DeviceExpert 5950 Release Notes

New Features & Enhancements

• Session Recording: TELNET & SSH connections launched to the devices from DeviceExpert GUI can now be recorded, archived and played back to support forensic audits and let enterprises monitor all actions performed by users. Session recording caters to the audit and compliance requirements of organizations that mandate proactive monitoring of activities. Administrators can readily answer questions regarding the ‘who,’ ‘what’ and ‘when’ of access to device configurations.
  
• Custom Templates: To enhance the usability of templates, DeviceExpert allows you to define 'Template Variables' while creating templates. A template variable is a placeholder for a value, which can be specified when the template is uploaded to the device. Hitherto, there was provision to assign only a single value for the variable. So, when users wanted to apply the template on multiple devices with a different value for each device, the template had to be executed many times. This has now been enhanced with the provision to assign a different value for each device. The values for the template variable for each device can be specified through a text file.
  
• Device Groups: Provision to filter devices in the inventory and create a new device group out of the filtered devices
  
• Export Configuration: Provision to export configurations of devices belonging to specific device groups
  
• Real-time Change Detection: Real-time change detection is now supported for Juniper switches and routers
  
• Telnet-TFTP & SSH-TFTP protocol support added for Fujitsu IPCOM EX1100
• Telnet & SSH protocol support added for FortiGate Firewall VDOM V3

  New Device Models Support

  • FiberHome Switch
  • ZXR Router ZSR Version 2.x

  Bug Fixes / Changes

  • Earlier, there were issues in synchronizing configurations of Cisco Nexus devices. This has been fixed.
    
  • Issues in populating hardware properties of H3C devices have been fixed.
    
  • Earlier, there were issues in enabling change detection in Huawei S series and H3C S series switches. This has been fixed.
  • The issues in executing 'show' commands on Juniper Switches from DeviceExpert GUI have been fixed.
  • Earlier, sorting of device list in "Diff with any" report did not work. This has been fixed.
  • When choosing devices to apply remediation templates, the list was containing duplicate entries. This has been fixed.