In looking thru the messages over the past month or so, there's been few generalized dates tossed out as possible release dates, but nothing "fixed" yet (one of them indicated possibly the 25th of October...). Does IPSwitch have a fixed release date yet for when WhatsUpPro (v9.x) will be "officially released" and will IPswitch make it available for D/L to those of us with maintenance agreements while waiting on a CD to be shipped to us so we can start looking over the way the new version will work (I've got a couple of major projects I'll be working on at the same time and the sooner I get started on this, the better!)...
------------------------------------------------------------ Bryan Harrell, SPII Network Infrastructure - Tallahassee Fla. Dept of Revenue (850)-921-0700 SunCom 291-0700 ------------------------------------------------------------ >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/25/2004 1:05:55 PM >>> Maps and reports are two key areas of improvement as fate would have it. Here's a brief overview, forgive me for the marketese, it's simpler for me to just cut and paste from documents I'm working on. WhatsUp Professional was built with three key goals in mind, scalability, usability and extensibility. ------ Scalability - WhatsUp Professional manages devices in a central list rather than a collection of maps. This reduces the overhead associated with polling and allows the system to effectively scale to larger environments. Maps and reports are now views onto the list and groups derived from the list. This allows you to manage large numbers of devices using logical groupings, and to quickly get reports on those just those devices. Additionally the system employs a SQL Server database for storage of all assets, configuration and logs. Usability - The user interface was designed from the ground up to meet the needs of several key user profiles and to provide not only the best initial user experience, but to meet the needs of the most experienced user as well. Users interact with the system in a linear manner, with all key tasks being available within a single process flow, making complicated chores such as monitor configuration simple and straight forward. Extensibility - The system now employs an IIS compliant web server and supports all the standard scripting languages available in that environment. The SQL Server database is open and accessible, and there will be a software developer kit (SDK) called WhatsUp Developer, available for constructing Active Monitor, Passive Monitor and Action plug-ins for the system. ----- There's a ton of other new stuff as well and we'll be releasing more details shortly. WhatsUp Professional really rocks, you're going to love it! Cheers! pete.;1 -)-------------- Peter H. Jenney Product Management Ipswitch 10 Maguire Rd. Lexington, MA 02421 http://www.ipswitch.com Direct: +1 (781) 676.5755 Mobile: +1 (603) 264.3961 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patel, Kushal Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 11:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] [WhatsUp Forum] What's Up Pro - Reporting Are there any new reporting features with What's Up Pro besides the SQL data storage. How about being able to report on systems from several different maps at once? Thx, /kush Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
