ADM and UI enhancements

The user experience in Device42 has been updated, across menus, fonts, input fields, audit logs, detailed views and list pages. User experience enhancements include:

Homepage dashboard:

Updated graphs, clear management charts, quick links to Application Group suggestions and standardized fonts.

New data grid view and details pages

Grid views have been visually enhanced to provide enhanced usability and clarity. Action buttons like edit, save and cancel have been standardized across pages, an easy to use “hamburger” menu has been added, filtering usability has been improved, saving records redirects to the view page instead of the list page, and many more usability enhancements.

Details pages have smooth scrolling data with each section easily available in the breakdown on the right hand side to allow faster navigation to the desired section. Pages with only a few sections will not display a breakdown.

Intelligent Object List:

Filters in the new data grid views are carried forward when items are opened. For example: When I have a call coming up with my vendor, I can easily find all of the vendor’s hardware deployed within my environment that has passed its end of life date.

When an item is opened to the details page, the Object Explorer Panel will show all hardware that reached end of life, allowing for easy navigation to focused items.

Application Dependency Mapping

Application Dependency Mapping is now easier and faster to configure, and has a more natural flow. Application group rules define the starting points for your applications and logic templates define how discovery traverses the network and when to stop, per application. Application groups allow you to visualize and organize the results in a way that makes sense for your business. The logic used to calculate application groups has been significantly enhanced to show the most relevant relationships. On upgrade to 19.05.10, your existing applications will now better model shared infrastructure. These application groups become dynamically updated components of your business services.

Application Groups

Along with an improved look and feel, the user experience around using and viewing your application groups has been significantly enhanced.

Your existing Affinity Groups will be converted to Application groups which have improved calculations and logic templates with shared infrastructure

NOTE: Any alerts set up on business apps will stop until an application group is added (deleting is not required).

Application group positions can be saved and will be retained for anyone viewing the group
Easy export Application Groups image files
Improved behavior of ‘Add to Business’ service quick action.
You can now store communication metadata which will show IP and port communications in relationship line tooltips

Application Group Calculation Rules

These rules define the starting points for how discovery will either suggest or auto-create application groups for you. Device42 ships with some out of the box suggestions. However, adding new rules is more flexible than ever. Now you can:

Define groups based on Service instances, Devices, Resources, or Application Components
Select the outcome of findings, auto-create or suggest
Starting points could be fixed and known items, or dynamically found via search criteria
Preview the potential group members when defining criteria
Logic templates can be selected per group
Add multiple criteria to ensure only the correct members show in the group
Determine if this rule will record and maintain connection meta data

Application Group Settings and Templates

Application group templates allow for previously impossible flexibility in Application groups. Each group can be calculated with the ‘D42 Default’ template, or customized to meet the needs of each application.

Select different templates for different groups
Change application group calculation with an easy to configure form instead of SQL
Control how long back an app group maintains relationships
Configure ending points like: # of connections, levels of depth, databases or load balancers
Easily exclude specific items from group calculations like: Undiscovered listeners, Local host connections, unmapped clients, IPv6, hidden services and client OS
Process and re-process application groups easily one at a time or in bulk
Easily duplicate a template to create a new one with similar settings

Application Component Templates

Application component templates can now use regex to find only services matching regular expressions for command argument text.

API

Guidelines for connecting and using Device42 APIs have been updated, The API documentation is available at: https://api.device42.com/

Updated and Added new APIs for engaging ADM, customers, buildings, rooms, power units, software components, custom fields and more
Updated instructions on using APIs
Import and export defect fixed and improvements based on customer feedback
Implemented over 25 customer requests and defect fixes

Custom Fields

Required fields are now shown first and easier to identify
Easier to update custom fields via the API
Custom fields with URLs will now show with links
Custom date fields behave as natural date fields instead of text in reporting
Custom fields can be sorted
It is now possible to search within custom pick lists
Fixed several custom field related defects

DCIM

Along with the user experience enhancements, we added the ability to associate rooms to assets, adjust temperature tolerances in heatmaps and more.

Added missing ports on IP switches
Fixed several power related defects with PDUs

Known:

D42-32348: Legacy custom reports using custom fields may fail to open in 19.05.10
D42-38515: Vmware discovery may fail in 19.05.10
D42-38402: Applications Groups and Insights+ errors after upgrading to v19.05
D42-38593: Audit logs (History) details do not allow user to scroll to see the change history details
D42-38215: Service dependency dashboard returning duplicate rows
D42-38298: This Application Group is unmanaged banner vanishes quickly on several records
D42-38305: Some reports display memory incorrectly.
D42-38258: Spacing/alignment issues with Error message in Zendesk dialog box
D42-38249: Users are not notified if they lack view permissions
D42-38212: Standard Report: Warning Banner Length and Search Criteria Alignment Issues
D42-38196: Parts -> Columns failing on list page
D42-38192: Software In Use -> Column “Software -> # Of Devices” is throwing an error
D42-38186: BizApp: Pop-up Window Too Large
D42-38162: ‘Application restart failed’ error message in App Manager
D42-38150: [Zendesk Integration ]On adding different CI linked to the ticket, error is thrown
D42-38069: Dropdown icons are incorrectly positioned in the custom fields inline(django)
D42-38020: Connections Page: Moving Overview makes screen unusable
D42-37963: SVG Image in AG Page Is Not Downloadable
D42-37951: ‘Reboot Collectors’ action popup on RC page does not show RC details

Miscellaneous:

Added ‘Last Life Cycle Event’ column for devices
Bulk actions are available for resources
SNMP updates:
- Dell Sonicwall VLANs added
- Citrix, Cohesity, Sophos and Peplink scans improved
- Fixed bug with Toshiba printers discovery
- Triplite PDUs now show power
Fixed Linode discovery defects
Improved the sensitivity of the readiness check for upgrades
Intune discovery improvements and defect fixes
Security updates

Customer requested issues:

Issue Number	Issue description
D42-32251	Oracle database discovery should create a software in use record
D42-35491	Improve discovery hub insights+ reports
D42-35586	Support FTPS/SFTP for AS/400 discovery
D42-36088	Add ‘Append LPAR id to’ setting in AS400 discovery
D42-36339	Add SNMPv3 privacy protocol options to the SNMP discovery page
D42-36592	Insights+ query timing out with device custom fields
D42-37226	Undiscovered listening services (ULS) for DB2 listener
D42-37173	Processing issue on discovery jobs
D42-37050	Hardware model value on the UI
D42-37040	SQS discovery failure
D42-37033	Webhook error after upgrading to v19.00
D42-37031	Errors with credential imports
D42-36966	RC’s routing table is lost
D42-36753	Azure (Gov) cloud discovery “Extended Summary” part is not working
D42-22267	Make Bulk Actions available for resources
D42-34572	Check if TPM is enabled during WMI scans
D42-37378	Dell SonicWall not picking up VLANs
D42-37196	SNMP scan for Citrix stuck with no progress
D42-37230	Enhance the SNMP discovery result for Watchdog WD15 devices
D42-36989	Add SNMP support for Peplink device
D42-35135	Netscaler discovery missing serial number
D42-35017	Implement SSO SAML relay state and redirect
D42-37460	Azure discovery exception for specific region
D42-37427	After disabling ADM, periodic jobs are still generated
D42-37344	Duplicate Software appearing for Intune scans
D42-36541	Make light/dark specific to hostname/instance
D42-35437	Basic Search Filters – Filter by the next N date
D42-33570	Clean up unused tags with the new ‘Tagged Object Count’ column
D42-28825	Last Life Cycle Event Column
D42-24726	Prevent accidentally changing the language setting
D42-34048	Allow column widths to be smaller
D42-21711	Filter vlans on the name attribute in api/1.0/vlans/
D42-36361	Business application custom related fields can now use ‘Cloud Accounts’
D42-28568	Sorting for custom fields
D42-37232	Missing port connections on IP Switches
D42-35652	Set temperature ranges for room heatmap color coding
D42-21205	Add device_id parameter to /api/2.0/devices import file
D42-36085	Rename ‘Connectivity’ section to ‘Ports’ on the Device page
D42-33922	Add certificate instances tab to device view
D42-29791	Lifecycle event ordering
D42-23222	SNMP job(and others) API import file missing parameters
D42-28869	Asset API – Missing shelf option for rack location
D42-33225	Affinity Groups / AppFocus Filters – ability to choose a DOQL per filter or affinity group rather than at the global level
D42-36353	Business application APIs can now use “d42null” or “null” to clear values

Latest Device42 Update

For current customers, please contact support to receive the installation files for 19.05.10 upgrades

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ADM and UI enhancements – v19.05 MA