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WhatsUp Gold Engineer's Toolkit

Simplify your daily network diagnostic, troubleshooting, and monitoring tasks

WhatsUp Gold: Special Offer Free Engineer's Toolkit

System Requirments

  • Windows XP Professional SP2 (32-bit only), Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Vista Business, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 7
  • 2GB of RAM
  • 2 GHz processor
  • 20 MB of available hard disk space
  • Network interface card (100 Mbps)

As a network engineer, at least part of your average workday is spent diagnosing and troubleshooting existing problems or investigating issues that could cause new problems. These activities often involve the tedious process of accessing individual network elements to gather information on device or subnet configuration and availability; interpreting that data; and then accessing the same elements again to provision or configure devices and services.

Most of the time you don’t need a powerhouse application to support these activities. In fact, many network engineers use a mix of tools they’ve cobbled together and then rely on brainpower and intuition to make up the difference.  Although this strategy works, there is an easier way to get the job done.

Ipswitch, the maker of WhatsUp Gold, has leveraged its two decades of experience in network management software to develop the new WhatsUp Gold Engineer’s Toolkit: one application, one installation, one interface, and one easy way to simplify the common, everyday tasks of the network engineer.  With its broad and robust functionality, the new Engineer’s Toolkit will help you monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot a vast majority of network issues.  With a single login and interface, the toolkit is easy to learn and use. And we've even grouped and organized Toolkit functions according to common tasks to make it easier to get the job done. No more wasted time mastering multiple tools.  With one click, you can export or print the results to share with the team, making it easy for everyone to act on relevant information. With the new WhatsUp Gold Engineer’s Toolkit you can simplify most of your common, every day tasks, including: network design and planning; verifying device connectivity and DNS behavior; managing flow traffic settings and passwords; or taking remote control over your servers.  Sound too good to be true? Get your Engineer’s Toolkit today and try it out.

Know your network is deployed efficiently

Between all the urgent Moves/Adds/Changes, the occasional organizational change, or even an office move, it’s easy to overlook how efficiently your network is organized and deployed.  Whether you inherited a network that was haphazardly pieced together or you’re planning to deploy a brand new network, you need a tool to help simplify the management and organization of your subnets and IP addresses.  Want to minimize the size of your routing tables, find available IP addresses in a subnet, or resolve details of a specific IP Address?  It’s all here in one comprehensive tool.

Advanced Subnet Calculator – As a network engineer, one of your core responsibilities is to deploy an organized network that can efficiently handle the demand.  The Advanced Subnet Calculator simplifies the task of properly designing your subnets to use address space efficiently.  With the Advanced Subnet Calculator you get:

  • 4 Tools in 1 – ASC is actually 4 tools in 1: a tool to lookup IP address details; a classful subnet calculator; a tool for looking up and assigning IP addresses within subnets; and a CIDR calculator 
  • Address Details – poll specific IP addresses to resolve DNS/Host name; response time; hexadecimal and binary address values; address class information; and the address owner’s information
  • Classful Subnet Calculator – generate a subnet or ranges of subnets based on subnet mask; mask bits; host bits; number of subnets; and hosts per subnet
  • Subnet Addresses – generate a list of IP addresses for a given subnet then export the results as a document for assigning new IP addresses
  • CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) Calculator – manage CIDR addresses to minimize the size of your routing tables and use your available IP Address space more efficiently

The Design and Planning Tools are just one set of the integrated components of the WhatsUp Gold Engineer’s Toolkit.  All of the WhatsUp Gold Engineer’s Toolkit Tools share the same user interface and login; are available in a single download; and allow you to export or print resulting data. 

Know what is connected to your network

It’s difficult to control everything that happens on your network. New equipment is frequently added without proper review, resulting in a variety of problems ranging from address conflicts to security vulnerabilities. Sound familiar? How about the new intern, who downloads file-sharing software potentially leaving ports open and exposing your network or the executive who keeps switching network cards between the new laptops he’s test driving.  Eventually there’s a problem or, even worse, an attack and it’s your problem. 

You need a robust set of Discovery Tools to minimize the amount of time spent troubleshooting these kinds of problems and vulnerabilities.  Want to create a baseline of active IP addresses and corresponding MAC addresses in your network, police your network for unauthorized devices, or quickly test ports for vulnerabilities anywhere across your network?  It’s all here in the Discovery Tools.

Ping Sweep

  • Pings a range of IP addresses to find out which addresses are active, which are not, and resolve their domain name
  • Easily configure settings such as ping timeout, packet time to live, and the delay between pings
  • Print or export the results for analysis and follow up activities

Port Scanner

  • Quickly scans port status across a single IP address or a range of addresses from a single location
  • Returns the domain name for each device and a list of the scanned ports on the device with a status of open, closed, or filtered
  • Includes pre-configured common port ranges to scan as well as allows you to specify your own
  • Supports IPv4 & IPv6
  • Print or export the results for analysis and follow up activities

MAC Address Discovery

  • Scan your local subnet to generate a table relating IP Addresses to corresponding MAC addresses
  • Identifies IP Address conflicts
  • Scan remote subnets by attaching a laptop with WhatsUp Gold Engineer’s Toolkit installed to the subnets and initiating a MAC address discovery
  • Print or export the results for analysis and follow up activities

The Discovery Tools are just one set of the integrated components of the WhatsUp Gold Engineer’s Toolkit.  All of the WhatsUp Gold Engineer’s Toolkit Tools share the same user interface and login; are available in a single download; and allow you to export or print resulting data.  Get your Engineer’s Toolkit today and try it out.

Troubleshoot Network Problems

Network problems mean lost productivity, which directly affects the bottom line. Despite how well you do your job network problems occur, and you're constantly measured by how quickly you can respond to the current crisis.

You need a complete set of easy-to-use network diagnostic tools that allow you to quickly and accurately pinpoint the cause of the network problem and get on with implementing the solution. Want a single application that can check the connectivity status of a range of IP addresses? How about give you network response times on each hop of a route? Or tell you if your corporate email is being blocked as spam? You'll find all these tools in the new WhatsUp Gold Engineer's Toolkit.

Ping/Enhanced Ping

  • Checks node connectivity status in your network
  • Allows you specify ping intervals
  • Generates a continuous ping response time log that can be displayed in a raw data format or as a graphical chart
  • Print or export the results for analysis and follow up activities

Trace Route

  • Performs a network trace from the local machine to a target host
  • Measures the network response time and packet loss for each hop of communication path to easily identify the exact location of connectivity problems
  • Graphically displays the response times, packet loss, DNS, and location for each hop
  • Print or export the results for analysis and follow up activities

WAN Load Generator

  • Generates test traffic on your WAN targeted at a specific network device port
  • Allows user to define the circuit's bandwidth, adjust the packet size, and adjust the percentage of the circuit's bandwidth you want loaded with test data
  • Allows you to adjust the percentage of load you want to put on a circuit and responds accordingly with an automatic adjustment to the amount of generated network traffic

Spam Blacklist

  • Checks the major spam blacklist to verify that your corporate e-mail servers are not included
  • Gathers information on why your email server is on an email blacklist and the blacklist provider's website
  • Allows you to customize the list of Spam Blacklist service providers
  • Print or export the results for analysis and follow up activities

SNMP Grapher

  • Collects real-time performance metrics including traffic, CPU processor load, power usage, and temperature from your SNMP- enabled devices
  • Allows you to define your own poll intervals
  • Presents data in a graphical format that updates in real-time
  • Print or export the results for analysis and follow up activities

The Diagnostic Tools are just one set of the integrated components of the WUG Engineer's Toolkit. All of the WUG Engineer's Toolkit Tools share the same user interface and login; are available in a single download; and allow you to export or print resulting data.

Effectively manage Domain Names

All network administrators share some responsibility for the efficient implementation of the Domain Name System. Managing DNS issues as well as uncovering and fixing DNS problems can be daunting at times. When there is a problem, it can be difficult to know where to start, or even if it’s an actual DNS issue. Is the problem local or remote? Is it caused by bad data on a name server? Is it out-of-date or yet to be delegated information? Or perhaps it’s just a connectivity or availability problem on a remote network. Often finding the cause means spending your day repeatedly typing NSLOOKUP, scrolling through configuration files, and scribbling pages of notes.

You need a powerful set of DNS Verification tools that can do all of the investigative legwork for you. Want to quickly locate domain name server file error? How about instantly visualize the DNS hierarchy? Or maybe find out contact information for a network administrator responsible for the domain where you suspect a problem? With the DNS Verification Tools it’s easy to locate and resolve DNS errors and ensure your DNS is mapped correctly.

DNS Whols Resolver

  • Generates a detailed report for each domain/IP address which includes: the owner’s information; technical contact information; DNS servers; and the network provider
  • Allows the user to provide a specific “WhoIs” server
  • Print or export the results for analysis and follow up activities

DNS Audit

  • Easily finds DNS database errors by scanning a range of IP addresses or by performing a reverse DNS lookup
  • If a response is received from an IP address, the DNS Audit tool performs a forward DNS lookup to confirm that the lookup resolved correctly.
  • Print or export the results for analysis and follow up activities

DNS Analyzer

  • Discovers and graphically diagrams the hierarchy of your DNS resource records
  • Graphically illustrates relationships between multiple name servers and target IP addresses
  • Displays redirections from one name server to other name servers
  • Print or export the results for analysis and follow up activities

The DNS Verification Tools are just one set of the integrated components of the WUG Engineer’s Toolkit. All of the WUG Engineer’s Toolkit Tools share the same user interface and login; are available in a single download; and allow you to export or print resulting data.

Take control of network devices remotely

The Internet age promised to free us from the need to be physically present at a specific computer or device. How come it seems like we're still running all over the building to see what's running on servers or rebooting them? Application servers get bound up and need rebooted, terminal and access servers need ports reset and none of them are ever in your office. Think of all the time you would save if you could reset TCP sessions or reboot any device in your network from your desktop...

Stop dreaming, you can do it with the new WhatsUp Gold Engineer's Toolkit Remote Control Tools. Best of all, the Remote Control Tools are integrated into the Engineer's Toolkit application. All of your Diagnostic, Discovery, Design, DNS Verification, and Configuration & Credentials Management tools are only one mouse click away. So if your remote router reboot was part of a troubleshooting task, you can continue with your diagnostics without leaving the Toolkit. You can take care of all of your network management, monitoring, and troubleshooting tasks without every leaving an application, or your office.

Wake-on-LAN

  • Initiates a boot up of any remote network device, PC, or server without physically access the device
  • Reboots remote devices that are already powered on
  • Boots up devices that are powered off
  • Any network device, PC, or server can be configured to receive a Wake-On-LAN packet

Remote TCP Test

  • Generates a table with all of the active TCP sessions on a specified remote host or network device
  • Displays the connection state; the server port number; and the client devices' DNS, IP address, and port number for each TCP session.
  • Permits a reset of any active TCP session on the remote device
  • Print or export the results for analysis and follow up activities

The Remote Control Tools are just one set of the integrated components of the WUG Engineer's Toolkit. All of the WUG Engineer's Toolkit Tools share the same user interface and login; are available in a single download; and allow you to export or print resulting data.

Configure and manage flow traffic settings and passwords

If you haven't already become versed in the art of Cisco NetFlow configuration, you will be soon. Cisco equipment is in almost every network and configuring it to produce and capture meaningful NetFlow data is an important aspect of effectively managing bandwidth utilization. But even for a relatively small network, it's a pain to log on to each router; define the interfaces; and keep track of the data collectors and ports they're using. You try to keep accurate spreadsheets with the configurations and credentials of the devices but they aren't always kept updated with changes, multiple copies make sure no one has accurate information, or the single copy you have under lock and key is not available for emergencies when you are out of the office.

You need a simple but effective tool to manage the configurations and credentials of all of your Cisco devices. Want to set up NetFlow data collection on all of your Cisco routers? Wouldn't it be great if you could access a Cisco device, even if the password is lost, forgotten, or otherwise unavailable all from a single application? You can, with the new WhatsUpGold Engineer's Toolkit Configuration and Credentials Management tool.

NetFlow Configurator

  • Connects via SNMP to any Cisco device on your network supporting NetFlow and displays its NetFlow configuration settings
  • Allows you to define the IP address of the NetFlow traffic collectors; specify the port to use for data collection; and enable or disable traffic collection for each data collector
  • Print or export the results for analysis and follow up activities

Cisco Password Decryption

  • Accepts encrypted Cisco type-7 passwords to Cisco switches or routers
  • Decrypts the Cisco type-7 password and supplies the plain text password

The Configuration and Credentials Management Tools are just one set of the integrated components of the WUG Engineer's Toolkit. All of the WUG Engineer's Toolkit Tools share the same user interface and login; are available in a single download; and allow you to export or print resulting data.

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