New Features and Enhancements for Virtual Appliance Version 103.0.0.338
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 alerts for auto-update
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.
Removed unused partitions alerts
Deprecated the following alarms for unused partitions on the Appliance:
Storage-lcmysql-partition
Storage-lckafkabroker-partition
Storage-lcmongo-event-partition
Removed usused alerts
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
Prevent appliance upgrades from versions that are more than two versions older
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.
Multiple SAML IDPs Enhancements
Added the options to obtain the legacy ACS URL formant and the ability to control the user authentication domain refresh interval.
Block WebDAV Access
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.
On-Premises Central Authority Support for TLS Decryption
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.
Enhanced dnsmap config maintenance
Graceful cleanup of DNS entries when containers go down.
Use EOF to exit nsshell
You can now use EOF (^D / ctrl+D) to exit the Appliance nsshell.
Increase Syslogng connection limit
The maximum concurrent Syslog connections for OPLP has increased to 512.
Warnings generated during debug-package creation
Syntax warnings not generated during creation of an Appliance debug package.
Export/Import between Appliances
Exporting configurations from physical appliances to virtual appliances is supported for OPLP.