You can apply credentials to a devices at discovery or rescan time, as part of credential maintenance, and as new or additional monitors require them.

  • Credentials are needed for network discovery.
  • Each credential type you apply can affect the richness of information returned for discovering, monitoring, and reporting purposes.
  • For core WhatsUp Gold performance monitors (CPU utilization, Memory Utilization) you need at least SNMP or Windows credentials during network discovery.