Whats Up Gold V16 Battlecard

What is WhatsUp Gold v16
WhatsUp Gold v16 is enhanced to deliver unrivaled value.
The NEW core product includes:
• Integrated Layer 2/3 discovery, mapping and
IT asset inventory (Standard & Premium/Distributed)
• Wireless infrastructure management (WUG
Premium/Distributed).
• Scalable to 20,000 devices/100,000 monitors
• Single Pane of Glass
Sales Tip: Solarwinds monitoring and Layer 2/3
functionality requires two applications, WUG is a single
application. Solarwinds wireless falls far short of WUG
functionality.
Key Prospecting Questions
Question Reason to Purchase Real World Example
Do you know what’s on your
network?
How quickly can you identify the
switch port a server is connected to?
How do you troubleshoot wireless
performance and security issues?
How do you isolate excessive
bandwidth usage on your wireless
network?
Do you expect your network to
grow over time? Do you expect to
monitor more on each device?
What value do you place on customized
dashboards and reports?
How do you document your HIPAA,
PCI, FIRPA, FISMA compliance
Automatically keep an accurate and upto-date
inventory of all devices on your
network.
Ability to visualize and troubleshoot your
network with detailed Layer 2/3 maps.
Isolate wireless performance problems
using historical and real-time reports and
metrics.
Report on bandwidth consumption by
device, user, SSID and group.
Select a system that will scale with the
long term growth of your ecosystem.
Customize an unlimited number of
dashboard views and reports, simply
within one user interface.
WhatsUp Gold v16 Unique Selling Points
• Discovers & Maps all devices across your entire network.
• The most comprehensive wireless monitoring, reporting
and alerting.
• The most efficient and cost effective scalability.
• Easiest customization of dashboards, reports, monitors &
alerts.
• One application + Simplified licensing model = Lowest
TCO.
Sales Tip: Solarwinds monitoring and Layer 2/3 functionality
requires two applications, WUG is a single application.
Solarwinds wireless falls far short of WUG functionality.
Our customers frequently use this to answer
audit questions and find “lost” devices.
Our customers use this information to
automatically create dependent monitors.
Our customers have used this to alert them
when rogue devices are on their network.
Our customers can pinpoint when users
violate wireless usage and access policies
for e.g. downloading high bandwidth video.
Our customers don’t like to monitor less
frequently when application resources are
stressed – scalable systems eliminate that.
Our customers like to see network, systems
and affected
application resources next to each other.
Provides auditor ready compliance reports Our customers use this to validate that
they are in compliance with government
mandates.
WhatsUp Gold v16: At a Glance
Customer Pain
WhatsUp Gold v16 is designed to help customer visualize,
isolate and resolve problems impacting their IT availability and
performance:
• I don’t know what’s on my network. WUG v16 Layer 2/3
discovery, inventory, and mapping will find, document and map all
devices on your network – wired/wireless, physical/virtual.
• Excessive bandwidth consumption is impacting our
network performance. WUG v16 network monitoring, reports
and dashboards will isolate sources of excessive bandwidth
usage by business unit, user, device, application and protocol.
Customizable real-time alerts will notify you when bandwidth
usage policies are violated.
• My users are experiencing connectivity problems with
our wireless network. WUG v16 Wireless Infrastructure
Management reports and dashboards will provide historical
and real-time performance reports, identify and track users as
they move through the network, and measure wireless device
performance.
• Rogue devices are compromising the security of our wireless
network. WUG v16 Wireless Infrastructure Management will
track when and where rogue devices are attached to the network.
Customizable Real-time alerts will notify you when a rogue device
appears on the network.
• Someone is making unauthorized changes to our network.
WUG v16 Layer 2 /3 discovery, inventory, and mapping will
document baseline network designs. WhatsConfigured simplifies
establishing and fine-tuning network device configuration to
ensure optimal performance. WCF provides an audit trail of any
changes made to any device configuration.
• I need to document compliance with HIPAA, PCI, FIRPA,
FISMA regulations. WUG v16 provides the Layer 2/3 reports
and maps often required to meet compliance regulations.
WhatsConfigured provides auditors with additional proof that
networks are properly configured and secured.
• Our customers can’t access our web applications. WUG v16’s
easy to customize dashboards allow the creation of powerful
cross-silo views of network, application and database performance
metrics to help isolate web application availability problems.

THE EVOLUTION OF WHATSUP GOLD
v11 v12 v14 v15 v16
NEW Web Interface
100+ new workspace reports
Support for IPv6 enabled devices
Map improvements
WhatsUp Gold vs. Solarwinds
NEW Split Second Graphics
Cisco MIB support, SNMP MIB
Walker, SNMP MIB Explorer
Drag and drop management
capabilities in Web UI
New Monitors (Email, Web,
Performance)
NEW Alert Center
NEW Monitor Dependencies
NEW Monitors (Fan, SQL Query,
HTTP Content, APC UPS, Printer,
etc.)
Improved Layer 3 discovery (up to 3
times faster)
NEW Welcome Center
SolarWinds: Deceiving Licensing Practices
Solarwinds uses element-based licensing, a practice designed to drive up license counts and costs. Customers must count
and purchase the greater of: Interfaces (ports, Virtual I/F, VLANs, etc.), Nodes (routers, switches, servers, etc) or Volumes (logical
disks, etc.). This is complex to figure out and often involves a costly “true-up” at the end of first year when customers realize
that they have under calculated their license requirement.
WhatsUp Gold v16: At a Glance
For those with legacy versions, the reasons to upgrade are numerous:
NEW Integrated Layer 2 discovery
and mapping with one click
(together with WhatsConnected)
NEW Task-oriented Web UI
NEW Link WUG groups to Active
Directory
NEW FIPS 140 -2 encryption
and validation (Flow Monitor &
WhatsVirtual)
NEW Headless Installer
NEW Simplified password recovery
NEW Absolute-value interface
reports
Layer 2 Discovery, Mapping and
Asset Inventory
In the core product
Wireless Infrastructure
Management
In the core product
Single Pane of Glass
Full v16 functionality.
Integration of entire suite of plug-ins
Scalability pollers supporting up to
20,000 devices / 100,000 monitors
in one single WUG system
Layer 2 Discovery, Inventory and Mapping • Included in the WUG core product. Equal functionality in SW requires an additional application (LAN Surveyor), driving up the TCO. This costs
minimum of $1995 plus additional costs for each server asset discovered.
• WUG will discover 25-35% more in an out-of-the-box discovery scan than SW.
• WUG report and dashboard customization is much easier than SW.
• WUG maps are more intuitive, clear and detailed than SW
• WUG map generation is automated. SW required considerable manual processing.
• WUG can generate monitor dependencies automatically. SW requires manual set up.
Wireless Infrastructure Management • WUG provides real time and historical wireless reporting and metrics. SW provides rudimentary reporting and metrics with no historical capability
• WUG dashboards can be easily customized to cross-silo views to isolate wireless problems. SW is very limited in the side-by-side views it allows
you to create.
• WUG maps wireless. SW cannot.
Scalability and Distributed Polling Architecture • WUG supports 20,000 devices/100,000 monitors. SW supports 15,000 devices/60,000 monitors.
• WUG lightweight pollers and configuration library simplifies installation and support. SW is a full server footprint with no configuration library,
increasing the installation and support effort.
Single Pane of Glass • WUG integrates all management tasks under a single user interface. SW uses a multi-console architecture, creating a disruptive user experience.
WhatUp Gold licensing is much simple - We charge per device, regardless of
elements. You can monitor to any depth on any device without ever needing any
more licenses.
For example: Cisco 4506 Switch: Up to 275 Elements with Solarwinds.
Only ONE DEVICE with WhatsUp Gold!