Tag: How Tos

Want to keep an eye on how your servers are doing? Here's a guide on using PowerShell to get yourself started in the right direction.

Choosing the right network configuration manager—and implementing it correctly—is absolutely critical.

In this blog post, we’ll go over the do’s and don’ts of alerting, and discuss how properly configured alerting can save time, money, effort, and even your sanity.

Need to make sure your Windows Schedule Tasks are completed successfully? Follow this guide to monitor them with WhatsUp Gold.

So, you want to monitor WebEx with WhatsUp Gold? Allow me to help by sharing my story of figuring this out.

In this article, we'll be creating a baseline that will only be for Windows servers that will only have critical updates with an auto-approval of two days. Let’s make this happen in PowerShell.

In this post, I'll show you how to monitor Cisco ASA VPN with WhatsUp Gold.

Now more than ever, many businesses depend on reliable access to Zoom, and there is a need to know as soon as possible about any issues with accessing Zoom. In this article, we'll show you how you can use WhatsUp Gold to monitor Zoom.

In this article, you will learn the step by step process of creating new Azure virtual machines based on a custom image.

Everyone is working from home... and they're all using the VPN. Here are three ways you can help reduce the load on your VPN and ensure uptime.

You can get a leg up on a potential attacker by figuring out what processes are running under an administrative account in your organization. One way to do that for absolutely free is to use PowerShell!

In this article, I’ll give you a general overview of AWS CloudWatch, show you how to build an informational dashboard, and then show you how to set up AWS CloudWatch performance monitors in WhatsUp Gold.

In this post, we’ll discuss how WhatsUp Gold (WUG) can help you monitor VoIP performance, and demonstrate how to set up performance monitoring for VoIP devices.

Microsoft Teams is quickly rising in popularity. This article explains how to deploy a custom website tab in Microsoft Teams.

A new feature in Ipswitch's WhatsUp Gold network monitoring product is the ability to monitor Azure Virtual Machines. In this video from Ipswitch contributor Adam Betram, we'll cover how to add an Azure credential to WhatsUp Gold and how to set up an initial discovery to discover all Azure Virtual Machines in a subscription.

Many health care IT organizations create service-level agreements (SLAs) for new applications and infrastructure projects. It's important to collect metrics related to SLA line items and review your metrics on a regular basis.

It doesn’t take a ninja to know that Simple Network Management Protocol allows administrators to monitor network-attached devices. That said, you might actually need to be a ninja to enable and configure SNMP on Windows, Linux/Unix, Cisco, and ESXi.

In this article, we share some tips on how to construct an Request for Proposal (RFP) document. It will list the major things to consider when compiling your RFP (many of which often get overlooked) and provide guidelines on a typical RFP lifecycle.

Slack's ability to integrate with other applications and services makes it a great choice for IT teams to support their network monitoring needs.

Keeping tabs on what a script is doing is critical for monitoring and debugging.