five(9)s Console was released on Mar 26th, 2023.
Version 4.7 is a full release. We fixed several problems and added a lot of enhancements.
What's new?
Advanced Patch - FastTrack
With a dual patch process, you can differentiate between high priority patches and regular patches. By defining rules that identify which patches are critical, you can prioritize the most important updates and ensure they are applied quickly. While also having the possibility to manually move currently running patches to a FastTrack Rollout. This means that any vulnerabilities or exploits that could be used by attackers to compromise your systems are addressed as soon as possible, reducing the risk of a security breach.
This also allows you to streamline the patching process for high priority updates. By configuring the process to be shorter and more focused, you can finalize the browser updates before a new one arrives.
The following settings can be configured to match FastTrack to your needs:
- Rules to define patches as FastTrack
- Duration of the patch steps
- Number of pilot steps
- Approval of the steps
- Assignment of pilot test devices
- Scheduler for starting the patch operation
Advanced Patch - Scheduler
Scheduler generally offers more flexibility and precision compared to an interval-based event caller. This flexibility allows you to customize and optimize the scheduling of your patch processes based on your specific needs. Here are some advantages of our scheduler:
- Flexibility: A scheduler allows you to schedule events at specific times, with specific intervals, or based on rules for the day or week.
- Prioritization: Different schedulers allow you to prioritize patches and ensure that high-priority patches are scheduled first. This can be particularly useful in situations where you need to ensure that critical patches are completed in a timely manner.
- Improved accuracy: A scheduler can provide more accurate timing compared to an interval-based event caller, that may not align with your specific requirements of each event. Additionally each Patch Group can use the global scheduler or a group specific one.
- Resource management: A scheduler can help manage system resources by avoiding scheduling events at the same time or conflicting with each other. This ensures that each event runs smoothly and doesn't interfere with other important processes.
- Patch Tuesday: Our scheduler allows to start patch processes after patch tuesday with a specific delay. This ensures that all patches have been downloaded and are deployed in a timely manner.
- You can control and gather the patches to have one rollout over the course of one week. No more 6 rollouts per day and user complaining.
- You can still use an workflow which needs to be approved with quality insurance so that you do not run into situations which can block your entire IT.
Advanced Patch - Patch Notification improvements
- Patch Rollout notification for assigned users (configurable)
- Pilot Notification for each pilot for admin (configurable)
- Individual notifications of pilot users (can be configured for each user)
By providing device-specific pilot patch notifications, end users can receive customized and personalized patch mails that are tailored to their specific department, operating systems or device role. It also allows to add related documents or test workflow instructions to make sure your testing process is reliable and effective.
If you would like to use this feature, please contact us and we will assist you in setting it up.
Advanced Patch - Rollout Progress Bar Revamp
We've made some improvements to the Patch Rollout progress bar to make it even better. We've revamped it to be more user-friendly and intuitive, so you can easily see the progress of your patch updates.
Our updated progress bar now displays more information about the time left until the next action is due. This means you can better plan your schedule and avoid any surprises when it comes to your patch updates.
LiveInfo - Revamp
Great news! We have revamped the LiveInfo feature to bring you even more information than before. Although the old Ivanti API is no longer available starting in Ivanti 2022, we've worked hard to enhance the functionality of LiveInfo so that you can get access to more data than ever.
Audit History Search
With the new search function, you can easily locate the desired information by entering keywords or filtering results by date. This feature enables you to efficiently monitor changes related to devices, software, operating systems, patch-related objects, or general settings. Furthermore, we have incorporated a history feature that facilitates searching for deleted devices on the admin website. This feature enhances accountability and simplifies troubleshooting by keeping track of previously unnoticed deletions.
Home - Missing Patches Tag improvements
We added additional Tags, so that you can easily keep track of the reason why the patch is missing on the device. This helps in troubleshooting and saves time.
Other improvements
Computer Info - Processor, Hard Drive, RAM Size
With newer Versions of Ivanti the computer info panel on the left can be extended with more information. This can help you identifiying update candidates or end-of-life devices.
ConsoleAppLauncher
The ConsoleAppLauncher is a new and faster way to execute Home Buttons and Custom Buttons. This includes remote control and other buttons on the "Home" site. It also brings Terminal server support which was requested by our customers.
How to obtain five(9)s Console 4.7
A link to the newest release will available on the five(9)s Admin Page.
New customers can get the latest version from our shop.
Supported EPM Versions
EPM 2020.1*
EPM 2021.1
EPM 2022
* if you are using EPM2020.1 without a SU, ensure you don't have a task with ID 6Please Note:
Older EPM Version might not be able to work with .NET 4.8, therefore we do not support the EPM Version before 2020.X
If you have .net Framework 4.8 already running on a core server older that 2020.X you can install the five(9)s console 4.7.Installation / Upgrade
This video shows how to install the five(9)s Console
For a more detailed documentation please consult our quick start guide
For a more detailed documentation please consult our quick start guide
Upgrades
• We always strongly recommend to create
◦ a Database backup of the EPM DBLicensing
Customers who have already a valid five(9)s Console subscription are entitled to use Console Version 4.7 Your current activation credentials will remain the same for version 4.7. Please contact five(9)s support if you encounter any activation or licensing issues.
For customers who do not have a valid five(9)s Console subscription, please contact your five(9)s sales to receive your product key.
Important Note
We strongly recommend to evaluate the five(9)s Console on a test system. Additionally, we suggest you make a backup of your system prior any updates.
CentralSearch Customers
CentralSearch requires that all five(9)s Consoles reporting into the same CentralSearch DB having the same patch level to ensure consistent data structure. Please do not mix up CentralSearch DB for test environment and production environment.Document information
Last Modified Date
24.04.2023
Verified versions
five(9)s Console version 4.7
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