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Written by Ennio Carboni, President of the Network Management Division of Ipswitch, Inc.
When you evaluate application performance monitoring solutions, comparing capabilities is one key part of the assessment. But it can be misleading. Many application performance monitoring solutions include features that, while interesting, are not critical to you. Sometimes the feature-rich solutions are more costly, complex, and difficult to implement than you want. But sometimes more affordable products…
I received an inquiry the other day that really sparked my intrest. The request went a little something like this:
"I have a group of 20-30 devices. I don't want a notification for each device if they go down, but I do need to be notified when 5 or more of the devices go down. How can I accomplish this with WUG?"
I thought about this for a little while and then enlisted the help of our database architect to come up with a solution. Here is how it works...
You will need a "dummy" device…
In previous versions of the WUG web interface, there were instructions on how to add SSH to the Tools menu when you right-click on a device. These instructions however, stopped working when version 15 was released. Here are the steps to follow to get it working with version 15.
The instructions that follow will add an SSH link in the Tools menu when you right-click on a device within the web interface of WUG v15. Please note that modifying any of the files used to power the web interface is not supported. I recommend documenting any changes that you make, in the event that you need to call tech support and revert back to your original configuration. Also be aware that any changes made to the web interface files will be over-written when you do an upgrade. With all…
Many customer's have asked about the ability to disable the device pop-ups that were added in v15. There is also issues with them when you are running the Distributed version of the product. This how-to walks you through a work-around to disable them.
As the summary mentions, many folks have asked for the ability to disable the device pop-ups that are loaded when you hover over a device name within any dashboard report. Please note that this work around will disable the pop-ups for all dashboard reports. It also needs to be noted that modifying any of the files used to power the web interface is not supported. I recommend documenting any changes that you make, in the event that you need to call tech support and revert back to your…
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