Version 1.8 product features

Release Notes | I Series Appliance | Updated: 31-Oct-2017

This section of the Release Notes describes the new features that are included in version 1.8 of the Forcepoint I Series appliance:

Improved upgrade stability

Appliance manager user interface improvements

See the Forcepoint TRITON AP-WEB (cloud) Release Notes for detailed information about all cloud portal changes.

Improved upgrade stability

The I Series appliance upgrade to version 1.7 included an initial step to back up the appliance system by taking a "snapshot" of the current system and saving it for recovery purposes, if needed.

The version 1.7 snapshot provides a rollback option for the upgrade to version 1.8 and later, to ensure continuous appliance operations in the event that an upgrade is unsuccessful for some reason. Alerts provide the status of the backup operation.

New upgrade logs (for the last failed upgrade) can be uploaded by using the appliance command-line interface (CLI) - -upgrade-logs-only directive of the diags_upload command. Example command syntax is:

diags_upload --upload-url http://www.upload_destination.com/ [--upload-username <username> --upgrade-logs-only]


	Note The rollback function may fail on older model I Series appliances due to a BIOS formatting issue. In this situation, the appliance must be re-imaged.

Several fixes and enhancements for the upgrade process are included in this release, providing a more secure and reliable appliance upgrade.

Appliance manager user interface improvements

The appliance manager Status > General page displays a clear indicator of connectivity status with the Forcepoint cloud service and for the most recent configuration and policy updates from the cloud service.

The Forcepoint Cloud Service Updates section displays connectivity as either Connected or Disconnected. The Last policy update field contains the date/time of the most recent configuration and policy settings download from the cloud service.

The Platform field on the Configuration > System Information page displays the appliance platform as either i500 or i500v (for the virtual appliance).

The upgrade history table Status column entry defines the action that occurred on the specified date/time (Configuration > Upgrade Management).