ISPPlanet NMS Series - Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 5.0

SNMP Browse and Query

WhatsUp Gold provides basic SNMP browse and query, but does not claim to be a full-featured SNMP manager. An SNMP Tool sends SNMPv1 GET or GET-NEXT requests to each device agent's management information base (MIB) (right). Use "Get" to query a single object, "Get All Subordinate" to retrieve an entire MIB group or table, and "Get Next" to step through the MIB, object by object. Copy scrolling results to a text editor to print or save them.

Use "Monitor" to continuously poll objects by launching an SNMP Graphing tool (left) that queries one or more scalar objects and plots returned values. Line color, width, scale, units, and interval are configurable, as is the ability to plot absolute, delta, or computed rate values. Accumulators can be used to sum other polled objects. Raw results can be logged to a file for offline crunching, and graph configs can be saved for reuse. This nifty feature has one significant shortfall: to monitor a table (e.g., ifTable), you must individually configure each indexed object (ifOutOctets.1, ifOutOctets.2, etc).

SNMP community strings and a "device" object are configured for each monitored device (right). Community strings, set to default during discovery, can be modified for all devices at once. The "device" object can be regularly polled to monitor SNMP agent reachability (see Network Monitoring). WhatsUp Gold does not include a true MIB compiler—a staple feature in most SNMP managers. MIB-II is built-in; other MIB object identifiers and labels can be added to mapping files with a MIB Extractor command line utility.

WhatsUp Gold does not support SNMP SET. You'll need to use another tool to configure your network devices.