About Logs
- Last Updated: July 14, 2022
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- WhatsUp Gold
WhatsUp Gold combines a powerful centralized logging feature (ANALYZE menu > Logs), which includes:
- Aggregation of platform, system, and IoT logs (for example, Windows Event, VMware Event, Syslog, and so on).
- WhatsUp Gold component logs. (Poller, Alert Center, Action, Discovery Scan, Scheduled Actions and so on).
- Combining logs and related reports in dashboard views for 360-degree perspective needed for daily operations, timely troubleshooting, and root cause attribution.
- Collaboration with other WhatsUp Gold users, stakeholders, and third-party applications using powerful scheduled export/reports features.
Log Categories
WhatsUp Gold log messages for WhatsUp Gold services, monitored devices, and aggregated views of remote device system logs. The broad categories of logging provided are:
WhatsUp Gold System Executable and Application Logs
Control and Management of Runtime and Startup Configurations
Fetch log records:
- Choose one or more host devices you want to see Creating and Exporting Log Data Reports measurements for.
- Choose time constraints for the Creating and Exporting Log Data Reports records. For the most recent entries, select "Last Polled" from the time period drop down list.
Work with log data:
- Understand log record columns.
- Reduce log records and log record attributes, keyword search, wildcards, and filters.
- Use Business Hours scheduling (when applicable) to choose the period of log messages reported.
Email, print, and export: