In addition to logs, reports, and built-in dashboards, you can use the Realtime Performance Monitor (RPM) to visualize device performance, capacity utilization, and network availability on a rolling basis. This 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. This report can be accessed in several ways:

  • When viewing any of the reports found in the Performance category under ANALYZE, select the … icon for any device displayed, then click RealTime Performance Monitor from the menu that appears to launch the RealTime Performance Monitor for that device.
  • When viewing any applicable performance report filtered for a single device, click the () icon to launch the RealTime Performance Monitor for that device.
  • When creating or editing a dashboard view, expand the Add Reports list at the right side of the user interface, expand the Performance category, then drag and drop the RealTime Performance Monitor to the desired position on the dashboard. Once added, use the device selector control provided to choose a device for which to show real time performance data.

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.
Important: Performance monitors consume more resources than active and passive monitoring and should be used sparingly depending on your specific needs, resources, and configuration.

Control the observation stream using the following controls:

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

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.

Keep theseguidelines in mind when setting up RPM reporting:

  • RPM leverages a performance monitor. (You cannot use it for WhatsUp Gold passive or active monitors.)
  • Ensure the relevant performance monitor on the managed device is enabled. (Otherwise, RPM will not be an option for the measurements that monitor provides.)
  • Active Script, Storage Array, HyperV Host Machine, HyperV Host Event Log are not available for RPM.
  • Except for the Refresh Interval setting, RPM inherits its configuration from the particular performance monitor running on the managed device.