WhatsUp Gold v15 – WhatsUp Companion 3.7
WhatsUp Companion Extended
Improve WhatsUp Gold with WhatsUp Companion
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WhatsUp Companion
WhatsUp Companion
WhatsUp Plugins
WhatsUp Gold
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• Aim to follow customer’s needs
• Increase WhatUp potential through
engineering
Flow Monitor
Flow Publisher
VoIP Monitor
Whats Configurated
Whats Connected
Whats Virtual
Failover Manager
Standard Edition
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26 additional Active Monitors
WhatsUp Companion
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9 additional Performance Monitors
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6 fields :
Databases
- Oracle
- MySQL
- MultiDB
Agents
- Nagios
- Zabbix
Applications
- File parser
- SFTP
- Mailer
Infrastructure applications
- DNS Extended
- DNS BlackList
- HTTP Certificate
- NTP
Core Monitoring
- SSH
- Telnet
- SNMP Extended
- DHCP Extended
- DHCP Scope
- Ping Jitter
Web Servers
- Apache
- TomCat
- Zapcat
- Websphere
- Jboss
- JMX Monitor
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Databases
Active Monitor + Performance Monitor :
Active Monitor :
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Active Monitor :
Oracle Plugins
• Description
It allows the monitoring of an Oracle Database
instance through a direct connection using the
listener. It allows to compare the return value of a
bunch of different performance counter, and to
execute a custom SQL query to compare the result
using a threshold.
Performance Monitor :
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Mysql Plugins
Active Monitor :
• Description
It allows the monitoring of a MySQL Database
through a direct connection. It allows to compare the
return value of a bunch of different performance
counter, and to execute a custom SQL query to
compare the result using a threshold.
Performance Monitor :
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SQL MultiDB Query Monitor
Active Monitor :
• Description
The Orsenna’s SQL MultiDB Query Monitor plug-in
allows the monitoring of different types of database
like Mysql, PostgreSQL, DB2, Oracle, Sybase and
Informix. With this plug-in we could execute a custom
SQL query to compare the result using a threshold.
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Applications
Active Monitor :
File Parser
SFTP
Mailer
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File Parser Monitor
Active Monitor :
• Description
It verifies if a file contains a specific pattern and if it
occurs X time(s).
We have also the possibility to select “Parse options”
to select if we want to analyze :
- Whole file
- Only new line
- Last X line
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SFTP Monitor
Active Monitor :
• Description
The Orsenna’s SFTP plug-in allows the execution of a
command on a remote SFTP server with standard
commands like put, get, pwd, dir, ls.. It allows to
compare the return value of the command to a
threshold, and to then trigger an action to alert the
WhatsUp administrator.
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Mailer Monitor Extended
Active Monitor :
• Description
It allows to analyze Email for a specific account and
return an alert according to the parameters (sender,
subject contains and number).
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Infrastructure applications
Active Monitor :
DNS Extended
DNS Blacklist
HTTP Certificate
NTP
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DNS Monitor Extended
Active Monitor :
• Description
It verifies if the DNS server is always up compared
with a request (DNS lookup). You can use it to check if
a computer has always its DNS server up or if your
website is always up.
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DNS Blacklist Monitor
Active Monitor :
• Description
The DNS Blacklist Monitor offers some pre-configured
blacklist servers for test and it offers the possibility to
add new blacklist. For example, the monitor will allow
you to know if your mail server is present in spam
blacklist servers. .
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HTTPCert Monitor
Active Monitor :
• Description
This monitor provides access to different information
about remote SSL Certificate or your local Certificate.
More, it allows configuring alert thresholds on the
certificate parameters.
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NTP Monitor Extended
Active Monitor :
• Description
It allows comparing the time between the NTP server
time and the local computer time.
• Why ?
Without a clock synchronization, some network
services couldn’t work correctly or with problems
(Network transfer, data save, video-conference in
real-time…)
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Agents
Active Monitor + Performance Monitor :
Nagios NRPE
Active Monitor:
Zabbix
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Nagios Plugins
Active Monitor :
• Description
The NRPE Monitor allows to check values gathered by
a Nagios NRPE agent installed on a client device. It is
able to talk with both NRPE and NRPE_NT agents
• Examples
• Check_load
• Check_mem
• Check_procs
• Check_swap
Performance Monitor :
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Zabbix Monitor
Active Monitor :
• Description
The Orsenna’s Zabbix Monitor allows monitoring
Windows, Linux, Apache… This module allows a
server administrator to find out how well their server
is performing. To use this active monitor we use an
agent installed on a client device. We predefined
values for each type of system but you could use your
own Zabbix query if you have other.
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Core Monitoring
Active Monitor + Performance Monitor :
Telnet
Active Monitor :
SSH Extended
SNMP Extended
DHCP Extended
DHCP Scope
Ping Jitter
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TelnetExt Monitor
Active Monitor :
• Description
The Orsenna’s telnet plug-in allows the execution of a
command on a remote server with Telnet access. It
allows to compare the return value of the command
to a threshold, and to then trigger an action to alert
the WhatsUp administrator.
Performance Monitor :
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SSHExt Monitor
Active Monitor :
• RSA and DSA Key
Compatible with OpenSSH and Putty keys
• More comparison options
Greater than, Smaller than, Equal to,
no more equal to
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SNMP Monitor Extended
Active Monitor :
• Description
The Orsenna’s SNMP Monitor Extended allows
monitoring every device with SNMP. The main
advantage of this plug-in is the presence of a lot of
templates. To make easier the utilization of this plugin, we predefined values for each type of device (Dell,
Cisco, HP….).
You could create your own template.
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DHCP Extended Monitor
Active Monitor :
• Description
The DHCP Extended Monitor allows monitoring
DHCP Server. You can check DHCP Scope offers by
your DHCP Servers, or know what DHCP server
assigned a particular IP address. In case of error, the
monitor will launch alert policy.
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DHCP Scope
Active Monitor :
• Description
DHCP Scope Active Monitor allows monitoring DHCP
Scopes offered by your different servers. You can fix
threshold value on the number of IP address
available and be alerted in case of overtaking
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Ping Jitter Active Monitor
Active Monitor :
• Description
Ping Jitter Active monitor allows making some
performance measures through a ping (Jitter). You
can fix threshold value on the ping jitter and be
alerted in case of overtaking.
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Application servers
Active Monitor + Performance Monitor :
Apache
TomCat
WebSphere
JBoss
Active Monitor :
ZapCat
JMX Monitor
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Apache Monitor
Active Monitor :
• Description
The Orsenna’s Apache Monitor allows monitoring
Apache server.
This module allows a server
administrator to find out how well their server is
performing. It uses port 80 (http). To make easier the
utilization of this plug-in, we predefined values
(Server version, Total accesses, Total Traffic…).
Performance Monitor :
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TomCat Monitor
Active Monitor :
• Description
The Orsenna’s TomCat Monitor allows monitoring
TomCat server.
This module allows a server
administrator to find out how well their server is
performing. It uses port 8080. To make easier the
utilization of this plug-in, we predefined values (Free
Memory, Total memory…).
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Zapcat Monitor
Active Monitor :
• Description
Orsenna’s Zapcat Monitor allows monitoring JMX
applications. We use an agent which uses port 10052
(Zapcat).
Zapcat is a bridge between the JMX management API
inside Java applications and the monitoring tool. This
allows system administrators to retrieve JMX
management data such as memory use or garbage
collection counts. This information is queried directly
on Java applications. Think of it as SNMP for Java
applications.
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Websphere Monitor
Active Monitor :
• Description
Active and Performance Monitors allow checking
some Websphere pre-configured parameters and
allows configuring your own parameters.
Performance Monitor :
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JBoss Monitor
Active Monitor :
• Description
Jconsole is the more suitable solution to monitor a
JBoss server.
In order to centralize monitoring information, we
have integrated a similar solution within WhatsUp
Gold.
So with this Active Monitor you could monitor :
- Memory
- Connections Current…
Performance Monitor :
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JMX Monitor
Active Monitor :
• Description
The Orsenna's JMX plug-in allows you to monitor any
server that supports JMX by directly connect to the
server and request for JMX counter that server
support. This plug-in also allows administrator easily
browsing all available counter and add to the
monitoring list
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WhatsUp Companion Extended
Active Monitor + Performance Monitor :
GEUM
Active Monitor :
Apache JMeter
Components:
GEUM Recorder
GEUM Player
GEUM Scheduler
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GEUM – Global End User Monitoring
• Description
Global End User Monitoring (GEUM) offers a
powerful and affordable solution for
monitoring business-critical web transactions
from the end-user’s perspective. GEUM allow
you to automatically test web applications
from the locations that are important to you
and get a reporting in your monitoring
software. GEUM is made of a simple web
recorder allowing to playback recorded
session while checking the response time.
• GEUM contains:
- a Web Recorder
- a Web Player
- a Scheduler
- an Active and a Performance Monitor for WhatsUp Gold
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GEUM Recorder
• Description
The Recorder lets administrator
create a test plan. You can
record your actions to web
browser and save it to a local
XML file. Then HTML sessions
can be executed locally or
remotely by different GEUM
players.
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GEUM Player
• Description
Players allow executing different
HTML sessions contained in XML
files. Thus, the different players
carry
out
the
various
performances tests as response
times.
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GEUM Scheduler
• Description
The Scheduler periodically sends
command to player computers
and receives performance data.
These data are stored in xml
formatted result file, which can
be used to monitor the
performance of a web server.
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Integrate GEUM in WhatsUp
• Description
GEUM Active and Performance
Monitor are available in
WhatsUp Companion extended
and allow processing the result
file
collected
by
GEUM
Scheduler. Active Monitor raises
message if any web server is in
critical
state
and
the
Performance Monitor allows
graphing response time or other
performances
of
web
applications.
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Apache JMeter
• Description
Web server
Apache JMeter is open source
software, a 100% pure Java desktop
application designed to load test
functional behavior and measure
performance. It was originally
designed
for
testing
Web
Applications but has since expanded
to other test functions. In JMeter
server computers, JMeter server is
started to receive test plan from
Whatsup installed computer, JMeter
client, and carry out the testing
process. The sample result is then
transferred back to JMeter client for
parsing and test against threshold
values.
Web server
 Run the plan
Web server
 Send JMeter test plan and
parameters
 Receive the result file (XML)
JMeter client
Whatsup JMeter Monitor
Send test plan by command:
“jmeter -n – t <test_plan> -r -Jremote_hosts=<hosts>”
JMeter server
Invoked by command:
“jmeter-server.bat”
 Parse the result
 Test with conditions
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Apache JMeter
The
WhatsUp
Companion
Extended plug-in contains also
an Active Monitor dedicated
Apache JMeter. It allows
monitoring various servers (web
server, ftp server, mail server …)
using Apache JMeter software.
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