Lantronix is pleased to announce the release of LMS version 6.5 for 500/5000/LM80/LM83X/Virtual Local Managers and Control Center.
Overview
- Upgrades from 6.2.x, 6.3.x and 6.4.x are tested and supported.
- Product: Local Manager (LM) and Control Center (CC)
- Models: LM80/LM83x, 500/5000, Virtual LM
- Date: 9/29/2023
- Build #: 42800
- Over 200 Jira issues were addressed between LM and CC.
Local Manager
- New Feature: On LM80 and LM83X, any port can be a virtual port. Slots
1 through 5 allow up to 32 ports each. When a virtual port is configured
for the physical location of a dedicated Ethernet port, it assumes control
of the dedicated Ethernet port.
- New Feature: admin user password must be changed on first use.
- New Feature: Support multiple credentials for SNMP.
- Feature Change: Zero Touch (via DNS) now works with “control-center”. It also supports “uplogix-control-center" for existing deployments.
- Improvement: Added “show log zero-touch" for Zero Touch debug.
- Improvement: NXOS - booting, push OS, reload, sftp.
- Improvement: Cisco - ROMMON recovery OS selection.
- Improvement: Cisco - stacked switches ‘push os’ will free up space.
- Improvement: APC 7900B powercontrol
- Improvement: Virtual ports show “*” when activity is present.
- Improvement: “pull tech” handles Quectel modem errors better.
- Improvement: Display longer hostnames in the dashboard.
- Security: Disable aes128-cbc by default.
- Security: Upgrade NSS to 3.79.
- Security: Operating system patches.
- Fixed: admin user privileges intermittently lost when using CC for the first time.
- Fixed: APC power off not working from the mapped port.
- Fixed: Out-of-band routing issues when the management Ethernet link is down.
- Fixed: Dedicated port forwarding with several open sessions intermittently stops working.
- Fixed: IOS and NXOS file copy operations do not use subinterfaces.
- Fixed: Connectivity Services does not work with IKEv1/2 and default MTU
- Fixed: Managed device transfers using SCP do not work if the default SSH port has been changed from port 22.
Control Center
- New Feature: Send SMS through Connectivity Services to LM modems to turn on out-of-band connection.
- New Feature: Cellular ICCID is now reported to the CC. It is searchable from the Inventory Search. It has also been added to the modem inventory report that listed IMEI.
- New Feature: “administrator” password must be changed on first use.
- Feature Change: the guest role is now locked and does not allow customers to edit. When new features are added, the role may be automatically updated.
- Improvement: Outband Cycle Test report does not report LMs that are already out-of-band as failed.
- Improvement: Server Logins page also lists Client IP.
- Improvement: Virtual Slots allow for virtual port creation with Protocol ‘none’.
- Improvement: Alarm and Event pages now search the Context field and others.
- Improvement: Display which user created a Task.
- Security: CBC TLS ciphers are now disabled by default. They can be enabled if needed.
- Security: Better XSS validation for Default Port Settings, Report Assignment, and Report Subscriptions.
- Fixed: Firefox intermittently fails to load reports. Removed the use of the \<iframe> tag for HTML Reports.
- Fixed: Under the Reports tab, several names are inconsistent.
- Fixed: Expanding a Rule on the Rules list loses the current page context.
- Fixed: Orphaned Tasks do not cancel.
- Fixed: Login Banner sizing with long sentences.
- Fixed: Certificate import with relative paths.
- Fixed: IPT Test validation.
- Fixed: Support Tools validation.
- Fixed: netSetup.sh could not find ifdown/ifup.
- Fixed: Sort by date on Events for Ports.
- Fixed: Terminal Application does not select the first character on copy.
- Struts upgraded to version 6.1.2.1.
- Tomcat upgraded to version 9.0.90.
- CVE patches for OS (kernel, cups, tar, Perl, Python).
- Note: verified that CC is compatible with vCenter and ESXi version 8.
- Note: Terminal Application for MAC is available by request with minimal support.
Release History
- 6.5.0 - September 29, 2023