Innovative Web-based Monitoring through a new Scalable Web framework
Every Ipswitch solution is built with the end-user in mind. Starting with Drag & Drop capabilities, the new web framework is powered behind the scenes by leading edge AJAX and Jscript technology. And it's designed to help network administrators quickly launch, optimize, and maintain their WhatsUp installation.
Unprecedented insight via Workspaces with 100+ customizable reports
A unique and differentiated user experience -- one that can only be created by Ipswitch - is key to driving well-informed decisions, which ultimately drives dramatic improvements in your network and business. Administrators can set up and assign a configurable "personal workspace" or assign a workspace to a subordinate.
About Workspaces
The WhatsUp Gold Home workspace is the first screen you see after logging in to the web interface. This is your personal, customizable Home workspace.
Workspaces in WhatsUp Gold are designed to be user-specific, and are configurable to include workspace reports specific to users' needs. Workspaces contain multiple views that let you organize workspace reports by the type of information they display. When you begin customizing your workspace views, you should consider the types of information you need to view most often, the devices in which you need to pay closest attention, and what level of detail you want to monitor through a particular Workspace View. You should also take into consideration the type of workspace, and the types of workspace reports you can add.
Device workspaces are limited to display only Device-level workspace reports. Only workspace reports specific to a single device can be placed on a device workspace. When you change the device-in-context, the reports displayed show data corresponding to the newly selected device.
Home workspaces can display both Home and Device workspace reports. You can place any workspace report on a universal workspace, mixing and matching summary, group, and device specific data.
Changes that are made to a workspace view only affect the user that makes the changes. If they decide to completely change all of the workspace views under their account, their user account will be the only account affected by those changes.
Pre-Configured Workspaces
Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold v11 comes to you with 3 pre-configured workspaces:
- Home workspace
- Device Status workspace
- Top 10 workspace
The Home workspace
The WhatsUp Gold Home workspace is the first screen that you see after you log in to the web interface. Referred to as "Home", this universal workspace is designed to house the network information that you need most visible.
Home contains three pre-configured "views" that you can customize to your own specifications:
- General
- Problem Areas 1
- Problem Areas 2
Each workspace view includes several default workspace reports that you can decide to keep, alter, expand, or remove.
You can also create your own workspace views for the Home workspace through the Manage Workspace Views dialog.
The Device Status workspace
The WhatsUp Gold Device Status workspace displays the Device Status full report for a network device. You can change the device-in-context, but the workspace reports in each workspace view remain the same.
The Device Status workspace also has several pre-configured workspace views:
- General
- Disk/CPU/Memory
- Problem Areas
- Router/Switch/Interface
The Top 10 workspace
The WhatsUp Gold displays the Top 10 full report for your network devices. The Top 10 full report is a collection of workspace reports that focus on the current health of your network devices. It is pre-configured to include workspace reports that display data on the top network devices by:
- Interface utilization
- Interface traffic
- Ping response time
- Disk utilization
- CPU utilization
- Memory utilization
Unlike the Home and Device Status workspaces, the Top 10 workspace is designed with only the General workspace view. You can customize the general view in the same way you can other workspace views by removing the default workspace reports and/or adding other Top 10 and Threshold workspace reports.