Progress WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager Central Site Upgrade – Enterprise Monitoring License for 1500 Devices

Elevate your network visibility and resilience with the Progress WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager Central Site Upgrade. This enterprise-grade license extends your monitoring capabilities to a distributed central-site architecture, delivering rapid failover, consolidated alerting, and unified dashboards across up to 1500 devices. Designed for IT teams that demand high availability, scalable performance, and streamlined management, this upgrade makes it easier to protect critical infrastructure from downtime while providing actionable insights for proactive operations. With a PC-based installation path, you can upgrade your existing WhatsUp Gold environment quickly, minimize disruption, and begin benefiting from centralized control, robust reporting, and reliable failover orchestration from day one.

• Seamless centralized failover management for distributed networks, enabling a single pane of glass to monitor, control, and orchestrate all devices and services across multiple sites.
• Enterprise monitoring license capable of handling up to 1500 monitored devices, delivering scalable performance, comprehensive asset visibility, and correlation of alerts across the entire environment.
• Fast, straightforward PC-based installation that minimizes downtime during upgrade, preserves existing configurations, and accelerates time-to-value for teams adopting a central-site model.
• Automated failover orchestration with centralized alerting and consolidated reporting, ensuring rapid incident response, accurate root-cause analysis, and auditable change management.
• Enhanced operational intelligence through proactive health checks, capacity planning, trend analysis, and customizable dashboards that align IT oversight with executive priorities.

Technical Details of Progress WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager Central Site Upgrade

Technical specifications for this upgrade are not provided in this description. If you are seeking precise details such as supported operating systems, deployment topology (central site vs. distributed), prerequisites, memory and CPU requirements, compatible WhatsUp Gold versions, and licensing terms, please refer to the official vendor specifications in your account or contact your Progress sales representative. In general, this type of license is designed to integrate with existing WhatsUp Gold deployments to enable a central management console that coordinates failover activities, device discovery, alert routing, and reporting across up to 1500 devices. The upgrade is intended to be installed on a PC that will serve as the central site manager, enabling rapid deployment with minimal downtime and a straightforward activation process for the 1500-device license.

How to install Progress WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager Central Site Upgrade

• Prepare the environment by validating that your PC meets the recommended hardware and software prerequisites, ensuring network connectivity to all monitored devices, and confirming you have an active license covering up to 1500 devices.
• Obtain the upgrade installer or package from your Progress account and run the installer on the designated PC that will host the central site Failover Manager. Follow the on-screen prompts to begin the upgrade process and preserve existing WhatsUp Gold configurations where applicable.
• During installation, designate the central site role within your WhatsUp Gold topology. This step establishes the control plane that will coordinate failover activities, data collection, and alert routing across the distributed environment.
• Activate the 1500-device license within the licensing portal or through the installer, validate license status, and perform an initial health check to confirm successful device discovery and connectivity to the central console.
• Configure failover policies, alert routing, and dashboards. Run a controlled failover test to verify data replication, alert propagation, and the resiliency of critical services, then establish ongoing monitoring, maintenance windows, and user access controls.

Frequently asked questions

• Q: What does the Enterprise Monitoring License for 1500 Devices include? A: It provides monitoring coverage for up to 1500 devices across a centralized WhatsUp Gold deployment, enabling failover management, consolidated alerting, and integrated reporting within the Failover Manager Central Site Upgrade.
• Q: Is this upgrade compatible with an existing WhatsUp Gold installation? A: Yes. The central site failover upgrade is designed to augment an existing WhatsUp Gold deployment by adding centralized failover management, cross-site visibility, and scalable monitoring capabilities. Always verify compatibility with your current version before upgrading.
• Q: Do I need to reinstall WhatsUp Gold to use the Central Site Upgrade? A: In most cases, you upgrade the central site components and reconfigure the topology to incorporate failover management. Full reinstallation is typically not required, but some configurations may need adjustment.
• Q: Can I customize dashboards and reports? A: Yes. The enterprise license supports customizable dashboards, alert rules, and report templates to meet IT and executive reporting requirements, allowing you to tailor visibility to your organization's needs.
• Q: How can I ensure reliable failover? A: Establish a resilient topology with redundant central-site configurations, perform regular failover testing, validate data replication and integrity, and monitor key health metrics to detect issues early.
• Q: What deployment considerations should I plan for? A: Plan for network bandwidth to support monitoring data, ensure compatibility with existing agents and devices, allocate appropriate storage for logs and reports, and set up role-based access controls for security and governance.
• Q: How is licensing renewed or maintained? A: Licensing is typically managed through the Progress licensing portal or your enterprise agreement. Ensure renewals are synchronized with deployment calendars to avoid monitoring gaps and maintain uninterrupted failover capabilities.