DeviceExpert
5800 Release Notes
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.