Progress WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager Central Site Upgrade | Scalable License for 1500 Devices

The Progress WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager Central Site Upgrade is a strategic license designed to elevate your centralized monitoring and disaster recovery capabilities. Engineered for distributed environments, this upgrade unlocks the full power of WhatsUp Gold’s failover management on a PC, enabling you to orchestrate high-availability across multiple sites with ease. With a scalable 1500-device capacity, you can grow your network footprint while maintaining a single, coherent control plane that enhances uptime, accelerates incident response, and simplifies administration.

• All-feature unlock on PC: Install the upgrade license to enable the complete feature set of WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager on a single PC. This empowers your operations team with centralized visibility, automated failover workflows, and consolidated alerting, ensuring critical devices and services stay online even during disruptions. The PC-based deployment streamlines management and reduces the complexity of multi-server configurations while preserving core capabilities such as monitoring, alert orchestration, and central site dashboards.
• Centralized failover with distributed control: Manage failover across a distributed network from one Central Site, creating a cohesive and reliable recovery strategy. This approach minimizes downtime during outages, speeds decision-making, and provides a unified view of health across all sites. By coordinating failover actions from a central point, teams can standardize recovery procedures and improve MTTR (mean time to repair) without sacrificing local site autonomy where it’s needed.
• Scalable license for enterprises: The license is purpose-built for environments requiring robust device coverage—up to 1,500 devices—allowing you to expand your network footprint while preserving licensing peace of mind. As your monitoring and failover needs grow, you can rely on a scalable foundation that accommodates additional endpoints, services, and dependencies without frequent license reassignment or reconfiguration headaches.
• Comprehensive device visibility: The upgrade delivers deep insight into the health and status of your devices, failover health, service dependencies, and network topology. With rich dashboards, real-time analytics, and contextual alerts, teams can identify bottlenecks, anticipate failures, and implement proactive maintenance. This level of visibility also supports compliance reporting, capacity planning, and audit-ready documentation for enterprise environments.
• Easy deployment and upgrade path: Designed to streamline adoption, this upgrade offers a straightforward deployment and activation experience for existing WhatsUp Gold users. Switch to the Central Site Failover Manager on a PC with minimal disruption, activate the license, and begin leveraging centralized failover capabilities immediately. The upgrade pathway is crafted to minimize downtime and maximize return on investment by accelerating time-to-value for critical monitoring and recovery processes.

Technical Details of Progress WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager Central Site Upgrade

• Product: Progress WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager Central Site Upgrade
• License type: Upgrade License
• Device capacity: Up to 1,500 devices
• Platform: PC (Windows) – install on a personal computer to manage centralized failover
• Primary function: Failover management for a distributed central site, enabling coordinated failover, health monitoring, and streamlined recovery workflows
• Deployment scope: Central Site monitoring and failover orchestration across multiple distributed sites
• Activation: Unlocks the full feature set of WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager when installed on the designated PC
• Usage: Ideal for enterprises seeking a scalable, centralized approach to high availability and continuous service delivery

How to install Progress WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager Central Site Upgrade

Follow these steps to install and configure the Central Site Upgrade on your PC and begin using the Failover Manager across your distributed environment:

• Prepare your PC by ensuring it meets the required system specifications for WhatsUp Gold and has stable network connectivity to your devices and sites.
• Obtain the Progress WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager Central Site Upgrade license key and verify its validity for up to 1,500 devices.
• Run the installer for WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager on the target PC and follow the on-screen prompts to install the upgrade components.
• During installation, enter the upgrade license key to unlock the complete feature set and activate central site failover capabilities.
• Configure Central Site settings to designate the primary failover manager and to define the topology of distributed sites that will be monitored and protected.
• Establish failover policies, alerting rules, and service dependencies, then perform a controlled failover test to validate end-to-end recovery workflows.
• Verify connectivity to all devices and services, confirm dashboards update with accurate health data, and enable ongoing monitoring with scheduled health checks.
• Document configuration changes and establish a routine for periodic review of failover performance, ensuring continuous alignment with business continuity objectives.

Frequently asked questions

• What is the purpose of this upgrade license? It unlocks the full feature set of the WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager Central Site on a PC, enabling centralized management and failover orchestration across a distributed environment.
• How many devices does the license cover? The license is designed for up to 1,500 devices, providing scalable coverage for growing networks.
• Which platform is supported? The upgrade is intended to be installed on a Windows PC, serving as the central fault-tolerant controller for WhatsUp Gold Failover Manager.
• Can I upgrade an existing WhatsUp Gold deployment? Yes. This upgrade is intended to enhance your current WhatsUp Gold installation by adding centralized failover capabilities at the Central Site level.
• How do I verify success after installation? After installation, use the WhatsUp Gold console to monitor central site health, verify failover readiness, and run a test failover to confirm that protection and recovery workflows operate as expected.