Release Notes 6.0

What’s new in the latest version of 6.0? Check out the story of 6.0 and see the detailed release notes below. Customers head over to the Indeni Forum within Indeni Crowd to join the conversation around these capabilities.

Redesigned capabilities

The following functionalities were removed in this release.

  • How it worked in 5.9 -> How it works in 6.0
  • Compliance Management -> Backup – Backup devices under monitoring to Indeni’s server
  • Settings -> Users – Ability to assign roles and select alert severity level for e-mail notification
  • Settings -> Audit Log – Track user access and config changes on Indeni
  • Reporting -> Device Configuration – Scheduled device Actual Config report via email
  • Reporting -> Inventory – Generate device Actual Config for immediate download to excel file
  • Reporting -> Alert Summary – Schedule Alert Summary report via email
  • Reporting -> Procurement – Schedule report about device performance issues, license expiry, etc. via email

New Features

Platform

  • IS-2739 Add Trends API
  • IS-2807 Add size to command result and logic in order to identify and handle commands that are retrieving a large amount of data
  • IS-2840 Display EULA and insight API
  • RES-56 Add support for identifying metrics that are not conforming to the expected behavior

Check Point

  • IKP-177 Better handling of “vpn-check-tunnels” with multiple satellite or center gateways
  • IKP-344 Check for when Identity Awareness DC server disconnected using “adlog a dc
  • IKP-357 Collect CPU per virtual system
  • IKP-479 Added Indeni support for R80.10 GA gateway. Parity with R77.30
  • IKP-602 Alert on high bandwidth usage on interfaces
  • IKP-616 Correct “Check Point Firewalls: Errors found in $FWDIR/conf/ipassignment.conf”
  • IKP-637 Alert if snmpv1/v2 is bing utilized only if SNMP is enabled
  • IKP-799 Added 61k interrogation for Indeni support
  • IKP-800 Added 61k interrogation for Indeni support – VSX

Improvements

Platform

  • DEVOPS-13 update startup scripts to handle memory allocation between the services
  • IS-2764 Improve handling of missing credentials
  • IS-2802 Resolve issues with alerts that are based on metrics that don’t arrive often
  • IS-2803 Encrypt events recorded by the collector
  • IS-2828 Eliminate “Device not Responding” due to ssh connection pool issue
  • IS-2856 Handle commands with duplicate names
  • IS-2859 Fix issue where graphs are not displayed due to missing data

Check Point

  • IKP-517 Some devices show two “ntp-servers” metrics
  • IKP-618 modify cluster comparison rule by removing additional policy-installed-fingerprint metric
  • IKP-635 Reduce flapping of “Configuration changed but not saved” alert
  • IKP-636 Reduce flapping of “Integration with identity/AAA server down” alert

Palo Alto Networks

  • IKP-411 Modify default threshold for “Packet drop counters increasing” alert

F5 Networks 

  • IKP-147 Consider route domains – remove “%[id]” from IP addresses and routes
  • IKP-487 Modify route limit alerting content
  • IKP-519 Correct text content in actual configuration details
  • IKP-590 Reduce flapping of “Cluster member no longer active” alert

Cross Vendor

  • Fix IKP-600 Modify default threshold and alert content for “RX packets experienced errors”

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