LMC News

New device status for an improved overview

If devices are known to be offline for a long time, or if they are intended to be offline for a longer period of time, or if work is already in progress on troubleshooting, simply assign them an 'offline acknowledgement' from now on, which enables clearer incident management. You can still identify all devices that are offline unplanned by the red filled out display, known faults are only outlined in red. The 'offline acknowledgement' is automatically removed as soon as the device is back online; devices marked as known are not included in the offline statistics of the dashboards.

Standardized logging of changes in the LMC

Changes in the LMC are now logged in a standardized way. These log messages comply with the requirements of PCI conformity and thus create a complete, non-manipulable tracing of events by containing all information about who made which change and at what time. This happens in accordance with data privacy standards. Only project administrators receive the complete information and can download it once a month as a new log archive on the "Log Download" tab. The logs remain stored for one year before being deleted.

Fast and targeted troubleshooting in your WLAN

Keep the overview and control of your WLAN quality at all times! The sooner you know where and why something is wrong with your WLAN, the sooner this anomaly is eliminated. The evaluation of various metrics of the WLAN devices managed in the LMC and the comparison with defined threshold values ensure an immediate and accurate troubleshooting. If a threshold value is repeatedly exceeded at a pre-defined interval, you will receive clear warnings in the LMC and via e-mail. This allows early problem detection, ideally even before the Wi-Fi users notice it or before a fault occurs. The LANCOM Management Cloud provides direct practical advice, identifies possible causes and shows possible solutions.

Prepare device configurations before connecting devices and transfer configurations to devices of the same model

Device replacement has never been easier: With this new feature, you can transfer the complete configuration from an existing device to a new device of the same model with just a few clicks. Simply select the device to be exchanged and enter the serial number of the replacement device — done! In addition, you now have the possibility to completely prepare the configuration for numerous LCOS devices — even before the device is connected to the LMC. Ideal for preparing your infrastructure for the least amount of effort during commissioning.

The quick and easy way to onboard new LANCOM devices in the LANCOM Management Cloud

The initial setup and inventory of new LANCOM devices in the LMC is easy with the new Rollout Assistant and takes just a few clicks. The Rollout Assistant, which was specially designed for mobile use on tablets and smartphones, can be used to perform onboarding to the LMC directly on site, after the new device has been connected to the network. The only requirement is that your smartphone or tablet can access the Internet (LTE, WLAN, etc.) and that you have your LMC login data at hand. During the inventory using the Rollout Assistant, you can follow the current device status live and thus find out during the installation whether the device receives the final status "online" in the LMC. With both iOS and Android, you can drop the Rollout Assistant home page as a quick link on the home screen of your smartphone. Like all other apps you can start the application quickly by clicking on this icon.

Secure access to your LANCOM R&S®Unified Firewall device’s WEBconfig

The new highlight feature "Secure WEBconfig Access" allows direct and secure access to your LANCOM R&S® Unified Firewall device's WEBconfig – securely encrypted and above all usable from within the cloud interface. By this direct remote access to the device's WEBconfig the complete Unified Firewall configuration becomes accessible to a system administrator. A convenient added value which does not only save time, but particularly unifies the global and individual firewall management in the LANCOM Management Cloud. You can access the LANCOM R&S® Unified Firewall's WEBconfig in the LMC via the tab "Detail configuration" in the device's detail view. One WEBconfig session is supported per device. A previously initiated session is thereby closed.

User-defined views and advanced sorting and filtering capabilities

It is now possible to extend the devices overview page with additional columns. These columns are freely configurable and can include values which enable the user to sort and filter the overview by further criteria, for instance to find a certain device faster. Examples for user-defined columns: Contact person, Location (e.g. "Room 4“), Customer number (beneficial in large-scale / individual customer installations). In the locations overview, as well, user-defined columns can now be added. Just like in the devices overview, you have the option to sort the overview by all columns.

The entire network within in the LMC

The LANCOM R&S®Unified Firewalls are now cloud-ready! Devices are connected to the LANCOM Management Cloud (LMC) by a simple yet secure PIN- or activation code-based pairing procedure. They then appear in the device overview, which offers clearly structured monitoring of the device status and also features an alerting function. On top of that, having a firewall in your network all applications tagged with "LCOS FX" within the feature "Application Management" can be provided with rules.

Convenient control over the applications in your network

You can now manage which applications you allow or block in your networks even more easily in the LANCOM Management Cloud. As the successor to the previous application routing, you can use the new application management to group several applications into a common rule. You assign specific actions to these, such as "redirect" or "block". With just a few clicks, you can increase the security of the network and also improve performance by local breakouts of defined applications.

Performance in focus

The LANCOM Management Cloud provides a simple overview of your SD-WAN setup and thus of all VPN connections in a network. For even more control of your SD-WAN, it is now possible to display performance values for a selected VPN connection on the map in addition to a tabular view. This enables end-to-end quality monitoring, e.g. up to VoIP- or application servers in the SD-WAN. The widget ‘Site Interconnection Overview‘ in the WAN / VPN dashboard shows current performance values such as throughput, packet loss, delay, and jitter for all VPN connections.Performance monitoring can be activated in the configuration dialog for each network. The monitoring target for the measurement is also defined there, allowing individual and flexible quality monitoring.