Virtual Appliance Releases

Get up to date with the CloudSphere Virtual Appliance release.
Note: To upgrade an existing appliance, refer to the article Updating Appliance
Note: For deploying the virtual appliance refer to the article Virtual Appliance Installation.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.9.2

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.9.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Sep 26, 2024

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3897

 

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Discovery Enhancement: Added support for Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2) for secure access to instance metadata.
• Improved Scan Info Messaging: Enhanced scan information messages for better clarity.

Fixed Issue(s):

• Windows Server Scanning Fix: Resolved an issue where Windows Server scans could not retrieve hostname information.
• Storage Reporting Fix: Addressed a bug where some computer systems reported more free space than total capacity.
• Security: Implemented critical security fixes.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.9.2

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.9.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Sep 13, 2024

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3895

 

Highlights:

Fixed Issue(s):

• Performance Metrics Collection: An issue where the metrics collection failed to start on certain Windows servers is now fixed.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.9.1

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.9.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: July 16, 2024

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3871

Dry-Dock version: 2.2.339

 

Highlights:

New & updated:

• This release introduces several enhancements to improve user experience and system functionality. Updates include UI refinements, diagnostic improvements, security enhancements, and performance optimizations.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.9.0

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.9.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: July 09, 2024

Appliance version: 5.9.0

 

Highlights:

New & updated:

• This update of the Appliance addresses a critical vulnerability CVE-2024-6387. We recommend you to update the appliance to the latest 5.9 release as soon as possible to mitigate the security risk.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.8.13

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.8.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: May 16, 2024

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3841

Highlights:

New & Updates:

• Enhanced Diagnostic Capabilities for UNIX Endpoints: This release empowers Support Engineers with greater flexibility during troubleshooting. This update introduces the ability to execute additional diagnostic commands directly on UNIX target machines and view the resulting output, including any errors.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.8.12

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.8.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: May 3, 2024

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3834

Highlights:

New & Updates:

• Improved Diagnostic Capabilities: The Scan Engine now offers enhanced diagnostic support for retrieving CPU utilization data from target endpoints.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.8.11

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.8.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: April 19, 2024

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3833

Dry Dock version: 2.2.317

Highlights:

New & Updates:

• Improved Appliance diagnostic capabilities: This release now empowers enhanced supportability by providing support for the execution of additional Docker commands directly within the platform. This expanded support streamlines troubleshooting, diagnostics, and overall supportability.

Fixed issue(s):

• AIX Endpoints metrics collection improvement: We've addressed an issue that could lead to high CPU usage on AIX servers while collecting performance metrics.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.8.10

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.8.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: April 05, 2024

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3828

Highlights:

New & Updates:

• Enhanced SQL Server Component Discovery: CloudSphere's discovery capabilities have been expanded to include version and edition information for Microsoft SQL Server components - SSRS (Reporting Services), SSAS (Analysis Services), and SSIS (Integration Services). This comprehensive data empowers you to make informed decisions regarding license optimization and cloud migration strategies for your SQL systems.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.8.9

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.8.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Mar 25, 2024

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3825

Highlights:

Fixed Issue(s):

• Improved Scan Log Accuracy: An issue wherein Scan logs were showing an incorrect failure message (no credential available) in case the actual cause of failure was insufficient access permission for available widows credentials is fixed now. Now, scan logs will correctly report insufficient access permissions as the reason for failure, instead of displaying an inaccurate "no credential available" message.
• An issue impacting the successful execution of the 'procwdx' command on AIX endpoints during scans is now resolved.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.8.8

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.8.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Mar 14, 2024

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3820

Highlights:

Fixed Issue(s):

• Fixed an issue with deploying metrics script on AIX endpoints.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.8.7

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.8.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Mar 08, 2024

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3818

Highlights:

New & Updates:

• Improved Metrics Connectivity Diagnostics: Added a winhttp show proxy check to scan information details. This enhancement helps identify and troubleshoot proxy-related connection issues that might affect metrics collection.
• Enhanced appliance scan logs for debug and trace logging levels. This improvement addresses the full capture of large command output and error messages previously truncated.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.8.6

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.8.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Feb 28, 2024

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3812

Websocket Client version: 2.0.209

Highlights:

New & Updates:

• Performance and scalability improvements.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.8.5

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.8.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Feb 22, 2024

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3807

Appliance UI version: 1.0.144

Highlights:

New & Updates:

• Enhanced diagnostics to execute specific Scan Engine network commands, simplifying troubleshooting.

Fixed Issues:

• Reduced unnecessary logging for improved performance and cleaner logs.
• Resolved an issue causing scan job failures when using multiple credentials (SSH and private key) with keychains stored on the appliance.
• Addressed a red exclamation mark issue appearing when editing credentials stored in the keychain via the user interface.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.8.4

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.8.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Feb 13, 2024

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3803

Appliance UI version: 1.0.143

Highlights:

New & Updates:

• Container Discovery: Our Container Discovery feature now supports "containerd", the container runtime natively used by Kubernetes. Note: Kubernetes fully deprecated support for Docker as a container runtime (version 1.24).
• Keychain Enhancements: Improved functionality and security for keychains and stored credentials, addressing issues like connection testing, scan jobs, and data visibility.

Fixed Issues:

• An issue was identified and resolved where a missing data issue prevented the successful creation of discovered Windows desktops.
• Appliance details were not displayed in CAM UI due to missing appliance ID and tenant ID information in the appliance command response.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.8.3

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.8.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Feb 02, 2024

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3792

Highlights:

Fixed Issue(s):

• This update resolves an issue where invalid product instance IDs were generated for devices lacking VMIdentifier or SerialNumber.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.8.2

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.8.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Jan 29, 2024

Dry Dock version: 2.2.314

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Improved log messaging when the Appliance is stopped and restarted.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.8.1

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.8.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Jan 12, 2024

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3778

Highlights:

Fixed Issue(s):

• The issue concerning the update of key chain credentials stored on the appliance when using the CAM UI has been successfully resolved.
• Addressed an issue where the scan results message pointed to an outdated article. The message has been updated to provide accurate and relevant information.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.8.0

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.8.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Nov 28, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3769

Dry Dock version: 2.2.308

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Logging and log-level configuration improvements.
• Process exclusion rule improvements for enhanced application discovery.
• Enhance diagnostic to analyze network status and protocol statistics to diagnose related issues efficiently.

Fixed Issue(s):

• An issue causing the loss of scan logs was identified and fixed.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.7.11

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.7.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Nov 09, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3754

Appliance UI version: 1.0.135

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Improved error message details in scan status.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.7.10

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.7.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Sep 21, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3732

Appliance UI version: 1.0.129

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Metrics script upload validation for enhanced security and reliability.

• Scan info formatting enhancements for better readability.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.7.9

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.7.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Aug 25, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3702

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Azure discovery:

  • Similar to vCenter discovery, the ‘lastScannedDate’ is now set only when an OS-level scan is completed successfully. This will help distinguish servers that have been scanned at the OS level from the ones that are only scanned partially.

  • Azure VMs discovered directly (using IP-based scanning i.e. without explicitly onboarding cloud account) are now marked and displayed as Cloud Instances.

• Scan info enhancements related to SQL Server scanning and SQL command timeout scenario.

Fixed Issue(s):

• An issue impacting the retrieval of Performance Metrics from the Physical Windows box is now resolved.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.7.8

Update using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.7.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Aug 11, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3675

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Scan info messaging improvements for easier root cause analysis of scan issues and quicker remediation.

• Notification format enhancements.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.7.7

Update Appliance Scan Engine & Dry Dock using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.7.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: July 28, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3659

Highlights:

New & updated:

• The cost data view will now show the total memory reported by hardware rather than the total available memory reported by the OS. The same will be used for all cost calculation purposes.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.7.6

Update Appliance Scan Engine & Dry Dock using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.7.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: July 18, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3654

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Ability to collect performance metrics of the AIX endpoints for right-size migration recommendations.

• Reduced appliance footprint and increased appliance download speed.

• Performance improvements in the Windows endpoints scanning.

• Enable collection of version details on the latest Oracle Databases.

• Additional information to identify scenarios of metrics being directed to a new appliance.

• Supportability enhancements.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.7.5

Update Appliance Scan Engine & Dry Dock using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.7.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Jun 16, 2023

Metrics Collection Server version: 1.1.30

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Performance improvements in the metrics collection service.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.7.4

Update Appliance Scan Engine & Dry Dock using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.7.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: May 31, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3612

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Ability to configure custom port for SSH protocol required for scanning Linux endpoints through CloudSphere support.

Fixed Issue(s):

• Resolved an issue with metrics collection experienced on Windows 2019 DataCenter endpoints.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.7.3

Update Appliance Scan Engine & Dry Dock using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.7.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: May 19, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3600

Highlights:

Fixed Issue(s):

• Resolved an issue causing Metrics Collection failure on RHEL 7.5 endpoints due to unexpected command responses.

Date of Release: May 18, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3577

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Ability to collect performance metrics of the HP-UX endpoints for right-size migration recommendations.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.7.2

Update Appliance Scan Engine & Dry Dock using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.7.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: May 04, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3476 & 4.6.3486

Dry Dock version: 2.2.255

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Ability to collect performance metrics of the Solaris endpoints for right-size migration recommendations.

Fixed Issue(s):

• An issue with retrieving performance metrics for Windows endpoints is fixed now.

• Resolved issue where rescans were generating duplicate entities for Solaris and VMWare endpoints.

• Resolved issue where Disk IOPS were reported incorrectly for newer versions of Linux (kernel version 4.18 and greater).

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.7.1

Update Appliance Scan Engine using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.7.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Apr 19, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3441 

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Fingerprints of Containerised Apps can now use their container's label as a condition for matching processes supporting the App.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.7.0

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.7.0.
Optioanlly: Deploy the latest Appliance (5.7.0) and update individual services 
using the CAM UI. Once deployed, reconfigure the existing scan jobs to use the 
new appliance.

Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Apr 18, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3335

Appliance UI version: 1.0.106

Metrics Collection Server version: 1.1.18

Dry Dock version:  2.2.183

Websocket Client version:  2.0.140

Rabbit MQ version: 3.6.15 

Highlights:

New & updated:

• CAM Portal UI:
  • Appliance & Services Versioning Enhancements - The About dialogue of individual appliances on the Appliance listing page now displays version information for all the components/services.
  • All Appliance components (Scan Engine, Appliance UI, Metrics Collection Server, Dry Dock, WebSocket Client, Rabbit MQ) are now containerized and can be updated directly from the CAM Portal UI eliminating the need for manual updates.
• Appliance:
  • New Appliance UI with upgraded look and feel.
  • Appliance UI now uses HTTPS and Port 443 for secure User to Appliance UI communication.
  • Proxy configuration required by CAM for Appliance to CAM Portal communication and service updates can now be done using the Appliance UI.
• A new communication layer is introduced to provide more reliability and robustness.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.6.11

Update Appliance Scan Engine using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.6.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Apr 05, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3335 

Highlights:

New & updated:

• MS SQL Metrics collection optimization to reduce collection time and eliminate collection timeout.

• Extended Process Discovery for Linux targets, by supporting the ‘jps’ command, reducing Command-line truncation occurrences for Java processes.

• Extended support to identify platform applications/websites deployed on the latest IIS Web Server versions.

• The system will now test the Target Endpoint to Appliance network connectivity/access before enabling metrics collection on target endpoints.  The scan info message will display the error if the prerequisites are not met.

Fixed Issues:

• Resolved issue where IOPS metrics collection for Windows physical machines was returning 0(zero).

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.6.10

Update Appliance Scan Engine using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.6.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Mar 24, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3298 

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Enhanced scan info for remediation of MS SQL Server scanning errors.

Fixed Issues:

• In case the target endpoint had multiple IPs that were not part of any scan job, the connection direction was not getting resolved properly.

• The authentication method information is now available and is used properly by insight consoles even when other MS SQL Server database metrics data is unavailable. Earlier the consoles were displaying an 'Application Remediation' error in the above scenario.

• The metrics collection issue with CentOS 5.x target endpoint is now resolved.

• An issue with getting the OS Model & Manufacturer for SLES Expanded Redhat targets is now resolved.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.6.9

Update Appliance Scan Engine using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.6.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Mar 16, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3290 

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Optimized the per metrics endpoint data sent to the appliance for enhanced performance.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.6.8

Update Appliance Scan Engine using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.6.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Mar 01, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3189 

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Optimized the call requests made to update the Metrics Status of the computer system and all the defined metrics.

Virtual Appliance release 5.6.7

Update Appliance Scan Engine using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.6.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Feb 21, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3087 

Metrics Collection Server version: 1.1.16

Highlights:

Fixed Issue(s):

• Metrics collection for disk-related elements was generating an error in case no disks were present/identified on the target machine.

• Handled the scenario wherein a vCenter scan that did not return any VMs resulted in the deletion of existing VMs. Now the scan job will be aborted in case the VM List is empty, also the Scan Info message is also updated to display the exact reason.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.6.6

Update Appliance Scan Engine using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.6.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Feb 08, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3027 

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Refactoring of namespace folder used for storing unique id information onto the target endpoint to avoid overwriting by other applications and proper identification by security scanners.

Fixed Issues:

• SQL-related Diagnostics and Migration Consoles had issue with the use of the default instance name "MSSQLSERVER" as <instance> in the executed SQL query.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.6.5

Update Appliance Scan Engine using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.6.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Jan 24, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3012 

Highlights:

Fixed Issues:

• The process exclusion list had an issue while initializing the blacklist processes.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.6.4

Update Appliance Scan Engine using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.6.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Jan 20, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.3010

Highlights:

New & updated:

• The scan status messages did not contain information about IPs scanned or being scanned. Now each status will be associated with the list of IPs and the target still being scanned will be listed in the InProgress field.
• Harding of Catalog service updates to handle process exclusion list sync.
• Diagnostic logging enhancement for additional logging of process blacklisting.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.6.3

Update Appliance Scan Engine using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.6.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Jan 18, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.2997  

Highlights:

Fixed Issues:

• Blacklist initialization from the default file had an issue.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.6.2

Update Appliance Scan Engine using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.6.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Jan 04, 2023

Scan Engine version: 4.6.2963

Highlights:

Fixed Issues:

• Identified and fixed the issue wherein the Appliance was dropping scan messages intermittently.

• HPUX scanning was having issues collecting/parsing the CPU data.

• The discovery engine setting update was not getting applied during runtime and required an appliance restart.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.6.1

Update Appliance Scan Engine using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.6.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Nov 23, 2022

Scan Engine version: 4.6.2884

Highlights:

Fixed Issues:

• Database metrics were not being collected for the non-clustered SQL Server instance.

• Vcenter Scan was not Aborting when 0 VMs were reported and trigged the deletion of all the previously scanned VMs from the same data source.

Virtual Appliance release 5.6.0

Update Appliance Scan Engine using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.5.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Nov 11, 2022

Scan Engine version: 4.6.2839

Highlights:

Fixed Issues:

• The appliance deployment sanity test now tests connectivity to the correct URL.
• Handled the scenario where the appliance state was getting updated incorrectly, causing the appliance scans to fail.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.5.5

Update Appliance Scan Engine using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.5.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Nov 04, 2022

Scan Engine version: 4.6.2839

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Leverage AWS SSM for DOI deep scanning Linux/Unix endpoints (Beta).

Virtual Appliance release 5.5.4

Update Appliance Scan Engine using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.5.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Sep 27, 2022

Scan Engine version: 4.6.2834

Highlights:

Fixed Issues:

• While scanning a target endpoint the credentials are expired, the scan info will now display the exact cause of failure.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.5.3

Update Appliance Scan Engine using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.5.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Sep 16, 2022

Scan Engine version: 4.6.2796

Highlights:

New & updated:

• In case the VM's IP is not present, the vCenter scan will now collect other available data and display the same to the user in the CAM UI. Earlier we did not collect any data if the VM's IP data was not available.

Fixed Issues:

• Scan Jobs were not getting terminated immediately after the specified 'timeout'.

Virtual Appliance release 5.5.2

Update Appliance Scan Engine using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.5.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: July 25, 2022

Scan Engine version: 4.6.2437

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Enhanced Scan info:
  • There are multiple ping mechanisms(Port Scan, Ping) that we leverage to detect the reachability of a target IP. An additional scan is now available to provide clarity on which mechanism failed and which succeeded.
  • Scan status “No Answer“: Additional info is provided about the steps(Port Scan, TCP/ICMP Ping) causing the failure.

Fixed Issues:

• Fixed data issue related to the FileSystem, TotalFreeSpace & TotalCapacity values.
• Resolved issue around aborted scan job where the ingestion service considered the aborted status as a valid status to create newfound devices.
• Fixed the issue where sometimes the Local Client-Server connections were missing Remote Process information (PID and App name).

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.5.1

Update Appliance Scan Engine using the CAM Portal UI

Refer: Appliance - Updating Scan Engine

Note: Requires manual appliance upgrade for appliances older than release 5.5.0
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: May 17, 2022

Scan Engine version: 4.6.2270

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Extended data collection for MS SQL Database:
  • MS SQL Version and Edition data
  • MS SQL Server feature packs data
  • MS SQL Server Companion Services SSRS/SSIS/SSAS status data
  • MS SQL Server Clustering data
  • MS SQL Server per Database data (Name, State, DB Size, Log Size, CPU time, CPU %, IO count, and IO %)
  • MS SQL EoL & Service Pack status

Fixed Issues:

• The Disk Size stored in the database was double the actual disk size.
• Database modeling and sync issues.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.5.0

Note: Requires manual Appliance upgrade. 
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Scan Engine version: 4.6.2226

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Appliance Enhancements:
  • Appliance UI support to restart the appliance services, and reboot the appliance.
  • Ability to download /var/log (in compressed format as a zip file).
  • Configure Proxy using Appliance UI.
• Extended data collection for Disks:
  • Collection of per disk Metrics (IOPS, Disk Size & Usage).

Fixed Issues:

• The appliance upgrade was failing if the image had no tag.
• The /run mount was running out of space, resulting in the Appliance upgrade failure.
• Application scans failed due to missing configuration files.

Known Issues:

• Difficulty scanning some Citrix servers.

Virtual Appliance release 5.4.4

Date of Release: Mar 9, 2022

Scan Engine version: 4.6.2050

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Improved diagnostic information in scan status for scan jobs.

Fixed Issues:

• Under certain circumstances, multiple Linux boxes were getting grouped/merged into one.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.4.3

Date of Release: Feb 16, 2022

Scan Engine version: 4.6.2033

Highlights:

Fixed Issues:

• The collection of server metrics created more processes than needed.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.4.2

Date of Release: Feb 10, 2022

Scan Engine version: 4.6.2032

Highlights:

Fixed Issues:

• Fixed Server metrics collection script upload failure in case the password contained "$" character.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.4.1

Date of Release: Jan 28, 2022

Scan Engine version: 4.6.2016

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Uploading files script enhanced. Now the script for uploading files will use the same pattern as the downloaded file.
• Improved diagnostic information in scan status for scan jobs.

 

Virtual Appliance release 5.4.0

Note: Requires manual Appliance upgrade. 
Reference article Manual Appliance Update Process

Date of Release: Dec 17, 2021

Scan Engine version: 4.6.2008

Highlights:

New & updated:

• Extended Appliance Diagnostics.

Known Issues:

• Difficulty scanning some Citrix servers.