Please find here the Entuity v21.0 P03 patch notifications:
Please find below the new features and improvements in this patch:
- Improvement to configuration monitoring through replacement of support for ‘SCP’ transfer method in configuration retrieval with ‘SCP Push’, and addition of support for ‘SCP Pull’ transfer method.
- Addition of View-based profiles for OS Services, enabling users to restrict, by means of profiles, monitoring of OS Services to just the server devices that are in a given View or Views.
- Improvements and fixes to the process of creating a user defined REST poller, including the addition of an option to create user defined device types for which REST pollers can be specifically created, and based on which custom devices can be added via Asset Management.
Note regarding Entuity Maverick SSH library default configuration:
From Entuity v21.0 P03 and v20.0 P08 upwards, the Entuity Maverick SSH library default configuration is updated to avoid ciphers affected by the Terrapin SSH vulnerability. If you understand the associated risks and wish to revert to using these vulnerable SSH ciphers to e.g. access legacy Cisco kit, you will need to configure the maverick_site_specific.cfg file to include the following ciphers:
ciphers aes256-gcm@openssh.com,chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes256-ctr,aes256-cbc,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes128-cbc
Notes and known issues regarding configuration management updates:
'SCP Pull' and 'SCP Push' transfer methods:
There is a known issue in Entuity v21.0 P03 and v20.0 P08 regarding the addition of the 'SCP Pull' transfer method to configuration management, and the renaming of the existing 'SCP' method to 'SCP Push'. All system configuration management scripts have been updated to reflect these changes.
However, any custom scripts that existed before patching to Entuity v21.0 P03 or v20.0 P08 will need to be edited in the following manner to ensure they continue to work:
- within a custom script, any if statement that contains transferMethod.equals("scp") will need to be changed to transferMethod.equals("scp push").
- if a custom script uses a transferMethod variable to construct the transfer command, this will need to be altered, i.e. where transferMethod is now 'scp push', in order to use 'scp', you will need to specify 'scp'.
'RCP', 'SFTP' and 'CLI' transfer methods:
There is a known issue in Entuity v21.0 P03 and v20.0 P08 regarding the functionality of the 'RCP', 'SFTP' and 'CLI' transfer methods, whereby if they were used in a pre-patch update instance, then these transfer methods will have been incorrectly changed following the patch update.
There are two options to correct this:
- manually select the correct transfer methods for the device via the Configuration Management dashboard; or
- (for large installations) contact Entuity Support, who will provide assistance for the issue via the debug agent.
Note regarding functionality of existing custom scripts:
Please also note that some system tasks added in Entuity v21.0 P03 and 20.0 P08 might provide the same functionality as existing custom scripts received from Entuity Support.
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