More Bang for Your Buck
July 22, 2021

More Bang for Your Buck

Shahab Razak | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold)

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.

Pros

  • Network L2/L3 discovery
  • SNMP compatibility
  • Network mapping
  • Cloud visibility and monitoring
  • Log aggregation

Cons

  • 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.
  • Network discovery
  • SNMP compatibility
  • Alerting
  • Reduced MTTR
  • Increased network visibility
  • Network visualization
  • Network baselines
  • Network element inventory
The network monitoring tools and suites are abundant and you must be very thorough when evaluating the plethora of solutions out there. SNMP MIBs make it easy to gather information and discover your network, so you should concentrate on usability features, reporting, and threshold and baseline management. Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold) does this simply and customizably in a very intuitive interface.

Do you think Progress WhatsUp Gold delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Progress WhatsUp Gold's feature set?

Yes

Did Progress WhatsUp Gold live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Progress WhatsUp Gold go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Progress WhatsUp Gold again?

Yes

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Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold) has consistently improved its capabilities and added a wealth of features year over year. It has remained one of the most affordable and capable network operations center tools, which offers good network visibility, monitoring, and alerting solutions. Its exhaustive SNMP support makes insight into individual network elements highly customizable and visible.

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