Windows auto-discovery from within the appliance, sticky save bar, redfish support and more in v13.2.0

We are excited to announce Windows auto-discovery from within the Device42 appliance, and it can be run from the remote collector as well. Just add the IP range and credentials like any other discovery job, and off you go.

For now, the external tool still has some capabilities not found in the internal tool such as adding multiple credentials, defining the service level or the customer to be assigned to discovered devices, the option to not discover software and services, and a few additional minor options. These will be added in future versions.

Also, the internal tool will support Windows 2008 and above, because it uses WinRM to do the discovery. WinRM is not installed on 2003 by default.

You can now choose multiple community strings for SNMP auto-discovery jobs. If you happen to have mix of community strings, there is no need to create multiple jobs anymore.

We have added support for following device/vendors in SNMP auto-discovery:

• Viptela: add support for device
• H3C: add stacked switch detection/handling.
• ADICTapeLibrary: add support for tape library (Dell)
• BrocadeVDX: handle Fiber to Ethernet mapping when san port numbers are shifted.
• ChrysalisUTSP: add basic device detection as layer7 device. (mib support limited for Chrysalis..)
• HP_tapelib: add inventory information for HP tape libraries.

We have added a preliminary version of Redfish discovery support as well. We still need to figure out couple of things with the device name obtained from the Redfish api, so please use with caution. We are still working on it and look forward to your feedback.

We have added instance type, subscription or account ID, instance virtualization type to cloud information part for device discovery.

If a switchport has physical properties like a model type (e.g. SFP), a serial #, etc. available in the SNMP data, we are now pulling those properties in and showing them as parts on the port.

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On edit pages, the bottom save and delete bar will always show up at the bottom of the page now. If you want to do a quick update anywhere on the page, no need to scroll all the way down to get to any of the save related operations.

When setting up auto-restores on the backup appliance, you can now choose NFS in addition to SFTP.

We have added netcat support added on the connectivity page of the appliance manager. There is now an option named netcat that enables you to quickly determine if you are able to reach particular IP and port from the Device42 appliance. This has been added on the remote collector console menu, as well.

• Added tags to ‘buildings’ GET call
• Added software version to ‘healthstatus’ GET api call

• For HTC devices added via SNMP auto-discovery: fixed serial number detection and added stacked switch detection/handling.

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Existing customers can update by grabbing the update file from: /update/