Ipswitch today announced WhatsUp
Gold 2018 with major enhancements, including performance monitoring of Amazon
Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure cloud deployments, Meraki cloud managed
wireless systems, Dell Compellent storage devices and Outlook 365. Ipswitch's
customers now have an at-a-glance dashboard and an interactive map for
visibility into the status and performance of networks, servers, storage
devices and applications across on-premises and cloud with a single network
interface.
"IT professionals wear multiple hats and can't afford to invest
large amounts of time trying to extract the information they need from
disparate management tools," said Austin O'Malley, Chief Product Officer at
Ipswitch. "The latest version of WhatsUp Gold meets the growing needs of our
customers with even smarter discovery, a new overview dashboard to view key
metrics and overall health quickly, and greatly expanded out-of-the-box support
to monitor all facets of their on-premises and cloud IT environments."
WhatsUp Gold 2018 delivers automatic discovery of your
networked environment and displays your entire physical, virtual and cloud
environment in a unique interactive map to enable truly proactive end-to-end
performance monitoring and troubleshooting. Unlike competitor products, there
is no need to learn different tools to gain insights into the various
components of your environment.
"I wanted to be in control of what was scanned, and the
saved scan window makes this easy to do," said Timothy Walsh, Senior IT
Architect at American Electric Power Company. "I was up and running within a
short time with little concern that I'd missed anything. The new dashboards
come with standards that allow me to see my devices and any problems quickly
and easily. The ability to modify my dashboards and share new ones also makes
this a powerful tool. It can be used to setup a network operations monitoring
center or just a local dashboard that I look at on my desktop. The flexibility
is there for either use."
WhatsUp Gold gives users comprehensive monitoring
including network devices, network traffic, servers (including Windows and
Linux), hypervisors (including VMWare and Hyper-V), storage devices (including
NetApp, EMC and Dell Compellent, wireless devices (including Cisco Meraki), web
servers (including IIS and Apache), Java environments, cloud environments
availability (for both AWS and Azure), and applications including Outlook 365 -
all through a single interface.
"We use network traffic analysis of WhatsUp Gold 2018 for
WAN and reporting, and it does a great job in getting into the granular
details," said Evan Mazetis, Network Manager at BankFive. "We use dashboards
for many applications on the network to monitor the traffic and export the data
for reporting purposes. I like the fact that on the reporting portion, you can
export the data - a nice touch."
"With this latest version of WhatsUp Gold, users can
create a lot of new alerts and actions," said Johan Kersten, System
Administrator at Airtrade Holland B.V. "For our company, we are using e-mail
alerts and mobile alerts through the SMS action. They are easy to create and
are working like a charm. For application monitoring, monitoring Office365 is a
good addition. Discovery of devices is very easy - you can discover devices by
hostname, by IP-address range or one IP-address or gateway. The setup is easy,
and it's very easy to get a device monitored."
WhatsUp Gold provides powerful search and filtering by
device type or state. Powerful map overlays allow easy viewing of network
dependencies, wireless networks, virtual environments, cloud resources and
interface utilization. IT professionals can see the overall picture and then
drill down to specific device types facilitating troubleshooting and assuring
the fastest time to problem resolution.
WhatsUp Gold is up and running quickly, providing
immediate visibility and notifications through email, SMS or messaging
platforms such as Slack when an issue occurs. IT professionals can quickly
create custom dashboards just the way they want them and schedule powerful
reports.
"The challenge for many in IT operations is how to
deliver the required level of visibility, availability, reliability and
security of cloud environments irrespective of where these resources are
located," said Roy Illsley, Lead Cloud Analyst at Ovum. "Many of the leading
multi-cloud management vendors provide some of this capability, but do so for a
limited number of different environments, and only provide basic monitoring
services. Ipswitch takes the view that data is a source of knowledge if it can
be used. Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold provides a monitoring solution that covers cloud
providers as well as some of the most popular SaaS solutions."
WhatsUp Gold 2018 has many new features for new and
existing users including AWS and Azure cloud performance monitoring, Outlook
365 monitoring, Cisco Meraki Cloud WLC support , expanded Cisco WLC/AP support,
Slack integration, a new interface utilization map overlay, overview dashboard
and comprehensive device icon library.
For a free, fully functional 30-day trial or more
information, visit: https://www.ipswitch.com/network-monitoring