Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- Extreme Management Center® Release Notes Version 8.4.4
- Table of Contents
- Extreme Management Center Version 8.4 Release Notes
- 1. Enhancements in Version 8.4
- 2. Deprecated Features
- 3. Known Issues and Vulnerabilities Addressed
- 4. Installation, Upgrade, and Configuration Changes
- 5. System Requirements
- 5.1 Extreme Management Center Server and Client OS Requirements
- 5.2 Extreme Management Center Server and Client Hardware Requirements
- 5.3 Virtual Engine Requirements
- 5.4 ExtremeControl Agent OS Requirements
- 5.5 ExtremeControl Supported End-System Browsers
- 5.6 ExtremeControl Engine Version Requirements
- 5.7 ExtremeControl VPN Integration Requirements
- 5.8 ExtremeControl SMS Gateway Requirements
- 5.9 ExtremeControl SMS Text Messaging Requirements
- 5.10 ExtremeAnalytics Requirements
- 5.11 Ekahau Maps Requirements
- 5.12 Guest and IoT Manager Requirements
- 6. Getting Help
3. Known Issues and Vulnerabilities Addressed
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802.1x authentication was occasionally allowing 0 length
passwords to successfully authenticate.
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In the Guest and IoT Manager (GIM), a username created using an
email address was not authenticating in ExtremeControl.
01888057
Hexadecimal representations of integer type attributes were not
encoded in Disconnect or CoA RADIUS frames.
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IP Addresses or device names had to be entered manually when
adding entries to a Location Group in the Group Editor panel. A
new Select Devices button, which allows you to select from a list
of network devices, has been added.
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No alert message was displayed if changes were made, but not
saved, to entries in the End-Systems Groups function in the
Group Editor. Warnings that changes will be lost if not saved
have been added.
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When the Display Welcome Page option in the ExtremeControl
captive portal was disabled, the Welcome page still displayed
briefly before the Login/Register page displayed.
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The Enforce Preview option for the ExtremeControl Engine
(Control > Access Control > Access Control Engines > Enforce
Selection > Preview) was showing changes that were previously
enforced for custom DHCP fingerprints instead of showing just
the new changes.
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A Provisioner was unable to log into GIM if the following
occurred:
1. The Local Password Repository Password Hash Type in
Extreme Management Center was changed from PKCS5 (the
default) to SHA1 for the GIM Provisioner account.
2. The Provisioner user’s password was subsequently
changed in GIM.
01897869
In the Guest and IoT Manager (GIM), when the LDAP Sponsor
option was selected, the Sponsor's Email field was not editable.
Now, all sponsor-related details auto-populate when the LDAP
Sponsor option is selected.
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Global services created using copy/paste and added to a role (in
an Extreme Management Center policy domain) were not
persisted in the role's services list when the domain was saved.
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