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Powerful multi-site IT Management for networks, servers and applications without the complexity or cost

Overview of WhatsUp Gold Distributed

Scalable and Affordable Enterprise IT and Network Management
Built on an extensible and scalable architecture, WhatsUp Gold Distributed is a network, server, and application monitoring solution for multi-site IT infrastructure and network management.

With both local monitoring and secure remote management, WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition provides a complete view of how your network is performing, with the roll up of all critical data to the central site for coordinated action and analysis.

Comprehensive IT infrastructure monitoring
With powerful network discovery and mapping, real-time SNMP and WMI monitoring, comprehensive reporting, and the industry’s leading alert management capabilities, WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition can help you stay on top of what’s happening in your IT infrastructure and ahead of any potential problems.

With WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition, you can monitor and manage everything that business relies on to keep moving forward, including network hardware, devices, bandwidth, physical servers, virtual servers and your business critical applications.

WhatsUp Gold Distributed Features

Built on the feature set of WhatsUp Gold Premium, WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition includes intelligent features for remote monitoring:

A highly efficient distributed architecture with processing loads handled by remote sites minimizing overhead at the central location
Centralized management in real-time for multiple sites using individualized dashboards
Continuous uninterrupted monitoring with each remote site running independently of the central site
Actionable intelligence with over 200 reports available to slice and dice consolidated data from the breadth of the IT infrastructure
Localized monitoring reduces traffic overhead on the network
Highly scalable architecture supporting multiple remote sites from a single central NOC
Air-tight security with support for FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) 140-2 standards and 128-bit SSL encryption

WhatsUp Gold Features

Discover

Know what’s on your network. Automatically discover all resources and map their connectivity. Build an accurate picture of your network devices, systems and their interconnections, using Layer 2 and 3 network technologies, including ARP, SNMP, ICMP, SSH, LLDP, WMI, Telnet and more. Easily schedule network discoveries or run them on-demand.

Mapping

Map your entire network. Automatically generate a complete Layer 2/3 topology map of your network with visibility into both physical and IP connectivity, including VMware and VLAN-specific information. Easily customize your maps and drill down into performance stats.

Monitor

Know exactly how your IT environment is performing. Using a combination of both active and passive monitoring technologies, WhatsUp Gold monitors the health, availability and status of your network, systems and application infrastructures. Stay ahead of potential performance issues with early warning notifications via SNMP traps and Syslog messages from your infrastructure devices.

Alert

WhatsUp Gold’s Alert Center gives you a single dashboard view with alerts from across your entire infrastructure. With multilevel escalations, WhatsUp Gold makes it easy to prioritize responses to any problem from performance issues, to traffic bottlenecks, to configuration errors. In addition, Alert Center makes it easy to acknowledge ownership, provide status updates and efficiently manage the resolution process.

Report

Over 200 out-of-the-box reports provide complete visibility into the health and performance of your infrastructure. Through WhatsUp Gold’s web interface, reports can be easily customized to meet a specific audience or need. See network, server and application performance information side-by-side with traffic and configuration data for powerful cross-silo correlation.

Compare WhatsUp Gold Editions

Features	Standard	Premium	Distributed
Web Console & Mobile Access to manage your network on the go- anytime, from anywhere
Alert Center: Single Console for alerts, alert acknowledgments and notifications across your infrastructure
Supports full suite of WhatsUp Gold plug-ins – IT Management in a single pane of glass
Integrated SQL database format for trend data and complete system inventory reporting of hardware, software, firmware, and patches.
Performance monitors (CPU utilization, Disk space and utilization, Interface utilization, Memory, Ping Latency)
Custom actions using Jscript or VBscript (e.g. to restart services/systems)
Fully integrated Layer 2/3 discovery and topology mapping with asset/inventory reporting
Scheduling Engine to automate basic maintenance tasks (e.g. database backups)
Leverage Scalability Pollers for monitoring of up to 20,000 Devices and 100,000 Monitors
Fully integrated Wireless Network Mapping and Monitoring for Cisco and Aruba LWAPs and Controllers with auto-mapping, bandwidth utilization and alerts on rogue access points
Enhanced real-time network monitoring with Split Second Graphs and Instant Info
WMI Application monitoring
Out-of-the-Box Hardware monitoring - UPS, Printer, Fan, Power Supply, Temperature
Drop-in support for Powershell monitoring and action scripts
HTTP/HTTPS/FTP Synthetic Transaction Monitoring

Discovery, Mapping and Inventory

Features	Standard	Premium	Distributed
Leverages Layer 2/3 technologies including ARP, SNMP, SSH, ICMP, IP range scan and SmartScan to discover all network assets and their interconnections
On-demand or scheduled discoveries
Auto or manual generation of topology maps showing complete Layer 2/3 connectivity
Full customization of topology maps (background images, hierarchical/radial formats, etc.)
Extensive asset/inventory reporting such as serial number, OS version, patches and warranty info
Pre-defined scanning templates for Role-based identification of devices

Monitoring

Features	Standard	Premium	Distributed
Performance monitoring via SNMP
CPU utilization, Disk space and utilization, Interface utilization, Memory, Ping Latency
Application & server monitoring (Windows, Unix and Linux) via SSH & WMI
Pre-configured active and passive monitors
Exchange 2000/2003/2007/2010, SQL Server 2005/2008)
SQL Query Monitor for Microsoft SQL Server, My-SQL and Oracle
em>Hardware monitoring - UPS, Printer, Fan, Power Supply, and Temperature
HTTP/S Synthetic Transaction Monitoring (Content Check)
FTP Synthetic Transaction Monitoring
Email Route

Alerts, Notifications & Reports

Features	Standard	Premium	Distributed
Over 200 out-of-the-box reports available in web-based
Reporting data export to: email, Excel, PDF, CSV formats
Email, Alpha/Text Pager, SMS, Web Alarms, Windows Popups, Sound, SNMP Traps, Service Restart, External Scripts
Configurable alert/alarm escalation to comply with pre-defined escalation procedures
Advanced alert suppression & blackout reporting: Get suppressed alerts when it fits your schedule
Dashboard Manager
Support for instant access to real-time data via Instant Info
Configurable alert/alarm escalation to comply with pre-defined escalation procedures

Distributed Networks

Remote IP Services
Remote SNMP Monitoring
Remote WMI Monitoring
Remote Device Dependencies
WAN Device, Port and Link Monitoring
Remote Alert roll-ups
Remote Reporting roll-up
Remote Monitoring survivability

Plug-In Modules

Features	Standard	Premium	Distributed
*Flow Monitor & Flow Publisher* Know and analyze how and by whom your network bandwidth is being consumed	Integrates with all versions of WhatsUp Gold
*WhatsConfigured* Automate change and configuration management processes and secure your configuration data	Integrates with all versions of WhatsUp Gold
*WhatsVirtual* Discover, map, monitor and manage your virtual and physical resources-from a single Web console	Integrates with all versions of WhatsUp Gold
*VoIP Monitor* Assure your network supports and maintains acceptable call quality for Voice over IP	Integrates with all versions of WhatsUp Gold