WhatsUp Gold

WhatsUp Gold best Network Monitoring System

Commentaires : Excellent experience, I can't complaint. It's a must have tool for every organization to perform a better approach in advance and to have a full network visibility.

Avantages :

It is easy to implement and use. It enables you to map all of your network devices and access them thru it. It helps you to have a full visibility of all of your network. You can also set the performance alerts at your critical devices as servers, switches, routers and firewalls. It helps you to get the bandwidth monitoring by devices and applications.

Inconvénients :

It will be great to have a full library of MIBs for all network security devices and not having to look by each brand site.

WhatsUp Gold Review

Commentaires : After everything was set up, we have had almost no issues. The customer support is great and the reps are great. The software has free updates which is awesome and the community board is very helpful. I would recommend this product to any IT environment that is looking for network monitoring solution.

Avantages :

It fits exactly what we need it to do. Monitor our devices and send us alerts when there is an issue. The schematic is also very helpful because we have it broken down into locations and grouped together to make things easier to use. It is also very helpful to put in all the information we have into the details of the device so that its all in one place. It helps us stay organized!

Inconvénients :

The set up was atrocious. We had to run a scan like 6 times to find everything. Eventually I had to add things in one by one which took forever. It is not simple to use. You have to really understand the icons and how things are linked within the software. I wished there was better documentation and videos about this. Especially with the setup. The whole installation and setup was a nightmare.

WhatsUp (is) Gold

Commentaires : WhatsUp Gold is the first application I check in the morning. I can see in one fast glance the state of our network.

Avantages :

I love the depth at which we can monitor not only bare metal devices, but Windows Services, ports, certificates, hardware performance, and connectivity.

Inconvénients :

It is difficult to manage individual object presence in the application.

WhatsUp Gold

Commentaires : We use Whatsup Gold to proactively tell us when something is wrong before users start complaining. It has served us well in this capacity
We use WUG thresholds and netflow data to determine when business (and non-business) processes are interfering with user performance at our branches with limited network capacity. We use the netflow data and work with the branch to have the offending processes eliminated or moved to afterhours when there is no user impact.
We use thresholds and dashboard graphs to provide capacity planning information.
Overall WhatsUp Gold has been a mixed bag for us. There have been failed upgrades and bugs that cost us time. Page rendering is adequate at best and frustrating at its worst. But is has provided the monitoring alerting, and capacity planning that we need to stay ahead.

Avantages :

The ease of adding a device, and getting monitors configured with alerts is what like best. To go from no monitoring to getting a text/email when something goes wrong is relatively easy with this product. The ease of putting specific graph items on a page (dashboard) is also very useful.

Inconvénients :

The biggest problem with this product is the performance/capacity of the product to generate graphs. Using java to fetch data from the database to paint pages is slow. I can collect 500,000 data items and generate 100,000 graphs without much horsepower with a tool like CACTI which uses php and flat text rrd files to paint the graph. I can put ten times as many graphs on a page and it still paints 10 times faster. This performance limitation is the biggest week point between your products and the competition. I maintain a CACTI server to do the heavy lifting for graphing high density interface switches in the data centers because WUG is too slow. The thing that I like least about the software is the inability of the administrator to manage other users views. and the lack of an anonymous view. You want to be able to give upper management a link to click on to see pretty graphs and charts. They do not want to have to log in. And you do not want them messing up the view so it constantly has to be fixed. Logging in as admin, changing the users rights, logging out,logging in as the user, changing the dashboard, logging out, logging in as the admin and setting the rights back, is a lousy way to have to manage this.

WhatsUp Gold is very easy to Manage diferrents Dashboards.

Commentaires : Very good solution to monitoring network devices

Avantages :

-Amazing dashboards, we can customize the dashboards to put exactly what type of information we need. -Is very simple monitor all interfaces of network devices, using the protocol SNMP we can monitor each port and the status and load. -Simple and efficient to see the status of the devices during the all day, the with the color green and red is very easy. - The updates and upgrades are so easy to install, always the installer is guide me and update all features and DB with some clicks.

Inconvénients :

With a huge number of devices registered the Main Dashboard is too slow to load all information.

WUG CRA Experience

Commentaires : Alerting and allowing us to be proactive on issues is main focus and WUG has allowed my team to accomplish that goal. Reporting/automating reports and providing different practices within CRA the option of personalized dashboards to gauge performance has been a favorite offering from IT to our end users.

Avantages :

Goes without saying that it is easy to implement, intuitive and easy to manage. Dashboards and views are ++++

Inconvénients :

been using WUG for over 10years and have brought in to 3 different companies i've worked for---to date, i haven't found anything I dislike.

Awesome

Commentaires : My experience has been very pleasant. From installation onward, I've had zero complaints.

Avantages :

This software has provided us with the tools necessary to monitor, analyze, and manage the network in support of our customer.

Inconvénients :

While we understand software is always licensed, we would like an option for a "lifetime" license.

WhatsUp Gold Application Review

Avantages :

WhatsUp Gold is easy to use and gives us great visibility into our Network and Servers. The discovery of devices has been very helpful. The alerts and reporting have been very helpful.

Inconvénients :

It took a little while to learn to navigate the software but once you learn the layout you can move around quickly and find the information needed.

WhatsUp Gold

Avantages :

WhatsUp Gold allows you to set up email and text alerts when your equipment goes down.

Inconvénients :

The setup of WhatsUp Gold is a bit cumbersome.

My best app

Avantages :

Its make me happy at my work its is so fast

Inconvénients :

Support must be faster to helps customers

WhatsUp Gold Analysis

Commentaires : Overall, WUG has been a very positive experience with more positives than negatives. It has alerted us of issues before our customers are aware of them. It has allowed us to create baselines on uptime.

Avantages :

This is an inexpensive way to look at your network and get notifications of when you have issues. It also allows you to obtain an inventory of your products. It can take advantage of SNMPv3.

Inconvénients :

You can have issues with the requirement to delete and recreate objects to get new inventory. This means replying all the rules again.

Great software for network monitoring!

Commentaires : It's great to monitor the network and get the notifications, but we really miss the scrolling maps.

Avantages :

We've been using What's Up Gold for almost 2 decades and it works well. It helps keep our users happy and less unexpected service calls.

Inconvénients :

We don't like that it doesn't offer the scrolling maps like we had prior. We upgraded from an older version that we used to have the scrolling maps on a large LCD monitor in our NOC so our techs could identify faults easily. The newest edition of this software doesn't have it. Seems rather resource intensive too (server side).

A very good Niche player in Network and Server Monitoring

Commentaires : Excellent tool for Network and Server Montoring (Virtual, Hypervisor)

Avantages :

adaptability, ease of integration, ready to use components and ease of implementation

Inconvénients :

Log management feature requires intensive computing features and i believe this feature is in the starting phase of implementation need more refresh

Perfect for what we use it for

Avantages :

We use it to monitor in real time if a site is up or down. Then escalate to helpdesk to try to remotely resolve the issue. If they cannot, then we will make a truck roll to the site with replacement equipment.

Inconvénients :

The downside to it is the occasional false alarms. Sometimes the software would send out saying that it was down when in fact it was responding to pings.

Whatsup Gold, worth it's weight in .......

Commentaires : great company to work with, great support

Avantages :

Easy to use, good graphical interface to give you info quickly

Inconvénients :

no downsides to it. SOftware is easy to deploy and use.

One of the best Monitoring products available

Commentaires : I monitor all critical objects such as CPU, memory, disk and response time. I am also monitoring critical services such as SQL, Rapid Recovery to name a few. One of the main benefits is receiving an email alert before or when a device is down so we can avoid tons of tickets from users.

Avantages :

I have been using What'sUp Gold network monitoring for years. I was first introduced to the product in 2003. My company at the time was using Solarwinds which I found to be not very user friendly. So I did some research and found What'sUP Gold. Out of the box it was easy to implement and provided much more clarity and features. It provides me with a proactive approach for when any monitored device hits a predetermined threshold. Absolutely love it.

Inconvénients :

There isn't much I don't like about the product.

Incredible software for monitoring and have your network running smooth and statistics on time.

Commentaires : We know this tool from a long time ago, and it is amazing when you can trust your network and servers to this solution and be able to make just a little as to get the reports.

Avantages :

Notifications, Alerts and Analytics are the most useful features for me.

Inconvénients :

Nothing so far. Everything works as we need.

Easy to use and manage

Commentaires : Very good actually, and the system has run smoothly for years now, support team is also very efficient.

Avantages :

The straightforward GUI interface and very easy to set up.

Inconvénients :

A little bit expensive, but still ok compare with other products on the market.

Happy customer

Commentaires : using for network issues troubleshooting . Very convenient tool

Avantages :

Currently we're using ping , http monitoring for internal network and also for outsided websites. In live gives me the picture of what's happening with the network if any problems. Overall gives what I'm expecting. I know there are a lot of other features available but don't use them yet.

Inconvénients :

It's sitting on the local server so I don't have access to it from outside (from app for example) which not very convenient. Also, we had to purchase third party monitoring system to monitor What's up, in case any problem with internet or with actual server. To have some outside monitoring system would be helpful too.

Easy to setup and maintain

Commentaires : The integration to my network was easy and any issues I have had have been addressed quickly and accurately. Their support staff is great and easy to work with.

Avantages :

The ease of use is great even for someone new in the network field. I thought the integration into my network was easy and working with the techs at Progress to set everything up makes the process simple.

Inconvénients :

I am not a fan of having to rescan a device to pick up changes. If you rescan a device, you may have to disable monitoring for all other new ports picked up on the switch.

WUG Review

Commentaires : Not sure I would want to not have it....

Avantages :

The confidence that you network is preforming as it should along with the alarms when its not..

Inconvénients :

Sometimes you can get lost. Menu's takes some getting used to.

Visibility is the key

Commentaires : Setting up took a bit time but once it's up and running, pretty much worry free. LOVE IT.

Avantages :

I have been using WhatsUp Gold since 2007 while the main purpose at the time is to see "what is up and what is down". Over the course of the past 13 year as a WUG user, the focus, to me, is switching to have the visibility of our entire network. How is our Internet bandwidth usage? How is the CPU/memory consumption on the application server, etc. I can't imagine how I can do troubleshooting without WUG.

Inconvénients :

The VoIP and Wireless module they offer do not work with what we have. That's probably the only down side that I wish everything can be included in one tool.

WhatsUp Gold in SBM Law Firm

Commentaires : Monitoring of our IT infrastructure for availability and performance. it is easy to create monitoring policy and alerts for a small IT shop to be more proactive in spotting potential service impacting events

Avantages :

The ease of setup and configuration allowed for minimal time and staff to create our monitoring environment. It is intuitive enough that all staff members can easily make required changes and that is a blessing for small IT environments .

Inconvénients :

The additional virtual machine monitoring add-on is not up to where it needs to be. individual Hyper-V Server monitoring is ok but once you try and manage and monitor a failover cluster it becomes a mess. This addon is not ready for non VMware environments.

WhatsUp Gold

Commentaires : It has been a positive one. I have used WUG for about 7 years now.

Avantages :

Configuration Management, Monitoring and the Dashboards.

Inconvénients :

The reporting is lacking as I feel like it hasn't been updated in some time. The manner in which reports are sent via email can be sloppy at times and the actual reporting options are limited.

Whatsup Gold is an invaluable tool

Avantages :

Flexible network mapping capability, ease of use.

Inconvénients :

Needs more licensing tiers, paying for a 300 device license when we are barely over 100 is ridiculous