WhatsUp Gold RealTime Performance monitor (RPM) report returns quick observations when informed decisions can't wait between polling intervals. RPM works best for 'eyes-on' performance checks of individual devices, traffic between specific endpoints, and occasional 'zooming in' on capacity utilization metrics.

Like Network Traffic Analysis, RPM sessions generate traffic on your network. They also give more work to the WhatsUp Gold Poller. For this reason, RPM limits the number of sessions that can be open at one time for a single deployment of WhatsUp Gold.

Tip: It is best to use RPM for decision support during critical periods, troubleshooting, or in environments where polling does not interfere with normal network traffic such as when devices run dedicated management NICs.

RPM monitor provides several advantages:

  • Provides a rich, platform-agnostic tool for viewing real-time capacity utilization (an alternative, for example, for Task Manager on Windows or Top on Linux and Unix).
  • No remote login is needed. No SSH/Powershell/Remote desktop commands are necessary.
  • Polling interval (time between observations) is split by seconds rather than minutes.
  • Catch visual signatures of bursty periods that would otherwise be smoothed and normalized by the polling interval.
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Generate a report

Choose Device. Choose a device to observe.

Choose a Monitor. Choose a monitor to return RPM monitor performance statistics for.

Determine Refresh Interval. Optimize the polling interval to match the task and the monitor.

Control the observation stream

  • Play. Stream observations.
  • Stop. Stop observations.
  • Reset. Clear and restart the observation stream.

Export as XML

Most generated RPM report data can be exported as XML by selecting Expand () from the Report Actions () menu.