New and Changed Features

• Support for Scheduling User-Defined Actions—Paragon Insights Release 4.1.0 supports scheduling user-defined actions (UDAs) and notifications in Trigger Action page. You can schedule one Trigger Action scheduler in each instance of Paragon Insights. The scheduler runs the UDAs and notifications only for the time interval set in the UDA scheduler. For information on how to enable UDA scheduler, see Modify the UDA and UDF Engines.

• Support for iAgent Port Ingest Configuration for Outbound SSH Connections—Paragon Insights Release 4.1.0 supports iAgent (NETCONF) port at the ingest level for outbound SSH traffic for all device groups. If you configure ports for outbound SSH in device group configurations and ingest, then device group settings take precedence. For more information, see Paragon Insights Pull-Model Ingest Methods.

• Support for Server Monitoring Ingest—Paragon Insights Release 4.1.0 supports Server Monitoring sensor to collect server and host data using the third-party plug-in Node Exporter. The Node Exporter plug-in is pre-installed in all server clusters of Paragon Insights. The ingest collects data from servers and hosts to track metrics of CPU, memory, network, traffic, disk, and filesystem and writes the output to a time series database. For more information, see Paragon Insights Pull-Model Ingest Methods.

• Support for Scalar Fields in SNMP Rules—Paragon Insights Release 4.1.0 supports scalar objects along with tabular objects in SNMP rules. You can configure only scalar fields or a combination of scalar and tabular fields. For more information, see Paragon Insights Pull-Model Ingest Methods.

• Support for Paragon Insights Standard (PIN-Standard) License—From Paragon Insights Release 4.1.0 onwards, Paragon Insights Standard (PIN-Standard) license replaces the Paragon Insights Standard (free model/Freemium) license that was available in Paragon Insights releases 4.0.0 and 3.X. You need a valid license (trial or commercial) to use Paragon Insights and its features. You can add the license before or after upgrading to release 4.1.0 from earlier releases.

  With the PIN-Standard license, you can use Paragon Insights to collect telemetry data, and use default or custom playbooks without any advanced features. You can also publish telemetry data externally by using Kafka and Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) publish.

• Use Grafana UI to Create Graphs and Visuals—Starting in Paragon Insights Release 4.1.0, you can use the Grafana UI to create graphs and visuals to help organize and understand data. The Grafana UI is a third-party UI and can be accessed by clicking Monitor>Graphs>Grafana from the Paragon Insights UI.

  For more information, see Grafana Overview.

• View and Manage Audit Logs—An audit log is a record of activities that have affected a specific operation or procedure. Audit logs contain information about tasks initiated by using the Paragon Insights GUI or APIs. With Paragon Insights Release 4.1.0, you can view and manage audit logs from the Monitor>Audit Logs page of the Paragon Insights UI.

  For more information, see Manage Audit Logs.

• Export Audit Logs in PDF and CSV—Starting in Paragon Insights Release 4.1.0, you can export audit logs in a portable document format (PDF) file and comma-separated values (CSV) file.

  For more information, see Manage Audit Logs.

• Configure and Monitor Workflows (Beta)—Paragon Insights Release 4.1.0 supports workflow monitoring (Beta). A workflow is an action engine that you can use to configure a set of tasks. With this release, you can configure new workflows from the Configuration>Workflows page of the Paragon Insights UI. You can also monitor and manage multiple workflow instances from the Monitor>Workflows page of the UI.

  For more information, see Understanding Workflow Monitoring.