New in System Manager Release 7.1

Avaya Aura^® System Manager Release 7.1 supports the following new features and enhancements:

• From System Manager Release 7.1, the root user account is disabled. You must log in with the administrator privilege account that you create during deployment or upgrade of System Manager. You can use the same account for performing various operations on System Manager.

• Security profiles to enable hardened security modes:

  • Standard Grade Hardening

  • Commercial Grade Hardening

  • Military Grade Hardening

• Support for IPv6 addresses with dual stack.

• The System Manager system that has security hardening enabled, displays the login warning banner message.

• Authentication based on certificate to facilitate password-less login for System Manager user interface and CLI access.

• System Manager backup encryption based using a global password.

• Audit logging configuration to notify the System Manager administrator and perform the configured action in certain cases:

  • Audit failure

  • 75% occupation of audit partition

  • 90% occupation of audit partition

• Prerequisite for enabling and configuring Geographic Redundancy:

  1. Adding the primary System Manager server as Certificate Revocation List (CRL) in the secondary System Manager server.

  2. Adding trusted certificate of primary System Manager server to secondary System Manager server.

• Enhancements to Upgrade Management in System Manager:

  • Upgrade rollback option for System Manager instance those are present on the same host.

  • OVA, Data migration, and Service or Feature Pack file selection from URL, S/W Library, or Browse.

• When upgrading System Manager through CLI, you can use the different network parameters to configure the new system. However, the virtual FQDN (vFQDN) must be same on the new system as you recorded on the existing system.

  While restoring backup on the new system, you must use the same network and system parameters of the old system from which you have taken the backup. This is applicable for both regular backup/restore and cold standby procedures.

• Support for Remote Syslog server details configuration in System Manager:

  • Adding, editing, and deleting Syslog receiver configuration.

  • Viewing and pushing the virtual machine system log to the configured Syslog server.

• Regeneration of Symmetric and Asymmetric data protection keys in case of outdated or compromised keys.

• OVA signing to digitally sign OVAs to ensure the file integrity.

• Validation of file format during operations, such as uploading certificates, upgrades, and bulk importing users. System Manager filters uploaded files based on the file extension and mime type or bytes in the file.

• Using System Manager Web console, create kickstart file to install Avaya Virtualization Platform.

• For generating the new license file, the value of Primary Host ID is now 14 characters.