You can even point a World Wide Web browser at the workstation running WhatsUp Gold and access a text-only version of the network map. You can configure WhatsUp Gold to reflect the peculiarities of your network. You indicate which machines are to be monitored, determine the types of events that will cause alerts, and set the thresholds for them. Ipswitch's default settings keep you from getting false readings in most circumstances. WhatsUp Gold has powerful notification options.
Visual notification is unambiguous.
Even if WhatsUp Gold is minimized, you know exactly where you stand. Green, yellow, and red icons indicate your decreasing chances of sitting down for lunch. In similar fashion, the text-only version of the network map also is marked with t he appropriate colors. We installed WhatsUp Gold on a Windows NT 4.0 workstation and found the setup process straightforward. The only problem we encountered was that the product's installation routine didn't expect us to have a write-protected master software disk.