Case Study: University of North Georgia achieves automated IT audits and faster campus-wide network monitoring with Progress WhatsUp Gold

WhatsUp Gold Resolves Problems with Complex IT Compliance for the University of North Georgia

The University of North Georgia, a five-campus institution serving nearly 20,000 students, faced a major compliance challenge when Georgia introduced new IT auditing laws. IT staff had to manually inventory and audit more than 500 servers—an error-prone, weeks-long process using custom VBScript tools that disrupted campus services and strained the team.

UNG implemented Progress WhatsUp Gold to automate discovery, inventory and audits; its SmartScan produced consolidated lists of IPs, system names, OS versions, CPU, memory and disk and synced results to SharePoint. Real-time monitoring (with Google Maps location for data centers), faster two-minute reports, and reduced manual work saved significant time, improved outage response, and earned the team statewide recognition at the InteractUSG conference.

University of North Georgia

Michael Roth

Senior Systems Engineer