Product Version: v11.33P2 |
Product Component |
Updates |
Chatbot Integration |
Introduced Alice, TCPWave's advanced DDI & ADC AI chatbot. It is powered by cutting-edge NLP technology, quickly handles your DDI and ADC tasks, from adding networks to managing DHCP Scopes.
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TCPWave's Application Delivery Controller (ADC) |
Enhancements: A few of the ADC enhancements are listed below:
- ADC Dashboard and Application Management Support: ADC Dashboard offers a robust interface for managing, monitoring, and troubleshooting ADC appliances, ensuring seamless functionality and uptime of crucial applications.
- ADC Monitoring: Offers insights into the performance and health of the ADC appliances, ensuring continuous, optimum performance.
- Licensing and Patch Management Support: Provides streamlined processes for ADC appliance licensing and comprehensive patch management support, ensuring that all ADC appliances are secure and up-to-date.
- GSLB Traffic Control, WAF Features, and Service Management: GSLB traffic control based on subnet groups and WAF template-related features improve the system's security and manageability. Also, service management from the UI for the ADC appliance has been added for easier control.
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ISC Kea DHCP |
Enhancements: A few of the ISC Kea DHCP enhancements are listed below:
- DHCP Failover Support for Kea DHCP Appliance: We now support DHCP failover peers for the Kea DHCP appliance, both with and without certificates.
- Enhanced Subnet Failover Association: Support for the failover association within the subnet. This includes adding, editing, and importing failover associations and comes with an IPv4 Subnet Template.
- Incremental and Full Configuration Updates: Flexibility to perform both incremental updates and complete configuration changes with failover sections.
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Information Security Upgrades |
Upgrades: Upgraded the following components:
- BIND
- Kernel
- NSD
- OpenSSH
- Splunk Forwarder
- Suricata
- UNBOUND
- Zeek
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DNS Management |
Enhancements:
- Added Organization-specific ACLs, allowing you to specify the organization while creating the ACLs.
- Added Scheduled operations for adding, editing, and deleting resource records at the zone, object, proxy root, and root zone levels.
- Provided Secondary Zone Support - NS1, Akamai, Neustar & Cloudflare as slaves to TCPWave DNS Masters.
- Support for DNSDiag - The added DNSPing option pings the DNS resolver by sending an arbitrary DNS query to record minimum, maximum, and average response times.
- Added MNAME dropdown option in SOA Record Attributes for zone templates, enabling selection of a slave for SOA generation.
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WAF Management |
TCPWave's AI/ML WAF management combines the power of signature and anomaly-based detection. The WAF provides the following features:
- Comprehensive protection against known attacks and emerging threats.
- IP blocking, customization options, and rule management for tailored security in web applications.
- Leveraging AI/ML models DistilBERT and Logistic Regression for high accuracy and CPU resource optimization.
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Cluster Administration |
Enhancement:
Enhanced remote cluster functionality that supports a combined DNS and DHCP cluster. This enhancement enables DNS and DHCP remote clusters to be established on the same set of member appliances.
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Network Management |
Enhancements:
- The Namespace Hierarchy streamlines DDI management, ensuring effective control over network infrastructure.
- Added Mask slider option while editing the IPv4 Networks and IPv4 subnets. This option allows you to modify networks and subnets dynamically with the available ranges.
- Added Merge and Split option in the IPv4 Networks. This option allows you to merge or split the networks of available ranges.
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Reports Management |
Enhancements: A few of the Report enhancements are listed below:
- ADC Appliance Audit Report
- SLB Option Template Audit Report
- GSLB Traffic Control Rule Report
- SLB Health Status Report
- ADC Top Talker Report
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Enhanced Fault and Performance Management |
Features: Added support for the following functionalities within the TCPWave IPAM:
- TCPWave SLB Statistics.
- New monitoring service CHECK_NIC_INTERFACES to enable or disable the NIC monitoring check.
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