N-central 2024.2.0.20

Detailed Release Notes

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What’s New in N-central 2024.2 

The April release of N-central in 2024 is loaded with a ton of exciting updates to help our partners stay secure as well as get the most out of N-central and their chosen tech stack.  From the ability to Update Asset Info in bulk to our stock Service Templates for Cove, new CVSS color indicators for Microsoft Patching, new Mac Device Class, Performance enhancements and continuing to expand our growing set of REST API’s.   

Security Enhancements

This upgrade includes additional enhancements to address a critical security fix, first addressed in 2023.9 HF1. (CVE-2024-28200 pending).

Update Asset Info in Bulk

This release includes the ability to run an ‘Update Asset Info’ task in bulk, for multiple devices at the same time. To perform a bulk asset info update within the N-central UI, navigate to the ‘All Devices’ or ‘Active Issues’ screen, select multiple devices and then select ‘Update Asset Info’ from the ‘Add Task’ menu

REST API Endpoint Additions

There are several new REST API endpoints included in 2024.2! These updates include endpoints with GET methods for: 

• Organization Units Custom Properties
• Device Custom Properties
• Devices List by FilterID
• Access Groups
• Active Issues
• Job Statuses
• User Roles
• Organization Units Children
• Devices Service Monitor Status
• Standard PSA Credentials Validation
• Custom PSA Ticket Details
• System Version Information

After upgrading to 2024.2, you can view the updated list of REST API endpoints by navigating to your Swagger Documentation page located at https://Your_FQDN/api-explorer/. There is also an ‘API Explorer’ link added to the ‘My Links’ menu in the N-central UI that will navigate to your Swagger page. Note that new endpoints are initially released in a preview state so they will have ‘Preview’ prepended to the endpoint description.

Patch Management CVSS Score Color Indicators

The patch CVSS scoring that was implemented in 2024.1 has been improved upon to introduce color indicators to the CVSS scores in patch workflows.
 
In addition to seeing the CVSS score for a given patch, you can now correlate the CVSS rating to the given color for that range. For example, a patch with a critical CVSS score (9.0-10.0) will have a red indicator and a patch with a low CVSS score (0.1-3.9) will have a green indicator. 

What’s next for CVSS?  

The next stages are planning to add CVSS scoring into the auto approval rules. This would allow you to target patches of a certain score and above. One way you might want to use this would be to immediately approve and install anything that is a 10 on the CVSS scale due to the severity of it.      

New Mac Device Class and Scripts

A new Device Class has been added for Apple devices called ‘Laptops – Mac’ to add more granularity to Mac device classifications and provide more accurate inventory reporting as a result. Previously, all Mac devices were classified as ‘Workstations – Mac’ regardless of being a workstation or laptop. Rules and filters have been updated to accommodate this new device class.

What else does this release include for Mac?

Many new ‘out-of-the-box’ scripts have also been added to the repository to assist with routine automation for Mac devices. These scripts could previously be found in the automation cookbooks on N-ableMe, but they have been added to the product itself for convenience.

Cove Backup Stock Service Templates

New stock service templates have been added which contain the new ‘Cove Backup Job Status’ and ‘Cove App Monitoring’ services. These service templates will apply the new stock services when Cove backup is detected as installed on a device.

In addition:

In addition to all the feature enhancements, we have included Service Template performance improvements and made over 40 updates to issues that have been reported by partners, all of which are outlined in the detailed release notes page.