Release notes 8.1

What's new?

AppVis™ enhancements

Group applications, filter by class, view trend charts and download to CSV

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Business Hours

Set by location

Admin improvements

Permission control for agents and services, browse & search changes

1. AppVis enhancements

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Groups

Group applications and filter the display to show only groups of most interest. Since groups are visible across an organisation, only users with the relevant permission can create/edit groups and assign applications to groups. Read more about AppVis groups.

Filter by class

Use this feature to see all the applications using your RealTime or Priority classes, for example.

Note: The classes filter impacts the drilldown areas, the trend charts and the CSV downloads as well as the top level applications.

Trend charts

The trend chart shows usage for each day of the month from the time period selected. It's a useful view of application usage over time. Hover over each bar to see the actual usage for each day. Read more about AppVis trend charts.

Download

Adjust your page view (for example 30 applications in group Critical sorted by First Seen) then download the data to a CSV file. The CSV shows the drilldown data for each application.

2. Business hours

Previously business hours could only be set at the folder level. This was awkward if there were multiple locations working to different hours within the same folder. Setting business hours at the location level resolves this issue.

Read more about changing business hours.

3. Admin improvements

Admin browse and search

These are now two distinct functions with browse showing the top level folder only, not any subfolders. Search includes subfolders by default or select “Current folder only.” The workflow via the UI has also been improved. Read more about Admin browse.

Permissions

Agents: The agents page is now hidden from those without the permission Create and edit folders/locations.

Services: Only those with the permission Edit watch can create or edit a service or service test

4. WiFi Aerohive

Aerohive WiFi has been updated to show utilisation figures on the Real-Time View dialog and on the Details page Channel Load and Channel Trend charts.

5. Location tiles Only with issues

A single click selects (or deselects) stability, health and load. Apply and view only location tiles which are amber or red.

Other changes

SNMP traps for WiFi: Highlight can now send an SNMP trap for WiFi related issues, if configured in Status Alerting

Bug fixes

Hybrid WAN strip charts: these will now correctly respond to the selection of a new heat tile when on Status page
Searching for non-alphanumeric characters: your search can now include any of the additional characters permitted in Highlight; for example searching for just & would find watch name Sales&Marketing_Vlan
IP addresses in Flow analysis: Highlight will now correctly display all host IP addresses as dotted decimal. A small number were previously displayed in hexadecimal format