Anyone familiar with the usual costs of network management software knows that this is roughly two zeros light. It s important to stress that WhatsUp Gold isn t, and doesn t try to be, anything miraculous. WhatsUp Gold has a 1,000-device limit per copy. Since then, the breadth of function has gotten substantially better. This enhances its core focus, which has been availability-alarm management.
Administrators can select the icons they want to manage, so customization is fairly simple.
Not surprisingly, the chief advantage of the maps is to enable easier viewing of alarm conditions and more effective fault isolation. Also new with Version 6.0 is a Log Manager function with search capability for events based on basic information such as IP address or device name. This helps improve alarm management and some performance management, and includes a historical dimension, such as a week or a month, depending on the number of devices being managed. The more devices, the shorter the time. The SNMP Viewer allows tracking of port-related data, such as bandwidth or CPU utilization.