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WhatsUp Gold v15 gives you the power to immediately zero-in, locate, and respond to issues much faster with an integrated view of network topology maps, performance and auditing information all-in-one. Ensuring optimal network performance at all times has never been so swift, effective, or easy!

New in WhatsUp Gold v15

Completely redesigned interface. Turbo-charge your WhatsUp Gold experience with the completely redesigned, easy-to-use, lightning-fast interface. It minimizes unnecessary navigation and reduces the number of clicks-to-activity, to make your job much simpler.

Integrated layer 2 discovery and maps. Easily harness the power of WhatsConnected layer 2 discovery and mapping directly from WhatsUp Gold. Discover your network, start monitoring performance right away, and see it all, including your topology maps from WhatsUp Gold!

Integrated View of Network Performance & Log Auditing Information. WhatsUp Event Log Management exposes security-centric information within WhatsUp Gold workspace views. Visualize executive security summaries—critical events (errors, failure audits), warning events or success audits—or quickly drill-down into specific computers to zero-in on security threads. You are in command!

Security Groups from Active Directory, or use New WUG Security Groups. Easily configure WhatsUp Gold users, permissions and login credentials using your existing Active Directory group policies, or collectively manage your users using new WhatsUp Gold security groups.

Headless Installer & Response File. Get on-the-go deployment flexibility with a new automated WhatsUp Gold deployment, without any end-user interactivity. You don't even need an internet connection.

New Device Pop-ups. Easily visualize performance details as you hover over devices and systems in your WhatsUp Gold maps—no need to change screens

New in WhatsUp Flow Monitor v15

New Auto-Tuning & Optimization Capabilities—up to 3 million flows per minute! Flow Monitor will automatically optimize flow retention settings for your network to speed up performance by 200% to 300%, and decrease your database storage costs.

Flow Configuration Wizard. Start monitoring network traffic and bandwidth usage with a few clicks, since Flow Monitor automatically discovers and detects your routers and other network devices and even configures them for you.

Flow Aggregation Capabilities. Group and manage multiple flow sources in a single view—even across different devices—and treat them as a single aggregated source.

Network Monitoring aligned to your business requirements. Besides new port assignments to applications (Cisco, Avaya IP telephony & Cisco Business Video Solutions), you'll be in complete control of what data to collect, store, and report on.

Ultra-flexible Reporting. Visualize information the way it makes sense to your business—IP or hostname, bytes, interface flows or packet counts—or filter report data by CIDR subnet definitions.

Customizable data collection for one or multiple ports. Adapts to all network designs, including those with complex firewalls, or forwarding rules, since Flow Monitor collector can bind itself to multiple ports on the server system, and receive flow data on multiple ports.

New in WhatsUp WhatsVirtual v15

Our Most Powerful Virtual Discovery Engine. Discover and monitor VMware VMs, clusters and resources from within WhatsUp Gold, faster than ever before.

New Dynamic LiveMaps. Fully understand the changes and status of your VMware infrastructure, and physical to virtual associations at all times, directly from one single pane of glass—WhatsUp Gold.

New ESX/ESXi 4.1 Support. Plus, just like in earlier versions, WhatsUp WhatsVirtual v15 gives you right from a single WhatsUp Gold pane of glass:

  • Native Integration with the Powerful VMware API (Includes support for vCenter, VMware vMotion & VMware High Availability)
  • Active Management of your VMware Virtual Environment
  • Workspace Reports for Physical Host Servers, Virtual Machines and Virtual Clusters

To all the Network managers out there…

We know exactly how challenging your job can be. While constantly changing hats, you’re pulled in multiple directions simultaneously, to maintain and troubleshoot the existing network and server infrastructure; ensure business critical application availability; resolve user helpdesk tickets; and evaluate, test, and roll out new applications and services.  You may have one boss on paper, but when it comes to balancing all of these demands, it seems like everyone at the company thinks their needs are top priority. The result - you are probably juggling a lot of balls in the air – which is not necessarily the easiest or most efficient way to get things done. And you must be thinking - there has got to be a better way. Does network management have to be so complicated?

We don't think so.

The answer is WhatsUp Gold Premium edition. A powerful, proactive monitoring and management solution, designed to easily manage networks of all sizes, from SMB to enterprise. It’s tried, tested, and proven on networks just like yours – over 100,000 of them. With WhatsUp Gold managing your network infrastructure 24x7, your life as the network manager just got easier. WhatsUp Gold Premium ensures you have 360° visibility, actionable intelligence and complete control to make not only fast decisions, but better ones. When you invest in WhatsUp Gold Premium to manage your network infrastructure, you’re not just buying some software, you’re teaming up with a company that’s been building robust, easy to deploy and hassle free network management solutions for nearly 20 years.

With WhatsUp Gold Premium Edition,
you get:

  • High-performance predictive monitoring of networks, systems, applications, and services, including wireless networks
  • Over 200+ network and infrastructure reports providing real, actionable intelligence
  • An industrial strength management architecture using the most advanced standards (SNMP v1-3, TCP, ICMP, SSH) available
  • Comprehensive out-of-the box support for WMI, supporting complete Windows service monitoring*
  • Agentless monitoring for Unix and Linux systems using SSH*
  • Integrated application (MS Exchange, NT Services, and MS SQL) monitoring capabilities delivering critical process and performance analytics*
  • Rich capability for synthetic transaction monitoring ensuring application performance and integrity
  • The industry's leading alert management platform, featuring easy to use alarms, alerts and notification capabilities for real-time operations support
  • Split second graphs and InstantInfo feature supporting real-time troubleshooting activities*
  • A highly flexible, automated, and comprehensive network discovery and mapping platform
  • Quick navigation with intuitive Web and Windows consoles, which provide 360° visibility
  • Air-tight security and configurable role-based management
  • A platform installed in just minutes and designed to be simple and intuitive to use right out of the box

*Not included in WhatsUp Gold Standard Edition. For WMI, the Standard edition supports custom monitoring via Jscript or Visual Basic.


WhatsUp Gold Premium

Up to 25 devices (Equivalent to at least 75 elements) $2,195
Up to 100 devices (Equivalent to at least 300 elements) $2,695
Up to 300 devices (Equivalent to at least 900 elements) $4,995
Up to 500 devices (Equivalent to at least 1500 elements) $7,495

For more than 500 devices, call us at 781 676-5700 or check with your local reseller


Compare Features vs. SolarWinds Orion

Features Description WhatsUp Gold Premium Solarwinds Orion
Application Monitoring Application monitoring included at no extra cost included not included
Distributed and Multi-site Environments Enable survivable multi-site monitoring with minimum impact on bandwidth included not included
Configurable Dashboards Built-in NOC-like views for instant visual status of up/down status, response time, and critical system details and addition of external web-site feeds. included not included
Drag and Drop Web Interface Configurable management interface provides maximum flexibility to move and add reports to access most relevant status information instantly. included not included
Complete true Layer 2 Discovery, Mapping and Inventory Integrated discovery, mapping and visualization provides port-to-port connectivity with automated creation of monitors for devices and links. included Partial
Bulk Monitor Changes Rapid deployment of monitor configuration changes to common devices. included not included
Configurable Split-Second graphing for both SNMP and WMI Instantly access real-time information about status of devices, interfaces and services. included not included
Reporting Over 200 configurable reports with both real-time status and historical trending data. included Partial
Alert Center Multiple levels of escalations to promptly respond to any problem anywhere (performance issues, traffic bottlenecks, configuration errors, etc), provide status and acknowledge ownership of the resolution process to increase efficiency included Partial
Monitor Dependencies Easily configure monitor dependencies –down to to the port level – to simplify monitoring of large and complex IT environments included Partial

Pricing Comparison

Large Customer: Solarwinds Orion vs. WhatsUp Gold

Objective of the network manager is to monitor both up/down and performance of a set of defined server parameters, application monitoring and all interfaces on all networking devices.

Equipment inventory of devices to be monitored is 438 devices, broken down as follows:

Quantity Description
52 48 port switches
7 Core switches with 4 48 port line cards
100 Windows based servers: - with 200 volumes total, running various applications requiring monitoring including SQLServer, Exchange and others
21 Cisco routers
179 Wireless APs
2 Firewalls
2 VPN concentrators
7 Wireless LAN controllers
68 24 port switches

Costs For the Same Environment

Solarwinds Orion
Elements Required: Unlimited
Price: $24,975.00
Application Monitoring: $19,995.00
Total Cost: $44,970.00
Fits your Budget? NO
WhatsUp Gold
Devices Required: 500
Price: $7,495.00
Application Monitoring: Included
Total Cost: $7,495.00
Fits your Budget? YES

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Summary

For cost effective network management and monitoring, WhatsUp Gold is the obvious choice. Compared to Solarwinds Orion, the choice becomes even clearer.

When it comes down to it, who has time to figure out how many interfaces, devices and volumes are in your network and worry about per element* licensing. Getting budget approved is hard enough with out having to go back to management when you discover that you need larger licenses to ensure you are monitoring your entire network.

With WhatsUp Gold's straight forward per device licensing model you know upfront and exactly what you are going to need to be able to completely monitor your network.

The above WhatsUp Gold and Orion pricing comparison that proves that WhatsUp Gold is clearly the solution with the lowest overall TCO.

*Licensing of the Orion Network Performance Monitor is based upon the highest number of managed interfaces, nodes and volumes. Licensing of the Orion Network Performance Monitor is based upon the highest number of the following three values: Interfaces = Total number of managed network interfaces (including switch ports, physical interfaces, virtual interfaces, sub-interfaces, VLANs, and etc..) Nodes = Total number of managed nodes (including routers, switches, servers, access points, modems, and etc..) Volumes = Total number of managed volumes (logical disks).

 

System Requirements

Operating System Requirements

Ipswitch supports WhatsUp Gold operating on the following Windows operating systems:

  • Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate edition (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate & Business editions with Service Pack 2 (32-bit and 64-bit)

Ipswitch supports WhatsUp Gold operating on the following Windows Server platforms:

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
  • VMware ESX versions 3.5, 4.0
  • VMware ESXi versions 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Important: If WhatsUp Gold is hosted on VMWare ESX, ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, to avoid licensing issues, make sure that you assign a static MAC address to the virtual machine that WhatsUp Gold is operating on.
Note: WhatsUp Gold v15 is not supported on Windows XP.

Web Server Requirements

The following is a list of the supported web servers and specific requirements for each version:

  • Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 7 (Use with WhatsUp Gold on Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows Vista).
    WhatsUp Gold requires the following Web Server (IIS) Role Services at a minimum:
    • Web Server
    • ASP
    • Static Content
    • HTTP Redirection
    • Default Document
    Note: The installation program will automatically install IIS 7 on platforms where it is supported, you can then verify that IIS 7 is installed and properly configured from the Turn Windows Features on or off dialog. (Control Panel > Programs and Features > Turn Windows Features on or off) Verify that Web Server, ASP, Static Content, HTTP Redirection, and Default Document Web Server (IIS) Roles Services have been installed and are enabled.
  • Microsoft IIS version 6 (Use with WhatsUp Gold on Windows Server 2003). WhatsUp Gold requires the following web server extensions:
    • ASP
    Note: You must manually install IIS 6, using instructions provided in the Microsoft Windows documentation included with your operating system or the Installing and Configuring WhatsUp Gold guide.
    Note: The WhatsUp Gold Web server is available as an option only in the case that Microsoft IIS is not available. It is recommended that Microsoft IIS be used where possible as it provides a more robust and feature rich web platform for WhatsUp Gold.

For the complete list of system requirements please read the WhatsUp Gold Release Notes.


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White Papers

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Relating personal experiences from his long history in IT, author Greg Shields offers a look at network integrations from SNMP to WMI to configuration control and reveals the necessity for a complete solution.

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