WhatsUp Gold is a decent network administration tool for the small or midsize business looking for basic monitoring capabilities. The Web server and Web interface are the crown jewels of this product and complement its simplicity, ease of use and value, but the flawed discovery process and mapping capabilities kept it from running away with the review.
WhatsUp Gold 7.0, Ipswitch, (800) 793-4825, (781) 676-5700. www.ipswitch.com
Castle Rock Computing SNMPc 5.1.6c Castle
Rock's SNMPc Enterprise with Remote Access Extension is a middle-of-the-road network-management tool, offering good administration and acceptable functionality for a good price, but it was not a standout. Still, while discovery can quickly spiral out of control, the product's remote console and wealth of MIBs are pluses.
By default, network discovery is launched the first time SNMPc is loaded. After we provided a seed router, the discovery agent used SNMP (or ICMP) to retrieve device and interface information. Although SNMPc does not have an import-host-file feature, you can easily mimic this behavior by adding individual hosts in the discovery agent window to act as host files.
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