Key updates to N‑central, N‑sight and Cove Updates from Mark Janssen (Partner Success Engineer)
We also added N‑able SSO support for N‑central. This will allow our partners who have other solutions in-use (Cove, Take Control, and MSP Manager) to use the same credentials to log in to N‑central. Additionally, new data items have been added to the Analytics dashboard. A particularly useful data item is the last reboot/uptime. One more important note is that the new REST API has received some additions. This includes the ability to extract last check-in time and to retrieve the registration token required for agent installs.For N‑sight updates this quarter, I would like to make you aware that device inventory has received some tweaks. For instance, in the date fields you now have a calendar picker, and you now have additional operators in date calculations.
I am pleased to advise that VSS feature checks should now be working correctly. Feel free to email me if this is not the case.
The last update you may like to know about is a neat feature that has been added for N‑sight. This feature allows you to select all devices in the North pane by selecting one device and then using Ctrl + A to highlight all. Now you can apply templates, tasks, and run checks on all selected devices at once.
In Q3 for Cove there have also been some important releases. For example, in June and July there were multiple small tweaks and updates around Standby Image, boot detection, and VMWare features.
Standby Image now has a first restore schedule. This means you can add a device to a plan but start the restore after hours or over the weekend. Microsoft Defender exclusion have also been added to increase the one-time restores.
The AI boot model has also been improved to reduce false-positive and false-negative results and vSphere HA clustering is now supported, enabling Standby Images to be moved across hosts and storage in the cluster.
And in August, we made available the new retention framework. This simplifies the setting of short-term retention and long-term retention (previously called Archiving). For example, you can now select how long to keep the Daily backups and the last backups of the Day, Week, Month, and the Year. This allows for longer retention with efficiently stored data.
Once again, please check the release notes section of our website for more information or email me if you have any questions.
