Convenience stores are the fast way for folks on the road to run in, grab what they need and be off to the next stop in their busy days. But when a regional convenience store chain known for its speedy service found itself spending as much as 6 hours to recover from fairly frequent failures of DVR servers used to help secure its stores it simply created too much busy work. For a couple of years, the chain's IT staff had responded to DVR server failures by pulling a technician away from whatever work was assigned for the day and havin…
Description How high of a load can WhatsUp Gold support? How many devices is too many? How many monitors can I have? How much polling is too much? Solution Except for the fact that you can only monitor as many devices as your WhatsUp Gold license allows (and as many sources as your NetFlow Monitor license allows), there are no hard-and-fast answers to these questions. WhatsUp Gold's capacity (that is, how many of each of these things it can handle before its own performance starts to deterioriate) results from an i…
Description I would like to view a comparison of the different WhatsUp Gold editions. Solution All three editions of WhatsUp Gold (Standard, Premium, Distributed) offer the following functionality: Web UI, Windows console, and mobile access Alert center Integrated SQL database format Performance monitors Custom actions using Jscript or VBscript Performance monitoring via SNMP ICMP, IP range scan, SNMP SmartScan Manual creation of device dependencies, multi-level topology mapping Import image files for graphical background…
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