Ipswitch is proud to announce WhatsUp Gold 14.0!
 

In this release, we've focused on building new features, responding to customer requests, and improving the overall user experience of WhatsUp Gold. Here are some of the exciting new features in WhatsUp Gold 14:

 

Alert Center

You've asked for the ability to alert on performance data, and we've listened! With Alert Center, you can configure thresholds that alert on Performance, NetFlow and Passive Monitor data.  
 

Alert Center

 

 

Self Monitoring

As part of Alert Center, you can configure thresholds for monitoring aspects of the WhatsUp Gold application including Engine Polling, Database Performance, and Services.

Critical Monitors (Intra-device Dependencies)

Are you tired of being bombarded with multiple alerts from one device after it loses network connectivity? Well, you aren't alone. Many customers have requested the ability to make one monitor dependent on another monitor on the same device (such as making an HTTP monitor dependent on the Ping monitor)  so that they don't get multiple alerts on the same device if network connectivity is lost.

 

The new Critical Monitor feature allows you to make one or more active monitors critical. If any of the critical active monitors report down during a poll, none of the non-critical active monitors are polled, and only the actions tied to the down critical monitor are triggered.

 

 

Critical Monitors

 

 

 

Improved Discovery

The Discovery engine has been completely redesigned to allow you to quickly and correctly discover the devices on your network.  The improved Discovery engine can also automatically create and configure monitors based on the detailed information found during the discovery process.

Highlights include:
 

• Speed - Multi-threaded architecture allows the Discovery engine to query devices in parallel, and you can begin to work with discovered device immediately, even while discovery continues to find new devices.
   
• Accuracy - New engine uses additional methods to more accurately identify devices on your network.
   
• Device Roles - Devices are configured based on preconfigured and user-definable role "templates.”.
   
• Discovery from the Web Interface - You can now discovery devices from the web interface in the same way you perform a discovery from the console application.
   
• Customizable - You can create and customize device roles, which specify what monitors should be created by default on discovered devices of that role type. 

 

 

Discovery

 

 

 

 

Device Roles

New Monitors

New pre-configured monitors including:

• APC UPS

• Printer Monitor

• Process Monitor

• FTP Monitor

• Network Statistics Monitor

• Temperature Monitor
• Fan Monitor

• Folder Monitor

• File Properties Monitor

• SQL Query Monitor
• MS Exchange 2007 Monitor
• HTTP Content Monitor

 

Cisco/Juniper Performance Monitoring

Monitor CPU and Memory for Cisco and Juniper network devices.

 

New Actions

• SNMP Set Action

• Windows Event Log Action

• Text Log Action

 

Welcome Center

With the new Welcome Center, you gain easy access to the latest information about WhatsUp Gold--everything from product documentation and blog articles to instructional videos and forum posts. The Quick Setup Assistant, a part of the Welcome Center, steps you through configuring WhatsUp Gold for the first time so that you can successfully monitor your network as quickly as possible.

 

Welcome Center

Find Devices

You can now search for devices on your network by display name, hostname, or IP address from the web interface.

 

64-bit Support

You can now install WhatsUp Gold 14 on 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, 2003, and Windows 2008 Server.

 

SQL Server 2008 Support

You can now configure WhatsUp Gold to work with Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

 

New NetFlow Features

• Performance improvements
• Support sFlow protocol (user requested).
• Enable permissions for sources
• Support for JFlow (sampled Netflow).
• Create a Interface report (for billing)
• Added whois information to hosts report.
• New "ICMP Type" workspace report.
• New "Packet Size" distribution report.
• Improved reports by allowing configuration of fields to show and to sort by (Bytes, Packets, Flows).
• Support for languages with double bytes.

Much more!
 

Apply for the WhatsUp Gold 14 Technical Preview Program