WhatsUp Gold 14.2 & Failover Manager Technical Preview Program

Automatic Failover for Seamless Network Management Coverage

With the success of a business hinging largely on the network performing at its peak around the clock, network managers can not afford to take any chances. Despite enlisting the help of a complete network management solution tool kit, there is always the risk of encountering problems and downtime with this software, leaving the network vulnerable.

WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager can help keep network managers’ minds at ease. The newest plug-in to join the WhatsUp Gold product suite takes over network management duties in the event that the primary WhatsUp Gold system malfunctions.

WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager Features

Automatic failover of the primary system
Automatic notification if one of the systems fails
Automatic shift of monitoring responsibilities once the primary system is back online
Manual push of monitoring responsibilities in times of maintenance

WhatsVirtual Features

Support for VMware ESX/ESXi monitoring, including:

New VMware discovery role and discovery attributes
New VMware workspaces Reports:
- Virtual Host
- Virtual Host List
New VMware Performance Monitors
- Virtual Machine CPU
- VMware Host CPU
- Virtual Machine Disk
- VMware Disk
- Virtual Machine Memory
- VMware Memory
- Virtual Machine Interface
- VMware Interface
New VM mapping
New VMware Credential Type for VMware hosts
New VMware Action Type
Alert Center thresholds for VMware

WhatsUp Gold v14.2

WhatsUp Gold v14.2 builds upon the feature set of the core product, offering enhancements in performance as well as improvements on three of the integrated plug-ins; WhatsConnected*, Flow Monitor and WhatsConfigured.

WhatsUp Gold v14.2 Features

SSH Active Monitor provides the ability to have better control over a Unix, Linux, and other environments. 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.
Blackout Summary Alert provides a summary report and notification for all devices that incurred state changes during a blackout period. This information is also available in the Alert Center.
Multiple data points within a single performance monitor graph provides the ability to view multiple pieces 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 CPU, Memory, and Disk Performance Monitors.

Flow Monitor Enhancements

Added support for IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) UDP
Added support for sFlow v2 and NSEL Support (Cisco ASA Firewall support)
95th Percentile Reporting to sample data at regular and frequent intervals of about five minutes for an extended period of time; for example, a week or a month. This method of measuring bandwidth allows bandwidth to exceed a specified threshold for a period of time, ignoring the top 5% of traffic. This reporting method can be used to help fairly compromise billing charges for network bandwidth usage.
Flow Monitor performance and usability improvements

WhatsConnected Enhancements

WhatsConnected Dependencies Export - automatically creates dependencies during export to WhatsUp Gold based on the WhatsConnected topology. During the export, an Up dependency is created in WhatsUpGold for each child in a parent-child relationship.
Device Viewer - WhatsConnected information can be viewed directly in the WhatsUp Gold Device Properties dialog.
Scheduled Discovery - provides the ability to configure recurring discovery scans and update devices that have been exported to WhatsUp Gold.
Asset/Inventory Report - provides a view of the assets discovered by WhatsConnected as well as tools to sort and filter.
Connectivity Report - provides a list of the devices connected to a network device as well as tools to sort and filter.
Bridge Port Utilization Report - provides a list of the devices connected to a network device as well as tools to sort and filter.

WhatsConfigured Enhancements

Added the ability to import and export custom scripts into the WhatsConfigured Task Script Library for use in WhatsConfigured Tasks.
Added an Archive Search feature that allows you easily search for and view archived configuration files.
Introduced the WhatsConfigured Policy Library and WhatsConfigured Policies that allow you to audit archived configuration files for expected and/or unexpected strings. Policies can be associated with Alert Center thresholds to notify you when unexpected strings are found in an archived configuration file.
Added the ability to view detailed results for tasks that are run using the WhatsConfigured Task Library's Run Now option.