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WhatsUp Gold Premium

Network, Server, and Application Monitoring

Simply the most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost effective network management toolset available today.

 

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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 WhatsUpGold 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.

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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) available
  • Comprehensive out-of-the box support for WMI, supporting complete Windows service monitoring*
  • 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

Find out how this cost efficient network management solution can become one of your most effective business enablers.

Download WhatsUp Gold Premium today

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

Just Released: Flow Publisher

Comprehensive Flow Monitoring for the Whole Network

Finally. Flow monitoring for everyone. Flow Publisher extends cost-effective application flow and traffic monitoring to every segment of the network and to all networked devices, including Windows server platforms. It captures raw traffic information from any non-flow enabled network device or traffic origination point and converts it to NetFlow compliant records for reporting through the existing Flow Monitor. In short, your control over visualizing what happens on your network is now complete.

An Even More Comprehensive WhatsUp Gold

New in v14.1

Can you believe it? An even more comprehensive WhatsUp Gold! With v14.1 we are pleased to introduce some exciting new features and capabilities to the WhatsUp Gold product family, including our new WhatsConfigured Configuration and Change Management Plug-in, and the extension of our core monitoring capabilities to include wireless network monitoring.

The addition of v14.1’s WhatsConfigured plug-in adds a new dimension to our already broad management capabilities. Our goal with v14.1 was to provide you, the network administrators and managers of the world, with one simple integrated solution to manage the availability, performance and configuration of your network.  No more jumping from one application to another, maintaining configuration data in multiple files, or using outdated toolsets. With v14.1 we give you the time-savings and management efficiency only an integrated application can offer.

If you’re not already using WhatsUp Gold, now’s the time to join the millions of satisfied users around the world. 

WhatsConfigured: Configuration & Change Management

Introducing the new WhatsConfigured plug-in, a fully integrated solution to automate network device configuration rollout, backup, storage, and change management processes. WhatsConfigured saves you valuable time by eliminating manual and repetitive configuration tasks and replacing them with an automated solution that ensures complete accuracy and control.

Wireless Network Monitoring

With WhatsUp Gold Premium, Distributed and MSP editions you can seamlessly monitor wireless network performance of Cisco Aironet Wireless devices including access point utilization, user traffic and alert on radio failures, right along with wired network fault and performance management . WhatsUp Gold provides you with exactly what you need to manage your critical infrastructure from a single management console. Not included in Standard edition

Enhanced Report Delivery

With v14.1, you can now deliver report data and graphical elements to your key stakeholders via PDF. The PDF export feature is supported on all versions of WhatsUp Gold. All full reports in WhatsUp Gold can be exported to PDF, as well as many other business critical reports, including many Flow Monitor reports.

Introduced in version 14

Could we make our award-winning network management solution even easier to set up, operate and manage? Yes we could, and we did it with the new v14!

V14 extends WhatsUp Gold’s proactive monitoring, reporting and manageability features - cementing its position as the most simple, cost-effective and complete network and application management tool available in the market today.

Industry Leading Alert Management Platform

The new Alert Center centralizes alert and notifications configuration and management in one single interface. The new threshold monitors enable intelligent monitoring of the infrastructure - generating alerts based on a combination of performance levels tracked over time. Critical monitors ensure you don’t waste your time with alert storms and false notifications. In-depth WhatsUp Gold server self-monitoring ensures your installation operates at peak performance 24/7. Put simply, Alert Center has no competition, it’s the best alert management platform available today.

Enhanced Discovery

With improved intelligence and automation, WhatsUp Gold Discovery engine provides quicker, more accurate identification of devices and their roles in the network. Once discovered, preconfigured monitors are automatically started eliminating the need for manual intervention unless you want to customize the out-of-the-box settings. Even better, with the enhanced Discovery engine, all features are now accessible through the WhatsUp Gold web portal enabling anywhere, anytime operation. 

Flow Monitor

Our flow management solution has been renamed Flow Monitor, and now supports all popular flow formats – NetFlow, J-Flow and sFlow. We’ve added several new threshold based monitors to provide you with deeper insight into application usage on the network.

WhatsUp Gold Premium

Up to 100 devices $2,695
Up to 300 devices $3,895
Up to 500 devices $5,195
Up to 1,000 devices $7,995
Up to 2,500 devices $12,995

Compare Features vs. SolarWinds Orion

Features Description WhatsUp Gold Premium Solarwinds Orion
Application Monitoring Application monitoring included at no extra cost included not included
IPv6 Support Discovery and monitoring of IPv6 enabled devices and systems is critical to an overall effective network management strategy. included not included
Built-in MIB Management and Validation Drag, drop and validate standard and enterprise MIBs instantly. No requirement to access external vendor site to add MIBs. included not included
Configurable Monitors Provides the capability to develop unique monitors for custom monitoring. 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
Layer 2 Discovery, Mapping and Visualization Integrated discovery, mapping and visualization provides port-to-port connectivity with automated creation of monitors for devices and links. included not included
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 Partially
Included

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: $20,975.00
Application Monitoring: $19,995.00
Total Cost: $40,970.00
Fits your Budget? NO
WhatsUp Gold
Devices Required: 500
Price: $5,195.00
Application Monitoring: Included
Total Cost: $5,195.00
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).

 

About Virtual machines

WhatsUp Gold can be installed and will operate on virtual machines powered by VMware and Microsoft Virtual Server, as long as the virtual server's resources meet that of the WhatsUp Gold system requirements.

Software requirements

  • 32-bit and 64-bit support for the following OS versions: Windows XP Professional SP2 (or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2 (or later), Windows Vista Ultimate (SP2 recommended), Windows Vista Business (SP2 recommended), or Windows Server 2008 (SP2 recommended)
  • 32-bit and 64-bit support for the following virtual server environments: VMWare ESXi 3.0 or later and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008.
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (included), SQL Server 2005 Standard or Enterprise Edition or MS SQL Server 2008 Standard or Enterprise Edition (optional)
    Important: WhatsUp Gold does not support non-English versions of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
  • WhatsUp Gold Web interface, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0, or Firefox 3.0
  • WhatsUp Gold Mobile interface, Mobile Safari 2.2, Microsoft Internet Explorer Mobile 6.1, or Opera Mini 4.2
  • Microsoft. NET Framework 3.5 (required), Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 included in install
  • Microsoft Windows Scripting Host v5.7 (or later)
    Note: Windows Scripting Host is installed with the Windows operating system. To verify your version, run cscript.exe at a command prompt. If you need to update Windows Scripting Host, refer to the Microsoft Windows Scripting Host site.
  • Microsoft SAPI 5.1 (required for Text to Speech actions)

Hardware Requirements

  Recommended Required
Processor(s)

WhatsUp Gold: Dual-core
Flow Monitor: Quad-core

WhatsUp Gold: Single-core
Flow Monitor: Dual-core
Processor Speed 2 GHz or more 2 GHz
RAM WhatsUp Gold: 4 GB
Flow Monitor: +4 GB		 WhatsUp Gold: 2 GB
Flow Monitor: +2 GB
Hard drive space for application, SQL Server Express Edition dbase application, and supporting framework 3 GB 2 GB
Hard drive space for dbase and dbase logs WhatsUp Gold: 8 GB
or more Flow Monitor: +16 GB or more		 WhatsUp Gold: 4 GB
Flow Monitor: +8 GB
Network interface card 1 Gbps 100 Mbps
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM Required if installing from CD-ROM. Not required for download installations. Required if installing from CD-ROM. Not required for download installations.
Video display resolution 1280 x 1024 or higher 1024 x 768
Sound card SAPI-capable sound card required for Text-to-Speech actions Not required
Modem and phone line Required for pager, SMS, and beeper actions; modem pooling is not supported Not required
GSM modem Required for SMS Direct actions Not required