The Virtual Appliance can be used as a Secure Forwarder to steer traffic, as a log parser to discover cloud apps in your environment, or as a Dataplane On-Premises appliance (DPoP) to act as a proxy server. Here are the new features and enhancements for this release.
Added Auto_upgrade_status alert to indicate the status of automatically configured upgrades on an Appliance, and added the Storage-upgrade-partition. To learn more, go to OPLP Alerts and Event Descriptions.
Deprecated the following alarms for unused partitions on the Appliance:
Storage-lcmysql-partition
Storage-lckafkabroker-partition
Storage-lcmongo-event-partition
Deprecated the following unused alerts:
Event_flow_from_device
Mongodb_status
MySql_status
Mongos_status
Storage-1a
Log_Process-4
Log_Process-5a
Log_Process-5b
Log_Process-5c
Appliance software upgrades will be supported from N-2 source software versions only, where N is the target version. This functionality will be supported from Appliance Release 103 as the source software version.
Added the options to obtain the legacy ACS URL formant and the ability to control the user authentication domain refresh interval.
Netskope Cloud Real-time Protection policies now provide access control to WebDAV traffic, by providing the ability to configure WebDAV extension methods under HTTP header profiles.
To learn more: HTTP Header Profile.
Note
This is currently a limited availability feature. Contact your Sales Representative or Support to enable this feature.
You can now connect to the on-prem hosted HSM/key manager to get the proxy emulated certificate signed for TLS decryption without uploading or providing an intermediate certificate/key to Netskope.
To learn more: Certificates
Note
This is a Controlled General Availability (formerly known as Limited Availability) feature. Contact your Netskope sales representative or support to enable this on your tenant.
Graceful cleanup of DNS entries when containers go down.
You can now use EOF (^D / ctrl+D) to exit the Appliance nsshell.
The maximum concurrent Syslog connections for OPLP has increased to 512.
Syntax warnings not generated during creation of an Appliance debug package.
Exporting configurations from physical appliances to virtual appliances is supported for OPLP.