N-central 2024.4.0.11

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What’s New in N-central 2024.4 

N-central 2024.4 contains a massive backend enhancement to drive the N-able Ecoverse vision. Setting the foundations of cloud native architecture to seamlessly deliver new capabilities at a faster velocity. Additionally, you will find updates for new API’s and Analytics data models. As always more performance and hardening to make your experience even better.

Ecoverse Experience

The Following features are Ecoverse Experience enablers that may be behind a feature flag and not expected to be enabled (independent of an N-central release) until later in Q3 2024.

• Integration of new asset view into N-central
• New components to display cloud served views and supporting elements in N-central
• Permissions information (Roles and Access Groups) from N-central to N-able cloud services
• Transfer of customized device information to the asset view cloud service
• Linking cloud-based asset view to N-central single device details page
• Linking cloud service asset view to selected devices in N-central All Devices view
• Linking N-central integrated Take Control integrated from cloud asset view
• N-central server mapping service to support linking from asset view across N-central multiple servers
• Capture audit events from Fusion Asset view user actions, in N-central
• Transfer and update SO, Customer, and Site info from N-central to Eco-verse services
• N-central Asset view N-able Login (SSO) token support

Assets View – Phase One

Assets View – Future Phases

We expect these features to be available over time but actual timeline and order are subject to a number of factors and are subject to change.

New Data Models in N-central Analytics Direct Data Access

We’re happy to share the new data domains available in Direct Data Access for N-central Analytics! Seven fact tables for the following new data domains are available to use with new and previously released dimension tables:

• Device Incident
• Network Error and Packet Loss
• OS Reboot and Uptime History
• OS Reboot and Uptime Latest
• Hardware: Physical Storage
• Hardware: Video Controller
• Remote Execution/Automation Engine.

REST API Endpoint Additions

There REST API endpoint additions in 2024.4 include:

• Added “Select” query parameter to Device List endpoint to allow for querying for a specific set of devices using RSQL (https://github.com/jirutka/rsql-parser)
• Added “/api/appliance-tasks/{taskid} that will allow for getting more details around service-monitoring tasks. An example would be to get more details around Agent last check-in time from the Agent Status monitoring task.
• Added new “scope” to “/api/device-filters” to allow for retrieving ALL filters, not just the ones made available in the UI drop-down menu.
• Added “/api/org-units/{orgunit}/registration-token endpoint to allow for getting the org unit registration token for automatic Agent installs.   

In addition:

In addition to the feature enhancements, there are many exciting fixes in this build. Be sure to review the full list of included updates below for more details. Detailed Release Notes