WhatsUp Gold Technology
SNMP Monitoring
If it supports SNMP, WhatsUp Gold can manage & monitor it.
You already know you need visibility into your network infrastructure, and you've decided SNMP makes the most sense. It would provide the most cost effective route to monitoring the network and systems infrastructure for availability and performance statistics. So why not pick any SNMP monitoring tool? Aren't they all the same?
No they're not. In fact, some SNMP based monitoring tools can even create more work for you. They may restrict you to limited out-of-the box capabilities that do not provide complete coverage of your environment. The result - you have to scramble together ad-hoc information from other tools or fly blind when outages occur in unmonitored devices. Others may provide many options in terms of custom configuration, but are nearly impossible to setup and configure without a PhD. What you need is a fine balance of easy deployment and configuration, comprehensive coverage and enough flexibility to adapt to your environment.
WhatsUp Gold: Comprehensive, Configurable and Easy to Use SNMP Monitoring
From the ground up, WhatsUp Gold's SNMP monitoring capabilities were designed to be flexible, full featured and intuitive. From the novice user to the advanced custom-monitoring expert, WhatsUp Gold provides exactly what you need to get the job done, quickly and easily.
WhatsUp Gold supports the monitoring of any SNMP v1, v2 or v3 enabled device including routers, switches, servers, firewalls, and operating systems, including Windows, Unix, and Linux. In addition to powerful monitoring capabilities, WhatsUp Gold provides network management professionals with a complete set of web-based SNMP management tools, including:
- The SNMP MIB Walker, which evaluates device support and SNMP objects that can be monitored
- The SNMP MIB Manager, which instantly validates and identifies any errors in any MIB
- The SNMP MIB Explorer, which lists and validates all MIBs available ensuring that the correct SNMP parameters are used
- Multi-SNMP variable probing and trending
- The ability to build your own customizable SNMP monitors on the fly
- The ability to assign business relevant names to monitored SNMP interfaces
- Support for Gigabyte-capacity SNMP interfaces such as 10Gbps Ethernet
Why is SNMP Monitoring Important?
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an IP based application layer protocol that facilitates the exchange of management information between a network management solution (like WhatsUp Gold) and any SNMP enabled device. Network hardware vendors automatically embed SNMP support in their devices; making it an accessible and affordable way to monitor the network.
Most major hardware vendors extend their support of SNMP beyond the basic level and incorporate deeper level proprietary metrics, which can be monitored and measured with a network management solution. SNMP is valuable because it enables you to efficiently manage network and application performance, find and solve problems, and plan for growth.
Full Industry Standard Support
No matter the device, system, service, application or OS, if it supports SNMP whether natively or through additional agent-based instrumentation, it can be managed by WhatsUp Gold.
WhatsUp Gold is fully standards compliant, supporting:
- SNMP v1-3 - public MIBS including RFCs 1157, 1212, 1901, 2578, 2579, 2576, 3411, 3418, 3584
- SNMP Security RFC 3826
Extensive Device and System Coverage
Out-of-the-box, WhatsUp Gold provides comprehensive OS, application, device, service and system SNMP monitoring support, including:
- UNIX/LINUX - Host Resources MIB - RFC 2790 and the NetSNMP MIB
- CPU, disk and memory
- Security - firewalls and IDS
- Storage - NAS and SAN, iSCSI and Fiber Channel
- Cisco® routers, firewalls and switches
- IP Services - HTTP, FTP, TCP, IP, and others
Typical Problem Solving Scenarios
With WhatsUp Gold's out-of-the box and custom monitoring capabililties, you can:
- Track all key device metrics including memory and CPU, to ensure network slowdowns are not resulting from an overloaded device
- Monitor interface utilization over time to ensure network resources are sized appropriately
- Use the comprehensive SNMP toolset to create custom monitors - to track vendor proprietary metrics critical to your business
- Use the MIB Walker functionality to quickly test and assess a device's support for key performance statistics