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Network Reporting

Comprehensive Infrastructure Management Reporting

For nearly 20 years, WhatsUp Gold has been a leader in network management reporting, by providing comprehensive, easy to use, out-ofthe box reporting across the network infrastructure.

WhatsUp Gold reporting features include:

  • Over 200 out-of-the-box reports on wired and wireless network, application, system, and hardware monitoring data
  • Configurable dashboards which include problem-oriented workflows
  • Split-Second Graphs that support real-time troubleshooting needs
  • Top 10 reports that provide direct access to resources under pressure
  • Historical reports that support capacity planning and resource allocation activities
  • Fully configurable reports with 2D/3D charts (bar, pie, line and time), custom time spans, and zoom in/zoom out functionality for troubleshooting
  • Dashboard gauges that display at-a-glance performance status of any device or system
  • Instant Info mouse-over that provides immediate real-time status through Split- Second Graphs
  • Mobile access to over 35 critical infrastructure performance and status reports directly from your handheld device or PDA

The Power of the WhatsUp Gold Dashboard

A WhatsUp Gold dashboard starts as a blank page, you arrange and organize your reports using drag and drop, so that everything is organized and displayed in a way that makes sense to you.

You can configure and display any combination of reports across one or more dashboards. With WhatsUp Gold, you can create a dashboard to address multiple situations:

  • Maintain an at-a-glance view of your corporate network
  • Manage your datacenter or remote branch office
  • Track the Top 10 issues across different device groups
  • Troubleshoot application performance across locations
  • Track a single business unit's application, server and network infrastructure
  • Or build a dashboard to monitor your exactly what you want

Report Categories

WhatsUp Gold organizes reports into categories for easy access.

  • Problem Areas. These reports track typical problems that may occur on your network, including: availability, outage, health, action, monitor-based, SNMP, syslog, Windows Events, and state changes log reports.
  • Performance. These reports show historical performance data for a device or group, including CPU, disk, memory, and interface utilization.
  • System. These reports show logs and diagnostic data for all devices, including: action, error, SNMP trap, Syslog, Windows event, activity, Web user, and recurring activity reports.
  • Device. These reports show availability and performance data for a single device, including: CPU, disk, memory, and interface utilization.
  • Wireless Infrastructure*. These reports include current and historical data on wireless infrastructure and client performance, along with rogue device detection and tracking of wireless clients across the network. They include: wireless access point overview (configuration and status); active wireless clients (availability - signal strength, connection start time, and data rate); client statistics (performance - receive & transmit errors, traffic volume, and MSDU retries/failures) and syslog messages.
  • General. These reports provide access to workspaces and display data logged by WhatsUp Gold during its operation. Reports in this category include: system wide configuration, Top 10, recurring activities, actions applied, availability and state summaries, and device status.
  • Group. These reports display availability and performance data for devices within a group. Reports in this category include: CPU, disk, memory, and interface utilization. Also included are Top 10, availability, and response time; active monitor availability and outage; health and state change; and availability and state summary reports.

    • * not available in the standard edition of WhatsUp Gold.