Traverse Updates

V9.7.8
January 08, 2024

Year in Review

Traverse release 9.7.8 includes enhancements to both Automation and Discovery and a restyling of the UI/UX to match the common look and feel of the Kaseya IT Complete platform. For a deeper dive into any of these enhancements, please check out the Traverse Release Notes.

Enhancements

Automation

Traverse release 9.7.8 improves automation performance on Devices, Discovery, and Automation pages and fixes an issue where admin or superuser groups are erroneously displayed.

Discovery

This release improves the application performance when running a complete network discovery.

Reporting

Traverse release 9.7.8 updated the application to leverage Java 17 and Fastobject 14. Please note that in order to properly generate reports for Linux servers Traverse users will need to install additional packets. More information can be found in the Traverse Release Notes.

User Experience

Finally, this release has restyled many elements of the Traverse user interface to match the common look and feel of the Kaseya IT Complete platform.

v9.6.14 and v9.6.15

Year in Review

For Traverse, 2023 was another strong year of innovation with efforts focused on modernizing both user experience and application security. Here, we’ll briefly cover Traverse’s new innovations and integrations. Please refer to the Traverse Release Notes for a deeper dive into any of these enhancements.

New Features

Security

Both Traverse release 9.6.14 and 9.6.15 included several security tweaks to better protect both Traverse users and end users alike. Security enhancements ranged from fixing weak passwords created by users to updating MySQL, Jetty, and Xercesimpl.jar to modern versions.

UI Workflow Usability

Traverse release 9.6.14 improved both the of ease of editing tests and the performance of Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) tests. Additionally, the 9.5.15 release included a restyle of the DGE Management to improve the ease of day-to-day Traverse usage.

Reports and Dashboards

Traverse release 9.6.15 improved the performance of the netflow report and also fixed an issue with downloading a blank report.

Enhancements

BMS Integration

Across 2023, we made several enhancements to the BMS and Traverse integration, including improved performance and a significantly upgraded setup experience that ports Traverse Department mappings to BMS Accounts.

V9.6.13
December 05, 2022

Year in Review

For Traverse, 2022 was a strong year of innovation, with five new features, three updates to the UI/UX and four enhancements to integrations. Here, we’ll briefly cover Traverse’s new innovations and integrations. For a deeper dive into any of these enhancements, please check out the Traverse Release Notes.

New Features

Test Discovery/Parameter Rediscovery

Traverse release 9.6.6 introduced AES 256 and Cisco 256 support to expedite test discovery and improve security protocols. With the following release, we introduced support for both Discovery and Monitoring for SNMP v3 to support the most common use cases for authentication and privacy protocols.

IT Complete and KaseyaOne

A strong focus for Traverse in 2022 was integrating and modernizing the UI/UX to match the rest of the IT Complete platform. In Release 9.6.8, we updated the login experience to follow IT Complete and support single sign-on. Two releases later, we introduced the Cooper Intelligence Engine to surface AI-enabled suggestions to help our customers get the most out of Traverse.

Permissions

Release 9.6.13 introduced “superusers” — a new security model. Superusers can switch on/off the “user representation” feature for all user groups.

Enhancements

BMS Integration

Across 2022, we made several enhancements to the BMS and Traverse integration, including improved performance and a significantly upgraded setup experience that ports Traverse Department mappings to BMS Accounts.

V9.5.37
March 14, 2021

UI Workflow/Usability Bug Fix

We fixed an issue where updating a product logo affected the saved department logo.

Learn more about the 9.5.37 release in the Release Notes.

V9.5.36
February 21, 2021

Workflow/Usability Enhancements

In this release, we added the ability to rebrand the MFA page with a different logo. For more information on how to set up the logo, see Changing the UI Logo and Theme.

Cloud Discovery Enhancements

We enabled handling error messages for Azure in case the customer is unable to register with a specific (Microsoft.ClassicCompute) resource provider.

In this release, there were also a number of bug fixes for Network Configuration Management, Reports and Dashboards, Topology Discovery and Visualization, and a few other areas of the product.

Learn more about the 9.5.36 release in the Release Notes.

V9.5.35
January 22, 2021

General Enhancement

This release added support of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 and 2019. For more information, see the System Requirements topic.

Reports and Dashboards Enhancement

We added the ability to save a report in .csv format in Reports > Custom > Message Event History, by clicking the Save CSV button.

Security Vulnerabilities Enhancement

To enhance security we added the session Hash parameter and removed duplicates cookie values.

In this release, there were also bug fixes for Test Discovery/Parameter Rediscovery and UI Workflow/Usability.

Learn more about the 9.5.35 release in the Release Notes.

V9.5.34
January 21, 2021

UI Workflow/Usability Enhancement

This release updated ‘\apps\tomcat\conf\server.xml’ to remove TLSv1.1 and weak ciphers.

In this release, there were also bug fixes for Actions & Notifications, Reports & Dashboards, Network Configuration Management and UI Workflow/Usability.

Learn more about the 9.5.34 release in the Release Notes.

V9.5.33
December 21, 2020

New Features

Cloud Monitoring: Azure Cloud Services Discovery and Monitoring

In this release, we added the ability to discover and monitor the Azure Cloud Services instances and tests.

You can monitor the following if your Azure user subscription supports Microsoft Classic Compute resource provider:

  • Cloud services (CPU percentage​, network in/out​, Disk read/write bytes/operations​)
  • SQL instances (CPU percentage​, data IO percentage​, storage usage percentage​, successful connections​, failed connections​, DTU percentage​)
  • Virtual machines (CPU credits consumed​, CPU percentage​, network in/out​, disk read/write bytes/operations​)
  • Load balancers (total Bytes​, health probe status​, packets count​, SYN count​, data path availability).

If not, SQL instances/virtual machines/load balancers will be discovered.

Note: To enable the new Azure monitoring feature, you must update your Traverse license. To obtain the required license update, please submit a request to technical support and update the license after the version upgrade.

For more information, see the Cloud Discovery topic.

Security Vulnerability: Account Lockout

In this release, we added account lockout for users to enhance security. Traverse users will be locked out for 60 seconds (by default) after 5 failed attempts to log in with invalid credentials or using invalid multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes. You can configure the number of failed attempts and lockout time in the Configuration of Login Attempts section.

Enhancements

Database Backend

In this release, we added timestamps in cronjob.log for backup scripts. 

In addition to this, there were also bug fixes for Actions & Notifications, Network Configuration Management, Test Discovery/Parameter Rediscovery, Traverse VSA Module and UI Workflow/Usability.

Learn more about the 9.5.33 release in the Release Notes.