WhatsUp Gold Technology
Network Discovery & Mapping Features
Key capabilities of the WhatsUp Gold Discovery and Mapping functions
Your network is always changing and evolving. New devices and systems are being added, existing infrastructure is being moved around and older equipment is being phased out. Your effort to manage the network is limited by what you know about it at any instant. As a Network manager, you need a way to keep track of all the changes on a regular basis and adjust your monitoring scope and coverage as things evolve - automatically. In fact, knowing that a piece of infrastructure exists is often not enough. You need to know what role it plays in your network and application delivery chain and what attributes it has. You also need to know what other devices or systems it is connected to and how it impacts overall service delivery.
In short, powerful and automated discovery and mapping capability is essential to Network Management. Without it your network management capabilities cannot scale, be accurate or efficient. WhatsUp Gold offers just what you need - an industry-leading mix of automation and intelligence that makes new service deployment and management as easy as it can be.
With WhatsUp Gold Network Discovery you can:
- Discover (Layer 3) and map what's on your network and keep track of changes as it evolves
- Automatically assign roles to devices based on intelligent matching against pre-set templates and attributes
- Automatically deploy and start active, passive or performance monitors based on assigned roles and attributes
- Start, stop, manage & schedule the discovery process both from the Windows console and the WhatsUp Gold web portal
- Retain the flexibility to make changes to any role or monitoring profile at any time or create new profiles as required
WhatsConnected: Advanced Discovery & Topology Mapping
An even more powerful combination of Layer 2 and 3 discovery, and topology based mapping available separately through the WhatsConnected plug-in. Using WhatsConnected, you can create Layer 2 topology based relationship maps which can be easily imported into WhatsUp Gold Discovery and Mapping in a few clicks - providing a single pane of management of all related network discovery information.