WhatsUp Gold Standard is a cost-effective network management solution designed to monitor small and mid-sized business (SMB) networks and ensure stable growth in the future.
With WhatsUp Gold Standard Edition, you get:
- High performance predictive and pre-emptive monitoring of networks and systems infrastructure and core IP services 24/7
- Highly flexible, automated, and comprehensive network discovery and mapping
- A powerful alert management platform, featuring easy to use alarms, alerts and notification capabilities for real-time operations support
- Quick navigation with intuitive Web and Windows consoles
- 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
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The Challenges of Today's Complex SMB Networks
For many SMBs, managing their network processes manually might be sufficient, when thre are only a few end users and applications. However, when their business grows, it can be very cumbersome to manage multiple endpoints, devices, and remote users manually. It's high time for some automation and proven management processes.
A network admin for one of these growing SMB's needs real-time visibility into how your network is performing, its underlying topology, and its dependencies. It's vital to be alerted when things go wrong and you also want to reduce the number of problems, by developing proactive network management practices. Lastly, as the business grows, you need to understand how to enable structured growth of the network in concert.
WhatsUp Gold Standard is a cost-effective network management solution designed to monitor small and mid-sized business (SMB) networks and ensure stable growth in the future. It's tried, tested, and proven on networks just like yours, and offers the best price-performance value compared to any other network management solution on the market today. With WhatsUp Gold managing your network infrastructure 24x7, you can be assured that you have the necessary visibility and control to meet the demands of your business.
With WhatsUp Gold Standard, you have 360° visibility, actionable intelligence, and complete control to make not only fast decisions, but better ones. When you invest in WhatsUpGold Standard to monitor 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.
WhatsUp Gold is Even More Comprehensive
Can you believe it? An even more comprehensive WhatsUp Gold! Ipswitch is are pleased to introduce some exciting new features and capabilities to the WhatsUp Gold product family, including their new WhatsConfigured Configuration and Change Management Plug-in.
The addition of the WhatsConfigured plug-in adds a new dimension to our already broad management capabilities. The goal 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. WhatUp Gold gives 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.
WhatsUp Gold Standard: 360° Visibility, Actionable Intelligence, and Complete Control
WhatsUp Gold Standard is a cost-effective network management solution designed to monitor small and mid-sized business (SMB) networks and ensure stable growth in the future. It's tried, tested, and proven on networks just like yours, and offers the best price-performance value compared to any other network management solution on the market today. With WhatsUp Gold managing your network infrastructure 24x7, you can be assured that you have the necessary visibility and control to meet the demands of your business.
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.
Enhanced Report Delivery
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 this version
Could Ipswitch make their award-winning network management solution even easier to set up, operate and manage? Yes they could, and they did with this version!
WhatsUp Gold's proactive monitoring, reporting and manageability features are extended - 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
Ipswitch's 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.
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 7, Windows Vista Ultimate (SP2 recommended), Windows Vista Business (SP2 recommended), Windows XP Professional SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2 (or later), Windows Server 2008 SP2, or Windows Server 2008 R2
- 32-bit and 64-bit support for the following virtual server environments: VMWare ESXi 3.0 or later and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
Important: If WhatsUp Gold is hosted on VMWare ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, to avoid licensing issues, make sure that you assign a static MAC address to the virtual machine that WhatsUp Gold is operating on.
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (included), SQL Server 2005 Standard or Enterprise Edition, or Microsoft 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.
- IIS 6, IIS 7, or Ipswitch Web Server
- 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
Important: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is not
compatible with Windows SharePoint Services 2.0. If you are running
SharePoint Services 2.0, you should not upgrade or install WhatsUp Gold.
WhatsUp Gold requires Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and automatically
installs this package if not present on the system. For more information
about the issue, see the
Microsoft Knowledge Base article.
- 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)
Additional software requirements for WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor
WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor has the same base system requirements as WhatsUp Gold 14. In addition, WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor requires:
- WhatsUp Gold Standard Edition, Premium Edition, MSP Edition, or Distributed Edition
- At least one routing device that supports NetFlow versions 1, 5, and 9
- or -
At least one routing device that supports sFlow version 2 and 5
Note: WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor 14 performs well in most installations that use SQL Server 2005 Express. However, some large data collections, that require 4 GB of data storage or more or where data is collected and archived over a long period of time, may require MS SQL Server
2005 Standard or Enterprise Edition or Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard or Enterprise Edition.
Hardware requirements
| 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 |
Note: The WhatsConnected, WhatsConfigured, and VoIP Monitor plug-in system requirements are the same as the WhatsUp Gold requirements. Additionally, WhatsConnected supports Microsoft Visio 2003 or 2007 English version only and the VoIP Monitor requires Cisco IP-SLA compatible devices.
Note: WhatsUp Gold can be installed and will operate on virtual machines powered by 32-bit or 64-bit VMware ESXi 3.0 or later and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, as long as the virtual server's guest OS resources meet that of the WhatsUp Gold system requirements.