Release Notes for Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold

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Release Notes for Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 2017 Plus Service Pack 2

Release information

Product Name

WhatsUp Gold 2017 Plus Service Pack 2

 

Version

17.1.2

 

Release date

December 13, 2017

 

WhatsUp Gold 2017 Plus Service Pack 2

The following released with WhatsUp Gold Service Pack 2:

Defects resolved in WhatsUp Gold Service Pack 2

Defect ID

Category

Issues

APM-1873

UI

Corrected an issue causing APM status indicators to remain green when the Up status has been set to display as blue.

FLM-4158

Reports

Corrected an issue preventing NTA threshold filters from being displayed in the Alert Center Items report.

WUG-19102

Monitors

Corrected an issue causing the HTTP content monitor to go up and down when it should remain up.

WUG-21135

Monitors

Corrected an issue causing SNMP monitors to randomly report as Down with an invalid argument for all ports in use.

WUG-23459

Monitors

Corrected an issue causing the File Content monitor to always report as Down if the 'Use sub-folders' setting is enabled.

WUG-28742

Discovery

Corrected an issue causing discovery to potentially hang due to errors related to merging devices.

WUG-29285

Migration

Corrected an issue preventing Custom Layout map views from successfully migrating when European Regional Settings are used.

WUG-29310

UI

Corrected an issue preventing the Edit Group menu option from functioning properly when attempting to modify a dynamic group when custom layout map view is enabled.

WUG-29445

UI

Removed unneeded filter bar from Device-specific view.

WUG-29454

UI

Corrected an issue preventing a scroll bar from appearing within the role editor when monitors is selected.

WUG-29528

Polling

Corrected an issue which could prevent the polling controller from starting due to a timeout when executing a SQL query.

WUG-29617

Monitors

Corrected an issue preventing the user from seeing disks for a device in the configure disk utilization dialog when editing a disk performance monitor.

WUG-29643

Monitors

Corrected an issue potentially causing a bulk field error to be displayed when assigning passive monitors.

WUG-29737

Reports

Corrected an issue with the Down Active Monitors dashboard report which caused an incorrect set of devices to be displayed when using custom monitor states.

WUG-29907

Roles

Corrected an issue preventing Palo Alto firewalls from being assigned the firewall subrole.

WUG-30047

Credentials

Corrected an issue causing WhatsUp Gold to look at CredentialTypeID rather than CredentialType when validating credentials

WUG-30314

UI

Corrected an issue potentially causing the device list user interface to lag or lock when a filter is applied to display an specific unmonitored device and a discovery scan is initiated.

WUG-30380

Search

Corrected an issue preventing the search function from successfully returning results from the help system.

WUG-30448

Polling

Corrected an issue that could potentially cause a disconnect between the poller and polling controller under specific circumstances and settings.

WUG-30583

Monitors

Corrected an issue preventing the file monitor from successfully accessing a locked file.

WUG-30790

Monitors

Corrected an issue preventing disk utilization from enumerating for a device with commas in drive description.

WUG-30880

UI

Corrected an issue causing an incorrect dialog to be displayed within the action builder when adding a blackout schedule.

WUG-31058

Monitors

Improved reliability of the HTTP Content Monitor.

WUG-31188

Discovery

Corrected an issue in which devices were being improperly merged due to MAC address.

WVRT-4018

Services

Corrected an issue causing issues with nmtaskcontroller when monitoring a large VMWare environment.

System Requirements

Operating system and virtual environment requirements

This service pack does not require or introduce changes to the WhatsUp Gold operating system and virtual requirements.

Database requirements

This service pack does not require or introduce changes to the WhatsUp Gold database requirements.

Web server requirements

This service pack does not require or introduce changes to the WhatsUp Gold Microsoft IIS requirements.

Framework and accessibility requirements

This service pack does not require or introduce changes to the WhatsUp Gold framework and accessibility requirements.

Web and mobile interface requirements

This service pack does not require or introduce changes for internet browsers.

Poller Requirements

This service pack does not require or introduce changes to the WhatsUp Gold poller requirements.

Installing WhatsUp Gold

Note: WhatsUp Gold 2017 Plus Service Packs support direct upgrade installations from:
-WhatsUp Gold v15.x
-WhatsUp Gold v16.0.x
-WhatsUp Gold v16.1.x
-WhatsUp Gold v16.2.x
-WhatsUp Gold v16.3.x
-WhatsUp Gold v16.4.x
-WhatsUp Gold 2016
-WhatsUp Gold 2017