Release Notes 11.1

What’s New

This release of Resolve Insights introduces the following new features, improvements, and changes.

Duplicate Device Merge

With this new feature, we allow our users to define a newly discovered device as a duplicate of an existing one by custom criteria and automatically merge their details.​ The fully automated device merger will significantly reduce the number of duplicates when moving infrastructure from one place to another and dynamically recreating an environment.

Refer to Duplicate Device Merge page for details.

Enhanced Authentication

This version provides a completely new way to log in and authenticate within the application. With the introduction of Keycloak as a user management tool, we allow our customers to configure their own way of authentication within the Insights application. They can choose to configure local login, LDAP connection, and use their corporate accounts for login, or configure another identity provider with supported MFA.

Refer to

• Loggin in to Insights page for details on how to login Insights.
• LDAP Configuration page for details on how to configure LDAP.
• User Access page for detail on how to create local users.

New User Interface

Insights also comes with a new look! In this version, we provide our clients with a completely new user interface. The new and modern UI entirely revamps and standardizes the user flows and significantly improves the user experience within the application. It leverages the latest technology and allows us to implement changes and product enhancements faster.

Users can switch between the old and the new UI application anytime with a simple click of the header button.

Refer to UI Overview and the New User Interface sections for details.

New features

The following functionalities and features are newly introduced in the new user interface and are not available on the old one:

• Organization context - the entire application loads content for a specific organization. If you want to change the organization, you need to go to the landing page and select new organizaion.
• CMDB menu - a new menu is available with all configurations and settings, related to your CMDB connection and setup.
• Discovery: Device discovery details - details, such as a list of credentials and IP pools, about a specific discovery job, are now available.
• Discovery: Device discovery preview devices - easy identification of successfully discovered devices within the selected discovery request.
• Discovery: Service flow discovery preview devices - easy identification of scanned devices and successfully collected service flows within the last discovery run.
• Inventory: Devices detail sharing - users can get the link to the details of a particular device.
• Inventory: Duplicate devices table columns - users can add more columns and apply a filter on them, to better manage the duplicate list without the need to switch between different pages and views.
• Applications list details - more details, such as application creation and number of devices, are available for each application when listing them.

Deprecated functionalities

The following functionalities and features are deprecated from the new user interface and will not be supported:

• Header: Page auto refresh - the users can only manually refresh the page content.
• Header: Location map - the location and timezone are now automatically set from the browser settings. The user can see the current timezone from the user profile.
• Header: Notifications.
• Inventory: Manually add devices - with the introduction of the custom device discovery feature in version 11.0, we allow users to discover devices that were inaccessible before and add them to the inventory table.
• Inventory: Actions of devices in IP Address View - users can apply actions only on the default table view.
• Reports: Scheduled reports - all the reports are generated immediately, upon request.

Functionalities in development

The following functionalities and features are currently under development and will be provided in the next Insights versions:

• Dashboard page
• Data Explorer page
• Topology page
• Storage page
• vCenter page
• Discovery: Bulk Discovery for multiple sites - currently, users can create bulk discovery for a single site. We are working on enhancing the logic to support multiple sites in bulk discovery.
• Inventory: Bulk device edit - currently, users can edit devices one by one. We are workin on enhancing the logic to support edit of multipe devices.
• Inventory: Filters in IP Address View - currently, users can apply content filters only on the default table view. We are working on enhancing the logic to apply the selected filter to the different views.
• Applications: Dynamic application creation - currently, users can create applications manually. We are working on enhancing the logic to automatically detect service flows and suggest new applications
• Applications: IMAN view.
• Applications: Groups view.

Usability, Performance, and Security Improvements

The following changes contribute to improved usability and performance:

• Allow customization of the NMAP reachability ports - By editing the nmap_tcp_reachable_ports and nmap_udp_reachable_ports values in the meridian.conf file, the users can specify which ports to be used by the NMAP command when probing an IP address or host for reachability. The defaults are 22, 80, 443 for TCP and 53, 161 for UDP.
• Allow configuration of the Kafka request messages - By editing the max_request_size value in the meridian.conf file, the users can define the size of the request messages to speed up the backend communication.
• Enable caching of static resources to speed up the UI performance. Already accessed resources are reused from the local browser cache.
• Disable port forwarding for not used functionality.
• Unused code clean-up and optimization.

Tech Stack Upgrade

The following components and libraries were upgraded:

• Upgrade Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash to version 7
• Upgrade Angular to version 18
• Introduce containerization - A couple of the Insights components are delivered in containers. Refer to the Installation or Upgrade guides for details.

Resolved Issues

The following issues have been resolved with this Insights version.

Ticket	Summary
47826	Panorama devices don't appear in Table View
47587	Silverpeak discovery is not working
N/A	[Setup] Wrong file permissions for health process during upgrade
N/A	[Settings] User name is not visible in the settings
N/A	[Settings] Adding log configuration fails with exception
N/A	[Settings] Failed to configure Email via API
N/A	[CMDB] Wrong schedule minDate validation in ITSM config page
N/A	[CMDB] Auto push is not working
N/A	[Inventory] Quick filters does not work for applications
N/A	[Inventory] Quick filters for application group shows the applications list
N/A	[Applications] Dynamic application creation does not form proper request in specific case
N/A	[Applications] Create an application with name that containes special symbols
N/A	[Service Flow] Service Flows inconsistent discovery data
N/A	[Discovery] Duplicate registrations for some parsers
N/A	[Discovery] NullPointerException is triggered when FE tries to load discovery schedules
N/A	[Discovery] Running config is not collected from device which need more time to build it
N/A	[Discovery] In new versions of Linux when a command is not installed the shell offers to install specific package
N/A	[Discovery] Wrong parser is used for 'show interface' for CISCO
N/A	[Discovery] Problem with hosts that have mutliple addresses assigned to the same interface
N/A	[Discovery] Scheduled jobs don't work
N/A	[Discovery] Bulk discovery does not work
N/A	[Discovery] IP address show -dadfailed does not work on older Linux versions
N/A	[Discovery] Reading disk information on Linux machine that has remote mounts sometimes fails

Known Limitations

The following table lists open issues that have been found in this Insights version.

Ticket	Summary
47497	Sorting: NULL values should not be intermingled with not-null values
47319	Restart of rest service needed after rebooting the Prod Insights servers
46980	Uncompleted Discoveries
46526	No discovery jobs attached to some devices
45238	Some applications contain network devices
43270	Save of ITSM config when using load balancer hostname/IP not working
42386	Various Linux servers are merged into the same device
41142	Fix logic for network and broadcast calculation