WhatsVirtual Technical Preview Program

Complete Control of Virtualized Servers

As technology continues to progress, networks are becoming increasingly more complicated. This is thanks in large part to the introduction of virtual servers; arming network managers with the ability maximize the efficiency of their networks by combining existing physical environments with virtualized environments.

That being said, it is essential to have a tool that allows you to effectively monitor and manage those virtualized environments. SNMP is no longer a reliable source for monitoring and managing your VMware infrastructure. Enter the newest integrated plug-in from WhatsUp Gold, WhatsVirtual, which utilizes the powerful VMware API.

WhatsVirtual Features

Support for VMware ESX/ESXi monitoring, including:

New VMware discovery role and discovery attributes
New VMware workspaces Reports:

Virtual Host
Virtual Host List

New VMware Performance Monitors

Virtual Machine CPU
VMware Host CPU
Virtual Machine Disk
VMware Disk
Virtual Machine Memory
VMware Memory
Virtual Machine Interface
VMware Interface

New VM mapping
New VMware Credential Type for VMware hosts
New VMware Action Type
Alert Center thresholds for VMware

WhatsUp Gold v14.2

WhatsUp Gold v14.2 builds upon the feature set of the core product, offering enhancements in performance as well as improvements on three of the integrated plug-ins; WhatsConnected*, Flow Monitor and WhatsConfigured.

WhatsUp Gold v14.2 Features

SSH Active Monitor provides the ability to have better control over a Unix, Linux, and other environments. The SSH Active Monitor lets you execute a command or script, over SSH, on a designated computer and interpret the returned results as an Up or Down state on the device.
SSH Action lets you execute a command or script, over SSH, from WhatsUp Gold to a designated computer. The command can be any type of command that the computer can interpret and run. The commands can be basic Unix commands, Perl scripts, and other commands a user needs to execute on the computer. For example, commands that power on, power off, reset, shutdown, and snapshot devices.
Blackout Summary Alert provides a summary report and notification for all devices that incurred state changes during a blackout period. This information is also available in the Alert Center.
Multiple data points within a single performance monitor graph provides the ability to view multiple pieces of data for a single device on one graph. For example, you can view performance data for each CPU, memory type, or disk on a single computer; all on one performance monitor report. Multiple data points are available CPU, Memory, and Disk Performance Monitors.

Flow Monitor Enhancements

Added support for IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) UDP
Added support for sFlow v2 and NSEL Support (Cisco ASA Firewall support)
95th Percentile Reporting to sample data at regular and frequent intervals of about five minutes for an extended period of time; for example, a week or a month. This method of measuring bandwidth allows bandwidth to exceed a specified threshold for a period of time, ignoring the top 5% of traffic. This reporting method can be used to help fairly compromise billing charges for network bandwidth usage.
Flow Monitor performance and usability improvements

*WhatsConnected enhancements are not available for this TPP