Release Notes for Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold

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Release Notes for Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 2018 Service Pack 3

Release information

Product Name

WhatsUp Gold 2018 Service Pack 3

 

Version

18.3

 

Release date

v2018 (18.3.1) - December 11th, 2018

v2018 (18.3) - October 25th, 2018

 

WhatsUp Gold 2018 Service Pack 3

The following released with WhatsUp Gold Service Pack 3.

WhatsUp Gold Features

WUG18.3-RN-APM-OVERLAY

WUG18.3-SP3-Application Up WUG18.3-SP3-Application Down WUG18.3-SP3-Application Warning WUG18.3-SP3-Application Maintenance WUG18.3-SP3-Application Unknown

WUG18.3-SP3-Device Properties - APM Tab

WUG18.3-RN-Web Alarm Upload

WUG18.3-SP3-RN-DEVICE_INFORMATION_CARD

WUG18.3-RN-Device SNMP Details Report

WUG18.3-RN-Scan History Update

WUG18.3-SP3-Device Group Mini Status

WUG18.3-RN-Interface Filtering in Role Editor

WUG18.3-RN-OpsGenie

WUG18.3-RN-Console Right-Click

Known Issues

Defects resolved in WhatsUp Gold Service Pack 3 (18.3)

Defect ID

Category

Issues

WCF-868

Alert Center

Problem/Limitation with Config Management Alert Center Thresholds for Config Management Script Actions.

WCF-883

Configuration Management

Remoteloginconsole is failing to authenticate with "packet too short" error.

WUG-22595

Tools

SNMP MIB Walker doesn't appear to use the CONTEXT of the used SNMPv3 credential.

WUG-27358

Reports

Device group mini status needs to reflect monitor status instead of device status.

WUG-32965

Action Policies

Assigning an action policy to multiple monitors in device properties fails in WUG 2018.

WUG-33147

Languages

Chinese Regional Systems fail to correctly discovery HyperV Environments.

WUG-33318

Monitors

Allow users to control interface active monitor assignments within Role Editor.

WUG-33325

Credentials

Can't get CPU utilization from ESXI host using SNMP.

WUG-33612

User Interface

Realtime performance monitor > interface utilization > traffic rate shows Shows 2 Gbps twice in graph.

WUG-33632

Discovery

On Discovery a device adds 8 Interface active monitors when there are only 4 in the iftable WatchGuard router firewall.

WUG-33633

User Interface

Modified Device should be dropped from UI in 2018.

WUG-33642

Admin Console

Change a device's Type or menu items in Admin Console (device properties).

WUG-34080

Reports

Custom links in the dashboard vanish until the report is modified.

WUG-34366

User Interface

Up notification says device is Down after maintenance.

WUG-34460

Upgrade

Groups missing after restoring v16.5.2 db to v18.0.1 b325.

WUG-34535

Discovery

"Monitored Devices" Discovery Option not working as expected when "Automatically Update Allowed Devices" is enabled.

WUG-34660

Discovery

Scan of existing vCenter server throws exceptions and fails to update inventory/associations.

WUG-34721

Settings

Various components of WUG 2018 SP1 b325 keep failing on servers that run TLS 1.2 only without FIPS enabled.

WUG-34775

Languages

Scheduled Maintenance Mode Changes are not saved when using "Weekly" option with Language Pack.

WUG-34836

Discovery

Discovery stays in the initialization stage indefinitely.

WUG-34858

Monitors

Power Supply Monitors fail on CISCO 3850 and 9300 switches after software upgrade to 16.6.4 when no second PSU is present on the device.

Defects resolved in WhatsUp Gold Service Pack 3.1 (18.3.1)

Defect ID

Category

Issues

WUG-35684

System

Improved polling controller performance for monitoring large environments.

WUG-35814

Devices

Improved Meraki device status monitor.

WUG-35772

Application Monitoring

Expired APM evaluation causes failure in upgrade with no way to delete leftover data.

WCF-966

Configuration Management

When selecting to send Alert Center notification and Configuration Management Schedule Task is selected, user cannot save the task.

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