cnMaestro 2.3.0 (Cloud)

Introduction

This document highlights new features and significant updates in cnMaestro Cloud.

Audit Logs image.png

cnMaestro now supports Audit Logs, which record administrator activities. Audit Logs entries can be found at Application > Audit Logs.

 

Automatic Software Update

Support automatic software update during onboarding and for managed devices. This feature allows one to configure a software version and automatically update devices during onboarding for new devices, or through scheduled updates for currently managed devices. Software Update Jobs are split to track the progress of manual and automatically created jobs. The Automatic Software Update option is available at Application > Server > Software Images.

Software Update > Auto Jobs

Web Access for Device UI Launch

Launch the device Web UI using the configured access protocol (HTTP/HTTPS) rather than defaulting to HTTPS. For this feature to work correctly, cnPilot Enterprise devices must be mapped to AP Groups.

Special Characters in Object Names

Support special characters in Networks, Sites, Towers, AP Groups, WLANs, and Managed Accounts names. Previously, special characters were limited to hyphen (–) and underscore (_).

Improvements to Configuration Sync

Configuration Sync is enhanced for cnPilot devices to automatically execute blocked jobs when they become unblocked. Earlier, manual intervention was needed.

Rename AP Groups and WLANs

Ability to rename AP Groups and WLANs.

Roaming History for Mesh Peers image.png

Roaming history for Mesh Peers is available and similar to regular wireless clients.

Exclusive WiFi4EU Template for Guest Access Portal image.png

WiFi4EU template added to support easy customization of splash page for WiFi4EU-based Guest Access Portals.

Hostname Change for cnPilot Home Devices

Push hostname changes to cnPilot Home devices. This requires device software version 4.6-R5 or higher.

Improvements to cnMatrix Support

The improvements include the ability to modify hostname and a new Tools page for advanced debugging. These features are supported on cnMatrix devices running software version 2.0.5 or higher.

Report for Capped PMP SMs

Capped SM data is available in the Inventory view and SM Device Details page.

Inventory View

Device Details Page

Additional Statistics and Performance Graphs for PTP

Aux Speed And Duplex

Aux Rx Frames Oversize

Aux Rx/Tx Bandwidth Utilization

Main PSU Speed And Duplex

Main PSU Rx Frames Oversize

Main PSU Rx/Tx Bandwidth Utilization

SFP Speed And Duplex

SFP Rx Frames Oversize

SFP Rx/Tx Bandwidth Utilization

The following Performance graphs have also been added

Aux Rx/Tx Throughput

Main PSU Rx/Tx Throughput

SFP Rx/Tx Throughput

Zero Touch Onboarding for ePMP SM Devices

ePMP SM devices will automatically appear in the Onboarding Queue, as long as their parent AP is already onboarded. This functionality is already supported for PMP. This configuration is available at Application > Settings.

General UI Improvements

Improved responsive design for mobile devices, especially configuration. Also, column resizing and column reordering capabilities in grids.

Supported Cambium Products

cnMaestro supports the following Cambium Networks products. The software versions are the minimum required to use cnMaestro (not the recommended versions).

Family

Model

Version

cnPilot

cnPilot R200, R200P

4.2.3-R4

cnPilot R201, R201P

4.2.3-R4

cnPilot R190V,  R190W

4.3.2-R4

cnPilot E400/E500

2.5.2-r3

cnPilot E410/E430w/E600

3.5.2-R4

cnPilot E501S

3.2.1-r6

cnPilot E502S

3.2.1-r6

cnPilot E700

3.8

ePMP 1000 Hotspot

ePMP 1000 Hotspot

2.5.2-r3

ePMP

ePMP 1000, Force 180/200

2.6.2

ePMP 2000

3.0.1

ePMP Elevate

3.0.1

ePMP Force 190

3.5

ePMP Force 300

4.1.1

ePMP PTP 550

4.1.1

ePMP MP 3000

4.5

ePMP PTP 550 E

4.4.2

ePMP Elevate SXGLITE5

4.3.2.1

ePMP Elevate LHG5

4.3.2.1

ePMP 3000

4.4.1

PMP

PMP 450i, PMP 450, PMP 450m, PMP 430 SM

15.0.1

PTP 450, and PTP 450i

15.0.1

PTP

PTP 650

01-47

PTP 670 (650 Emulation)

01-47

PTP 670, PTP 700

02-67

cnReach (Beta)

N500

5.2.17e

Supported Browsers

cnMaestro supports the following browsers:

Platform

Browser

Version

Windows

Internet Explorer

11 and above

Firefox

45 and above

Chrome

49 and above

MacOS

Safari

9 and above

Linux

Firefox

45 and above

Chrome

49 and above

Significant Fixes

The following issues have been fixed:

Id

Details

CNSSNG-6461

Add Device Name configuration support for cnPilot R.

CNSSNG-7009

Include failure reason in configuration syncReason when configuration fails for WiFi devices.

CNSSNG-10554

Association ACL configuration support is available only in Base Infrastructure Profile.

CNSSNG-10629

Support renaming AP Groups and WLANs.

CNSSNG-10765

Auto upgrade feature.

CNSSNG-10803

Track units for ePMP/PMP "Max Range" mile or kilometres.

CNSSNG-11637

Use web access mode configured on devices to launch device web UI.

CNSSNG-11922

Add WLAN API is failing in the AP groups page, when the server has more than 2000+ WLANs.

CNSSNG-12055

Add support to update active and inactive software versions in a single job with site-based update support.

CNSSNG-12088

Allow special chars in Site names.

CNSSNG-12327

Add support for Mesh Peers history.

CNSSNG-12393

User intervention required when configuration jobs are blocked.

CNSSNG-12394

Verification Failed configuration scenario not handled well.

CNSSNG-12463

Wireless client Page not showing EPSK username for connected clients.

CNSSNG-12578

Show details for capped PMP SMs in cnMaestro.

CNSSNG-13539

Problems with saving the L2TP Tunnel configuration.

Known Issues

The following issues exist:

Id

Issue

Details

AURA-388

WiFi Guest Access does not work with Microsoft Edge Browser

Guest Access on cnMaestro does not work with Edge browser on cnPilot 1.4.0-r12 with 3.2.1-6 and 1.5.0-r4 with 3.3 beta builds.

Workaround: Users need to use supported browsers like Chrome, Firefox, or Internet Explorer (IE) 11.

AURA-470

Failure to load success page after quick pay authentication

AURA-474

Error contacting server when clicking on Orange Money button

CNSSNG-4083

DHCP errors after cnMaestro Reboot

When cnMaestro On-Premises is rebooted, after Data Import, sometimes DHCP and Disk Errors are encountered.

Workaround: Explicitly run the dhclient command from the Command Line (accessed through the CLI) after reboot to assign the IP address.

CNSSNG-4906

Captive Portal Auto Login fails with latest Android devices

Workaround: Whitelist the URL for Google (*.google.com).

CNSSNG-5365

RADIUS Proxy drops packets after retry exhausted

After RADIUS Proxy Retries are exhausted in cnMaestro On-Premises, all subsequent RADIUS packets are dropped.

Workaround: Reboot cnMaestro.

CNSSNG-7372

Auto sync always times out if the device IP changes during auto sync

CNSSNG-7626

Access token is expired after data migration

Workaround: User has to generate a new token after the migration.

CNSSNG-8304

ePMP: “No GPS Sync” or
“GPS Sync Down” alarm/event not raised in cnMaestro

ePMP devices are not sending the GPS Sync status events to cnMaestro when GPS Sync is down or there is NO GPS Sync.

Also for PMP GPS SYNC events, details shows sync source instead of indicating whether the GPS SYNC source is up or Down.

CNSSNG-10145

Certificate exports are not part of Data Backup and restore

Certificates must be exported manually.

CNSSNG-10187

While Migration is happening, moving or deleting a device from the Managed Account will mark all the events and alarms as undefined once migration is completed

CNSSNG-10189

cnReach performance reports do not have throughput values for radios

CNSSNG-10223

MSP images not imported on server when exported in 1.6.3 and imported in 2.1.0 

Workaround: Customers need to apply 1.6.3-r39 build and then import the data to 2.1.0

CNSSNG-12888

Clients Connected count in the WLAN page is not properly shown when SSID is overridden for the particular WLAN at device level.

CNSSNG-13457

For cnPilot R devices, if hostname has an embedded quotation mark, the name is truncated when pushed to devices.

RBN-280

DHCP Option 15 not working for cnPilot Home

DHCP Option 15 onboarding is not working for cnPilot Home devices (R-series). These devices cannot use this onboarding mechanism.

Where to Get Help

There are a number of places to get help with cnMaestro.

  1. Cambium Community: The cnMaestro Forum provides the best place to ask questions and get up-to-date information.
  2. On-Premises Quick Start Guide: This guide walks you through the initial management process and allows you to get onboarded quickly. It is embedded into the cnMaestro image and can be accessed on the Home Page of the UI. It can also be downloaded in PDF format from the Cambium Support website.
  3. Cambium Support: The Cambium Support team is available 24x7 to answer questions and resolve issues.
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Good updates, thanks! Is there a minimum firmware version for ePMP auto-onboarding feature, that needs to be installed on APs or SMs?

Hi Kelmore,

ePMP AP or SMs should have software version 4.4.1 to have the Zero Touch onboarding of SMs to work properly.

Please follow this KB article for more details ePMP Zero Touch Onboarding Of SMs 

Thanks,

KR.

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Hi, one question. In the future on-premesis version, will the "Audit Logs" feature show the log data from the time of installation of this update or even for operations performed before the update?

Audit logs will show data from the time of installation.

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Hi,

any timeline for On premise version?

Thank you

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Hi MW_WISP -- the On-Premises version is in final testing, and it is currently tracking to be released next week as both an OVA and an AMI version (though the AMI may take a little longer to work through the AWS approvals). In addition to the features of the Cloud version, the On-Premises will also include: Webhooks support for Alarms; System Events; Streaming of Events/Audit information to an external syslog server; System Troubleshooting tools; and a collection of API updates.

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Hi Rob,

thank you for the update. Really appreciated.
It will only be available the OVA version, not as an update?

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Hi MW_WISP -- 2.3.0 is a substantial release that affects a number of components, so it will be an OVA and in-system upgrade.