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WhatsUp Gold Standard Edition Changelog

What's new in WhatsUp Gold Standard Edition 23.0.1

Oct 28, 2023
  • Logging:
  • Excessive logging being generated by the StateManager

New in WhatsUp Gold Standard Edition 14.2.1 (Jun 11, 2010)

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the Interface Utilization Performance Monitor from collecting interface utilization data if any of the enabled interfaces did not support Interface Errors and Discards.

New in WhatsUp Gold Standard Edition 14.2.0 (Jun 11, 2010)

  • Scheduled Reports let you schedule reports in the web interface for email distrubution as PDF documents.
  • Business Hour reports provide the ability to configure full reports to display information within specified business hours for management and others that need to view report summary data.
  • Interface Errors and Discards Performance Monitor tracks inbound and outbound packet errors and discards network data (ifInErrors, ifOutErrors, ifInDiscards and ifOutDiscards). This interface performance monitor data is available in twenty-one new workspace reports and four new full reports. You can also use the Alert Center to set alert thresholds for when inbound and/or outbound packet data exceeds a specified number of dropped packets (errors) or discarded packets.
  • SSH Active Monitor provides the ability to have better control over Unix environments, for example Linux distribution such as Ubuntu. The SSH Active Monitor lets you execute a command or script, over SSH, on a designated computer and interpret the returned results as an Up or Down state on the device.
  • SSH Action lets you execute a command or script, over SSH, from WhatsUp Gold to a designated computer. The command can be any type of command that the computer can interpret and run. The commands can be basic Unix commands, Perl scripts, and other commands a user needs to execute on the computer. For example, commands that power on, power off, reset, shutdown, and snapshot devices.
  • SSH Performance Monitor provides the ability to monitor Unix environments and other remote systems via SSH. The SSH Performance Monitor lets you execute a command or script, over SSH, on a designated computer to return a single numeric value that graphs system performance over time.
  • # Blackout Summary Alert provides a summary report and notification for all devices that incurred state changes, or passive monitor actions during a blackout period. This information is also available in the Alert Center.
  • # Alert Center now provides support for SMS messages.
  • # Multiple data points within a single performance monitor graph provide the ability to view multiple types of data for a single device on one graph. For example, you can view performance data for each CPU, memory type, or disk on a single computer, all on one performance monitor report. Multiple data points are available for CPU, Memory, and Disk Performance Monitors.

New in WhatsUp Gold Standard Edition 14.1.2 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Added new PDF Export for WhatsUp Gold full reports and Flow Monitor. Graphs can be exported with or without report graphs.
  • Added password validation for credentials.
  • Added new Ipswitch Service Control Manager (ISCM) used to manage and support Ipswitch services and process. Five previous Windows services can now be managed from the new Ipswitch Services Manager interface: Polling engine, Flow Collector, Web Server, Alert Center, and Discovery. Two new Windows services have been added for WhatsConfigured plug-in and can be managed from the new Services Manager interface: WhatsConfigured and TFTP.
  • Added Bulk Field Change selection options for Custom Active interface performance monitors. Now the option to select high speed interfaces, interfaces that contain specific names, or interfaces of a particular type (for example, Fast Ethernet, Fibre Channel, L2 VLAN, and others) is available on the Web interface.

New in WhatsUp Gold Standard Edition 14.1 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Actions
  • Corrected an issue where email actions using AUTH were issuing HELO then EHLO. Changed the SMTP code to not send HELO if the extend EHLO is issued.
  • Added a warning message clarifying that WinPopup actions cannot be used on Windows Vista or later, as net send command is not supported by those operating systems.
  • Activation:
  • Corrected an issue where offline activation did not create the license.ofa file.
  • Active Monitors:
  • Corrected an issue that caused the Flow Custom Alert to give the reverse direction from receiver to sender after selecting "sent" traffic.
  • Corrected an issue that caused the Process Monitor to display an error when bad/incorrect CPU or memory data was returned by the target device.
  • Updated the TCP/IP Monitor to prevent a failure polling devices that respond to the polling request with initial data, but then do not send any additional data within one second. The timeout for this additional wait is controlled via a new IntermediaryTimeoutSec registry key.
  • Updated the VoIP Configuration Utility to properly flag the monitor as requiring credentials. This allows the Active Monitor Library's "Test" feature to work when testing the VoIP Active Monitor against a device.
  • Added APC UPS MIB file (PowerNet-MIB.txt is now included in \Ipswitch\WhatsUp\Data\Mibs) to the WhatsUp Gold MIB file collection.
  • Alert Center:
  • Updated Alert Center Service to write an error message to the Windows Event Viewer's Application Log if the service is unable to start because of missing or incorrect database requirements. The Netflow and NFArchive databases are required to exist in all WhatsUp Gold installations.
  • Corrected an issue where Group Read access rights were previously required to view data in Device Thresholds workspace report.
  • Corrected an issue where resolving multiple items in a threshold could lead to duplicate resolve entries in Item History report.
  • Corrected an issue where the Alert Center - Performance Memory Utilization threshold sometimes displays Infinity %.
  • Corrected an issue where Alert Center did not handle special chars "< and ' in Comment field when acknowledging or resolving, yet exported the file correctly.
  • Corrected an issue where Alert Center web server port settings always defaulted to port 80 regardless the port number that user entered during install.
  • Corrected an issue that caused the Alert Center Service to fail to restart after a system reboot.
  • Bulk Field Change:
  • Corrected an issue that caused the Bulk Field Change Up and Down Dependency dialog to display the data in the comment field incorrectly.
  • Corrected an issue with the Bulk Field Change for performance monitors wherein "Custom Active" was listed as an option for interface utilization without including any user interface for setting the custom filtering criteria.
  • Database Configuration Tool:
  • Corrected the Database Configuration Utility to properly create and update databases when installing or upgrading on a system that has short file name paths (sometimes know as "8.3 format" or "DOS format" paths) disabled.
  • Discovery:
  • Corrected an issue where IP addresses listed in the SubnetSkipList should not be included as part of the MaximumNumberAddressPerSession count. Discovery will now not count IP addresses added to the discovery skip list when evaluating the maximum number of addresses allowed per scan session.
  • Corrected an issue that caused the Discovery service to crash as a result of an invalid data type that was returned for sysUpTime.
  • Corrected an issue on the NmConsole that caused all devices in the Add Device to WhatsUp Gold dialog to remain selected even after deselecting all devices and attempting to select individual devices.
  • Corrected an issue that caused Discovery and Single Device Discovery to not apply FTP, Exchange, or HTTP Content active monitors.
  • Corrected an issue that caused the Discovery service to crash after updating a device role to include attributes with blank values.
  • Corrected an issue where the Discovery Console did not display an error message when attempting to start a discovery using an invalid host file.
  • Corrected an issue where Discovery did not find the SNMP information during a device scan using SNMPv3 credentials.
  • Corrected an issue where a failed active monitor (Ping) was added to a device when using the option Use advanced ping during a Single Device Discovery scan.
  • Added an option to specify authentication credentials in the scheduled discovery email options.
  • Added progress feedback for scheduled discovery email testing.
  • Corrected an issue that could cause the Discovery service to not automatically start after reboot.
  • Corrected an issue in the web interface that caused discovery to always attempt to resolve the hostname of a new device, even when the "Add the device immediately without scanning" option was enabled.
  • Corrected an issue where SNMP Smart Scan discovery was not excluding the 127.0.0.0/8 network and was adding the devices to the scan list.
  • Install:
  • Corrected several typographical errors in the Failed to Launch SQL Server Express Edition Setup dialog.
  • Corrected an issue that caused silent install to fail during a new installation as the result of a problem on the Admin Password dialog.
  • Installing, upgrading, and repairing a WhatsUp Gold installation no longer overwrites previous installation logs
  • Miscellaneous:
  • Corrected various usability, user interface, and documentation issues.
  • Mobile Access:
  • Corrected an issue where the WhatsUp Gold Mobile Access device list was missing in the map view image on Safari browsers.
  • NmConsole:
  • Corrected an issue that caused a "web server not enabled" message when restarting the web server with HTTPS enabled.
  • Performance Monitors:
  • Corrected an issue that would not allow the CPU Utilization Monitor to be enabled on a Net-SNMP Server.
  • Corrected an issue where the default CPU performance monitor always reports CPU load as 0% for Cisco wireless access points.
  • Recurring Reports:
  • Corrected an issue where NetFlow workspace reports that include the www.png favicon (used for Unknown, and for the majority of Senders and Receivers reports) were not passing the image to the recurring report.
  • Reports:
  • Corrected an issue in the State Change Timeline Report, where any monitor with a state change that starts or ends, but does not wholly exist during the selected time period, does not appear in the report.
  • Corrected a SQL error issue that occurred when viewing the Flow Monitor's Top Senders and Top Receivers workspace reports after upgrading from a prior version.
  • Corrected an issue that occurred from a MIB browser error "Could not poll the specific device..." if you attempt to add an object ID at the Configure SNMP Values dialog using a device that has a name which cannot be resolved to an IP address. The MIB browser now can get the IP address for the computer name from the database.
  • Corrected an issue that caused the Date/Time picker, in web interface full reports, from displaying the wrong date if DD/MM/YY regional settings were used.
  • Corrected an issue that caused the Flow Monitor icon to display next to a device even when Flow Monitor is not enabled in the license file.
  • Web Interface:
  • Corrected an issue that caused the APC UPS Performance Monitor Timeout field to display the wrong information.
  • Corrected an issue that caused the memory utilization workspace reports to show 100% utilization on devices that did not have a total size value.
  • Corrected an issue that caused the Device toolbar and context menu "Browse" option to resolve incorrectly.
  • Corrected an issue that occurred when a user has the "Manage Workspace" rights and gets an error when navigating to the Manage Workspaces dialog.
  • Updated the Device SNMP Details Workspace Report to allow more OIDs to be added to the workspace report's configuration. This prevents an issue that caused the workspace report to display no content if too many OIDs were added to the configuration.
  • Corrected an issue where the WhatsUp Gold web interface allowed devices to have no IP/hostname configured in certain instances.
  • Corrected an issue where the Web Performance Monitor did not title graphs correctly.
  • Web Server:
  • Corrected User Access Control (UAC) issues that caused an "access to registry key denied" error.
  • Corrected an issue where WhatsUp Gold resolved to an invalid URL.
  • WhatsConnected:
  • Corrected an issue that caused WhatsConnected XML files to be incorrectly upgraded when upgrading from v12.4 to v14.0. An upgrade from prior versions of WhatsUp Gold now correctly updates the WhatsConnected settings files to prevent an XML error on launch.