monitor all your stuff RIGHT NOW!!

Dive into the world of IT monitoring with NetworkChuck as he explores the powerful capabilities of What's Up Gold. Learn how to monitor everything from servers and routers to gaming PCs and even your toilet! This video covers essential protocols like SNMP and WMI, setting up alerts, and creating custom monitors for your home lab or enterprise network. Whether you're a seasoned IT professional or just starting out, this tutorial will help you keep your network in check and stress-free. Don't miss out on these invaluable insights and practical tips!

Video Commands
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Allow ICMP and WMI on Windows:

SNMP
“New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Allow ICMPv4-In" -Protocol ICMPv4 -IcmpType 8 -Action Allow”

#WMI
“Set-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup "Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)" -Enabled True”

Monitor Linux GPU

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**00:00** - Introduction: Network Monitoring Woes
**00:18** - Solving IT Stress with Monitoring
**00:42** - Introducing What's Up Gold
**01:01** - Overview of IT Monitoring Benefits
**01:23** - Basics of System Monitoring
**01:30** - Understanding Ping for Uptime
**02:00** - Beyond Ping: Comprehensive Monitoring
**02:40** - Key Protocols: WMI and SNMP
**03:23** - Deep Dive into SNMP
**04:01** - Using OIDs for Detailed Monitoring
**05:08** - SNMP in Action: CPU Utilization Example
**06:02** - Configuring SNMP on Linux
**07:03** - Setting Up SNMP Community Strings
**08:11** - Security Concerns with SNMP
**09:19** - Advanced SNMP: Traps and Polling
**10:17** - Installing SNMP on Linux
**11:01** - Configuring SNMP on Synology NAS
**11:58** - SSH and Custom Monitoring
**12:01** - Introduction to WMI for Windows Monitoring
**12:31** - Enabling WMI and ICMP on Windows Firewall
**13:00** - Setting Up Windows User Accounts for WMI
**14:08** - Installing What's Up Gold on Windows
**14:42** - System Requirements for What's Up Gold
**15:55** - Downloading and Installing What's Up Gold Free Edition
**16:22** - Initial Setup and License Key Activation
**17:03** - Discovering Devices on Your Network
**18:51** - Adding SNMP and WMI Credentials
**19:49** - Running a Network Scan
**20:54** - Viewing and Managing Discovered Devices
**21:57** - Creating Network Maps Automatically
**22:42** - Monitoring Specific Devices and Interfaces
**23:39** - Exploring Device Status and Performance Metrics
**24:22** - Customizing Monitors for Specific Needs
**25:15** - Setting Up HTTP Monitor for AI Server
**26:01** - Configuring Alerts for Downtime Notifications
**27:17** - Creating Custom SSH Monitors for GPU Temps
**28:59** - Advanced Features in What's Up Gold (Paid Version)
**30:35** - Conclusion and Final Thoughts on IT Monitoring

AFFILIATES & REFERRALS
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(GEAR I USE...STUFF I RECOMMEND)

- NetworkChuck's IT monitoring tutorial
- How to monitor your network with What's Up Gold
- Setting up SNMP for network monitoring
- WMI explained for IT professionals
- Best practices for IT monitoring systems
- Custom SSH monitors for GPUs
- Creating alerts in What's Up Gold
- Home lab monitoring setup guide
- Enterprise network monitoring tools
- Monitoring server performance with SNMP
- How to use WMI for Windows monitoring
- NetworkChuck's guide to What's Up Gold
- IT monitoring protocols SNMP and WMI
- Setting up IT alerts and notifications
- Monitoring CPU and memory utilization
- NetworkChuck's home lab monitoring tips

#itmonitoring #uptime #wug

[NetworkChuck]

Dive into the world of IT monitoring with NetworkChuck as he explores the powerful capabilities of What's Up Gold. Learn how to monitor everything from servers and routers to gaming PCs and even your toilet! This video covers essential protocols like SNMP and WMI, setting up alerts, and creating custom monitors for your home lab or enterprise network. Whether you're a seasoned IT professional or just starting out, this tutorial will help you keep your network in check and stress-free. Don't miss out on these invaluable insights and practical tips!




Video Commands

Allow ICMP and WMI on Windows:

SNMP
“New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Allow ICMPv4-In" -Protocol ICMPv4 -IcmpType 8 -Action Allow”

#WMI
“Set-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup "Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)" -Enabled True”

Monitor Linux GPU
“nvidia-smi --query-gpu=temperature.gpu --format=csv, noheader -i 0”

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**Sponsored by Progress


****00:00**** - Introduction: Network Monitoring Woes
****00:18**** - Solving IT Stress with Monitoring
****00:42**** - Introducing What's Up Gold
****01:01**** - Overview of IT Monitoring Benefits
****01:23**** - Basics of System Monitoring
****01:30**** - Understanding Ping for Uptime
****02:00**** - Beyond Ping: Comprehensive Monitoring
****02:40**** - Key Protocols: WMI and SNMP
****03:23**** - Deep Dive into SNMP
****04:01**** - Using OIDs for Detailed Monitoring
****05:08**** - SNMP in Action: CPU Utilization Example
****06:02**** - Configuring SNMP on Linux
****07:03**** - Setting Up SNMP Community Strings
****08:11**** - Security Concerns with SNMP
****09:19**** - Advanced SNMP: Traps and Polling
****10:17**** - Installing SNMP on Linux
****11:01**** - Configuring SNMP on Synology NAS
****11:58**** - SSH and Custom Monitoring
****12:01**** - Introduction to WMI for Windows Monitoring
****12:31**** - Enabling WMI and ICMP on Windows Firewall
****13:00**** - Setting Up Windows User Accounts for WMI
****14:08**** - Installing What's Up Gold on Windows
****14:42**** - System Requirements for What's Up Gold
****15:55**** - Downloading and Installing What's Up Gold Free Edition
****16:22**** - Initial Setup and License Key Activation
****17:03**** - Discovering Devices on Your Network
****18:51**** - Adding SNMP and WMI Credentials
****19:49**** - Running a Network Scan
****20:54**** - Viewing and Managing Discovered Devices
****21:57**** - Creating Network Maps Automatically
****22:42**** - Monitoring Specific Devices and Interfaces
****23:39**** - Exploring Device Status and Performance Metrics
****24:22**** - Customizing Monitors for Specific Needs
****25:15**** - Setting Up HTTP Monitor for AI Server
****26:01**** - Configuring Alerts for Downtime Notifications
****27:17**** - Creating Custom SSH Monitors for GPU Temps
****28:59**** - Advanced Features in What's Up Gold (Paid Version)
****30:35**** - Conclusion and Final Thoughts on IT Monitoring

[marco]

Zabbix is open source and monitors ANYTHING.

[MechanicumMinds]

"I'm not sure if that looks cooler" - the relatable struggle of trying to make technical explanations visually appealing. Also, I'm loving the coffee breaks and geeking out over IT monitoring solutions. Who knew IT stress could be so entertaining?

[marcocostantini]

This guy has the best video presence on all of YouTube. A+

[Leo-ljvs]

Oh my goodness. I was using What's Up Gold back in 2000! Wow, this brought back so many memories!

[OtakuGenx]

I love it, it is Open Source, Free, Linux Based and you can purchase support. Run it at home, run it at work. Super easy to setup, took me 10 minutes from a stock Debian install to a Zabbix monitoring system, and there are a TON of template files provided by Zabbix and the community.

[vincentaguilar]

This video would be great for anyone learning SNMP for the network+. It would have helped me out a lot when I was learning of the OIDs, verbose and granular traps as well as the MIBs. Very helpful info to know.

[gingeral]

Chuck is single-handedly sharing half the tech we use

[jamesablanco]

can we just all admit the editing style of your videos are awesome. Hats off to the editor if that's you lol or not either way very entertaining content.

[CelesteOnYoutube]

the Windows server requirement killed it for me

[androbourne]

Bro I love you and no bomo. Just sayin you make the best tech content around. I've worked in the field for the last 13 years as an MSP Network/Systems Engineer and I still find something you promote to be interesting and fun. Keep up the good work!

[genjimccorkle]

Studying for Net+ right now and as soon as I learned about SNMP I wanted to monitor stuff. Good timing this video.

[klmoh]

we gonna monitor our coffee machines with this one 🗣️🗣️🗣️ 🔥🔥 💯

[MikeHarris]

I've been using Observium since you did the video like 2 years ago...

Monitoring all my Ubiquiti switches and AP's and devices, my server hardware, iLo/iDrac/IPMI, Windows Servers (2019/2022), vCenter, ESXi, Ubuntu hosts, Truenas, Printers, etc... My home network is now completely monitored and I can see all my port info, network packets, CPU/RAM/Disk, etc..

[housesOTR]

I love SNMP. I used to write custom MIBs and display them on graphs. So much fun.

[guitargrin]

I remember WhatsUP gold, glad to see a free offering.

[occido]

Back in school for my end project I made a PRTG server for monitoring and it certainly was a game changer to have such monitoring. One night I thought I'd just quickly do something for my endwork, I check the PRTG server and instantly could see that 1 of our servers was messed up big time. (Had an absolutely clueless teammate). He ended up getting 3 folders on a server with an infinite loop of more folders within them. Inspecting element 1 folder could say it contains like 1234 folders and 426 files, then checking 1 folder deeper it could say 7325 folders and 9423 files. Folder names were too big to be deleted and it fully filled the harddrive to the very last bit. Not only that, it escaped the VM and filled the entire physical machines storage. The same machine where my classmates and another class also had their endwork VM's on so it was a big issue that I spent 2 hours that night at midnight together with a teacher to fix. Spotting this issue early on and getting it fixed before anybody else suffered from it was 100% because of monitoring.

[jameso]

Wow, it's been years, so many many years, and I finally found someone else who understands the greatness of nano.
I know it's stupid, but every time I look up how to do some random thing on linux that I either don't know or have forgotten and the instructions; instead of saying to use a text editor, specifically tell me to install and use Vi I get legit upset for a few seconds.

[bustudios]

perfect timing. i made my own monitoring system yesterday

[progresswhatsupgold]

This is our favourite video yet! (We may be a bit biased) If anybody has any questions about WhatsUp Gold please let us know, we will be in the comment section to help out where we can ☕