What's new in version 26.1 - BlueCat Integrity - 26.1.0

Address Manager Administration Guide
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Product name
BlueCat Integrity
Version
26.1.0

Cloud Discovery & Visibility (CDV) v26.1 has the following new features:

CDV as Address Manager feature module

Starting in 26.1, CDV is now provided as an Integrity feature module, BlueCat's unified approach to integrating adaptive application functionality into Address Manager. Address Manager v26.1 comes pre-installed with CDV 26.1, allowing users to easily license and operate CDV from the Address Manager UI with no installation required.

CDV 26.1 has been configured to use the Address Manager system account, therefore users no longer need to provide Address Manager user details when configuring discovery jobs. As CDV 26.1 is now fully integrated with Address Manager, exported JSON files and database exports no longer contain Address Manager usernames, passwords, or URLs, and Address Manager user configuration fields have been removed.

As CDV 26.1 is integrated into the Address Manager UI, all pages, panels and dialogs within CDV now have a context-sensitive help button to display built-in documentation relevant to the user's current view. For more information, refer to Context-sensitive help. In addition, CDV logging has been modified to redirect CDV logs to Address Manager's syslog output, allowing users to download log files from the Address Manager UI. For more information, refer to Cloud Discovery & Visibility logging.

The CDV license service has also been improved to monitor the number of discovered VPCs/VNets and warn users when limits are approached or exceeded. For information on licensing CDV and migrating existing CDV environments to CDV 26.1, refer to Licensing and upgrading.

Pre-flight check

CDV 26.1 introduces a pre-flight check option to validate cloud permissions before CDV performs discovery. With the pre-flight check, CDV validates the permissions of the configured service keys before running a discovery job, allowing users to monitor and verify whether the provided keys have sufficient permissions to perform discovery across cloud services. The CDV pre-flight check is supported for all cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) and allows users to rerun the check after modifying parameters to ensure the correct permissions are in place when creating or editing a schedule/visibility manager. For more information, refer to Performing a pre-flight check.

Tagged resource improvements

New tag group and hierarchy for discovered resources

CDV 26.1 introduces updates to CDV tagging hierarchies and tagged resources. In CDV 26.1, a new tag group CD&V has been added which contains the tag for each platform in shorthand. The new hierarchy of CDV tags for discovered resources is structured as follows:
  • CD&V (Tag group)
    • AWS (Tag)
      • AWS region name (Tag)
        • AWS account ID (Tag)
    • Azure (Tag)
      • Subscription name (Tag)
        • Resource Group name (Tag)
    • GCP (Tag)
      • GCP Project name (Tag)
Note: The new tag names and hierarchy will be applied only to new discoveries; old tag groups and tags will not be converted. The previous tag group CDV Directory will been changed to CDV Directory (Deprecated) upon upgrade to CDV 26.1 and will no longer be used by CDV.

Changes to tag application and tagged resources

CDV 26.1 also introduces improvements to the application of tags and scope of tagged resources. In previous versions of CDV, only discovered block, network, and device resources were tagged, and these resources were tagged with the lowest tag of the hierarchy only. CDV 26.1 expands the range of tagged resources to include IP addresses, views, zones, and resource records. Additionally, resources discovered by CDV 26.1 are now tagged with all tags in the hierarchy. For example, a discovered AWS network will now be tagged with AWS, the region, and the account ID.

For more information on Address Manager tags applied to discovered resources, refer to About resource tagging.

Note: CDV 26.1 tags additional cloud resources (IP addresses, views, zones, and resource records) by default. This new tagging behaviour can be disabled using the Tag additional cloud resources panel on the Settings tab. For more information, refer to Configuring additional tagged resources.
Note: The new tagging behaviour in CDV 26.1 is applied only to newly discovered resources. It is not applied to resources that were previously discovered and already imported into Address Manager.

Dropped resource improvements

In CDV 26.1, the details panel for discovery and visibility jobs has been enhanced to include additional information about dropped resources, providing users with specific context on why a resource was not imported. In addition, dropped resource information has been added to the details panel for networks on the Cloud networks tab. To help users locate discovery/visibility jobs and cloud networks with dropped resources, a Contains dropped resources field has also been added to the Discovery, Visibility, and Cloud networks pages to indicate jobs and networks that contain dropped resources. For more information, refer to About dropped resources.

Navigation between CDV and BAM

As part of the CDV 26.1's new feature module integration with Address Manager, the Cloud networks and Tagged resources pages have been enhanced to allow navigation directly to Address Manager resources by selecting CIDR values (cloud networks and subnets) and resource names (configurations, views, and zones).

Database import changes

In previous versions of CDV, when importing a CDV database, an Overwrite Mode option was available to indicate whether to overwrite existing data. In CDV 26.1, the Overwrite Mode option has been removed, as the default behaviour when importing a new database is now to overwrite the existing database.