WhatsUp Gold User's Guide v8.0 - Master Switches and Misc. Settings

Master Switches and Misc. Settings

Suppose you had several maps open and polling and you decided to perform maintenance on some of the maps. There is a fast way to suspend polling of ALL maps with one setting. This is easier than having to go to each map and stop the polling cycle. Similarly, if you have active discovery running on all of your maps, and you want to suspend this feature for a period of time, you can do this with one setting.

These settings are located by going to Configure->Program Options->General. This dialog contains your Master Switches.

Enable status polling engine for all maps. This must be selected for ANY polling to occur. When this is cleared, all polling timers stop counting down to begin the next poll. The advantage of this feature is to simultaneously suspend polling for ALL maps without having to go to each map individually to stop polling. Once this is selected again, the poll timers resume with their countdown.
Enable active discovery engine for all maps. This must be selected for ANY active discovery to occur. When this is cleared, all active discovery is suspended. The advantage of this feature is to simultaneously stop active discovery for ALL maps without having to go to each map's properties individually to stop discovery. Once this is selected again, active discovery will resume. For more information on Active Discovery, see "Active Discovery of Devices".
Enable event delivery engine for all maps. This must be selected for ANY events to be delivered to the devices. If this is cleared, it globally turns off delivery of events from outside servers, but does not affect the servers running. The advantage of this feature is to keep "event related notifications" from interrupting you as you are editing maps, configuring alerts, etc.

For more information on events, see "Chapter 7: Monitoring Events".

The Miscellaneous Settings are described below:

The Stack supports raw sockets option is enabled if you use a 32-bit stack that supports raw sockets Normally, you would leave this cleared if you are using a Microsoft network stack, such as the one that comes with Windows. Select this only if:

You are using a 32-bit network stack that supports raw sockets.
If you are using Windows NT 4.0 and have administrator access, you can turn on this option. Note that the Traceroute tool will not work correctly on NT 4.0 with this option enabled.

Automatically load subnets when opening maps. Select this if you want the subnet maps to automatically load when the associated parent map is opened.
Resume previous device & service states when maps load. If this is selected, WhatsUp Gold remembers the state the devices and services were in when the map was closed. So, if something was down, it will still be down when the map is opened again. Example: If the WhatsUp Gold computer requires a reboot for maintenance (after installing a service pack for your operating system),with this option selected, WhatsUp Gold will NOT re-alert you concerning the device and service states that you already know about.

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