A Gem of an Application in WhatsUp Gold

Have you ever wanted an easy way to view multiple WhatsUp Gold reports or other application data at a glance? The Dashboard Screen Manager is a great solution to do just that. It’s a stand-alone utilitarian application that’s included with WhatsUp Gold Premium, Distributed, and MSP editions. It’s designed to display a series of Web pages, or a “playlist,” on one or multiple monitors. The Dashboard was developed as a complement to WhatsUp Gold, and as a tool to help keep your network status highly visible. 

The Dashboard runs on a single or multiple display panels and cycles through report pages on the WhatsUp Gold web interface. This capability provides network administrators with important network information on display at all times, cycling and changing report pages without the need of constant configuration or manual navigation. It also provides the capability to view multiple networks that you’re monitoring simultaneously.

Though the Dashboard Screen Manager was developed to work along-side WhatsUp Gold, it can display any web page. For example, a network admin for an Internet business providing service to a small town in the desert glances at a screen on the Dashboard and sees that the connectivity to the town is down. With a display showing the weather for this town on another screen, the network administrator quickly sees that the extreme temperatures of the day have likely caused problems for the cable transmitters. Now she can take swift action to resolve the problem.

The Dashboard Screen Manager is simple to install and configure. Just run the install program, located in the default folder C:\Program Files\Ipswitch\WhatsUp\Dashboard_Setup.exe. Now configure the web pages you want to display and you’re set with better visibility to web pages and reports that are critical to maintaining network performance. For more information about configuring the Dashboard Screen Manager, see the WhatsUp Gold Help.

-This post was written by Mike Randolph, part of our amazing Research and Development team down in the Atlanta office-

If you think we’ve been quiet lately, that’s only because we’ve been busy. Today Ipswitch launches WhatsUp Gold Distributed, the long-awaited multi-site version of WhatsUp Gold Premium v11. Like the site says,

Built upon the award-winning WhatsUp Gold engine, Ipswitch’s new WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition provides organizations of all sizes with a flexible solution that enables them to reliably manage complex, disparate client network environments. There is no limit to how many remote networks can be connected, and despite its comprehensive functionality, WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition is easy to implement and use – it actually frees up the network administrator to devote more time to other strategic priorities.

Obviously, we’re really excited about it, and we think any IT manager who has to deal with networks across long distances will be too.