Just took a look for the UpgradeApp.exe and couldn't locate it....Where
does it reside ?

Regards

Gary Swanton, 
Manager, IT & T Services Delivery - Jam Factory & Cinemas 
IT Shared Services, Village Roadshow Limited 
Melbourne 
Jam Factory - Level 1, 1 Garden Street, 
South Yarra VIC 3141 
Telephone + 61 3 9281-1044 Facsimile +61 3  9804 7349 Mobile - 0438 877
896 




-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Miller
Sent: Friday, 19 November 2004 03:02
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] A few early issues.


Sorry for another post about this....   I realized that I could provide
some
additional information.

WhatsUp Pro is database driven.  Copying WUG map files into a certain
WUP directory will not cause them to imported into the database.  This
is what the UpgradeApp.exe does.

This is how the UpgradeApp works:
1) It reads all the notification definitions (now called Actions in Pro)
found under your Whatsup8\Notification directory and inserts them into
the Pro Database.
2) It reads all your monitor definitions (now called Active Monitors in
Pro) found in your services.ini file in the Whatsup8 directory. and
inserts them into the Pro Database.
3) It reads all your Event Definitions (now called Passive Monitors in
Pro) found under your Whatsup8\Events directory and inserts them into
the Pro Database.
4) It reads all your device types from your HostType.ini file and
inserts them into the Pro Database.
5)*** It reads all your maps from whatever directory that you've
designated as the 'Map' directory found under v8 Web Settings. Now, this
is where some complication occurs.  Triggering Notifications in Whatsup
8 and earlier are very different to the Whatsup Pro model. ( this is
what Robert Glatt was alluding to)
    Instead of firing a notification after a device/monitor has been
down for X number of polls, notifications (actions) are fired when they
fall into a defined state.  So for example, I have a notification that
fires after 4 'down' polls.... and my poll interval is 60 seconds.  This
means that in simple terms that a notification will be fired when a
device is down for 4 minutes.  In Whatsup Pro, if you wanted to trigger
something on a 'down 4 minutes' state, you would define a 'down 4
minutes' state.  Arbitrarily '4 minutes' is an important interval for
you.

During the upgrade, we try to map your trigger * poll interval to the
best predefined state.  But, this is somewhat problematic because we do
not want to create new states for you automatically.  So if i have a
trigger of 40 and a poll interval of 30. This is 20 minutes...  We will
match to the biggest predefined state that is in WhatsUp Pro.  The
reason why we do not automatically create the "down 20 minute" state for
you is that if you were inconsistent on your trigger time or poll
interval, you would create MANY states, which would greatly detract from
the usability of the system.

For example, lets say i have a poll interval of 60 seconds, and i have
50 devices.  Each one with a trigger from 1 to 50.  If we automatically
created the device states based on the Wug 8 configuration then
everytime you went to add a new action, you would have 50 states to
select from.


*Please note that I referred to your version 8 installation directory as
Whatsup8...  this name is merely the name of your version 8 installation
directory.

I know that is is a VERY long post....I hope it provides some insight to
how WUG8 works compared to WU and how upgrade is done.

~Brian Miller
Ipswitch



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Swanton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 5:45 PM
Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] A few early issues.


Hi Robert,

My maps are located in E:\Program Files\Whatsup\Maps and
the default installation location of WUG Pro is E:\Program
Files\Ipswitch.

I did think of that but I thought that the installation wizard would've
prompted that it had discovered a previous version and did I want to
install into the same location and Upgrade.  I have also looked at the
new versions folder structure and thought about copying the previous
maps into a subfolder of WUG Pro but couldn't identify where.  Also what
about the existing alerts, notifications and custom services.

The import of maps is important but just a time consuming would be the
need to recreate everything else.

Thanx for the input.

Regards

Gary Swanton,
Manager, IT & T Services Delivery - Jam Factory & Cinemas
IT Shared Services, Village Roadshow Limited
Melbourne
Jam Factory - Level 1, 1 Garden Street,
South Yarra VIC 3141
Telephone + 61 3 9281-1044 Facsimile +61 3  9804 7349 Mobile - 0438 877
896




-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glatt,
Robert (contractor)
Sent: Thursday, 18 November 2004 09:35
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] A few early issues.


If your current version of WUG has its maps saved in a different
directory than the standard then the upgrade will not see your current
stuff properly. What directory do you have your maps in ??

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Swanton
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 4:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] A few early issues.


OK - I didn't think of that, but the network guys have told me only to
use port 81 on the server where I am running WUG, so I couldn't do that
anyway.

Anyway I have been told to place the implementation on hold now that it
has been discovered I will have to manually recreate my 175 devices
spread over 15maps and also recreate all the alerts / recurring
notifications....

Myself and senior management are amazed that there appears to be no
upgrade path from our previous version of WUG.

Regards

Gary Swanton,
Manager, IT & T Services Delivery - Jam Factory & Cinemas
IT Shared Services, Village Roadshow Limited
Melbourne
Jam Factory - Level 1, 1 Garden Street,
South Yarra VIC 3141
Telephone + 61 3 9281-1044 Facsimile +61 3  9804 7349 Mobile - 0438 877
896




-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Benway
Sent: Thursday, 18 November 2004 08:52
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] A few early issues.


I can get to both web interfaces, WUG is running on port 8080, WUP is
running on 81

jb

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Swanton
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 4:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] A few early issues.

I thought the same thing - I installed WUG Pro but then wanted to still
use WUG Gold but every time I opened the browser, the new version login
screen appeared.

You have to stop the Ipswitch WhatsUp Engine service to stop the
webserver then you can restart the previous version WUG Service and keep
using the previous version of WUG.



Regards

Gary Swanton,
Manager, IT & T Services Delivery - Jam Factory & Cinemas IT Shared
Services, Village Roadshow Limited Melbourne Jam Factory - Level 1, 1
Garden Street, South Yarra VIC 3141 Telephone + 61 3 9281-1044 Facsimile
+61 3 9804 7349 Mobile - 0438 877 896




-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Benway
Sent: Thursday, 18 November 2004 08:18
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] A few early issues.


First I thought someone said that the new WUG uses IIS?

But I can turn off all the IIS services and the WUG web server still
runs.

Second. I created a device. Then I created a group. I moved the device
into the group.

In the list view it shows the device under the group. But the map view
still shows the device and view at the same level??

Thanks,jb

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