We needed a way to replicate our Progress database to our SQL database without impacting our student information system. Prior, we had a lot of different needs to be able to query the production database and when our development or consulting teams tried to do queries, it would impact our student production system. This solution replicated the database to an SQL database that could be queried and not have an impact. That was powerful for us to keep things stable.
We needed to proactively monitor our network infrastructure. We tried another network software called SolarWinds but it became very expensive. We were monitoring very little with it and we needed to monitor more.
We are a large school district with 60,000 students, 10,000 employees, and around 5,000 pieces of network equipment. We're the 17th largest school district in our state. We wanted to be able to monitor everything within a reasonable price. WhatsUp Gold helps us monitor everything affordably. We've been very happy with it.
WhatsUp Gold tracks server resources. If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue. Overall, we are very satisfied with WhatsUp Gold.
We had to transition off our previous Microsoft load balancer. It was not very responsive. We had issues when we had to take down certain virtual web servers. We looked at the hardware and software load balancer. The hardware-based ones were more expensive. We did a POC for two months with Kemp. It seemed simple to use so we bought a subscription. It worked well and the cost is reasonable. We use it for load balancing our student information system and for load balancing our ERP system.
It automatically starts monitoring newly discovered devices. If we point at a particular top-level switch or main stacking equipment, it automatically monitors it. We have to make sure that our SNPM information is configured appropriately and it will automatically dive in, see the equipment, and try to bring it in appropriately.