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Additional Features
This section introduces some additional monitoring capabilities:
- SNMP monitoring - You can use WhatsUp Gold's SNMP features to further monitor activity on a device, such as a router. SNMPView displays the status of interfaces on a device and lets you quickly view MIB values. Current MIB data can be used to get baseline values to set threshold monitoring. You can also graph MIB traffic data to show throughput in real-time.
For more information, see "SNMP Viewer".
- Custom Services - You can define additional monitors to check any service or application that can communicate via TCP or UDP. Using scripting, you can set up monitoring for a service by connecting to a particular port, sending a command string, and examining the expected response. If the service fails to return the expected response, you can configure WhatsUp Gold to notify you of a service failure.
For more information, see "Defining a Custom TCP/IP Service".
- Customizable device types - You can add your own device types to those that Auto Discovery can recognize. When Auto Discovery finds a device of that type, it can map the device using a custom icon. Use the VDevice, our vector-based graphics tool, to import or create device icons.
For more information, see "Customizing Device Types".
- Extensibility - The monitoring subsystem of WhatsUp Gold incorporates an interface based on Microsoft's Component Object Module (COM) technology. This interface provides the extensibility needed for implementing additional custom monitoring "add-in" solutions (such as, adding support for security systems or other non-TCP/IP devices).
For more information, see "Custom Services API".
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