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The building blocks of your network
In WhatsUp Professional, devices are your window into the individual network resources (workstations, hubs, routers, printers, etc) that you decide to monitor. If you have a large network, a lot of thought should go into exactly which devices you are going to monitor, and which services on those devices are important enough to watch. This section of the solutions guide deals with how you add devices to the database, how you organize those devices, how you troubleshoot the device when something appears to go wrong.

What does that mean?
As soon as you start using WhatsUp Professional, you noticed that there are several different icons that are used to represent your devices. Here is a brief rundown of the types of icons that are used:

These folder icons show the worst state across all devices in that device group.
The icon on bottom shows that the same device appears elsewhere in one of the other device groups you are monitoring.
The top icon shows that the device is down. The icon on bottom shows that one monitor is down on the device while another is up.
This is a map view icon for a workstation device (the device type.) The device is currently up and responding.
This is a map view icon showing that the device appears elsewhere in another device group, and that it has not responded to polling for at least two minutes. Furthermore, the star at the top right hand side of the icon shows that the device is SNMP manageable.
Device Attributes
Device Attributes are free-form labels that you add to the device to let you know specific bits of information about the device. You might want to add an attributed describing the physical location of the device, or who the primary operator is.

Go to Device Properties > Attributes to use the feature.

 
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