Release Notes for Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold

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Release Notes for Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 2018 Service Pack 1

Release information

Product Name

WhatsUp Gold 2018 Service Pack 1

 

Version

18.0.1

 

Release date

v2018 (18.0.1) - May 22, 2018

 

WhatsUp Gold 2018 Service Pack 1

The following released with WhatsUp Gold Service Pack 1.

WhatsUp Gold Features

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Known Issues

Defects resolved in WhatsUp Gold Service Pack 1

Defect ID

Category

Issues

FLM-4057

Network Traffic Analyzer

Corrected an issue preventing the user from searching for a specific flow source in NTA.

FLM-4167

Network Traffic Analyzer

Corrected an issue causing the number of days to keep data to be negative (i.e., out of range) when auto-tuning is enabled

FLM-4169

Network Traffic Analyzer

Corrected an issue preventing WhatsUp Gold from purging Unclassified Flow data regardless of settings.

WCF-864

Scripts

Corrected an issue in which using the default logout string caused issues for telnet sessions on HP switches.

WUG-19103

User Interface

Corrected an issue with some dialogs which incorrectly lead the user to believe the poller could be configured to use a specific local IP address.

WUG-20500

Reports

Corrected an issue with the presentation of the Passive Monitors by Type dashboard report to enhance usability.

WUG-27056

User Interface

Corrected an issue causing WhatsUp Gold to report devices as still being scanned when in fact they have been scanned and ready for monitoring.

WUG-27071

Reporting

Corrected an issue preventing WhatsUp Gold from allowing the end-user from selecting more than one ESX host on the Virtual Monitoring Dashboard.

WUG-27072

AD

Corrected an issue potentially causing a communication failure when attempting to log in using external authentication

WUG-27162

Monitors

Corrected an issue preventing JMX monitors from reconnecting after the Java app has been restarted.

WUG-27777

Discovery

Corrected an issue preventing WhatsUp Gold from correctly identifying brand/model of some Westermo Switches.

WUG-28025

Configuration Management

Corrected an issue causing an error message to appear when viewing a device with a large amount of Configuration Management archives.

WUG-28358

Polling

Corrected an issue potentially causing WhatsUp Gold to stop polling memory utilization at random.

WUG-29092

Deployment

Corrected an issue preventing users from being able to uninstall WhatsUp Gold without a valid license.

WUG-29369

Roles

Corrected an issue causing the role editor to freeze when a large number of scan rules are added.

WUG-30250

User Interface

Corrected an issue with role templates causing the incorrect button to be enabled by default.

WUG-30366

Reports

Corrected an issue preventing PDF reports from being populated if the source dashboard view contained a Real Time Performance Monitor.

WUG-30598

Roles

Corrected an issue preventing all NT service monitors from being applied to a device based on role.

WUG-30671

Reports

Corrected an issue in which min/max value options were missing from the Interface Utilization report.

WUG-30939

DGAR

Corrected an issue related to device group access rights which could generate a 'Failed to Load Global Settings' internal server error.

WUG-31154

Monitors

Corrected an issue preventing changes to Interface performance monitor interface speed setting from being saved successfully.

WUG-31387

User Rights

Corrected an issue causing the refresh/rescan options to be displayed when the current user does not have device write user rights enabled.

WUG-31438

Polling

Corrected an issue causing the polling controller to repeatedly stop and restart preventing devices from being polled.

WUG-31576

Reports

Renamed Ping Availability to Ping Availability (Packet Loss) for clarity due to perceived inconsistency in report data.

WUG-31621

Polling

Corrected an issue causing a power supply not present to be incorrectly reported as a failure.

WUG-31658

Discovery

Corrected an issue potentially preventing discovery from successfully discovering all available interfaces.

WUG-31710

Polling

Corrected an issue preventing WhatsUp Gold from polling the specified interfaces when 'specific interfaces' is selected.

WUG-31778

Reports

Corrected an issue with some wireless reports causing errors to appear in the logger health messages log.

WUG-31821

Polling

Corrected an issue causing the polling controller to crash if load balancing is disabled and at least one device ins not in the poller assignment list.

WUG-31938

Reports

Corrected an issue causing emailed Start vs Run reports to contain incorrect hyperlinks.

WUG-31939

Discovery

Corrected an issue preventing WhatsUp Gold from successfully updating device attribute (iOS version) during refresh/rescan.

WUG-31962

Discovery

Corrected an issue causing rescan or discovery of a device to add a second, unmonitored instance of that device to the discovered network list.

WUG-31984

Discovery

Corrected an issue preventing discovery from successfully adding credentials to a device when seed scan is selected.

WUG-32124

User Interface

Corrected an issue causing the user interface to incorrectly display a 'save failed' error message when successfully enabling or disabling a large number of interfaces on a device.

WUG-32131

Discovery

Corrected an issue preventing WhatsUp Gold from successfully updating interface labels during rescan.

WUG-32149

Alert Center

Corrected an issue preventing alert center reports from displaying or exporting more than 50 rows.

WUG-32162

Discovery

Corrected an issue causing duplicate Juniper device records to be created during discovery/merge depending on the presence of credentials and credential type used.

WUG-32201

User Interface

Corrected an issue preventing scroll buttons for views on the Home dashboard view from being displayed properly.

WUG-32287

User Interface

Corrected an issue potentially causing the Start/Update Monitoring dialog to be rendered incorrectly.

WUG-32362

Memory

Corrected an issue causing the ActiveScriptExecutor executable file to use increased memory over time until a service restart is required.

WUG-32440

Monitors

Corrected an issue preventing test monitors from generating an exception easily visible to the end-user when the poller is offline.

WUG-32441

DGAR

Corrected an issue preventing applicable dynamic group information from being displayed when device group access rights are enabled.

WUG-32522

Monitors

Corrected an issue preventing SNMP monitors from polling when assigned to scalability pollers.

WUG-32567

Discovery

Corrected an issue with discovery in which a merge failure caused a scanning loop.

WUG-32568
WUG-32578

Poller

Corrected an issue causing the poller to fail following upgrade.

WUG-32585

Discovery

Corrected an issue with the discovery service potentially causing discovery to miss devices after upgrading from v17.0.3 to v18.0.

WUG-32586

Monitoring

Corrected an issue which generated an error when attempting to monitor Dell Compellent with two storage processors using SMI-S.

WUG-32602

Discovery

Corrected an issue causing Discovery to match on a subrole when using WMI query is used as match condition.

WUG-32658

User Interface

Corrected an issue causing some instability in the user interface when certain filters have been applied in the Overview dashboard and a non-English language is used.

WUG-33154

Security

CVE-ID-2018-11337: Corrected an issue related to a SQL injection vulnerability present in an .ASP page which could potentially allow attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via unspecified vectors. Credit: NCI Agency Cyber Security

WVRT-4039

Virtualization

Corrected an issue potentially preventing WhatsUp Gold Virtual from polling some VMWare devices.

System Requirements

Operating system and virtual environment requirements

FIPS is no longer supported in Operating Systems prior to Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 or 8.1.

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
-WhatsUp Gold 2018