WhatsUp Gold provides a suite of libraries you can leverage to implement site availability, performance, and security policies into practice. The libraries provide building blocks for implementing availability, performance, and security models with WhatsUp Gold monitoring data.

Libraries you can use to implement site policies include:

  • Thresholds (SETTINGS > Actions and Alerts > Alert Center Libraries)

    Create and configure customized threshold definitions and apply them to monitored devices, services, applications, and processes within your managed network. Re-use, clone, and customize as needed.

  • Actions Library (SETTINGS > Actions and Alerts > Actions and Policies)

    Create and configure triggered actions (notifications, remote/local script execution, write to log) to initiate a chain of notifications to responsible individuals, apply corrective actions, mitigate and recover from performance, security, and application incidents, and uphold terms of service level agreements.

  • Notifications (SETTINGS > Actions and Alerts > Alert Center Libraries)

    Create and configure custom alert notifications. Used for both scheduling and distribution of incident notifications together with the Blackout Policy Library.

  • Notification Policies. (SETTINGS > Actions and Alerts > Alert Center Libraries)

    WhatsUp Gold provides building blocks to define rules, exceptions, and sequences of escalation to notify responsible individuals of incidents and out-of-threshold events. Applying notifications policies at your site is required by information assurance, networking security, and data security standard audits (HIPAA, SOX, PCI, CSC, and more) and an 'all-around' best practice.