing and monitoring your IT infrastructure. A big part of this is knowing exactly where and when issues occur in the network the minute they happen. This means making sure that you receive alerts about network failures before anybody else. It is important to take a proactive or predictive approach to monitoring and managing your company’s network. Knowing about potential problems before they actually have a negative impact ensures optimal up time and performance.

So organizing your alert information is a vital part of effectively managing your network. However, as networks continuously change and grow, this can tend to be a pretty time consuming and difficult process. Well, with the new Alert Center available in WhatsUp Gold v14, you gain the ability to consolidate all of your alert information and notification policies in one workspace. This not only makes your life as a network administrator easier, but it also ensures that you are always on top of your network.

With the Alert Center, you are able to define and implement system wide notification policies based on the criticality of a device or system. Alert acknowledgement allows you to respond to alerts and provide status and acknowledgement, showing other administrators that a problem is being worked on or resolved. Automatic Resolution is an innovative new feature that actually enables the product to reset monitors if a threshold falls back within parameters by the next polling.

Find out more about the new Alert Center from one of our very own WhatsUp Gold experts, Nathan Smith.