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Progress software has been busy developing its flagship Network monitoring softwareWhatsup Gold (Wug) 2023.1 introduces many new features in the case of high priority. Previously, you had to manually monitor each device, but now you can set up a network discovery scan job to do this for you.

More importantly, the discovery process automatically collects SNMP and WMI device properties and updates them in real time, while Wug’s Dynamic SNMP Table Monitor populates each instance, making it easier to monitor specific devices. The device properties page clearly shows which credentials are used, access Safety With TLS 1.3 support, it has been tightened, SQL Server Express 2022 is now the default database.

More flexible licenses. In addition to the standard version, perpetual licensing and points-based options, progress has added three annual subscription plans. The business version is about £715 per year for 50 devices each year, unlike sensors or element-based products, Wug doesn’t care much CPU is the number of ports that a host or switch has.

Desktop screenshot of Progress Whatsup Gold 2023.1 system

New NOC View provides a network view using the slide deck (Picture source: Future)

This release supports 1,000 devices and includes core features such as network discovery, topology mapping, alerts and reporting, as well as cloudwireless network and Storage Monitor. Enterprise Edition has unlimited device support and enables virtualized host and application monitoring and log management, while Enterprise Plus adds network traffic analysis and switch configuration management, router and firewall.

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