WhatsUp Gold for 24/7 Business
WhatsUp Gold is used across the organization to monitor current systems and alert us when operational systems are down, it gives us 24/7 …
Progress WhatsUp Gold
Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold)
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Joanna Murphy
Systems Engineer
Christchurch International Airport Limited (Airlines/Aviation, 201-500 employees)
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Network Administration Supervisor
Gleaner Life Insurance Society (Insurance, 51-200 employees)Video Reviews
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What is Progress WhatsUp Gold?
WhatsUp Gold developed by Ipswitch (acquired by Progress Software May 2019) offers network performance monitoring and mapping. It supports core monitoring features, including automated workflows and network capacity planning, and monitors across hybrid environments.
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What is Progress WhatsUp Gold?
Progress WhatsUp Gold (WUG) is designed to help network admins find and fix network problems before end users notice. Its web-based interactive mapping interface lets users see up/down availability and performance at-a-glance for everything connected to a network, on premises and in the cloud.
WUG is an on-premises solution designed for IT enterprises and MSPs. The solution helps them to manage their IT infrastructure and network activities. It offers tools for discovering, visualizing and monitoring network devices, displaying connections between devices and monitoring network status.
WhatsUp Gold can automatically discover anything connected to the network, including physical servers, cloud resources, storage devices, VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines as well as wireless devices. It helps IT admins to view, analyze and manage cross-device connections from a single interactive map. Admins can also monitor application performance and network traffic and manage network device configuration and change control processes. Any network activity falling outside of customizable thresholds triggers alerts sent via email, web, SMS or Slack. Alerts can also trigger self-healing actions or PowerShell scripts.
Progress WhatsUp Gold Features
- Supported: Automated Discovery
- Supported: Network Mapping
- Supported: Server Monitoring
- Supported: Cloud Monitoring
- Supported: Wireless Monitoring
- Supported: Application Monitoring
- Supported: Bandwidth Monitoring
- Supported: Traffic Monitoring
- Supported: Virtualization Management
- Supported: Configuration Management
- Supported: Distributed Monitoring
- Supported: MSP Monitoring
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Progress WhatsUp Gold Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 25% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 40% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 35% |
Progress WhatsUp Gold Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | North America, Latin America, EMEA, APAC, APJ |
| Supported Languages | English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese |
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What is Progress WhatsUp Gold?
WhatsUp Gold developed by Ipswitch (acquired by Progress Software May 2019) offers network performance monitoring and mapping. It supports core monitoring features, including automated workflows and network capacity planning, and monitors across hybrid environments.
What are Progress WhatsUp Gold's top competitors?
Nagios Core, SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), and PRTG Network Monitor are common alternatives for Progress WhatsUp Gold.
What is Progress WhatsUp Gold's best feature?
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 4.2.
Who uses Progress WhatsUp Gold?
The most common users of Progress WhatsUp Gold are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees) and the Computer Software industry.
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August 20, 2021
WhatsUp Gold for 24/7 Business
WhatsUp Gold is used across the organization to monitor current systems and alert us when operational systems are down, it gives us 24/7 monitoring as we have linked it to AD groups that inform the Ops desk and the on call engineer when we have a P1 issue. It also gives us a continuous overview whist in work of when systems go down and we can pro-actively check issues that arise.
- 24/ 7 Monitoring
- Real time alerting
- Enables pro-active actioning of issues
- Software is clunky
- Tutorials can be difficult to read
- Portal could be better
Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold) is used to monitor network devices and endpoints and perform reporting and health checks regarding those devices. It allows us to visualize our network and make more informed decisions when troubleshooting or examining performance related issues. We can schedule reports and collect log data. It is a useful tool for administrators.
- The depth of detail collected and accessible
- The interface is clean
- Upgrades are easy and straightforward
- More wizards for beginning the utilization of new functionalities
- The feature depth can be intimidating
July 22, 2021
More Bang for Your Buck
Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold) is currently used in the organization as a simple visualization of network element status (red-yellow-green) and alerts. It also helps with SLA reporting and monitoring. Its exhaustive SNMP MIB compatibility and support allows us to report on reliability and usage of network bandwidth and trends. IProgress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold) is a quick network status at-a-glance tool for our NOC. Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold) has been constantly upgrading features and adding to their capabilities. For this reason we kept Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold) in our NOC arsenal.
- Network L2/L3 discovery
- SNMP compatibility
- Network mapping
- Cloud visibility and monitoring
- Log aggregation
- Network performance monitoring
- User interface gets more cumbersome as the network elements increase
- Network mapping gets harder to use as the elements increase, and multilayered device elements cause confusion in the maps.
June 09, 2021
WhatsUp Gold - Low priced monitoring software
We use [Progress] Whatsup Gold [(formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold)] to monitor our server environment. We have a small farm of about 70 systems. While it has many features our primary use case is to alert on down services and systems. We do not utilize the network plugins for the application. It suits our need for what it does.
- Inexpensive
- Good support
- Accurate alerting
- Poor GUI
- Long configuration time
- Poor formatting for text alerts
November 26, 2019
WUG doesn't have many features but is a simple monitoring tool
WUG is used to monitor servers and network devices by our data center operations team.
- Monitors update/down status of devices.
- Sends alerts after a designated period of time.
- It has no real feature set. It is just there to monitor device status up/down.
October 04, 2019
What'sUp Gold - Great monitoring tool
We purchased What's Up Gold to monitor our server uptime but quickly realized the potential for monitoring and alerting on more aspects of our servers. We use it to send notifications on low disk space, server uptime, processor, and memory notifcations.
- Easy to install and manage.
- While it does require a whole server with IIS and a SQL db it is low impact on resources but still quick to respond.
- Great for quick notifications about a server going above a configured resource threshold. We don't have to look at every server's resource utilization individually anymore.
- Quick and easy to setup a service up or down notification.
- Sales staff can be a bit pushy in terms of selling more product than you need. This is not unique to What's Up but it can be a bit unwelcome once you have already purchased the product.
- Updates could be a little easier but overall not too bad. Once or twice we have had to start over with a new server when upgrading to a major numbered revision.
- IIS site can be a bit slow at times. This could just be our setup but I have noticed that it can be slow to respond during high traffic times. It does always respond and work properly but the wait time to move from screen to screen could be lower.
March 05, 2019
Simple network monitoring with limited functionalities
WhatsUp Gold is used for monitoring network equipment deployed in the company.
- Network Device health monitoring and status
- Logging and SNMP traps
- Network Inventory
- Device performance
- Lacks proper graphical representation of the bandwidth utilization.
- Circuit monitoring and port activity.
- Configuration manager for large scale deployement.
- Backup configurations for network equipment.
February 02, 2019
New WhatsUp Gold review
My company uses WhatsUp Gold for monitoring thousands of network devices across the country for our customers in Managed Enterprise Solutions. We are able to get a better grasp at trends with the help of this NMS. The newer versions also allow a cleaner user experience, which we like.
- The user experience with the new interface.
- The ease of setting up active monitoring. Network Discovery.
- Performance monitor and traffic monitoring.
- Sometimes it cannot seem to handle the load of many devices on one server.
- Could use more user support communities.
- Logging and reporting could be better.
August 15, 2018
A tool for quick diagnosis and easy monitoring
We are currently using WhatsUp Gold to monitor up/down time for our Network Devices, including Cisco Routers, Switches, VPN and Firewall. When any one of the monitored devices go down, it will send me an alert.
- Easy to deploy and easy to use. Once configured, it doesn't require much attention besides when adding new devices
- Ability to create maps for end users. Simplifies their monitoring
- Ability to create custom monitors and alerts based on various polling methods
- Great customer service and tech support
- The web-based GUI is very slow and not responsive sometimes
- Very expensive training classes
- Most add-on plugins require payment
May 01, 2018
WhatsUp Gold Review
WhatsUp Gold is being used to monitor multiple sites owned by the organization across different countries across Africa. It's being used by the Networks Department to holistically manage the network across these various locations. WhatsUp Gold has helped the organization not only to monitor multiple sites but also provides real-time status of every endpoint device at each site. Through SNMP configuration, real-time and periodic well-detailed reports on each device can generate proper analysis and performance of the network in general, which could impact in futuristic strategic planning.
- Optimal network and endpoint device monitoring.
- Explicit report generation on the endpoint and network performance.
- Investigating and troubleshooting of network and endpoint device issue has been made very easy.
- Navigating the new WhatsUp Gold 2018 is a bit complicated and not user-friendly. The best part about using a software is the user's ability to use it with ease.
- You cannot click sites being monitored from Map Dashboard View. This feature was previously possible in the older version.
March 29, 2018
WhatsUp: An insight to your network
Currently, we use WhatsUp Gold for monitoring and maintaining our extended grocery chain infrastructure. This includes the Cisco routers, switches, and wireless APs. The main use is to monitor when a connection drops, switches between our primary connection and secondary connection or any hardware issues that may arise. I do use it a little for NetFlow tracking and Syslogging when needed.
- Monitoring the connection; performance, switching, and issues. We use a broadband connection for our primary and a cellular backup for the secondary. While we use routing protocols to make this switch and WhatsUp isn't used for Syslog monitoring. it alerts us within seconds.
- Backup configurations and archiving. WhatsUp does this particularly well. I use it for both Cisco routers and switches.
- The diagram feature is nice. Though I don't use it as much because of the size of our structure, it does come in handy for mapping routes of all traffic.
- SNMP scripting would be one. Unless you are very well versed in SNMP trapping, you will do a lot of reading/playing/tuning to get exactly what you want.
- The all web interface has been a bit of a bummer. They took a lot of the functions from the admin console that made it easy to add/remove certain features quickly.
March 31, 2017
WhatsUp Gold Premium
We use WhatUp Gold Premium Edition by Ipswitch to monitor our important network devices and services for uptime and notifications via email and text in the event of downtime. It is used by the IT Department, but deployed across the whole organization. We needed to find a software that alerted us to devices and services going down unplanned. WhatsUp Gold solved that problem for us.
- Monitors services on remote servers
- Alerts users of missed pings on designated devices
- Monitors power supplies, temperature, and fans on compatible network switches
- Canned reports help find trends.
- Training is needed to use WhatsUp Gold to its full potential.
- A network inventory would be a nice feature to have without having to pay extra
March 24, 2017
Server monitoring set it and forget it.
We use WhatsUpGold as our server monitoring service across our whole organization. We use it to proactively monitor our servers' uptime.
- It is very easy to set up the various alerts and objects.
- The GUI is easy to navigate and intuitive to use.
- The level of granularity for setting up the objects is very high, which allows for a lot of customizability.
- Setting up traps for exchange services has led to false positives in the past.
March 03, 2017
Easy to use, highly configurable
We use WhatsUp Gold (WUG) to monitor our servers (physical and virtual), as well as our internal network traffic. It allows us to be proactive about our server and network performance, as well as access perfomance history for capacity planning.
- Perfomance metric monitoring. We are able to specify the performance metrics that are important to us on a per-server basis and set custom alerts when the server exceeds those thresholds.
- Customization. We were very easily able to design a custom dashboard that shows us the information we need in the way we need it.
- Historical data. We can drill down on each aspect of a particular server's performance in a time range to assess its load and if changes are needed. This is especially useful in our virtual environment
- Network monitoring. We use the Flow Monitor module which allows us to see in near real time what data is traversing the network and who the responsible parties are. Now when people say the network is "slow" I can pinpoint the root cause quickly.
- While it is easy to get up and running, I know I could utilize the software better if I had some formal training on it. There are a wealth of features available, but I don't have time to learn them all in depth.
- The training classes offered are very expensive. I'd love it if IPSwitch offered some kind of reasonably priced training options.