Daily Network Monitor

School may be out for summer, but you’re not. Will your network and systems be ready before the students return? Check out our back-to-school special for a 10% educational discount on WhatsUp Gold network management software priced for your school or university.

Extra Credit: Read how Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (CFISD) manages and monitors networks for 70 campuses, 13,000 employees, and 96,000 students with WhatsUp Gold.

WhatsUp Gold v12 users can send an alert to a pager or cell phone via SMS modem by following these easy steps:

1. From the main menu bar of the console, select Configure > Action Library.

2. In the Action Library, click New, then select SMS Direct.

3. Enter the cell phone or pager number(s) of the intended SMS message recipients. You can enter multiple phone numbers, separated by a comma. For example: 555-555-5555, 55 555 55 55 55.

4. Select the COM port you want to use with this notification. (You must select the port that is assigned to the modem in the Windows Device Manager.)

5. Enter the text message you want to send with this notification plus any desired percent variable codes. (Click OK to save this action.) The action will now appear in the Action Library.

If you think this may be helpful for monitoring your network, give it a try. It’s as easy as that.

As a marketer, I’m always interested in hearing what people have to say about promotions. Does a buy-one, get-one offer motivate you? How about a % off discount? Or what about a prize? Does it really make a difference? Do you care? 

With our latest major product release in May, WhatsUp Gold v12,  I breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, new features and new functionality to brag about. But once again the pressure was on to get more people to ‘try’ and ‘buy’.  I got it! Let’s do another gimmick “Is your network healthy? Try our software and be entered to win a Wii FIT” and “Buy and be entered to win a 1 of 12, 1-terabyte Hard Drives.”  So I ask you …does this type of promotion motivate you? Or are you of the mind-set, I just want the product. Give it to me at the best-price.  

We’re currently running a promotion on our website for a “free copy of VoIP Monitor.” What’s the catch? Well, you need to buy a new license of WhatsUp Gold (v12). Good I guess for those who are already ready to purchase and just happen to have VoIP, but does it motivate people to “try” the software first?

I’d be interested in hearing from IT professionals.