As IT environments grow more distributed and resilient, the Progress WhatsUp Gold network monitoring solution is evolving to meet the moment. Starting in early 2026, Progress will officially retire the legacy Failover Manager and usher in a new era of high availability (HA) by design. This modern, scalable approach aligns with today’s best practices in infrastructure.
Why the Change?
Legacy failover relied on heartbeat monitoring and a shared database—methods that are increasingly out of step with how organizations build resilient systems today. Many customers already use hypervisor-level HA (like VMware or Hyper-V), making application-level failover redundant. The new model embraces this reality and goes further by enabling active-active deployments that remove single points of failure and reduce downtime risk.
Enterprise Licensing: Built for HA
WhatsUp Gold Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions now support multiple concurrent activations:
Enterprise: Up to 2 fully operational instances
Enterprise Plus: Up to 4 fully operational instances
Each instance runs independently, with its own database and monitoring scope. This distributed architecture allows customers to deploy across multiple sites or data centers, helping to maintain continuous visibility even during localized outages. Whether you’re monitoring by geography, business unit or criticality, this model offers unmatched flexibility and fault isolation.
Both editions also include Distributed functionality, enabling customers to segment monitoring responsibilities across regions, teams or infrastructure tiers.
Licensing Made Simple
WhatsUp Gold licensing is designed to support high availability without complexity. With Enterprise and Enterprise Plus, each activated instance receives its full device license, not shared or pooled.
For example:
A 1000-device Enterprise Plus license allows you to deploy four fully operational WhatsUp Gold servers, each capable of monitoring up to 1000 devices independently. Through this, customers can now scale their monitoring footprint across multiple environments without worrying about license fragmentation or inter-instance dependencies.
Introducing WhatsUp Gold 360
Complementing on-premises deployments, WhatsUp Gold 360 offers cloud-based centralized visibility:
Syncs data from multiple WhatsUp Gold instances
Accessible via mobile devices—no VPN required
Monitors internet connectivity and sends alerts via SMS/email
Provides resilience even if all on-premises sites go offline
WhatsUp Gold 360 is designed to extend your monitoring reach and keep you informed wherever you are.
Deployment Guidance: Achieving HA with WhatsUp Gold
Customers can achieve high availability by deploying WhatsUp Gold network monitoring on highly available platforms such as:
These platforms can automatically restart failed VMs, ensuring infrastructure-level continuity. While not application-aware, hypervisor HA is widely adopted, reliable and avoids vendor lock-in—giving customers the freedom to choose the platform that best fits their environment.
Customers can also deploy multiple WhatsUp Gold instances using Enterprise or Enterprise Plus licenses to greatly reduce monitoring blackouts and improve disaster recovery readiness. Each instance operates independently, enabling tailored configurations and reducing the risk of cascading misconfigurations.
Former Failover Manager users can transition to this new model by upgrading to Enterprise or Enterprise Plus. Depending on the customer’s goals, whether reducing downtime or enabling recovery, the right architecture may involve multiple active instances or replication of a single instance.
Built for the Future
This shift to HA by design isn’t just a licensing update; it’s a strategic evolution. Customers now have the tools to build monitoring environments that are:
Resilient: Multiple active instances reduce downtime risk
Scalable: Deploy across geographies or business units
Flexible: Choose your preferred HA platform and architecture
Secure: Isolate configurations and segment environments as needed