WhatsUp Gold

• WhatsUp Gold Overview
  • Welcome to Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold v11
  • WhatsUp Gold Release Notes v11.0.3
  • Finding more information
  • Sending feedback
• Using WhatsUp Gold to Gather and View Network Data
  • Steps to Gathering Network Data
  • Steps to Viewing Network Data
• Installing and Configuring WhatsUp Gold
  • Installation overview
  • System requirements
  • Installation notes
  • Installing or upgrading
  • About the Task Tray icon
  • Activating WhatsUp Gold
  • Migrating Data from previous versions of WhatsUp Gold
  • MSDE Database
  • Database Utilities
    • Database backup and restore
    • Database tools
      • Database Performance Tool
      • Database Tools Table Maintenance
  • Alternative database setups
    • Using an Existing SQL Server on the same computer
    • Using an Existing SQL Server on a remote computer
    • Installing a New SQL Server Instance on the same computer
  • Upgrading the database schema
  • Configuring the web interface to use IIS
  • Uninstalling Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold v11
• About Users in WhatsUp Gold
  • About user accounts
  • Configuring user accounts
  • About User Rights
• Using Device Discovery
  • About Device Discovery
  • Using the Device Discovery wizard
  • Scan types
  • Using Device Discovery
    • Discover Devices
  • Adding a single device manually
    • Example: manually adding a device to a device group
    • Example: clicking and dragging a device to a device group
  • Using Active Discovery
• Using the WhatsUp Gold Console
  • About the WhatsUp Gold console
    • Console overview
  • About the Device View
    • About device icons
    • Organizing Devices and Device Groups
  • About the Map View
    • Organizing device layout and views
    • Adding annotations to a map
    • About link lines
• Using the WhatsUp Gold Web Interface
  • About the WhatsUp Gold web interface
  • Accessing the web interface
  • Navigating through the web interface
  • About Web security
  • Stopping and starting the web server
  • Configuring the web interface to use IIS
• Managing Devices
  • Device overview
  • About the Device View
  • Learning about the Device Properties
    • About General Device Properties
    • About Device Property Performance Monitors
    • About Active Monitor Device Properties
    • About Passive Monitor Device Properties
    • About Device Property Actions
    • About Device Property Credentials
    • About Device Property Polling
    • About Device Property Notes
    • About Device Property Menus
    • About Device Property Custom Links
    • About Device Property Attributes
  • Adding a new device
    • Adding additional network interfaces to a device
    • Adding attributes to a device
    • Adding notes to a device
    • Changing a device IP address
    • Changing a device name
  • Selecting Device Types
    • Configuring Device Types
    • Changing Device Types
  • Using Acknowledgements
    • Acknowledging a State Change
  • Editing multiple devices with Bulk Field Change
  • Using Credentials
  • Creating Custom Context menus
• Using Device Groups
  • About device groups
    • Creating device groups
  • Using Dynamic Groups
  • About Group Access Rights
    • Enabling Group Access Rights
    • Assigning Group Access Rights
• About Polling
  • Polling overview
    • Changing how you poll devices
    • Using the Maintenance mode
    • Setting how often your devices are polled
    • Stopping and starting polling
    • Stopping and starting polling on a monitor
  • Dependencies overview
    • Setting Dependencies
    • Viewing Dependencies
  • IPX support
• Using Actions
  • About Actions
  • About Action strategies
  • About the Action Library
  • About Web Alarms
  • Configuring an Action
    • Creating a Beeper Action
    • Creating a Pager Action
    • Creating an Email Action
    • Creating an SMS Action
    • Creating a WinPopup Action
    • Creating a Syslog Action
    • Creating a Text-to-Speech Action
    • Creating a Program Action
    • Creating an Active Script Action
    • Creating a Web Alarm Action
    • Creating a Service Restart Action
  • Testing an Action
  • Deleting an Action
  • Assigning an Action to a device
  • Assigning an Action to a monitor
  • Creating a Blackout Period
  • Percent Variables
  • About Action Policies
    • Creating an Action Policy
    • Editing Action Policies
    • Implicit Action Policy
    • About Acknowledgements
    • Example: getting an Email Alert when the web server fails
• Using Active Monitors
  • Active Monitors overview
  • Using Monitors and Actions
  • About the Active Monitor Library
    • Supported Active Monitors
  • Assigning Active Monitors
  • Deleting Active Monitors
  • Group and Device Active Monitor reports
  • Example: monitoring network printer toner levels
    • To configure the printer monitor
  • Expression Editor
    • Script Syntax
    • Script Syntax: Expect=Keyword
    • Script Syntax: Flow Control Keywords
    • Script Syntax: Send=Keyword
    • Script Syntax: SimpleExpect Keyword
    • Send to disconnect examples
    • Regular Expression syntax
    • Text string example
    • Using Telnet to determine "Expect on Connect" string
  • Using the Active Script Monitor
    • Using the Active Script Monitor context object
    • Examples: Active Script Monitor context code
• Using Passive Monitors
  • About Passive Monitors
  • Configuring Passive Monitors
  • Configuring Passive Monitor Listeners
  • Using the Passive Monitor Library
  • Group and Device Passive Monitor Reports
  • Receiving SNMP Traps
• Using Performance Monitors
  • Performance Monitor overview
  • About the Performance Monitor Library
  • Configuring and enabling Performance Monitors
  • Enabling SNMP on Windows Devices
  • Adding custom Performance Monitors to the Performance Monitor Library
  • About performance reporting
  • Custom Peformance Monitors
    • Example: monitoring router bandwidth
    • Example: troubleshooting a slow network connection
• Using Active Discovery
  • About Active Discovery
  • Configuring Active Discovery
    • Example: configuring Active Discovery
  • Enabling and disabling an Active Discovery task
  • Testing Active Discovery tasks
• Using Maps
  • Using the Map View
  • About the Map View
  • Using map display options
  • Using Arrange options
  • Using device layout
  • Using device types
  • Using grid properties
  • Grouping objects
  • Using the lock position
  • Mapping fonts
  • Organizing devices
  • Using link lines
    • Using attached lines
    • Connecting links
    • About unconnected links
    • Showing unconnected links
• Using the Program Options
  • Changing the date and time format
  • Changing how long report data is stored
  • Changing the device state colors or icons
  • Stopping and starting the Web server
  • Stopping and starting the web server
  • Changing clock/regional preferences
• Using Full Reports
  • Learning about full reports
    • About System Reports
    • About Group Reports
    • About Device Reports
  • List of full reports
  • About report refresh intervals
  • Printing, exporting, and saving full reports
  • Report column sizing and sorting
  • Changing the report date range
  • Adding report to your list of favorites
  • Using Recurring Reports
    • Configuring Recurring Reports
    • Testing Recurring Reports
• Understanding and Using Workspaces
  • Learning about workspaces
  • About types of workspaces
  • Managing Workspace Views
  • Navigating through workspace views
  • About workspace content
  • Adding workspace reports to a Device Status workspace
• Using Workspace Reports
  • Learning about workspace reports
  • List of workspace reports
  • About the workspace report menu
  • Configuring a workspace report
  • Moving Workspace Reports within a workspace
  • Device Group Mini Status workspace report
• Using SNMP
  • SNMP overview
  • Monitoring SNMP Service
  • About the SNMP Agent or Manager
  • About the SNMP Management Information Base (MIB)
  • About SNMP Object Names and Identifiers
  • About the SNMP operations
  • About SNMP Security
  • Using the Trap Definition Import Tool
• Using WhatsUp Gold Premium Edition
  • What is in Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold v11 Premium Edition?
  • Monitoring a Microsoft Exchange Server
    • How to get started using the Exchange Monitor
    • Configuring an Exchange Monitor
      • Exchange parameters
      • Exchange services
    • Example: Exchange Server monitor
  • Monitoring Microsoft SQL Server
    • How to get started using SQL Server Monitor
    • Configuring an SQL Server Monitor
      • SQL Server Parameters
      • SQL Server Services
    • Example: SQL Server Monitor
  • Monitoring WMI-enabled applications
    • How to get started using WMI Monitor
    • Example: WMI Monitor
• Troubleshooting
  • Troubleshooting your network
  • Database Performance Tool
  • Connecting to a Remote Desktop
  • WhatsUp Gold engine message
  • False negative returned from WMI monitors
  • Re-enabling the Telnet protocol handler
• Migrating from Previous Versions of WhatsUp Gold
  • Information for WhatsUp Gold v8 and earlier users
  • Migration utility
  • Back up the database
  • Data Source
  • Maps to transfer
  • Report of Migration Results
  • Finished
• Using WhatsUp Gold Multi-Site and MSP Editions
  • About the WhatsUp Gold Distributed Solution
    • Distributed reporting capabilities
  • Installing Central and Remote Sites
    • Step 1: Installing the WhatsUp Gold Central Site
      • Changing the Central Site configuration settings
    • Step 2: Configuring the firewall for Remote Site connections
    • Step 3: Installing the WhatsUp Gold Remote Site
      • Changing the Remote Site configuration settings
    • Step 4: Using Reports for WhatsUp Gold Distributed Solution
      • Workspace Reports: learning about the Central/Remote Workspace Reports
        • Adding Remote/Central workspace reports to your Home Workspace
        • Using the Remote/Central workspace reports
        • Moving and removing Remote/Central workspace reports
        • Managing Workspace Views
      • Full Reports: learning about the Central/Remote Full Reports
        • Using the Remote Site full reports
    • Step 5: Using the Ipswitch Dashboard Screen Manager application
      • Installing the Dashboard compatibility patch
    • Configuring user accounts
    • Learning more about using WhatsUp Gold distributed solution
• About the Dashboard Screen Manager
  • Ipswitch Dashboard Screen Manager Overview
  • How does the Dashboard Screen Manager work?
  • Installing the Dashboard Screen Manager
    • Opening the Dashboard Screen Manager
  • Configuring a Dashboard Screen Manager playlist