ASG now supports the use of 3G/UMTS USB modems (sticks). This feature allows for these cellular USBconnected devices to be used as an Internet interface with your ASG. The support of these devices lets you add ,cheap redundancy or connectivity at temporary sites, remote locations, or areas without a good selection of ,affordable Internet connections. Further, you can add 3G/UMTS connections to the ASG's WAN (Internet) link ,balancing pool to increase total overall bandwidth. 3G interfaces are also supported when creating specific ,balancing rules. ,Most USB sticks will work fine in most markets around the world. If your desired stick is not yet supported, we ,will look to add more support in the future. Just plug in your 3G/UMTS modem to a USB port, reboot your ASG, ,and if supported, the device will then be present on the Interfaces list in WebAdmin. ,We also have early plans to offer an official, Astaro 3G USB modem for use with your own SIM card. More ,information on this will come later in the post-8.200 release cycle. ,Improved IP Address-to-User Mappings ,Throughout WebAdmin (in various reports and the new flow monitor) we have taken new steps to reduce the ,display of IP addresses. Our reporting philosophy is that reports should never ask questions, only answer them. ,As such most times when a large amount of traffic or interesting detail is represented as an IP address, admins ,immediately ask "what is this address?" and go to consult notes, excel files, static mappings lists, post-its' etc… ,We have introduced a tiered-resolution system which will display a number of factors first before falling back to ,the IP as a last-resort. Specifically (in order of preference), IP's will be replaced with the following values if ,possible: , Active Directory/E-Directory/Backend Authentication Username , Local Network Definition "Name" , Machine Hostname , DNS Name (resolved against the forwarders configured in ASG) , IP Address ,This feature should go a long way towards making many reports and features within WebAdmin much more ,user-friendly and instantly readable. ,Backup File Stripping ("Templates") ,When creating a configuration backup in WebAdmin you can now specify to strip all host specific data and/or ,admin contact information. This makes it easier to use the backup as a sort of cookie-cutter template to install ,to another machine. ,This solves the problem that full configuration backups are really only suitable to install on the same machine or ,a machine that is a direct replacement for the previous, mainly since the certificates/CAs will be identical on ,both machines. ,host specific data includes: , Hostname -including configuration for things like SNMP, dyndns, User Portal etc. , Unique IDs for the system – as found in HA, OSPF etc. , Static IPs -in interface configuration , Generated CAs and certificates – WebAdmin, Proxies, VPNs, etc. , License file,
Monday, 19 March 2012
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