Release Notes

AutoNSX is a micro-segmentation platform that leverages VMware NSX and vRNI to
deliver comprehensive policy management, visibility, and compliance with the data
center. AutoNSX provides a lightweight user interface to make segmentation easy
and provides the following features:

• Segmentation and micro-segmentation of applications in a data center within a minute
•  Ability to view past information about segmented applications, firewall configurations, and changes at any time
• Application Owner Module for better firewall rules view
• Automated micro-segmentation planning by extracting firewall rules, services, and traffic patterns from vRNI
• Ability to enrich and customize vRNI “raw” rules
• Ability to build a security framework and tweak its behaviour
• Define Global Policies across the entire organization
• Define and Reuse firewall policies
• Apply a set of conditions to match the desired behaviour
• Automatic rule duplication avoidance
• Comprehensive governance with detailed reports and configuration changes of NSX infrastructure and more…
• ServiceNow and CMDB Integration for ITIL process governance (change
  requests, tickets, updates, etc.)
  

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What’s in the Release Notes?

The release notes cover the following topics:

• What’s New
• System Requirements
• Compatibility Notes
  

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What’s New in This Release?

AutoNSX 3.2.4 introduces the following new features and enhancements

System enhancements:

•  AutoNSX 3.2.4 runs on Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
• AutoNSX code runs on the new. Net Framework v8 LTS
• AutoNSX 3.2.x is shipped with a new User Interface and supportability of Light and Dark Mode:

AutoNSX Functionalities:

• Application renaming functionality with the option to choose whether to
  rename vRNI and/or NSX items and the ability to update the rule’s descriptions.
• Default rule ordering update workflow
• My Applications – transformed to a full Dashboard Space With the ability to:

– See executed workflows on the top page

– Live rules from NSX policy

– Enhanced load speed

– Load on request

– Search within the application

• New workflow history dashboard that includes:

– Details of who was executing the workflow
– When workflows were executed
– State of the workflows
– Type of the workflow (Manual/Automated)
– What kind of action workflow was performing
– Bulk actions on workflows
– UI paging for better focus on interested areas
– Global search capabilities in all workflows for specific actions (e.g.
adding tag, removing VM, etc.)

• Detailed workflow history. Previously workflow history showed limited
  amounts of information. Each workflow has the following improvements in this
  release:

– Summary of the workflow pane
– Policies pane, which was created/deleted and updated by the workflow
– Security groups pane, which was created/deleted and updated by the workflow
– Information on what kind of action was executed against the security
groups
– Detailed information on old and new values before and after workflow
execution on IP and/or VM members, Tags, etc.
– VMs detailed pane with actions (adding/removing tag, state)
– Local Search capabilities within each pane

• Export/Import rule conditions between different data sources. This allows users to reuse the same conditions without the need to recreate them in different data sources.
• Definition of Security Zones matrix with allow or denied cross zone
  communication

– Adding security zones will automatically create system rule conditions for cross-zone communications that are inherited from the Zone Matrix
and conditions will apply during the segmentation. Previously users had to create conditions manually

• Improved segmentation workflows. If there are no Security Zones defined,
  segmentation workflow will skip/hide window for security zones and redirect directly to select applications step
• AutoNSX 3.2.4.0 allows rule reordering in UI before publishing to NSX
• AutoNSX in release 3.2.4.0 has capabilities to publish rules in different
  categories in NSX Distributed Firewall like: Infrastructure, Environment, etc
• Rule Conditions can be created as exceptions in any L3 category of NSX
• All Security groups that are managed by AutoNSX in NSX are marked with
  description “Managed by AutoNSX”. This increased awareness which groups
  is managed by whom
• AutoNSX introduces platform upgrades via UI in version 3.2.4. From now on
  digitout will ship upgrade bundles with the format of. aub (AutoNSX upgrade bundle). All upgrade bundles are signed by digitout to ensure validation of the
  package.
  

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System Requirements

• AutoNSX platform requires: 4GB of RAM, 60GB of hard drive, 128MB video
  adapter
• AutoNSX Platform port and protocols: TCP 443 to NSX-T Manager and vRNI,
  TCP 443 to access the AutoNSX Platform
• User credentials that can execute API calls to vRNI and NSX-T manager.
  Special considerations for vRNI – user must be able to access and UI
• AutoNSX-2.0.ova runs on ESXi 6.5 or above (hardware version vmx-13)

AutoNSX Compatibility notes

• AutoNSX is compatible with vRNI version 4.x, 5.x, 6.x
• AutoNSX is compatible with NSX-V version 6.x
• AutoNSX is compatible with NSX-T version 2.x, 3.x, 4x
• AutoNSX is compatible with NSX-T Manager API and Policy API
• AutoNSX is compatible with NSX-T Cloud
• AutoNSX is compatible with NSX-T Federation, including posturing on the Local
  Managers and Regions (applying for tags, security groups membership on
  NSX-T Local Managers). Users can select “apply to” a specific Region in the
  AutoNSX policy recommendation
• CMDB integration with ServiceNow
  

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