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Operating system and virtual environment requirements

  • Installing WhatsUp Gold on a domain controller is not recommended or supported.
  • If WhatsUp Gold is hosted in virtual environments, to prevent licensing issues, make sure that you assign a static MAC address to the virtual machine on which WhatsUp Gold is operating. Refer to your virtual machine software help documentation for information about assigning a static MAC address for the virtual machine.
  • WhatsUp Gold requires quad-core processors @ 2.6 GHz (min). If you are installing WhatsUp Gold on a virtual machine, make sure that your guest VM has at least four CPU cores allocated to it. Refer to additional Hardware requirements guidelines.

 

WhatsUp Gold supports the following Windows Server platforms:

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard (WhatsUp Gold 2017 Service Pack 2 and later)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit) with Desktop Experience
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (64-bit) with Desktop Experience

 

Database requirements

Note: The collation of Microsoft SQL Server being used to host WhatsUp Gold databases should be set to SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS.

Additionally, the collation of each of the aforementioned WhatsUp Gold databases should also be set to SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS.

The following database versions are supported:

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Express SP2 Edition 32-bit or 64-bit Local
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard or Enterprise 32-bit or 64-bit Local/Remote
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Standard or Enterprise 32-bit or 64-bit Local/Remote
  • Microsoft SQL Server Cluster 2012 or 2014 Enterprise or Datacenter 64-bit Remote only
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard or Enterprise
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Standard or Enterprise
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Standard or Enterprise

 

Supported virtual environments

WhatsUp Gold supports virtual hosts and virtual machines running on the following virtual environments:

  • VMware vCenter Server versions 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, and 6.7
  • VMware ESX versions 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1
  • VMWare ESXi versions 3.5, 4.0, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, and 6.7
  • Hyper-V Server 2012
  • Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2012 (Hyper-V Role enabled)
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 (Hyper-V Role enabled)
  • Hyper-V 2016 (effective for Service Pack 2)

Supported wireless devices

Important: Because of the volume of data collected and stored for wireless infrastructure devices, we recommend you use Microsoft SQL Server to store the data collected by WhatsUp Gold.

Important: Currently, WhatsUp Gold only supports Ping (as well as any other SNMP values that may be returned depending on the specific device) for Cloud Managed Wireless LAN Controllers and access points.

Important: If you are monitoring Cisco Aironet Autonomous access points we recommend that you run IOS 12.3 or newer. Inaccurate data may be reported with older IOS versions.

WhatsUp Gold supports the following devices:

  • 16.2 - Cisco Small Business wireless devices (Cisco WAP321)
  • 16.2.9 - Cisco 3650 Series Wireless LAN Controller with lightweight AP
  • 16.2.8 - Cisco 5700 Series Wireless LAN controller
  • 16.2.2 - Cisco WiSM2 (6500 Series) Wireless LAN controller
  • 16.2.2 - Cisco Flex 7500 Series wireless LAN controller
  • Cisco Aironet wireless LAN controllers and access points
  • Cisco Airespace wireless LAN controllers and access points
  • Aruba Mobility wireless LAN controllers and access points
  • 16.2 - Meru Networks wireless devices
  • 16.2 - Ruckus wireless devices
  • 18.0 - Cisco 5520 wireless LAN controllers and access points
  • 18.0 - Cisco 3504 wireless LAN controllers and access points
  • 18.0 - Cisco 2520 wireless LAN controllers and access points
  • 19.0 - Aruba Instant Access Point Wireless Devices (Tested with version 8.6.0.4)

Network traffic analysis software requirements

Network traffic analysis requires:

  • At least one routing device that supports one or more of the following protocols to send flow data to WhatsUp Gold:
    • NetFlow versions 1, 5, 7, or 9
      • NetFlow-Lite
      • Flexible NetFlow
      • NetFlow v9 NSEL (NetFlow Secure Event Logging)
    • sFlow versions 2 or 5
    • J-Flow
    • IPFIX