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WhatsUp Gold Primary Use Case

reviewer2596875 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at a consumer goods company with 1-10 employees

As the system engineer here, my experience is in deploying proof of concept setups to help clients. We test and integrate the infrastructure to monitor devices to monitor their up or down status. It's primarily for infrastructure device monitoring rather than application monitoring.

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Tom Condo - PeerSpot reviewer
Supervisor Information Services Operations at Seminole County Public Schools

We needed a way to replicate our Progress database to our SQL database without impacting our student information system. Prior, we had a lot of different needs to be able to query the production database and when our development or consulting teams tried to do queries, it would impact our student production system. This solution replicated the database to an SQL database that could be queried and not have an impact. That was powerful for us to keep things stable.

We needed to proactively monitor our network infrastructure. We tried another network software called SolarWinds but it became very expensive. We were monitoring very little with it and we needed to monitor more. 

We are a large school district with 60,000 students, 10,000 employees, and around 5,000 pieces of network equipment. We're the 17th largest school district in our state. We wanted to be able to monitor everything within a reasonable price. WhatsUp Gold helps us monitor everything affordably. We've been very happy with it. 

WhatsUp Gold tracks server resources. If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue. Overall, we are very satisfied with WhatsUp Gold.

We had to transition off our previous Microsoft load balancer. It was not very responsive. We had issues when we had to take down certain virtual web servers. We looked at the hardware and software load balancer. The hardware-based ones were more expensive. We did a POC for two months with Kemp. It seemed simple to use so we bought a subscription. It worked well and the cost is reasonable. We use it for load balancing our student information system and for load balancing our ERP system.

It automatically starts monitoring newly discovered devices. If we point at a particular top-level switch or main stacking equipment, it automatically monitors it. We have to make sure that our SNPM information is configured appropriately and it will automatically dive in, see the equipment, and try to bring it in appropriately. 

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Senior Cyber Security Architect at Central Bottling Company group ltd

I use the solution in my company for our networks and monitoring purposes. The tool is used in IT infrastructure.

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SyedKareemuddin - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at COCA COLA

The primary use case is to monitor network devices and servers.

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Mohamed Rafiq - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at DEWA

We primarily use the solution for monitoring the network devices.

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MahmoudMohamed - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Professional Services Team Lead at e-finance

We are using WhatsUp Gold to provide the NetFlow in the network and we are using NetFlow for the NAC team to track the ups and downs of the remote sites and virtualized maps. 

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ASM Naushad Alam - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using WhatsUp Gold to monitor cyber files and their conditions. We are looking at the thresholds of the hard disk capacity and if it reaches a certain high capacity the solution will notify us through e-mail. We have a network of approximately 1,500 devices and we can have visibility of all our equipment.

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Rahul Soman - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Specialist at Dynatrade LLC

We use this solution to monitor our networks. We pull reports based on thresholds and criteria that we set.

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Security Operations Specialist III at a pharma/biotech company with 201-500 employees

We are using it to make sure that devices, services, and network paths are available.

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reviewer1409016 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Senior Systems Administrator at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

The primary use case is just for monitoring the host servers, the virtual machines, the network equipment, and the storage. It covers all the basics.  

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Mohamed Rafiq - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at DEWA

I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well.

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Senior Software Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 501-1,000 employees

We use it for network discovery. It is just one of the features it provides, but it's basically the only feature we use.

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reviewer775476 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use the solution to check the state of the network. We have thousands of devices to manage and control. We monitor all of the internal network with the solution. It is the first tool we use to see the state of the network for real-time monitoring.

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SyedKareemuddin - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at COCA COLA

We use WhatsUp Gold for monitoring.

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IT Manager at SABA Bank

We use WhatsUp gold for network monitoring.

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IKT Konsulent at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

I primarily use this solution for server performance.

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WhatsUp677 - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-Sales / Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We are a distributor for this solution, and our clients use it to monitor network devices and applications. For example, they monitor switches, routers, and Brouters. We provide demonstrations and POCs for this solution to potential customers.

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it_user914949 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Systems Administrator at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

We use this solution for monitoring our network.

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reviewer775476 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use WhatsUp Gold primarily for its monitoring survey.

We use this product every time because we have a map in our network operating center, with many hundreds of sites. WhatsUp Gold provides a visual state, as well as program alerts by email.

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MD at Thembanet

Our primary use case is for network and application monitoring. 

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WhatsUp Gold
June 2025
Learn what your peers think about WhatsUp Gold. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: June 2025.
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