03 November 2017

Ipswitch has added new features to its WhatsUp Gold (WUG). 

According to the company, its popular network monitoring software “is all about ease-of-use and quickly resolving network issues”. It has now extended that to include Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure servers, enabling users to now monitor hybrid cloud environments.

The platform also now includes real-time performance monitoring reports. Similar to the ‘split-second’ graphs of legacy versions, Ipswitch claims the reports provide “extremely granular” data for troubleshooting. It says they can be added to any dashboard and configured to display real-time statistics for CPU, memory, interface, disk and ping. Users can view data on multiple interfaces per device, pause monitors, or export the data to Excel for further analysis.

Another new feature is automatic and manual failover to ensure high-availability operation for a WUG server. Automatic failover can be setup based on specific event occurrences or conditions, while a manual failover option is provided for scheduled maintenance or planned outages/downtime.

Visibility to distributed networks has also been extended. Ipswitch says a range of distributed features are included in most editions making it easy to support larger and more geographically diverse networks. It says WUG provides users with “out-of-the-box” capabilities to view centralised reports from the remote sites and provide proactive network monitoring across a distributed environment.