We are pleased to announce the latest update to iRM Cloud, which brings technical enhancements, usability improvements, new API capabilities, and security refinements.

🔧 New Features & Improvements

• Update Jobs: Technical improvements implemented to increase stability and performance.

• API Enhancements:

  • The number of routers within a router group can now be queried via the API.

  • Routers can now be programmatically moved between router groups via the API.

• Dashboard Map Tile: Now displays the geographic location of all routers in your fleet.

• User Interface Improvements:

  • Minor visual refinements to the router group table.

  • Improved loading and rendering performance on both router and router group tables.

• Security Compliance:

  • Login process enhanced to align with the requirements of the BSI IT-Grundschutz Kompendium, specifically control APP.3.1.A21 (Secure Authentication Mechanisms).

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Custom Field Reference: A proper error message is now shown if a previously deleted custom field is referenced in an ASCII configuration, improving transparency and troubleshooting.

What's New

Stay Informed About License Expirations!

With this release, you will now receive automatic email notifications when your licenses are about to expire. Starting 30 days before expiration, you’ll get a weekly reminder to ensure you have enough time to renew your licenses without interruptions.

To enhance clarity in the licensing process, we have also corrected the timestamps on the license configuration pages, ensuring they reflect your personal time settings accurately.

Additionally, users can now access a publicly available Data Privacy page. This page provides detailed insights into how we securely process and handle your personal data while complying with current data protection regulations.

What's New

We are exited to introduce the all-new Advanced Smart Update * feature!

If you have used our Smart Update functionality before, you may have noticed that icom OS firmware updates were always scheduled at a fixed time — 1 AM UTC.

With this release of icom Router Management, you now have the flexibility to customize firmware update schedules to suit your unique needs. Here is what’s new:

• Customizable Update Times:

  • Override the default 1 AM UTC schedule and choose update times that align with your specific requirements.
  • Set individual update times for groups of routers, ideal for operations across different regions or countries. Avoid disruptions during production hours by tailoring update schedules to local needs.

• Easy Setup:

  • Configuring update times is intuitive — simply select your preferred hour and the router’s time zone, save your settings, and you're all set!

• Default Smart Update Activation:

  • Smart Update can now be enabled by default. Every new router added to your inventory will automatically have Smart Update activated, saving you time and effort.

With Advanced Smart Update, managing your routers has never been smarter or more convenient. Stay in control, minimize downtime, and streamline your operations like never before!

* Advanced Smart Update requires a Basic license and is not included in our free offering

Updates

We have completely redesigned the process for customizing your router table settings to align with our latest design guidelines. The new interface eliminates confusion by replacing ambiguous icons with clear options. Now, simply make your changes and click the Save button to apply them effortlessly.

Bug Fixes

• Removed deleted custom fields from the router table overview, ensuring a cleaner and more accurate display.
• Resolved an issue in the dashboard’s recent activities section where the audit log timestamp was incorrectly displayed as "Invalid time." It now shows the correct timestamp.

This major update includes all changes of our latest on-premises edition of icom Router Management release 2024.10.0 with required customizations for the cloud. See also: On-Premises Release Notes 2024.10.0

Highlights for cloud users

• Heavily increased performance for large router lists, including searching and filtering
• Table views with pagination for a more intuitive user experience
• Search field does not block the application if a query takes significant time
• Selected routers aren't unselected during pagination, searching or filtering of the router list
• The current number of selected routers is always visible and an action can be executed over those routers at any time

Technical highlights

• Major upgrade of the UI framework including latest security updates
• Heavily refactored update service used by the update job mechanism

With release 2024.07.1 update jobs took at least 5 minutes to get finished, although the routers already installed the update successful. This hotfix release solves the problem.

This release enhances the navigation with the new menu Inventory -> Router-Groups. Beginning with this update you can manage your router groups and move routers from one group to another.

Backend and frontend include the latest security patches and improvements from our on-premises product version 2024.07.0. See icom Router Management Server and Data-Center release notes.

With this release we introduce our new feature Smart Update, which updates routers automatically to the latest available firmware. Visit Updating a Router Using Smart Updates for detailed information.

  If the column Smart Update is not shown in the router table, add the column by changing your table settings (Action Button -> Table Settings).

Other significant changes belonging the user interface. The release includes a redesigned and unified table view for several menus. Each table view is now sortable, searchable and filterable the same way. Depending on the row selection the new introduced Action Button, in the upper right corner, contains the related operations instead of an appearing and disappearing side pane.

This release is only available in our cloud offering. It's main purpose is software maintenance work and software  improvements. 

This release is only available in our cloud offering. It includes many improvements in the management of your licenses. 

icom Router Management version 2022.09.1 is only available in our cloud offering. With this version we introduce a new enhanced trial license. Please talk to your sales representative.