Feature Enhancements and Bug Fixes done in each release listed below:
DeviceExpert Release 5.9 (Build 5910)
New Features & Enhancements
- Remediation option for compliance rule violation: Custom templates can now be associated with compliance rules. The templates can be executed in the event of rule violation as a remedial measure.
- User Audit Report: A new report capturing almost all the activities done by the users in DeviceExpert.
- Option to export configuration diff as PDF
- Option to export SQL query results from database console to CSV
- Option to update IPAddresses of devices in bulk
- Option to create device groups based on the device criteria - Managed/Unmanaged
- Option to configure email notification mail (for scheduled backup) only when there is a change
- New Device Models Support:
- FortiGate Firewall VERSION 4
- 3Com Switch 5500 series
- Citrix NetScaler MPX
Bug Fixes / Changes
- Hardware properties population issue with Cisco MDS has been fixed.
- Earlier, the device groups that were created with Custom Column values (as criteria) were not being properly shared to Power Users. This has been fixed.
- Earlier, there were issues in validating the IP addresses entered in additional credentials GUI. This has been fixed.
- Javascript issues with localized version of DeviceExpert have been fixed
- Earlier, searching configurations (with PostgreSQL as backend database) was not working properly. This has been fixed.
DeviceExpert Release 5.9 (Build 5900)
New Features & Enhancements
- Password Management with ManageEngine Password Manager Pro
- Credential Update using Rest API
- SSH & Telnet protocol option added for Enterasys
- New Device Models Support:
- RuggedCom Switch
- Ruijie Switch
- Fujitsu Firewall
- F5Bigip 11X
- EdgeCore Switch
- Telco Switch
- Occam Switch
- Adtran Router
- Cisco 300 Series Switch
- Nokia IPSO Firewall
- HP 1910 Series Switch
Bug Fixes / Changes
- Disabled Devices shown in the backup failed devices has been fixed.
- Custom Column 3 label issue while creating device groups has been fixed.
- Javascript warning messages in Internet Explorer with localized versions have been fixed.
DeviceExpert Release 5.8 (Build 5850)
New Features & Enhancements
- Support for PostgreSQL as backend database. From this version onwards, the product comes bundled with PostgreSQL 9.2.1.
- Provision to enter credentials for multiple devices of a device group that work on a common protocol
- Option to duplicate existing compliance rules and save then with a different name
- Provision to add one more custom column to depict any desired additional information about devices in device properties.
- New Device Models Support:
- Crescendo Load Balancers
- Welotec Routers
- Mikro Tik Routers
- Adava ADVA FSP
Bug Fixes / Changes
- With MSSQL server as backend database, there were issues in persisting sorting of columns in 'Change Tab'. This has been fixed.
- Earlier, there were issues in displaying data in custom reports while navigating between pages with using MSSQL server as the backend database. This has been fixed.
- Earlier, editing of host names did not work properly in Chrome and Firefox browsers. This has been fixed.
- Earlier, when reports were exported as CSV (with MSSQL server as backend database), duplicate entries were found. This has been fixed.
- If Active Directory synchronization is enabled, when users get deleted in AD, the same did not get reflected in DeviceExpert. Now, the users will be disabled in DeviceExpert.
- Earlier, there were issues in displaying device configuration content, if it contained HTML tags. This has been fixed.
- Earlier, there were issues in taking backup of ACME devices. This has been fixed.
DeviceExpert Release 5.8 (Build 5800)
New Features & Enhancements
REST APIs for integration with third-party applications
- A set of 10 APIs to enable any third-party application or software integrate with DeviceExpert directly and add, access and extract data. The REST APIs also facilitate integrating DeviceExpert with enterprise Configuration Management Database (CMDB) for centralized, integrated, holistic and consolidated change control and management.
- APIs made available now help perform various tasks, including inventory management (device addition and deletion); configuration backup; compliance status; executing show commands on devices; fetch device properties and executing templates and scripts in DeviceExpert that automate repetitive configuration tasks.
Change Management
- Option to include configuration change type (authorized or unauthorized) as one of the change management conditions while defining rules. The introduction of this option now makes it possible to get notifications during specific conditions like an unauthorized change happening on the running configuration of a device.
Message Board
- Provision for communicating various messages from DeviceExpert team to users. Information about product updates and various other notifications will now reach the users directly. Messages can be accessed by clicking the 'Mail icon' on the top-band.
Saving output of commands on DeviceExpert client machines
- The outputs of various 'Show' Commands and 'Export' configuration can now be saved on machine from which DeviceExpert web-interface is launched
Compliance Management
- Enhancements in compliance rule definition to check for the presence or absence of specific strings in device configurations as part of 'Advanced Criteria' and 'Advanced Custom Criteria'. Presence or absence of strings can now be checked for specific or unlimited number of occurrences.
Navigation from Home Page
- Option to navigate to corresponding pages when viewing various reports in the 'Home' page
New Device Models Support
- NEC
- Juniper SR
- Vyatta
- Radware-Alteon Switch
- Brocade VDX Switch
- Support for Managing Acme Packet devices through SSH
Changes & Bug Fixes
- Earlier, DeviceExpert (v5700) web-interface session in Internet Explorer was logging out suddenly. This has been fixed.
- Earlier, there were issues in generating EOL/EOS reports when the connection was going through a proxy. This has been fixed.
- Earlier, due to an issue with mail server settings, the from address got truncated when using with MS SQL Server as backend database. This has been fixed.
- Earlier, there were issues in populating the hardware properties of Juniper Ex4200 devices. This has been fixed.
- The RegEx pattern that was being used for checking the status of Brocade fast iron switch has been changed.
DeviceExpert Release 5.7 (Build 5700)
New Features and Enhancements
- A new tab named 'Change' has been introduced to serve as a quick view of the 'big picture' related to configuration changes in entirety. This comes with convenient date-based filtering options
- Provision to view all configuration versions of any particular device on a single click from the device details page
- 'Configuration Diff' GUI has been enhanced with options to select the version numbers and view changes
- Option to launch direct TELNET/SSH connection to the remote devices from DeviceExpert web interface. This web-based implementation does not require any tools to be present on local machines and will be highly useful to access remote devices when one is away from office. It does not require VPN too
- Device details page has been enhanced with additional tools including ping, traceroute and option to launch HTTP/HTTPS connection to the device. These utilities will come in handy while debugging from remote locations even from tablet devices like ipad
New Device Models Support
- F5 BIG-IP 10.x
- Cisco IronPort
- Blue Coat Proxy with SGOS and AVOS
Bug Fixes / Changes
- The number of 'UnManaged devices' will henceforth be excluded from the total number of devices in the system for licensing purpose
- Earlier, in certain scenarios, when the product version of DeviceExpert in the application and the backend database was different, errors were thrown while working with the product. This has now been fixed in such a way that when the DeviceExpert version differs (between application and the backend database), DeviceExpert server will not start until the versions are same.
- Earlier, there were issues in DeviceExpert web-interface when launching FireFox 11/12. This issue has been fixed
- EOL home page widget color coding has been revised for logical representation of EOL and other devices through proper colors
- Earlier, the link to Device Details page from the 'last 5 configuration changes view' of home page widget did not work. This has been fixed
- Earlier, when setting up High Availability, in email settings, if the 'cc' field had been left blank, it resulted in mails not being sent. This has been fixed
DeviceExpert Build 5650
New Features and Enhancements
- High Availability Architecture: Support for high availability architecture through redundant server instances. This helps ensure uninterrupted access to device configurations and network configuration management activities.
- Dashboard Enhancement: End-of-Life (EOL) details of devices are now depicted in the 'Home' page with intuitive graphics
- EOL details have been made available in Hardware Inventory Report
New Device Models Support
- ZTE
- Foundry FastIron
- Dell PowerConnect
- Brocade 3850 Switch
- Cisco ASR Router
Bug Fixes / Changes
- When DeviceExpert was running with MS SQL server as backend database, configuration changes report could not be generated as PDF. This has been fixed.
- Earlier, there were issues with executing enable command for CheckPointFirewall and Brocade devices. This has been fixed.
- Earlier, there were issues in showing the configuration difference of Cisco IDS devices. This has been fixed.
- Earlier, for some devices, Switch-Port Mapper scan was not showing port and MAC address details properly. This has been fixed
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DeviceExpert Build 5601
Enhancements
- Option to choose IPADDRESS part of the Hardware Inventory Custom Report has been added
Bug Fixes
- Earlier, there were issues in generating EOL report while direct internet connection is set in the proxy settings. This has been fixed.
- Earlier, there were problems in Navigating between pages in the Schedule Result Audit page view while using MSSQL database . This has been fixed.
DeviceExpert Build 5600
New Features and Enhancements
- New report depicting the End-of-Sale and End-of-Life status of devices
- Enhancements in compliance rule definition for checking the presence or absence of a specific strings in device configurations
- Option to schedule custom reports and export the report as CSV. Default reports under custom reports category now include two compliance custom reports.
New Device Models Support
- AlliedTelesis CenterCom Switch
- AlliedTelesis Ethernet Switch
Bug Fixes / Changes
- Earlier, there were issues in backing up the configurations of Brocade FastIron and Brocade Fibre Switches. This has been fixed
- Paging command has been updated for Cisco ASA devices
- When DeviceExpert was rebranded, the browser title-bar still contained DeviceExpert reference. This has been fixed
- Earlier, there were problems in deleting SNMP v3 based devices. This has been fixed
- Earlier, in Switch Port Mapper, there were issues in fetching ports. This has been fixed
- Earlier, in Switch Port Mapper, there were issues in generating PDF reports when MACADDRESS column had not been selected. This has been fixed.
DeviceExpert Build 5580
New features and enhancements
- Option to temporarily disable devices which are in maintenance and enable them again whenever needed
- Support for exporting any specific version of the device configuration
- Provision for analyzing syslog messages flow and notify message flooding in the GUI to enable administrators initiate corrective action
- Change management rule name can now be added as part of the change notifications
New Device Models Support
- Arista Switches
- DCN Router
- IBM
- A10 Networks
Bug Fixes
- Earlier, when IP addrsss of the device that underwent configuration change, was not present in the syslog message, DeviceExpert initiated recursive configuration backup. This issue has been fixed.
- When a user with the role 'Operator' created a change management rule, it got assigned to 'All Devices Group' of administrators. This issue has been fixed.
- Issue related to populating hardware properties of Bluecoat - Packetshaper devices has been fixed.
- Issue related to backing up configuration of Juniper EX4200 has been fixed.
- Earlier, the Configuration Changes Report, when Emailed, had formatting issues. This has been fixed.
DeviceExpert Build 5570
New Features and Enhancements
- Compliance Reports: Compliance Reports under 'Custom Reports' have been enhanced with the option to generate reports for specific rule, rule group or policy. Option for scheduling the reports is also available
- NTLM v2 Support: Earlier, Single SignOn worked only with NTLM-v1. Now, it has been enhanced to work with NTLM-v2 through integration with a third party library, which provides advanced integration between Microsoft Active Directory and Java applications. NTLM v2 is considered more secure as the protocol has been hardened against many spoofing attacks. Refer to this section of our help documentation for details on enabling NTLM v2. For some reason, if you still want to use NTLMv1, contact support to enable it.
- Support for configuration backup through SSH protocol in Hirschmann Switch
New Device Models Support
- Brocade FastIron Switch and Fiber Switch
- Siemens Redback Router
- DIGI-Router
Changes/Bug Fixes
- In the "Home" page configuration change snapshot, when the changes were marked as Authorized/UnAuthorized repeatedly, an error page was thrown. This has been fixed.
- The issues in populating the hardware properties of Alaxala devices have been fixed.
- Earlier, Configuration backup of Palo Alto firewall devices did not work. This has been fixed.
- When depicting configuration difference between two versions, the content pertaining to the SSL certificates was excluded. This has been enhanced now.
- Access to Security Audit Report and Configuration Analysis Report has been restricted to Administrators alone.
DeviceExpert Build 5560
New Features & Enhancements
Out-of-the-box policies to check configurations for compliance to SOX and HIPAA regulations
Home Page Dashboard Enhancements
Dashboard now depicts the top five configuration changes in summary view
Summary of the devices whose configurations were backed up and the ones not backed up now depicted in pie-chart
Compliance policy violations shown in summary view
Option to save the custom reports for future reference and also to create scheduled tasks for automatic execution of the custom reports at desired interval
Custom reports can now be created for a specific device or a device group
Support for configuration backup through Telnet & SSH protocols in Cisco Aironet and Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
Option for enabling real-time change detection in Cisco MDS devices
New Device Models Support
Bug Fixes & Changes
Issue related to backing up the configurations of Canoga Perkins devices has been fixed
Issue related to enabling real-time change detection in Cisco Nexus devices has been fixed
Earlier, there were issues in backing up the configurations of Netgear Switches. This has been fixed
The issue related to associating Cisco switches with the default 'CiscoSwitchGroup' has been fixed
Earlier, in non-English OS, there were problems in initiating Device Discovery / Ping. This has been fixed
The issue related to backing up the configurations of Foundry devices using SSH protocol combination has been fixed
DeviceExpert Build 5550
New Features & Enhancements
Provision to add custom columns to depict any desired additional information about devices in device properties. Custom columns can be added from Admin ---> Custom Column tab
Provision to pick desired attributes alone from the hardware inventory and create custom reports. This can be done from Reports ---> Custom Reports
Option for enabling real-time change detection in Dell and Cisco Nexus devices
Support for configuration backup through SSH protocol in Brocade devices
Provision for effective management of historical data through enhanced options in database administration. This can be done from Admin ---> Database Administration
Option to associate change management rules with required devices from Admin --> Change Management
New Device Models
Acme Packet Firewall
WatchGuard
Canoga Perkins
Bug Fixes & Changes
As part of real-time change detection, when a configuration change is done outside of DeviceExpert, there was an issue in printing the the IP address of the user (who changed the configuration) in the annotation column of the backedup configuration information. This has been fixed now.
Earlier, when depicting configuration difference between two versions, the content pertaining to the self-signed SSL certificates was also included. This has been excluded from the diff now
Earlier, there were issues in backing up the configurations of Fujitsu devices. This has been fixed
The configuration diff viewer has been enhanced with provision for viewing long lines through horizontal scroll bars
By default, DeviceExpert collects details pertaining to the usage of the product, including frequency and usage statistics of the various features. This can be disabled or enabled anytime from Support ---> Usage Statistics Collection tab
DeviceExpert Build 5520
New Features & Enhancements
Option to specify a particular IP or all IP addresses of an interface to bind TFTP, SSH and SCP servers when DeviceExpert is running in multi-homed machines. Same option is provided for transferring configuration files also.
Provision to generate filtered reports out of the Compliance Report to get specific information on compliant rules or violated rules or all rules separately
Enhancements in taking configuration difference for BlueCoat and FortiGate device types wherein the difference pertaining to changes in certificate information are now not taken into account
Provision for executing 'show commands' on Cisco Nexus devices from DeviceExpert GUI
Support for creating custom templates and scripts to automate configuration tasks pertaining to Cisco Nexus devices
New Device Models Support
Nortel PWR Switch 2526T
Bug
Fixes/Changes
Earlier, due to an issue with identifying certificate changes in the configuration, startup and running configurations were marked as having conflict. This issue has been fixed
Earlier, when compliance rules contained certain special characters , the 'edit rule' option did not work properly. This has been fixed
Earlier, there were issues in populating the hardware properties of Cisco Nexus and Alcatel devices. This has been fixed
Earlier, there were issues in backing up the configurations of Cisco Firewall 4.x devices. This issue has been fixed
DeviceExpert Build 5510
New Features & Enhancements
Provision to start and stop TFTP server
While starting the TFTP server, provision to choose a specific IP or all IP addresses to bind
Export configuration feature enhanced with option to maintain all versions
Support for launching DeviceExpert web-interface in Google Chrome
Support for installing DeviceExpert in Windows 64-bit machines
New Device Models Support
Cisco ASA with WAN support
Cisco FWSM 4.x
FortiNet FortiAnalyzer
Alcatel Service Router Bug Fixes / Changes
Earlier, there were issues in bulk execution of Switch-Port Mapper in DeviceExpert. This has been fixed.
Earlier, there were issues in depicting the summary view of custom template execution result. This has been fixed.
The issue related to depicting the configuration difference when multiple certificates were involved in the configuration file, has been fixed.
Earlier, there were issues in generating reports for the time period "last 7 days". This has been issue fixed.
DeviceExpert Build 5500
New Features & Enhancements
Support for MSSQL back-end
Provision for creating scheduled tasks for Device Discovery
Support for additional Syslog message formats for real time change detection for Cisco and Enterasys devices New Device Models
Sphereon 4500 Fibre Channel Switch
Juniper EX4200 Switch
Allied Telesis AT-8000S Switch Bug Fixes & Changes
Earlier, when audit trails cleanup operation was in progress, performance issues cropped. This has been fixed
Earlier, there were issues in deleting devices having a large number of configuration versions in DeviceExpert. This has been fixed
Issues related to backing up the configurations of Radware devices fixed
User prompt mismatch issues in Cisco Nexus devices fixed
SysLocation population issue for Radware LinkProof switches fixed
Earlier, there were issues in backing up the configuration of Citrix NetScaler devices using SCP protocol. This has been fixed
DeviceExpert Build 5450
New Features & Enhancements
Provision for viewing the configuration versions of all/any device(s) by specifying a custom date range
Provision to mark configuration changes as authorized/unauthorized in bulk
New Device Models:
Cisco Nexus 7000 10-Slot Switch (N7K-C7010)
Cisco Nexus 5010 Switch (N5K-C5010P-BF)
Motorola Wireless Switch
Blue Coat PacketShaper
HP P series Switch
Radware Link Proof Switch
Alcatel 6200
Fujitsu Switch
Changes & Bug Fixes
Full-fledged population of hardware properties of Nortel Passport 8600 series is now done
Earlier, there were some issues in populating the hardware properties of Radware devices. This issue has been fixed.
Earlier, there were issues in populating the SSH-based hardware properties of Aruba devices. This has now been fixed.
Earlier, there were issues in specifying the Additional credential for HP devices. This has now been fixed.
DeviceExpert Build 5420
Bug Fixes / Changes
Issues related to discovering devices in Vista & Windows 2008 have been fixed
Earlier, there were issues in backingup the configurations of Citrix devices. This has been fixed
Earlier, there were issues in handling Exit prompt in Citrix Hardware population. This has been fixed
Earlier, there were issues in populating MACAddress & SERIALNUMBER for Aruba devices. This has been fixed
DeviceExpert Build 5410
New Features / Enhancements
Enhanced configuration changes report with version number details
One more option has been provided for editing the host names of devices in DeviceExpert inventory. Users can now update DNS server values and resolve names
Option to specify custom criteria to ignore certain specific lines or text while generating configuration difference between any two versions
Enhancements in Switch-Port Mapper with provision to view all interfaces and their associated interfaces
New Vendors/Models Support:
Changes/Bug Fixes
Earlier, in Switch-Port Mapper, there were issues in populating ports and MAC Address of Cisco devices. This has now been fixed.
Earlier, there were issues in populating the hardware properties of Alcatel and Citrix devices. This has been fixed.
Issues related to configuration backup of Hitachi Apresia devices have been fixed.
Earlier, there were issues in handling Exit prompt in Citrix configuration backup. This has bee fixed.
DeviceExpert Build 5400
New Features / Enhancements
Configuration Changes PDF Report has been enhanced to provide information about the authorized and unauthorized changes
For discovering SNMP-enabled devices, DeviceExpert requires the SysObject ID of the devices. For certain devices, discovery alone is not supported for want of SysObject ID. Now, provision has been made to enable the users to find and add the SysObject ID of devices from the GUI itself and get discovery support in quick time.
Support for creating scheduled tasks for automatically synchronizing startup and running configurations at specified intervals.
'Power Users' have now been empowered to mark specific configuration changes (pertaining to the devices that are allotted to them) as 'Authorized' or 'UnAuthorized'.
Provision for editing the 'System Description' and 'System Location' details as part of editing device properties
New Vendors/Device Models Support:
Citrix Netscalar
Asperia (Hitachi )
D-Link DES 3052 Switch
Bug Fixes & Changes
Earlier, when scheduled task for configuration backup involving a large number of devices was triggered, 'No Managed connection' issue occurred. This has been fixed now.
Earlier, the time at which interfaces were last scanned by Switch-Port Mapper was wrongly displayed. This has been fixed now.
Earlier, upon performing actions such as 'compliance check' on a device, the time at which configuration backup was triggered on a device, also got changed. This issue has been fixed now
Previously, in the case of Cisco VPN Concentrators, Hardware Inventory Report was not properly generated. This has been fixed now.
In the TFTP sever that comes in-built with DeviceExpert, resending of lost or unackowledged packets have now been handled to comply with the TFTP protocol standards
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Server side performance improvements to handle concurrent backup of more number of devices
New Device Models Support: Support for Cisco IDS devices and Cisco 1900 series CatOS Switch
Earlier, there were issues in Active Directory based authentication in build 5320. This has been fixed
Earlier, the configuration change reports showed Device Names in the place of Device Type. This has been fixed
In 5320, there were issues in backing up the configuration of H3C devices. This has been fixed
DeviceExpert - Build 5320
Enhancements, Changes & Bug Fixes
Configuration Management
While taking configuration difference for Cisco IOS Routers and Aruba Switches, configuration lines containing Cryptochecksum information will henceforth be ignored.
For all devices, while taking configuration difference, speed token will henceforth be ignored.
While taking configuration difference for Cisco Voice Gateway devices, NTP clock-period entries will henceforth be ignored
When device configurations are backedup through scheduled tasks, in the case of task failure, the result of the scheduled task will now include the reason
For F5 and Riverbed devices, device model information is now populated in the Device Details page. Compliance Management
Option to exclude any configuration block for compliance check while defining compliance rule through Advanced Custom Criteria Reports
When reports are emailed as a part of reports schedules, if the size of the mail content exceeds 1 MB, only the link for the report will be provided in the email. Actual mail content will be available on the server. This is avoid issues related to email delivery failure due to size restrictions.
Output of switch-port mapping operations (depicting details about the devices connected to each port of the managed switch) is now presented as a report in the "Reports" tab.
Performance Enhancements
Performance tuning has been done to enhance the responsiveness of the DeviceExpert GUI for various actions and operations. New Device Models
Support for D-Link -DGS 3100
Bug Fixes & Changes
Earlier, while populating the hardware details of Cisco WAAS devices, device model information was not populated properly. This is now fixed.
Earlier, there were issues in populating the hardware properties of Dell PowerConnect 6248 devices. This has been fixed.
Earlier, there were issues in backing up the configurations of F5 Big IP devices. This has now been fixed.
Earlier, uploading the draft configurations of Nortel Baystack devices did not work. This has been fixed now.
Earlier, there were issues in generating the security audit reports of Netscreen devices. This is now fixed.
The presentation of data in the 'User Access Report' has been changed to depict the details pertaining to the users first and then the details about the devices.
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Configuration Management
SSH-based configuration retrieval support is now extended to Nortel Baystack devices.
Configuration upload is now supported for Alaxala devices.
Earlier, there were issues in creating a device group specifying more than one criteria. This has been fixed.
While taking configuration difference for Cisco ASA devices, configuration lines containing Cryptochecksum information will henceforth be ignored.
Earlier, information on 'who changed' the configuration was not depicted in the configuration difference screen. Now, it is included.
In Riverbed devices, when paging is enabled, only partial configuration was backedup. This is now fixed.
DeviceExpert executes configuration operations such as backup, upload etc as parallel jobs. The number parallel tasks is configurable. When the number was set to 100, server failed to process the operations. This has been fixed.
Compliance Management
Support for testing the validity of a compliance rule created using 'Advanced Custom Criteria'.
Earlier, in 'Advanced Custom Criteria' for compliance rule creation, if the string specified to indicate the starting and ending of the block contained certain special characters, only a part of the configuration was shown in the GUI. This has been fixed now
New Vendors & Device Models
Support for F5 devices, Enterasys SecureStack A2, Enterasys Matrix N7 Platinum, Adtran Netvanta Router, Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5510-24T, Nortel - Ethernet Switch 3510-24T and 3Com 4200g
Miscellaneous
When DeviceExpert contained a huge volume of data pertaining to devices and configuration, the home tab took a long time to load. This has been fixed through performance enhancements.
Switch-Port Mapper Enhancements: Switch-Port mapper now displays more details on MAC-IP matching. Also, the tool has been pruned to ignore non-port details while depicting the mapping.
Earlier, in IE 7, when Single SignOn was enabled and if DeviceExpert login failed, it was not possible to login to DeviceExpert with any other user name or any other authentication mode. This issue has been fixed now.
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Compliance Policies
In compliance rule definition, option to specify the beginning and the end of the required configuration blocks for selective compliance check. This new feature will help check the required configuration blocks for compliance to the defined criteria. Compliance results for every single interface block will be reported individually, in addition to a unified compliance report for the entire configuration by doing 'AND' of all the individual results.
Support for filtered view of compliance check results. The result view can be filtered based on all compliant rules or all violations.
Switch Port Mapping
Option to create scheduled tasks to periodically scan the switches being managed by DeviceExpert and report the the list of devices connected to each port of the managed switch.
Option to generate PDF reports out of the switch port mapping results
Re-branding Support
Support for rebranding DeviceExpert web-interface. You can replace the product-specific names and logos with your own details
New Device Models & Vendors
Fortinet Virtual Domain
Vanguard devices
Alaxala 3600, Alaxala 1230
Allied Telesis
Hardware Interface Population
The hardware interface details of Alaxala devices are now populated in the device details page
Changes / Bug Fixes
Earlier, when the time gap between two successive configuration changes was less than two minutes, backup through real-time change detection was not triggered for the second time within that two minute. This is now relaxed and DeviceExpert will trigger backups successively.
Earlier, configuration backup through SSH was not working for Cisco VPN Concentrators, Cisco Content Switches & Dell PowerConnect switches. This is now fixed
During every configuration backup, the header of Extreme devices undergo a change. DeviceExpert wrongly considered the header change as configuration change and kept backing up and incrementing versions. This is now fixed by ignoring header information while identifying configuration difference.
Earlier, Power Users had the privilege to review and approve the configuration changes made by Operators on any device, if the administrator had designated the Power User as an 'Approving Authority'. Now, even if the Power Users had been designated as 'Approving Authorities', they will be able to approve the changes pertaining to the devices that are already allotted to them only and not of other devices.
Power Users will not have the privilege to associate compliance policies to devices and vice-versa.
Earlier, backup & upload of startup configuration for D-Link DGS 3600 series was not supported, which is supported now.
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Earlier, information on 'who changed' the configuration was captured only when real-time change detection was enabled. Now, the information is captured from 'configuration header' for Cisco devices.
Earlier, Power Users had the privilege to review and approve the configuration changes made by any Operator on any device. Now, 'Administrator' will assign 'Approving Authorities' for every Operator. Only those Power Users who have been designated as approving authorities, will have the privilege to approve the changes made by the respective Operators. However, all users with the role 'Administrator' will have the permission to approve the changes whether they are designated as approving authorities or not. But, they will receive email notification only if they are designated as approving authorities.
Real-time change detection support is extended to Bluecoat devices.
Earlier, backup and upload of startup configuration was not supported for D-Link DGS devices. This is now supported
New Device Models Support
New Vendors Support
Changes / Bug Fixes
Earlier, there were issues in connecting to devices via SSH v1. This has been fixed.
Earlier, when a scheduled task for configuration backup was created for a device whose configuration was not backedup at least once prior to creating the schedule, there were issues in executing the schedule. This has been fixed.
Earlier, there was no provision to directly delete synchronization schedule created for synchronizing Activity Directory user database with DeviceExpert. Now, separate provision has been made for deleting it.
Earlier, when the DNS name of the host where DeviceExpert is running was improper, a blank page appeared when connecting the web-interface. This has been fixed.
During the device discovery or device addition process, device names might not get recorded correctly due to DNS issues. To correct the names, provision was given to edit and update the host names in bulk. Earlier, there were some issues in editing the host names. This has been fixed.
The default inactivity timeout for DeviceExpert web-interface has been changed from 30 minutes to four hours. Timeout value is configurable.
New Features / Enhancements
SNMP v3 Support: DeviceExpert now supports SNMP v3 for device discovery, configuration retrieval for Cisco devices and for switch-port mapping functionality.This allows leveraging the additional security measures of SNMP v3.
Enhancements have been made to the forwarded syslog messages listening feature with provision to specify the list of IP addresses from where syslog messages would be forwarded to DeviceExpert for real-time change detection. Previously, DeviceExpert expected the syslog message to come directly from the devices that undergo configuration change. With this new feature, syslog messages which get forwarded from a common syslog server (complying to RFC 3164 ) can also be used to detect configuration changes in real-time.
For Netscreen devices, real-time change detection is now done based on more conditions. For example, earlier, cases like forced telnet logout were not considered for change detection. Now, more such conditions are considered.
SSH-based configuration retrieval support is now extended to Cisco ASA and Nortel Passport devices.
New OS Support: DeviceExpert now runs on Windows XP 64 bit, Windows 2008 Server, CentOS and Suse Linux
Support for New Device Vendors & Models: Avaya, UTM-1 Edge X version 7.5.55x, Lambda Driver 800, Dax Devices, Cisco ACE Module, Cisco Wide Area Application Services Software (WAAS), Cisco IOS XR
Changes
For real-time change detection, when syslog messages were sent from devices, DeviceExpert identified the changes only when the exact IP of the device was present. This made real-time change detection not working in devices having multiple interfaces where the message came randomly from one of the interfaces. Now, DeviceExpert will look into the interface table of the device and consider all the interfaces.
A few models of Enterasys devices expect carriage return (Ctrl+Y) for logging in. Those type of devices are supported now.
Bug Fixes
Earlier, SSH-based configuration retrieval was not working with Foundry, Extreme and Enterasys devices. It is now fixed.
Earlier, when the entries in Configuration Changes report and Configuration Change Trend report spanned over more than one page, the entries after the first page were not visible. This issue has now been fixed.
In Nortel Baystack devices, configuration retrieval failed due to an issue in populating the hardware properties of the device. This issue has been fixed.
In scheduled configuration backup, the hardware properties of the devices were not updated. This issue has now been fixed.
Earlier, for Aruba devices, there were issues in populating the hardware details. This has been fixed.
In Cisco WLAN controller, configuration backup through TELNET-TFTP did not work. This has been fixed.
Earlier, when generating Configuration Change report as PDF, some entries were missing. This issue has been fixed.
In Widows 2003 and Vista, DeviceExpert port check tool showed wrong port status for Syslog service. This has now been fixed.
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