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[@NetworkChuck]

Start monitoring all your stuff for free: ntck.co/whatsupgold 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” ``` 🔥🔥Join the NetworkChuck Academy!: ntck.co/NCAcademy **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

[@Mario-ll2vd]

Zabbix is better

[@DemonSlayer123]

I have been nagioss admin for 2 yrs now. But I'm really tired of the monitoring stuff. Is worth sticking around in ? As I have been thinking of going in some other track.

[@deker0954]

If I learned anything from commander Adama, it's never network your computers.

[@kataseiko]

Okay, great concept. But what does it do better than the competition (e.g. Zabbix) to justify that cost? And why can't this thing run on a Raspberry Pi?

[@HusseinAyeni-u8t]

Yow chuck,you know what I love about you? You always come with different style, really love you man❤

[@marco114]

Zabbix is open source and monitors ANYTHING.

[@skasaflicit]

Zabbix is definitely the way to go and is amazing

[@TheDarkSolja]

And not limited to 10 devices.

[@Jacques_CENTUE]

Zabbix gang here

[@chiroyce]

open source >>> whatever proprietary thing Chuck shows off here

[@BrooklynBanana]

@@Jacques_CENTUE zabbixers of the world UNITE

[@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?

[@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.

[@jjones503]

Austin is a beast

[@marcocostantini1111]

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

[@heromiIes]

Cleo Abrams? Cash Jordan? MrWhoseTheBoss?

[@Realworlddummy]

he turned to clickbait*

[@mattplaygamez]

Did u ditch UptimeKuma

[@gacpac]

it's different, uptime kuma is for up and down status like site24x7

[@e5elite]

this is sponsored clearly lol. every week new sponsor

[@falcow]

UptimeKuma does on thing. Uptime-Monitoring... If thats the only thing you need, thats fine. Monitoring is way more, than just checking if a server pings, or a page loads.

[@CelesteOnYoutube]

the Windows server requirement killed it for me

[@SwitchxA]

Was about to try it out on my Linux server before I found this out. DOA for me.

[@BurkenProductions]

Oh it was t running on Linux?!? Then its a shit system

[@MrSurfsAlot]

@GrumpyDergyou can get all windows products free lol.. mas grave

[@samover6603]

@@MrSurfsAlot Still bloatware.

[@DJSOUNDWAVE]

He literally said for an enterprise environment and in the same sentence said that you could put it on a Windows 11 PC if you wanted to

[@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 ☕

[@stilldigging]

Lol 😂 too quick to comment

[@DeadlyDragon_]

10 devices doesn't even cover half of my ever changing lab environment. I constantly spin up and down VMs. What are the options for someone who does a ton in their homelab to learn various technologies. I saw somewhere that adding 25 devices was something along the lines of $2k US which is asinine for just a homelab.

[@maskettaman1488]

@@DeadlyDragon_ Having 10+ devices for hobby use is fairly abnormal. That's could be a lot for even a small business.

[@DeadlyDragon_]

@@maskettaman1488 My homelab is quite extensive. You are only thinking of physical and I use my homelab to further my experience and my career. In my homelab I have a firewall, 2 cisco switches, 2 dell servers, a synology nas, and 2 ubiquiti access points. Thats just the physical architecture. On top of the physical I have a ton of VMs. 6 For kubernetes so I could learn how to build out an HA Cluster, I have 3 VMs for windows server (Root CA, Intermediate CA, and AD) I have my media server, a docker host, a Wazuh cluster, an opensearch cluster, I have an ansible server, I have graylog running, E-mail Server, DNS server (Bind Primary w/ Pihole as secondary) I have My raspberry PIs as well running various other services. Each of these VMs / physical endpoints will take up a slot in WUG. And this is a quite small environment you'd be surprised at how much a business actually runs compared to my lab. Also keep in mind that I work as a network engineer, learning new technologies and protocols comes with the territory and the best way to do so is to spin it up at home and use it.

[@jesperwall839]

@@maskettaman148810 devices is nothing nowadays. Even a small business use more than 10 devices. A couple of servers, a few clients, a couple of switches, a Wi-Fi bridge, a printer and a firewall. At least.

[@Leo-lj6vs]

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

[@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!

[@VinnydaNetEngineer]

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.

[@genjioto]

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

[@gingeral253]

Chuck is single-handedly sharing half the tech we use

[@OtakuGenx]

Zabbix!!!!!! 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.

[@augustingavrilovici8951]

Can it run on Docker?

[@OtakuGenx]

@@augustingavrilovici8951 Yes. Zabbix offers multiple containerized options through their website. From different servers to different server/frontends to agents.

[@brykkammo3887]

@@augustingavrilovici8951 Yes! I have it running across multiple instances in portainer!

[@CrazyRamUK]

Hi Chuck, thanks for the trip down memory lane. In a previous IT job I worked on the monitoring team, using Tivoli, MOM, SCOM and HPOM.

[@tdrg_]

That thumbnail is GOLD

[@gregf9160]

I love your constant enthusiasm 🤗

[@housesOTR]

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

[@ScreenWarrior88]

I am in Networking, that Guy loves what he does and in my opinion this video this is his best video!

[@guitargrin]

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

[@progresswhatsupgold]

We are super excited about it too.

[@k00lmoh]

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

[@1bustudios]

perfect timing. i made my own monitoring system yesterday

[@progresswhatsupgold]

It was meant to be!

[@riaan0923]

This takes me back to the days of monitoring mikrotik routers with the dude

[@poldelepel]

Does it also monitors when the User is down, and sends a notification to its therapist?

[@ulrikboesen]

I use PRTG for my homelab to monitor! Have you tried that?

[@jamesbrown8766]

“Accept everything blindly. Yes I agree.” I love it.

[@r000tbeer]

How does What's Up compare to PRTG?

[@Doesntcompute2k]

PRTG or Checkmk is much better and cheaper. Whatsup is $$$$

[@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.

[@benjaminralston7046]

I've used PRTG at my last job and current job, and have a PRTG server set up at home. The only thing I don't like about it is it's Windows only - I've fully switched over to Linux for my PC and file/Plex server, so now I have to keep a VM open running Windows just to keep the PRTG server up. I was hoping this WUG would be an alternate solution but it looks like it's Windows Server only so it's a no-go. I may look into Zabbix.

[@novacoax]

The logs image got me 😂🔥

[@MikeHarris1984]

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..

[@meisterchecho]

Do you have the link to that video by any chance?

[@BB-tu2bq]

@@meisterchecho 'following... did you get the video?

[@N10-b8f]

Could you make a TrueNAS tutorial please.

[@xCheddarB0b42x]

The breakdown setup at 15:46 is _a e s t h e t i c_

[@longlost8424]

I was using WUG 25 years ago now..... interested in seeing what they've morphed into.....

[@progresswhatsupgold]

Great to hear you still remember us, why not try it out, it's free after all!

[@euphemisticukulele67]

therapist: downtime charles isnt real. he cant hurt you. downtime charles: "sla is 2 days"

[@SECYBERSAFE]

My question is what would be the false positive rate and false negative rate... It is important before considering a solution.

[@DeadlyDragon_]

Completely customizable in most SNMP based monitoring solutions. You can tell most offerings to only trigger if monitor fails X amount of times over Y timeframe.

[@drumaddict89]

hey chuck! do you have a video or suggestion on a netflow analyzer/grapher tool which is preferably opensource and free so it can be self-hosted?

[@Nulley0]

How is this possible?, I was searching for this a few days ago, and you dropped a video on it now.

[@progresswhatsupgold]

Perfect timing, let us know if you have any questions @Nulley0

[@arjunbala2378]

I can learn anything from this guy than my school or college. and never get bored.

[@AngelPerez-jb5ih]

I'm so thankful for share your knowledge with all of us...thank a lot man

[@dadude2k213]

What's up gold, been running it since version 2016. It's a great tool, alot of customization. Also, the newest version also does log collection very well.

[@KenjiVdusc]

13:54 - could use some emphasis that it is "Administrator**S**", very easy to miss.

[@MortenLarsen]

What keyboard and with what switches is NetworkChuck using here? Curious!

[@b_to_the_b]

Your setup is so cool 🥰

[@TurboTunerEdits1]

Never fails to entertain!🎉🎉🎉

[@toddthetechgod]

Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager and node_exporter (as the agent): also a nice choice. Definitely not for novices that want an out-of-the-box solution.

[@netcat666]

And when do you have to monitor behind a firewall? In Zabbix, Zabbix-Proxy is used, what alternatives does Prometheus have for this use case?

[@netcat666]

I'm talking about monitoring machines on a client's network, collecting all the metrics in one and sending this to Prometheus. How does this apply?

[@pixpaw]

whats the difference to your last video with uptime kuma?

[@sliphere011]

Beeper and pagers are for people who support networks in skifs. Can't have phones. But can have approved beepers.

[@supermorph]

mr chuck, i have a question for what happens for AMD gpu's, do you happen to know the command to add a monitor on linux (in my case customised ubuntu) what command would i use for that? i have a jellyfin server you see, so would be fun to try and add that.

[@halkive4619]

monitor the monitor connected to what you need to be monitoring. Yes, YES!

[@gamereditor59ner22]

Wow!... Time for cold brew coffee! ☕️☕️ ☕️

[@bokoura]

Can you tell me the name of the song you used at the beginning of the video? Asking for a friend.

[@arttu201]

Could you do video about can you still use esxi since its now broadcom?

[@ok-pp8fp]

i love your tshirt, where can I find it ?

[@alfonsoPina]

I would like a side by side comparison to Solar Winds

[@BlackMambaTrader]

Im implementing SW on our environments Would love to share my journey if you dont mind..

[@mikehenkelman2111]

this is a wicked good exercise for folks with a home lab.

[@patrickdobry4058]

FirstWave's NMIS is a Linux version of this with 20 nodes free.

[@Darkstar_Rog]

Prometheus and Grafana though ? , You can use the Grafana Agent for most things. Even with routers like MikroTik's, you can use the mktxp exporter.

[@bumboohill]

Chuck -- is there such a thing as "SHADOW" Windows running on my machine? Changes made to the computer, like disabling stuff in the Startup list, even putting new files on the hard drive, are all gone when I re-boot. Getting the BSOD... troubleshooting, but hardware seems fine. Virus?

[@DctrPoet]

Can ZABBIX or this monitor systems that are not on your local network, but are at remote location?

[@RobV712]

Would love to use on my network but Security Department won't allow open source if its not FEDRamp

[@GerardPinzone]

What was the music used in this video?

[@sweetsandman]

Would this work on linux servers? You only mentioned windows servers

[@ubiquitous5948]

Can you monitor virtual machines with this also?

[@R0mV0n]

@NetworkChuck - You've probably been asked this a gazillion times, but what software do you use to write on screen like that? I'm looking for something similar for my meetings/presentations.

[@RazoBeckett.]

I needed this for my AI Toilet with vision.

[@RikuRicardo]

Does it wipe before or after it flushes?

[@RazoBeckett.]

@@RikuRicardo it has Indian mode as well it washes my ass and then wipe after i am done

[@Dwayneff]

funny enough, I have seen a few companies requiring SNMP on a few of their help desk applications.

[@ruffEdgz]

8:34 - you nano loving moster :P hehe

[@carlosgarcia1165]

hi there, I have a suggestion for a video. Could you give a definitive explanation of an scenario with the proper tools where rke2 can have security? I am on my way to have k8s with rke2 v1.28. I managed to have this running thanks to your videos and others: rke2 - metallb - longhorn - postgres-oprator - kong using postgres - Rancher. I am on my way to deploy knative for the serverless, and istio oc. I am using Ansible, Vagrant, Packer, plus MAAS to manage all of these. The thing is that I am missing the security stack and firewall. I have read about NeuVector, authentik, keycloak, stackrox, stig, wazuh, and Crowdsec. But to be honest I don't know where to start, and where to end. I need help from the pros to decide my security/firewall security for my staing and prod clusters. I think this would make a great video :)

[@questiontime6822]

What do you think of the whole thing with MS Win 11 TPM and the computer not being your own, but owned by MS?

[@hotrodhunk7389]

Net data works well for me. No setup. Just install and it works.

[@robillardhugo9478]

Have you used Prometheus and Grafana ? I think it's the real gold of monitoring. Good video as always tho!

[@GhostedEvelyn]

I am just curious, is there any benefit to this over like ProxMox (or any other VM management) as, monitoring wise as far as I saw it does nearly everything roughly the same

[@Scobbo]

The glowup is real!

[@MichelBertrand]

One year ago UpTime Kuma was your favorite monitoring tool. Now this. We don't all have tens of thousands of dollars to setup new servers at home you know...

[@0rac1e-risc]

True Dat, like the free 10 devices tho, TBH I found myself trying to decide which one of the 2 applications to use, new joiner to @NetworkChuck hord of wonnabee good hackers

[@anthonym.4356]

thx do you want create a automatic ticket on service now or GLPI. have good day :)

[@El_Sombrero_Belga]

In many video's "sudo..." is being used, but every time I use that command, my terminal says that the term "sudo" is not recognized. How do I get this to work?

[@antoniepotgieter882]

Hi chuck.. im stuck at the first WMI command .can you help please

[@trevorford8332]

I'm getting really paranoid to the temperature on my Laptop just lately. I've figure it out tho I've narrowed it down to apps running in the background and the type apps I use. 🤔

[@spookycode]

Just use home assistant. It just works and doesn’t necessitate an extra service

[@dimasshidqiparikesit1338]

Alright you win chuck. I'm gonna try wug :)

[@tjokkerstar1462]

I use PRTG it's pretty good too :)

[@bobdeitz7641]

On my home network, several years ago, I used a port scanner, which I found out was a big no-no. The provider shutdown my circuit. I've proficient using PRTG, and have it installed at my two previous employers, using the baked-in sensors as well as several custom sensors. My question is: Using Whats Up Gold or PRTG, have you ever run into issues on your home network when these tools perform a network scan? Has it caused your provider to threaten to shut down your connection? If I use these tools for network scanning, should I disconnect my home network from the outside world during the scan so it does not trigger a response from the provider? Love you videos!! I've been in IT since 1984 and I've seen alot! Now working as a Business & Data Analyst as building data collection and reporting systems is kind of my bread and butter. Blessings on you, your family and your business. Bob from Ft. Worth

[@kryptonic010]

How cool. What if I wanted to monitor some of my computers across town?

[@olympicstudios4131]

Mr. Chuck, your videos are amazing and full of information but how much review or research do you usually do for a video like this?

[@vipanchika5059]

Thank you so much ❤️

[@MrMegapeer]

Nothing to worry about if you do not have any stuff to look over. Relax, chill, eat and sleep.

[@frighteningenius]

watching this channel go from 100k subs to 3 million subs, is brilliant

[@nathanbelcher5888]

This is cool. Lansweeper + Kuma UpTime in a box. I'm dealing with these at the moment.

[@gasyonevision744]

Very well software but using grafana is more helpfully and open source, WUG too can't personalized custom application monitoring, thank you networkchuck for this tutorial

[@DanielTekmyster]

Up to 10 devices, this wont cover any one full aspect of my lab…. 12 hardware network devices 10 server/storage hosts (ok maybe just this) ~65 IoT devices 40-something servers/applications

[@BigRedUS]

Something Chuck forgot to mention?

[@Pinkqween]

Is there a Linux version or MacOS version of this software, honestly I need to install on my 8gb 4b pi which is ARM if not my Mac Mini that is also well ARM

[@KenjiVdusc]

followed the instructions, every device was limited to ping monitoring. Thinking of Homeassistant, which has basically any device, its drive and their mothers on display, running on a slim raspberry, make this almost obsolete. Only the notification is something you don't get directly out of the box and not sure if it does work without subscription.

[@siniestro0239]

Is there a tool like this to install on windows only? I believe the server for this needs linux right?

[@NetworkChuck]

This is a Windows install.

[@tnhdk9]

Would totally use WhatsUp Gold, but 10 devices doesn't even touch one docker host for me in my homelab. Come on WhatsUp Gold, 50-100 devices is a better number. You'll increase your usage and adoption which could translate to professional environments.

[@wintermute740]

WhatsUp Gold?!?! It's been over two decades since I've seen that product. Used it at the dial-up ISP where I cut my teeth in networking.

[@retromusicbandrv]

CPU temperature?

[@samp1568]

tldr is it worth doing this

[@zurichsee706]

his beard continues growing. 😀

[@rotivanov]

Never clicked on a video so fast!

[@mamdouh-Tawadros]

Does it have a GUI ?