- Multitenant management and billing
- Fine-grained delegated monitoring
- Context-sensitive, user-specific dashboards
- SNMP monitoring even without a fancy MIB
- Visibility into underlying virtualization platforms (VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V)
- VMotion-sensitive VMware monitoring
- Service-based performance monitoring (e.g. Exchange email delivery times)
- Vblock and FlexPod support
- Monitors multivendor videoconferencing networks (VTC- and VoIP-specific metrics)
- Installation under 15 minutes, from raw metal to running
- Updates have been flawless and hitless, no restarting required
- Dashboards currently based on Adobe Flash, but HTML5 coming
- Flow support is optional and part of an OEM agreement
- More expensive than WhatsUp Gold
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