NesiGate 2.8 is a feature release and is now available  (Oct. 4, 2006)

This release is available as a no-charge upgrade to customers who have NESiGate units still in their warranty period, or to customers who have elected to purchase the NESiGate Firmware Support option. If you are unsure of your current support status, please contact support@netex.com.

OPERATIONAL/PROCEDURAL IMPACT

1) New Key Requirement: NESiGate Release 2.8 requires a new key to be installed. It will NOT initialize without a new key! Older releases of NESiGate function with either key.

Before installing Release 2.8, request new keys by emailing NetEx support with the serial numbers of your NESiGates. Netex Support will return the new keys after verifying your current support status.

FEATURES/ENHANCEMENTS
 

1) SNMP product traps can be configured to be sent when defined threshhold limits are reached for cpu usage, disk space usage, swap space usage, and temperature.

2) SNMP product traps can be configured to be sent when a problem with the health of the NESiGate firmware is detected - e.g. if all required components are not currently running. Product health traps are an indicator of NESiGate being non-operational.

3) Product logs are now written to the central logging facility (syslog).

4) Additional web browser navigation changes have been made.

5) A customer now has the ability to define site-specific login verbiage.

DOCUMENTATION UPDATES
 

1) New Software Installation Manual

2) Updated product (CA, CO, LO & GW) manuals
3) Updated Troubleshooting (TS) manual

DOWNLOAD PROCEDURE

To upgrade from a 2.7.x version, you may download the new product release from ftp.netexsw.com.  Login as anonymous, cd downloads/nesigate-install, binary, get nesi-inst.  If your web browser is properly configured, download release 2.8 from:   ftp://ftp.netexsw.com/downloads/nesigate-install/nesi-inst

• For NESiGate(s) running version 2.7.5 or above, you may use 'receiveFile' from the CLI or web interface to place the downloaded file in the proper directory, then use 'nesigateStop' and 'installNesigate' from the CLI or web interface to perform the installation.
• For NESiGate(s) running version 2.7.2 – 2.7.4, store the downloaded ‘nesi-inst’ file into
  directory '/home/nesi/mnt' on NESiGate. Ensure it is executable by issuing the command:
  chmod +x nesi-inst
  Then install it by running 'nesi-inst' with the proper parameters for the NESiGate type.

To upgrade from a NESiGate version older than 2.7.2, you must acquire the OS CD set and upgrade the NESiGate as described in the 2.7.2 Release Announcement and in the Software Installation manual.  The software is on a set of 5 CDs. Three CDs contain the NESiGate operating system, one the NESiGate product (CA, CO, LO or GW), and one an OS recovery CD.  Please contact NetEx support in order to obtain the CD set.

You may also download and burn the OS recovery and NESiGate product CDs yourself from: ftp://ftp.netexsw.com/downloads/nesigate-install/BootCD-R2.7.5.iso and ftp://ftp.netexsw.com/downloads/nesigate-install/nesi-inst.iso

END OF SUPPORT

In accordance with our Service Policy, support for releases 2.6 and older ended on Aug. 30, 2006.
Support for releases 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5 will end on November 30, 2006.
Support for NESiGate release 2.7.6 will end on April 4, 2007.

If you have any questions, please contact support@netex.com.