Welcome to our latest iteration of the IP Address Manager!
It is my pleasure to announce that the IPAM 2020.2 Release Candidate is now available in your customer portal. Each release candidate is a fully tested and supported version of the product and you can upgrade current production servers while retaining your complete configuration and history.
Version 2020.2 is the next release following IPAM 2019.4 and is compatible with Orion Platform 2020.2
What's New?!?
Release notes and system requirements for SAM 2020.2 and related Orion releases can be found on this release summary.
The focus of this release was user-ability and functionality. IPAM, as many of you have told us, was feeling dated and the workflows needed some UX upgrades. During the sessions with customers and while reading your comments the development team was able to accomplish the new UI WITH backwards compatibility, for IE users!
Improved DHCP & DNS Management Pages
- workflows and tab creation for cleaner lines
Dynamic filtering to find resources faster
Improved workflows to streamline key tasks
- Move from DNS servers to DNS zones with just a click of the mouse!
Watch how the new workflows, searching, and user-ability have come together:
Built on Orion's newest UX framework
If you're using Internet Explorer still we allow you to toggle the new UI for backwards compatibility. This is found under "All Settings>IPAM Settings>Systems Settings
IPAM IP Group Integration with NTA!
Both the IPAM module and NTA have facilities to create and work with IP groups – that is, collections of endpoints, or subnets that reference groups of endpoints. One common requirement is to characterize the traffic that’s generated or received by an IP group.
With the IPAM RC, comes some fantastic new updates & enhancements to the Orion Platform which include... Go here to view and learn more!!
Platform Enhancements, say WHAT??
- Monitor up to 1,000,000 elements per Orion Platform instance.
- For SAM components the limit is increased to be 550,000 components per SAM installation.
- An Orion Map to Success! - Orion Maps improvements, such as creating and customizing text boxes, labels, or layouts, incorporating custom icons, adding shapes, dynamic backgrounds, bulk administration, and all-new Time Travel.
- Performance enhancements
- Dashboards, Dashboards, Get Your Dashboards! All New Custom Summary Dashboards
- A Gateway To Your Fastest Upgrade Ever! - Upgrade improvements, such as pre-staging upgrades, upgrade plan reports, automating upgrades via Orion SDK
- Enhanced volume status
- 3rd Party Language Pack Support - scripts to extract UI texts from the Orion Web Console
Watch the forum for updates, even if you're not able to install now. The product team will continue to release new documents detailing our deep dives of the mentioned features. If there's one you're particularly interested in, mention it in the comments!
Your Feedback Counts!
The team is incredibly interested in your feedback, and when you participate by downloading and installing the RC, you'll receive THWACK points. More importantly - your feedback shapes our products. Post your thoughts, questions, and concerns into the IPAM Release Candidate Area, and not only will you be able to get some SolarWinds swag, but we'll be watching for input to continuously drive product improvements. In addition, sometimes you'll come up with brand new feature ideas that we would want to consider for a future release. Visit our IPAM Feature Requests area to tell us what you'd like to see.
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