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Release 2023.03.0: March 26th, 2023

Enhancements

  • Zapier integration beta is now available and can be assigned to custom event configurations. For more information, please contact support@senecaxconnect.com.

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  • Standardized on "Generic" device types. Any device coming in as a "Generic" device type will be standardized to our "Generic Agent System" type.

  • This will make it easier to define device criteria for generic devices.

  • Manage Devices: upon assigning a device to a company, all children devices will also be assigned to the same company.

  • Removed expiration column from outage events page; simplified process for adding new outage events.

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  • Account managers will now be notified of any new customer onboards via e-mail.

  • Enhanced xConnect API security

  • Added subscription checking to our action processing routine. This will prevent actions from being processed if the subscription has expired.

Bug Fixes

  • Collapsed side menu now properly displays when collapsed.
  • Popup menu on side menu is closed when collapsed.
  • End user is now taken to their assigned company dashboard on first login after they accept EULA
  • Undo icon now appears when editing a device name.
  • Removed markup from remote command output panel.
  • Performance improvement for users on first login.
  • Fixed issue with device criterias leveraging the "in" operator.
  • Bookmarks will now show customer status
  • Telemetry reporting: fix for unassigned devices not being populated in the CSV
  • Fixed issue with consumption report that was causing duplicate customer names.
  • Resolved health orb alignment issue on device health panels

Release 2023.01.1: January 26th, 2023

Enhancements

  • Edit, Bookmark and Geo-location Controls are now available for all devices

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  • Added support for Linux cURL and WGET commands on quick start and onboarding popup

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Bug Fixes

  • Fixed issue when logging into tenant with no devices for a company. Now it will automatically redirect to the "Unassigned Devices" dashboard.
  • Onboarding: customer abbreviations are now saved with 4 characters instead of 5.
  • Upon disabling an event, all associated actions are now properly disabled as well.
  • Fixed issue with automatically assigning custom defined events to the appropriate selected customer. Originally this was not being taken into account when evaluating applicable devices for a custom event.
  • Permissions fix for logging in as an account manager, removed check for bookmarks to prevent invalid permissions error.
  • Fixed server error when attempting to define configuration values in admin portal.
  • Resolved incorrect pagination controls for Warning or Critical state device health detail modal on dashboards.
  • Resolved problem with removing associated label cross references once a device has been removed or disabled.

Release 2023.01.0: January 12th, 2023

Enhancements

  • New Application Selection pop-up

  • For users that have access to more than 1 xConnect instance, you will now see a newly formatted selection pop-up that will enable you to access your desired account.

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  • The new modal will feature the name of your xConnect instance, description, and the unique subscription ID that can be used to onboard new devices using the latest version of the agent.

  • Updated e-mail notifications for new users, and onboarded customers.

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  • New tenant management functionality for internal account managers.

  • We have added a new tenant listing page for internal Arrow Account Managers. For more information, please contact support@senecaxconnect.com.

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Bug Fixes

  • Fixed issue when rendering html in remote command output panels.
  • Side navigation incorrect updated counts when filtering by the health of your devices.
  • Incorrect event count when multiple events are thrown for a single device.

Release 2022.12.0: December 9th, 2022

This is a significant deployment that included several major changes to the way we are displaying and managing device health. See below for details.

Enhancements

  • Gateways are no longer a required piece of infrastructure to support xConnect. Customers may now move to a "gateway-less" model to monitor their devices.

  • Removal of gateways on side navigation. There will no longer be a gateway level displayed when navigating through the dashboards within xConnect.

  • Support of assigning individual devices to a customer via the Manage Devices page:

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  • Power users can now assign one or more devices to a particular customer via the manage devices page. Devices can be moved freely between your defined customers.

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  • Users can now label devices based on telemetry, or device criteria. Label groups will appear in the left-side navigation for easy organization. All labeling groups can be managed via the settings panel:

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  • Through this management page users can define / edit manual or dynamic labels. Manual labels can be created here and applied on each individual device dashboard, or via the bulk apply function:

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  • Dashboards will now contain a new option for applying a manual label, which will enable you to manually identify one or more devices that are applicable to a group:

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  • Automatic labeling rules are available that will group your devices based on common telemetry rules such as High CPU %, RAM Utilization, etc...

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Note

This is only visible when choosing the "Fixed Grouping" navigation view.

  • New navigation views are now available. We are now supporting a new label grouping view that will allow you to easily find your devices based on the groups you have defined via label configurations:

  • To change your navigation view, click on the gear icon located on the side navigation:

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  • A new modal will appear and allow you to choose your preferred navigation view. By default, the "Default Grouping" view is enabled, which lists devices by company and type. The "Fixed Grouping" view allows you to view the list of devices broken out by each custom label group you define. We will be adding an option in a future release for "Custom Grouping" that will enable users to break devices out by a primary and secondary group.

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  • New navigation health icons that clearly show the health summary of your devices:

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Note

Hovering over a section of the icon will show the # of impacted devices.

  • Improved Remote Command handling. Removal of the gateway reduces the amount of failure points and network hops between our cloud service and your monitored device.

Release 2022.08.0: August 11th, 2022

Enhancements

  • New Total Events, Events, and Actions panels on dashboards

  • You will now notice three new panels featured on your dashboards that feature trend analysis data for device events:

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  • The new panels show trending data over the last 24-48 hours and will enable you to easily see top problem devices.

  • Add or remove bookmarks via the device search textbox:

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  • Offline devices will now show the date/time of the last telemetry received:

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  • Overview dashboard device listing modal now supports CSV export with the ability to choose which additional columns you would like to include:

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  • Actions feed is now included on all device-specific dashboards. The panel provides a complete list of automatic alerts that have been executed on a device.

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Bug Fixes

  • Performance improvement for the event logs page
  • 500 internal server error when executing batch commands
  • Status icon is not centered on dashboard

Release 2022.07.0: July 7th, 2022

Enhancements

  • New dashboard and template

  • You will notice a new look and feel for the overall site and newly designed dashboards. The new template leverages modern UI elements and promotes further visibility of your monitored devices and infrastructure.

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  • Support for new light and dark themes:

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  • Dashboard mobile support

    • Users can now view their dashboards on a mobile device such as an iPhone 12.

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  • Device detail modal is now accessible on all dashboards.

  • Additional device detail information is accessible via all dashboards with a Device Health panel.

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Users can now click on the particular # of devices to see a complete list of their details and any events that may be occurring on them.

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  • Newly designed device-specific dashboard emphasizes additional visibility to all telemetry being submitted to xConnect

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  • Summary e-mail addresses can now be managed via a friendly UI

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  • Remote command improvements:

  • Users are now able to archive previous command history, which will prevent unnecessary historical records from being included on an export:

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  • Commands that are in a pending or "gateway received" state can be re-run:

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  • Added support for Wildcards in device criteria search:

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  • Improved command output rendering. Users will now be able to easily view larger command output from a remote command:

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  • Telemetry reports are now filterable by a customer:

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Bug Fixes

  • Remote Commands: Clicking the "Save" button multiple times when saving an existingcommand causes duplicate associations.
  • Device Dashboard: Slight delay when user clicks on the execute button on remote command modal.
  • Resolved issue with exporting command history that includes special non-ascii characters.
  • Disabled auto-fill on username and password controls to ensure secure experience.
  • Remote Commands: Ensure that command output is properly formatted and includes line breaks.
  • Gateway Software: Fix for tracking which user executed a command.
  • Access to "My Account" modal when logged in as a power user.

Release 2021.08.0: August 23rd, 2021

Enhancements

  • Native remote desktop functionality (BETA)

    • We are now supporting native remote desktop within the xConnect portal for a subset of BETA customers. This requires an enhanced agent to establish the connection to your monitored device.

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  • Note: This is not yet available to all xConnect customers. For more information, please contact your account manager.

  • Improvements for batch remote command payloads

    • In an effort to reduce heavy traffic to the virtualized gateways, we've reduced the amount of payloads sent when a batch command is run via the remote commands section.

Bug Fixes

  • General cleanup of browser console errors
  • Fixed column headers for manage devices CSV export
  • Improvements to telemetry export
  • Removed the hard refresh of the web page when switching between app instances

Release 2021.06.0: June 30th, 2021

Enhancements

  • Custom event configurations will now show a complete list of impacted devices:

custom_event Upon clicking the link, a modal will appear listing all impacted devices

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Bug Fixes

  • Upon disabling a custom event configuration, any outstanding instances of the event will recover:

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Release 2021.05.0: May 25th, 2021

Enhancements

  • Significant performance improvement on reporting latest health. Removal of direct queries on database backend, replaced with caching solution.
  • Removal of nested arrays within the remote command and event objects. Improved associations between the commands, events and impacted devices.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed erroneous characters found in "IN" query criteria (impacts Remote Commands and Custom Event Configurations)
  • Ensure that the login page always renders correctly.
  • Gateway modal will now show the correct labeling when a gateway is offline or online.

Release 2021.04.0: April 26th, 2021

Enhancements

  • Manual remote command executions are now tracked by the user who initiated the command:

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  • Remote commands now supports up to 25,000 characters

  • Support for Azure-based Active Directory authentication method. For more information, please see Azure Authentication docs

Bug Fixes

  • Ability to search the "Serial" field using the "IN" operator within the remote commands page:

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Minor Release 2021.02.5: March 25th, 2021

Enhancements

  • Added query operator to Remote Commands and Custom Event Configurations

There is a new operator that will allow you to pull devices based on a comma-separated list of values. The functionality is currently available in the Remote Commands and Custom Event Configuration editors.

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By choosing the "IN" operator, you can specify one or more values to search. In the example above, I am searching for devices with the names "SERVER123", "SERVER456", or "SERVER768" The result would be 3 servers that match those names.

Minor Release 2021.02.4: March 10th, 2021

Enhancements

  • Enable or disable the ability to batch execute a remote command

There is a new control on the remote command edit form that will allow you to enable or disable the ability to execute the remote command on many devices.

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If the command execution is disabled, you will not be able to hit the "play" icon on the remote command grid:

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Checking the checkbox control will allow you (or any other power user) to perform a batch execution on the command to the associated devices.

Release 2021.02.0: February 6th, 2021

Enhancements

  • Virtual Gateway Onboarding Wizard
    We have added the ability to create virtual gateways within your xConnect instance! Customers with the cloud gateway subscription will now have the option of generating one or many virtual gateways that will act as a centralized gateway for all of your devices.

    • Upon logging in to a new account with no gateways or devices, the onboarding wizard will automatically appear

    • At any time, you can open the onboarding wizard by clicking the icon in the header:

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    • The initial step of the onboarding wizard will enable you to begin onboarding a new Virtual Gateway or will take you to the physical gateway setup documentation.

    onboarding

    The Virtual Gateway option will be enabled if you have 1 or more available licenses to your account. These licenses can be purchased through your account representative.

    • Clicking the Virtual Gateway icon will take you to step 2 of the wizard, you must enter a unique name for your gateway and choose a customer.

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    • Once you have chosen the customer and entered a unique gateway, click the "Next" button. The backend processes will begiin allocating your new Virtual Gateway

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    During this time, xConnect is communicating with our cloud-based Docker API instance to spin up a new virtual gateway. If any errors occur you will see it displayed in this window.

    • Upon the gateway progress bar hitting 100%, you will be able to access your virtual gateway via the normal xConnect Manage Gateways interface

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    • Once successfully completed, the following message will appear and include the specific URL that you will use on your local agent installations:

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    Use the listed GATEWAY ADDRESS on your local xConnect agents to point them to the Virtual Gateway

    Configure your local xConnect agents:

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  • Automated Device Cleanup

  • We have added an automated device clean up for any devices that have never submitted telemetry and were created over 60 minutes ago. These devices will automatically be removed from your dashboards and side navigation with no manual intervention. Once the device receives telemetry, they will reappear on your xConnect web portal.

  • Device Health Added to Telemetry Report

  • The custom telemetry report now includes the latest health of your devices. reporting

  • Custom Event Configurations Enhanced Filter

  • Disabled custom event configurations will now be hidden from the list. You can show the disabled by clicking the checkbox on the header: eventConfig

Bug Fixes

  • Redundant click when searching for an end user

  • Updating custom events with associated alerts

  • We have added a preventative measure that disallows you from making changes to a custom event configuration if it has active alerts associated with it. As part of a future patch release, we will re-enable this functionality.

Release 2020.12.0: December 17th, 2020

Enhancements

  • Remote Command improvements:

    • Filtering has been added to the remote command execution history grid, which will allow you to filter by device name:

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    • On the Remote Command history grid, the device names are now links that will take you to the device-specific dashboard:

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    • You can now export the entire execution history of a command as a CSV:

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  • Reporting is now available for all power users and can be accessed by the settings menu:

Reporting

  • Latest device telemetry report is now available for use:

    • You can access this by going to the Reporting page.
    • Click on the "Telemetry" link in the list.

    Reporting

    • This will open a modal enabling you to choose 10 or less telemetry points that will be included in the report. The report is a list of all active devices that are filtered by the desired device type.

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    Once your desired settings are selected, click the "CSV" button. This will generate the report as a comma separated file and can be opened in your preferred editor.

Bug Fixes

  • Sizing fix for the "Add Customer" modal when assigning a new gateway.
  • All remote command buttons on dashboards are now hidden for end user roles. Power users can still access them.
  • Copy/paste dashboard URLs are now working correctly.

Release 16.0: December 1st, 2020

Enhancements

  • New user experience for Server and Media Player Dashboards

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  • Customizable dashboard reboot button

    • Users may now customize which command is run upon clicking the reboot button on the dashboards.

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    How to edit your command:

    1. Go to your desired dashboard via the side menu
    2. Click on the reboot button on the information panel.
    3. If the menu is plain text, then the admin has not created a default template for you to use yet. If the menu is clickable, you can edit the command by clicking the "Edit Reboot Command" link.

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  • Added UUID to the device information panels

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## Bug Fixes - Fix for defining OR criteria on remote command query definitions. - You may now define two or more OR criteria and retrieve your desired devices correctly.

Release 15.0: October 15th, 2020

Enhancements

  • Enhanced Device Selection with Query Builder

    • The Remote Command and Custom Event Configuration forms have been modified to support dynamic device queries, which will enable users to easily pull one or many devices based on the following criteria:
      • Name
      • UID
      • Device Type (Media Player, Camera, Server, etc...)
      • Model
      • Serial #

    There is currently no limit on how many filters can be added. NOTE: Any existing custom event configurations or remote commands will have their existing device associations preserved, but you must define a criteria if you edit the command/event. Side Menu

Remote Commands:

You can access the remote command form by going to the Settings tab > Remote Commands. Click Create New Command or the existing name of a command in the grid.

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Custom Event Configurations:

You can access custom event configurations by going to the Settings tab > Event Configurations > Custom Configurations

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  • Side Menu Paging

    • The side menu now features enhanced pagination controls to ensure fast loading of your dashboards. The # of items displayed is driven by the context menu featured by clicking the Query Builder button:

    Side Menu

    Choose an item from the "Items Per Page" dropdown and the side menu will only show that # of items per page when viewing devices/servers/media players:

    Side Menu

  • Global Search

    • We are now supporting global search! You can leverage the side bar search textbox to search across all asset types such as Customers, Gateways, Media Players, Devices, etc... You can perform a search on any dashboard and it will provide you a complete list of matching items.

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  • Customizable Event Feed

    • You can now customize how many events you want displayed on all event feed panels:

    Event Feed

    Clicking the gear icon will open a modal enabling you to define how many items you would like displayed on each page:

    Event Feed

Bug Fixes

  • Name of the device is now driven by the hostname sent via the agent.
  • Clicking on the bookmark tab preserves your current location on the site.

Release 14.0: September 7th, 2020

Enhancements

  • Remote Command Execution Status Support

    • We've added the ability to see the current status of a remote command execution on the device dashboard. Side Navigation Note: in order to see an accurate status, you must update your xConnect agent to version 4040 or later.

  • Remote Command History

    • There is now a complete list of previous executions for a remote command. You can see this by going to Settings > Remote Commands Side Navigation

  • Backend Process Improvements

    • We've implemented several performance improvements on our backend design to ensure the best user experience possible.

Bug Fixes

  • Unlocking a user from Manage Users will now clear out prior bad log in attempts.
  • Remote Commands will now fire automatically if assigned to an event.

Release 13.1: July 16th, 2020

Enhancements

  • Alert Summary E-mail Support
  • We've added the ability to group your e-mail alerts together within a standard summary e-mail template.

How to Enable: - Log in using your credentials *note: You must be a power user in order to access this functionality - Click on the Settings tab on the left-side menu - Click on "Global Settings" Side Navigation - Upon going to the Global Settings page, check the "Enable Summary Alerting" checkbox and enter one or more e-mail addresses separated by a comma Settings - Once finished, click the "Apply" button

  • Once enabled, you will no longer receive individual e-mail alerts based on your event configurations. A summarized e-mail will be sent that lists the impacted devices and the criteria of the event.

Bug Fixes

  • Newly added devices will now automatically be applied with e-mail alerts, remote commands, or third party connectors based on the enabled Global Event Configurations.

Release 13: June 23rd, 2020

Enhancements

  • Event Feed alterations to the navigation links.
  • Modified the way the event feed links navigate a user to the appropriate device dashboard and event log listing.

Side Navigation

Upon clicking the device name (i.e. Server01) a user will be taken to the device dashboard. Clicking the table icon (Side Navigation) will navigate to the filtered event logs for this particular device.

  • Company Abbreviation added to all alerting e-mails
  • Enables xConnect support to easily identify which e-mail alerts originated from a particular xConnect customer.

Side Navigation

  • Release version # added to the home page, which links to release notes.

  • Maintenance mode: prevents potential spamming of alerts in the occurrence of a scheduled maintenance window. Enhancement prevents users from logging on during the maintenance.

Side Navigation

  • User preferences now preserves your selections for expanding or collapsing panels on your dashboards.

Bug Fixes

  • Event logs now include custom outage duration notices instead of default 60 minute outage windows.