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I last looked at WhatsUp Gold, a network management tool from Ipswitch, about six years ago and the latest release -- version 12 -- builds on a good product and makes it better.
WUG is not what one might think of as enterprise class in so far as it doesn't cost a gazillion dollars or take the human resources of Bulgaria to deploy it. On the other hand, it can do much of what you need a network management system to do.
The edition I looked at was WhatsUp Gold Premium which, for $3,415, can monitor as many as 300 devices -- that's only about $11 per device! Other versions support monitoring of as many as 100, 500, 1,000 or 2,500 devices.
The core features of WUG are device discovery and mapping (you can use SNMP testing, IP address pinging and SMB Network Neighborhood scanning), real-time monitoring and management, customizable status change notification, reporting, an AJAX-enabled Web interface that...