Ipswitch released WhatsUp Gold 16.3 with innovations that significantly improve the power and user experience of their network and system monitoring software for IT teams.
The release includes native support for Cisco NetFlow-Lite, expanded Microsoft application performance monitoring, and top customer requests for increasing productivity and monitoring flexibility.
New features in Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 16.3 include:
- Improved User Experience: A new user interface greatly enhances the user experience and offers simplified navigation
- Faster and Easier Software Installation and Network Discovery: A new software installer and network discovery wizard reduces installation and deployment steps by fifty percent
- Simple, Customer-Friendly Licensing: New unrestricted licensing option expands the award-winning Ipswitch device-based licensing model that provides IT Teams total network visibility without compromise. Users have the freedom to monitor full devices without vendor-imposed restrictions by elements, interfaces, or monitors that create costly surprises at renewal time.
- First and Only Native Support for Cisco NetFlow-Lite: Fine-grained support for Cisco Netflow-Lite gives IT teams better traffic flow visibility, improved network planning and simplified troubleshooting and eliminates the need for a third party aggregator to understand and analyze network traffic flow.
- Powerful monitoring for Microsoft Applications: The latest version of WhatsUp Gold provides expanded application performance monitoring (APM) support for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Dynamics, Lync, SQL Server, Internet Information Services (IIS), Windows, Active Directory and Hyper-V. With version 16.3, IT teams can leverage Microsoft expert knowledge via pre-defined profiles to monitor application performance and dependencies. They can easily get alerts, isolate the root cause of performance problems and fix problems quickly.
- Increased Productivity: WhatsUp Gold 16.3 provides IT teams with one-click device maintenance mode and granular control of blackout schedules and alerts. The latest version also provides smart action policies when devices are down. To further increase productivity and shorten time-to-value, an updated discovery wizard ensures faster and more streamlined set up and discovery.
- Enhanced Monitoring Flexibility: Version 16.3 gives operators expanded customization options and encryption support for Secure Shell (SSH) monitoring. Operators also have detailed control of Windows mount points.
"Ipswitch continues to deliver products that reflect a full and active understanding of what is important for monitoring and managing today's network infrastructures," said Jim Frey, VP of Research at Enterprise Management Associates. "On top of that, he WhatsUp Gold device-based pricing model is one of the least complex licensing models we've encountered."
"Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 16.3 provides an improved user experience, simplifies key tasks, and expands our industry-leading device-based licensing model," said Austin O'Malley, Chief Products Officer at Ipswitch. "The new upgrade also delivers greater visibility into network and application performance and quickly identifies issues to reduce troubleshooting time, allowing IT teams to efficiently monitor and manage network and system performance to meet the demands of a more mobile and connected workforce."
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