Get a Whole New Perspective of Your Network!

Ipswitch is proud to announce the WhatsConnected Technical Preview Program! WhatsConnected is a layer 2 and layer 3 network discovery and visualization plug-in for WhatsUp Gold that equips network managers with a comprehensive tool set to accurately depict and visualize their device connectivity down to the individual port. With the total insight offered through WhatsConnected, you can understand your network from top to bottom and focus on keeping it running securely and at peak performance.

 

 
Layer 2 Device Discovery and Mapping

WhatsConnected provides the key functions network professionals need in order to discover, map, search and document their physical networks.

 
            Discover:

WhatsConnected moves far beyond typical IP discovery tools by assembling information from every device in the network to provide detailed physical connectivity, device type, asset/inventory and configuration information and presenting it in an easy to understand format. In addition to using the standard layer 3 discovery mechanisms, WhatsConnected uses a number of additional technologies, including ARP, LLDP and manufacturer proprietary mechanisms to discover information about devices and their connectivity.

         

          Map:

Gaining insight into and understanding how your network is put together has never been easier. WhatsConnected simplifies this tedious task with auto-generated topology maps with full visibility into both physical and IP connectivity, including VLAN-specific information. Maps are fully customizable and allow for any number of different views to be specified. Layer 2 maps generated by WhatsConnected can be directly imported into WhatsUp Gold with a single click.

           

          Search:

Quickly search and find out how devices are connected to the network. With detailed device views, you can quickly zero in to find out what’s connected to what. Additionally with built-in tools such as Layer2 Trace and IP/MAC Finder, WhatsConnected offers a much quicker approach to finding the location and validating connectivity of devices on the network than any other solution.

 

          Document:

With highly detailed topology maps now available through WhatsConnected, you also have the option to publish any of these maps through Microsoft^® Visio^TM with a couple of mouse clicks. Any number of automatically generated maps or custom map views can be exported to provide you with the ability to understand how device additions and design changes have impacted your network over time. Inventory information on devices gathered during the discovery process can be exported in either CSV or Excel formats to external applications.

 Export to Microsoft Visio

Not only do you now know what’s connected to what, but also what type of devices they are. WhatsConnected’s inventory capability provides platform identification and classification for devices from all the most widely deployed network equipment manufacturers including:

- Foundry
- Cisco/Linksys
- HP Procurve
- Nortel/Bay Networks
- 3COM
- Extreme
- Netgear
- Dell PowerConnect
- DLink
- SMC
- Alcatel
- Allied Telesyn

 

As a fully integrated plug-in for all editions of WhatsUp Gold v12.3, WhatsConnected provides a simple approach for you to understand your network infrastructure to identify and create powerful monitoring strategies.  A simple right-click on any topology map will export device information from WhatsConnected to WhatsUp Gold and automate the creation of consolidated MapViews along with performance and active monitors for the connected interfaces.

The Technical Preview Program for WhatsConnected is now available. Please sign up below and you will be forwarded to the download form!

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Thank you for your participation in the Ipswitch Technical Preview Program.  We look forward to hearing your feedback. 

Ipswitch Network Management Team