Announcing Role Based Access and AD Integration with 2.2.0P1 release – Device42 Support Portal

Release 2.2.0P1 is here with role based access, Active Directory Integration and other good stuff. Read More below:

1. Role Based Access

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You would be able to assign view, change, add and delete permissions for each category now. This can be done on individual user level or group level; and once permissions are created for groups, you can just add users to respective groups. This brings about a change for current customers when looking at the details of any object, and that leads to next feature:

2. View Only Mode(new Default)

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By default, when you click on any object now, you would be presented with a view only mode vs. change mode in prior releases. There is an edit button on top where history, and add buttons are and that would take you to change view. Verbatim from one of our beta test customers: “I love this feature, chances of me screwing up some entry accidentally are now gone.“

3. Active Directory Integration

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You would now be able to add active directory users to device42 and magic, everybody would be happier to be relieved the burden of remembering one more password.

4. Breadcrumbs

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We have to thank JMM for this idea, and it does make navigation simpler now. You are in the edit mode of an object, easily go back to view mode or back to listing of all the objects using breadcrumbs now.

5. Search Everything from home page

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Search always have been very crucial for us and you can still search extensively in each category, but in addition the search on home page is much more powerful now and will search all categories for you and return top 10 results for each category.

6. NTP Client

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Since introduction of time zones and auto-scheduling for discovery; this was a needed feature. This is available from the virtual machine console .

7. Enable/Disable Debugging

For easier tech support, we have added an option to enable debugging, so you can send us detailed message when something unexpected happens and we can get to resolution sooner.

8. DNS Records Search

Added Search for DNS zones and all DNS records.

Cosmetic Fixes

Added @ Building after the room name, makes it easier to identify what room you are looking at if the room names are same.
New submit/search button on home page.
For DNS records with empty name, you would be able to click on zone to go the view page now.

Issues Resolved

Device, manufacturer if None is now ignored when adding via APIs.(500 returned for device).
OS Name was not showing in list view for devices, now fixed.

Known Issues

Internet Explorer (IE) is stil not supported.