David, I'm sure there are multiple reasons why you'd want to do this, however everything is subject to proper functionality of the product and why it was designed. I haven't loaded the incarnation of WUP2K5Pro (SP1a), however, something to keep aware of in the end analysis directly out of the WUP users guide on Pg.24 (Chap.4) is: "Device Troubleshooting? WhatsUp Professional is not a troubleshooting tool. It will tell you when your network goes up or down, but will not tell you what made your network go down. For that, you will need to inspect the afflicted resource and its respective documentation."
In short, if you run a server farm on directly of a router (or L3 Switch in our case) like we do, and you are monitoring the specific ports that the server is plugged into so you can quickly determine if a port is up or down, when a server is reported as unavailable by end users, All SP1 and older incarnations of WUP2k5Pro, will show the router is down, because a single port is down (programmer logical thinking), which may or may not be critical to the operation of the network, so you'll spend a awful lot of time trying to decipher if the network is really down or not just because someone rebooted a server attached to the router/L3-switch, and even worse, if proper device dependancies are set up, then nothing past the router/L-3switch is checked until the server comes back on line to "clear the outage of the router"). This point alone makes this product unworthy to upgrade to in my own opinion. As I said, I have not checked out the latest incarnation of the software (SP1a), so I can not say if this issue has been addressed or not, and I'd seriously suggest looking at how you use WUG now, to determine if WUP is really the way you want to go (so far, we have not upgraded to WUP2k5Pro for production use), and the only sure-fire way to do that is to set up a test box with WUP2k5Pro, and run them side by side to determine if you loose any functionality with how you use WUG now. On the bright side, there are many really great enhancements over WUG which IPSwitch has highlighted in the features brochure found on their WEB site as a result of the initial design of WUP2K5PRO, however you if the way you use WUG is anything like most do, then what good are all the enhancements if you have an unusable product for the way you work? Just my nickels worth... take it all with a grain of salt and I'd suggest D/L'g the trial version to compare it for yourself and not rely on others opinions too much <wink>. Be sure to let us know what you thought of it after you tried it out as any comments will be relevant to IPSwitch if they still monitor this support method regularly. ------------------------------------------------------------ Bryan Harrell, SPII Network Infrastructure - Tallahassee Fla. Dept of Revenue (850)-921-0700 SunCom 291-0700 ------------------------------------------------------------ >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/06/2005 11:04:02 AM >>> I currently am running 8.0. I am looking for reasons that I might want to upgrade to Professional. Any thoughts are welcome. Thanks. David Maltenfort - Network Administrator Council for Jewish Elderly ------------------------------------------------------------------ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any files or attachments transmitted with it are confidential and may be protected by legal privilege. This e-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail and delete this e-mail from your system. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
