Release Notes for Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold

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Release Notes for Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 2018 Service Pack 2

Release information

Product Name

WhatsUp Gold 2018 Service Pack 2

 

Version

18.0.2

 

Release date

v2018 (18.0.2) - August 28, 2018

 

WhatsUp Gold 2018 Service Pack 2

The following released with WhatsUp Gold Service Pack 2.

WhatsUp Gold Features

WUG18.0.2-SP2-In Product Updates

Important: WhatsUp Gold attempts to migrate all users' dashboards and reports with their current settings. However, some report settings may not be compatible with the latest version of WhatsUp Gold. In this case, some settings must be adjusted after migration to fully restore dashboard views and individual reports to their previous configuration.

WUG18.0.2-SP2-Dashboard Migration dialog

WUG18.0.2-SP2-New Dashboard View Menu

WUG18.0.2-SP2-New Add Reports Icon

WUG18.0.2-SP2-Custom Layout Dynamic Group

WUG18.0.2-SP2-NTA Dark Web Usage Threshold

WUG18.0.2-SP2-Meraki Device Status

WUG18.0.2-SP2-ServiceNow Incident Action

WUG18.0.2-SP2-All Names IPs MACs dialog

WUG18.0.2-SP2-Updated DNS Active Monitor Configuration dialog

Known Issues

Defects resolved in WhatsUp Gold Service Pack 2

Defect ID

Category

Issues

FLM-4192

Network Traffic Analyzer

BwCollector hits Out of Memory exception and then hangs (doesn't crash)

WCF-814

Configuration Management

Scheduled tasks using custom scripts without keys will report success without saving results.

WCF-887

Configuration Management

remoteloginconsole is failing to connect via IPv6

WUG-17201

Actions

Repeat Action never clears if monitor is removed or disabled

WUG-19656

Settings

Add Web Alarm interval to User Preferences

WUG-20365

Upgrade

Dashboard View Migration Framework

WUG-21281

Settings

Ability to Disable Web Alarms

WUG-26429

Maps

Add ability to leverage Dynamic groups in Map View/Custom Maps

WUG-26600

Discovery

Saved Scan Settings - After Edit, Return to Saved Scan Settings

WUG-26991

Security

MIB Manager allows upload of malicious asp pages which can then be executed

WUG-28518

Reports

Persist column sorting in dashboard reports

WUG-30282

Reports

Device Up time report is inconsistent with multiple ping monitors

WUG-31154

Monitors

Interface Speed edit fails to save

WUG-31507

Discovery

Add option to add hidden devices as discovery exclusion

WUG-32204

Discovery

Discovery include group option does not turn off.

WUG-32462

Monitors

Invalid Argument error causing Interface (SNMP), Fan, Temperature and Power Supply active monitors to go down.

WUG-32724

Upgrade

SNMP Trap payload no longer provides readable data after upgrading to 17.1.2

WUG-32792

Upgrade

Scalability poller - NmStatusTrayService.exe, NmStatusTrayService.dll and NmStatusTrayService.dll.config do not get deleted upon upgrade

WUG-32803

Application Monitoring

Some Outlook 365 components don't work because of Microsoft deprecating cmdlets

WUG-32935

Discovery

"Test Email" button in Discovery Schedule Tab doesn't do anything

WUG-32957

Monitors

"Use in Rescan" Active Monitors don't work for some devices

WUG-32981

Discovery

"Monitored Devices" option persists in Saved Scan even after the option has been disabled again

WUG-33083

Security

WhatsUP allows cross-site scripting in query string

WUG-33084

System

Support for Intel IPMI Trap Format (hackathon)

WUG-33161

Monitors

SNMP Traps with no match on a Passive Monitor generate trapDropped Messages in General Error Log

WUG-33172

Maps

Custom Layout Map doesn't request annotations

WUG-33214

Wireless

Exclude Wireless Clients when Expanding Wireless Environments

WUG-33222

Discovery

Discovery does not correctly differentiate between similar Active Monitors

WUG-33332

RPM

RPM Instances going zombie inside the poller eventually leading to RPM_TEST_MONITOR_QUEUE_LENGTH_EXCEEDED

WUG-33441

Monitors

SNMP Active Monitors cause NmPoller cpu spikes when using v3 credentials with 18.0.1

WUG-33443

Authentication

External Authentication is failing with Unable to cast object of type to 'System.DBNull' to type 'System.String'

WUG-33483

Monitors

BGP active monitor bgpPeerAdminStatus state

WUG-33562

Monitors

Device Refresh/Rescan adds Active Monitors without "Use in Rescan" enabled

WUG-33563

Virtual

Null reference exception when updating devices after vCenter Discovery

WUG-33631

Reports

2018 SP1 – Interface traffic report - Vertical axis scale Auto doesn’t work

WUG-33638

Database

While running validate and compact database gets error "The pipe is being closed."

WUG-33680

Reports

Chart empty for some devices in 2018 sp1

WUG-33772

System

WhatsUp Gold 2018 SP1 appears to make calls to external links like YouTube when NMConsole is launched, causing delay in startup on offline systems

WUG-33832

System

MySQL .NET Connector version 5.2.5 download missing.

WUG-33931

Monitors

Custom AM is being applied to devices but does not match the criteria for applying the monitor

WUG-34019

Upgrade

Not all devices show up in My Network after an upgrade to 18.0.1

WUG-34040

Discovery

F5 device will not pick up SNMP SNMPv2 credentials during initial discovery

WUG-34041

Network Traffic Analyzer

NTA Device Configuration dialog does not open when DGAR is enabled and Admin is not used, an Error toast is instead displayed

WUG-34056

User Interface

WUG Evaluator Onboarding 'Opening Animation' fails to load

WUG-34077

Monitors

Performance monitor reports shows “No Data to Display” while data are available.

WUG-34078

Maps

Customer is limited to 4MB background image files in v18, the 10meg file worked in 16.5

WUG-34107

Configuration Management

Configuration Management Start vs Run Report does not show differences in configuration files

WUG-34137

Reports

Group level Interface Discards report shows incorrect data for Today date range

WUG-34156

Monitors

HTTPS active monitor fails with Error Cannot grow buffer over the defined limit

WUG-34200

Monitors

Powershell active monitor fails check during discovery

WUG-34242

Monitors

HTTP TCP IP monitor reporting down after upgrade from 18.0 to 18.0.1 due to comments in the script.

WUG-34249

Device Properties

Select Brand option throws a toast error when applied

WUG-34301

Discovery

Discovery fails to create SMI-S Association

WVRT-4026

Virtual

Support Hyper-V 2016

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 2018 Service Packs support direct upgrade installations from:
-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