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Release Notes
What's in Release 5.0
New Features
- Support for the Intel 2011 AP and Nortel e-mobility Models have been extended under this release.
- Support for two types of user categories is being extended in this release. The users belonging to "administrator " category will have full control over WiFi Manager whereas the users belonging to "Operator" category will have only limited privileges. The Operator category will not be able to use any of the Administrative operations under the Admin Tab.
- The user can now specify the IP address, DNS name and the custom display name for a particular MAC address of a device. These details will be used whenever WiFi Manager is not able to resolve the IPaddress or the DNS name.
- The WPA2 security setting is now recognized by WiFi Manager while discovering Cisco, D-Link and Proxim devices.
- The Support Tab is now enhanced with the addition of Testimonial Link where users can share their feedback. You also can access the team blogs from the Support Tab.
Bug Fixes
- The issue where "Three Poll missed" alarm not being raised soon after the "one poll missed" alarm, is fixed now.
- Issue in fetching Mobile Users information from D-Link 2700 and 7700 AccessPoint is fixed now.
- Under the Admin Tab -> Edit Network, the Telnet credentials were not saved and put into effect. This has been fixed.
Known Issues & Limitations
- Configuring WPA2 Security Mode is not supported in WiFi Manager. When any SSID with WPA2 Security Mode is configured via WiFi Manager,it will be overwritten as WPA.
- For Proxim APs with firmware version 2.5 and above, configuration of security and ACL is not supported.
- Issue in Security Setting in Cisco 350 VxWorks Access Point.
- Eventhough D-Link devices will allow configuring multiple SSID without VLAN, WiFi Manager mandates VLAN.
- The option to "Mark as" Rogue does not work in Opera Browser.
What's in Release 4.3
New Features
- Support for 20 more models of Access points, taking the total number of supported models to more than seventy. (Supported Models of Access Points)
- Comprehensive support for managing Nomadix Gateways and the devices connected behind those gateways. This includes support for all the HSG, USG and AG models and most of their firmware versions.
- SSH Support : Now WiFi Manager gives the option to communicate with the devices using SSH to ensure security during data transfer.
- Support to backup and restore data and other configurations so that the installations can be seamlessly moved across the machines.
- WiFi Manager now facilitates to repair the database in case of unexpected database corruptions.
- Custom Monitors : WiFi Manager by default support monitoring certain parameters of the device that it manages, now the users will have the option to add new monitors.
- New Channel traffic report is added, this will help the Administrators to analyze the wireless traffic on each and every 802.11 channel.
- Support for the latest firmwares in the models of Access point that are already supported by WiFi Manager.
- Provision to add custom fields to store additional device properties, these fields can now be used to store information like the geographical location, information about the supplier, their contact details etc.,
- Custom Display Name : Provision to change the name of the devices to end user friendly names.
- Enhancements in Business Views including the support to propagate status through the Business View hierarchy.
- Support for importing the devices information into WiFi Manager through CSV files. Such CSV imports can be scheduled to happen at anytime and even the business views can be constructed automatically using the the information in these CSV files.
- Options to configure the user interface, like the number of alarms to be seen on the home page, number of devices in the watch list etc.,
- Global configuration to configure the monitors.
- Option to change bulk of devices from Unknown to AP category instead of doing it individually.
Bug Fixes
- Issue in fetching the associated clients details from Proxim 2500 model has been resolved
- MobileUnit IP Address change in DHCP Environment is now handled properly.
- Issue in Netgear WG102 discovery with latest firmware has been resolved
- Option to remove an entire network which is discovered has been included
- Issue in starting Wifi Manager server in Linux when X-Windows not available is addressed.
- There was an issue in configuring large values for re-discovery interval, the same is addressed.
- Provision to initiate the re-discovery of deleted access point, manually from the UI and also Rediscovery for discovery disabled networks
- Access point firmware upgrade related problems when WiFi Manager is installed in some flavors of Linux (IPv6) has been addressed.
- Issues in configuring the ACL settings in 3Com Access point when the MAC list is large is addressed.
- Business view enhancements:
- Add devices by "matching all of the following" and "match any of the following"are both functional
- Support for better resolution.
- Auto alignment when selecting multiple devices in Business view is functional now.
Known Issues
- For the models of D-Link Access points which has support for multiple SSID, configuration of SSID (security configuration) is not supported.
- WPA2 Security Setting is not supported.
- For Proxim APs with firmware version 2.5 and above, configuration of security and ACL is not supported.
- Issue in Security Setting in Cisco 350 VxWorks Access Point.
- The option to "Mark as" Rogue does not work in Opera Browser.
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