Network Management Interfaces
WhatsUp Gold makes it simple to navigate around your network.
Powerful Windows and Web based management with a difference.
Access to up-to the second data and system status is extremely important to network managers, but if you can’t make sense of the data, what good is it. WhatsUp Gold’s flexible management interfaces, both Windows and web consoles, transform the data into actionable intelligence and set the standard for usability and flexibility.
By consolidating all information in a NOC-based centralized location, WhatsUp Gold presents a clear and concise picture of any size network and application infrastructure and makes it immediately available to the network manager. Workspaces and dashboards can be configured and individualized to meet the requirements of both SMBs and enterprises for configuration, monitoring, alerting and reporting.
Simple and Elegant Management Interface
With a choice of either Windows or web-based management interfaces, WhatsUp Gold provides simple navigation and rapid access to information from anywhere, at any time. The WhatsUp consoles are fully adaptable and configurable to meet administrative and management needs, providing:
- A single focal point for all information about your network health and status
- Fully integrated web server that runs as separate service
- Customizable workspace views for maximum flexibility and visibility
- Individualized dashboards for quick analysis and synthesis of critical information
- Access to web-console at any time, no matter where you are
- Windows Explorer based navigation of devices
- Grouping of devices by status, type and/or business requirements
- Drag and drop device management for maps and groups
- Visibility into individual devices, systems or services from network maps or device groups
Built-in Localization
WhatsUp Gold is designed to let you quickly adapt dialogs, workspaces and dashboards to meet localization requirements. It provides:
- Double-byte and UTF-8 enabled to support all languages
- Simple export and import of translated information into the WhatsUp web console
Secure & Role-based Network Management
Make sure only authorized people can manage controlled assets on your IT network with WhatsUp Gold
Is your network managed securely?
Protection of data and privacy is of considerable concern to organizations as a result of legislative initiatives, such as HIPAA and SOX, as well as corporate directives. Most organizations that have implemented security measures have to prove their enforcement to audit and compliance oversight groups. As a result, network managers must not only enforce security, but prove that their tools do not introduce security risks to their executive management. WhatsUp Gold gives you the tools to securely manage your IT network and also provides the proof that you're enforcing your protection policies properly.
WhatsUp Gold also gives you complete control over what authorized users can and cannot do. Via role-based network management, you can set access rights so that your server team can only manage servers, your network infrastructure team has rights to networking gear, your senior management has access to pertinent reports, and as network manager you can oversee everything.
Air-tight security
WhatsUp Gold not only monitors security activity and device status via SNMP for firewalls, IDS and other security focused systems, but also fully complies with corporate security initiatives, using the following technologies:
- Secure SSL web console access with 128bit AES encryption
- Built-in self-signed certificates
- SNMP based security with 128-Bit AES encryption
- Trusted certificates from: Verisign, Thawt and others
In addition to management console security for the entire WhatsUp product family, WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition implements SSL or SSL\VPN based security for all communication between your central site and each remote site being monitored, even across public networks. This way you can be sure that data and access is fully protected.
Configurable role based management
Along with support for security compliance, network management tools need to be able to control internal access to information and network assets. WhatsUp Gold directly imports user login information from Active Directory and LDAP to speed configuration and provide compliant access control to management tools, information and consoles based upon your users’ roles and responsibilities. WhatsUp gold lets you clearly define by organizational role user access to:
- Configuration
- Reporting
- Discovery
- Monitors
- Policies
- Workspaces
- Management and monitoring of services, servers, applications and devices
- Translation
