v1.4.264
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Widget tiles for the NOC screen
- New Two widget tiles on the dashboard. Impacted Services and Agents Online only showed something where Orb sensors run. They are now two tiles an admin sets with the gear in the corner: the bandwidth in and out of an interface on a switch or firewall, with your own title such as Internet uplink, the wireless clients on all controllers or one, or the sessions of your firewalls. Each tile shows the current figure and the last six hours. Every user and every screen sees the same two tiles.
- Improved A wall screen says when its data stops. When Aegis does not answer for two minutes, a red bar across the top says since when the data is not fresh. When the screen was logged out, it says so at once, with a link to log in. After an update an open page reloads by itself once nobody has used it for two minutes.
- Improved A NOC dashboard account. Mark a read-only account as NOC dashboard under Admin → Settings → Local Users and the inactivity timeout skips it, so the timeout can stay on for everyone else.
- Improved The alert history opens on the last 24 hours.
- Improved Troubleshoot is for admins. Read-only accounts no longer see Troubleshoot in the menu or the Client Lookup link on the Wireless page.
- Fixed Client data for admins only. The client searches behind Troubleshoot, a client's history and the list of tracked clients still answered read-only accounts. They now answer admins only. The totals on the dashboard and the Wireless page stay visible to everyone.
v1.4.259
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Edge gateways that report from the start
- Improved New Cambium devices show up at once. An onboarded device appears on the Cambium page straight away and is polled within seconds, instead of after the next round. The round itself now runs every five minutes from start to start.
- Fixed Enable SNMP on an NSE. The NSE keeps a change waiting until it is applied, so SNMP stayed off after Enable SNMP. Aegis now applies each step, and the NSE answers right away. The stored NSE password is no longer lost when you use the form, and a device that was guessed to be an access point but refuses that login is tried with the NSE and switch accounts.
- Improved Edge gateways report from the start. The router block now also adds the key Aegis logs in with, so the gateway's CPU, memory and LTE signal show up without a manual step. Give the gateway a LAN address and the block places the router in the site network at that address, with its own DHCP off. Setup explains how to log in on a new router, and Test from here pings the devices behind the gateway.
- Fixed The logo on Windows. On Windows the Aegis logo was cut off at the end of its name, in every browser. It now looks the same everywhere.
v1.4.251
Monday 12 October 2026
ACI faults in full, and a browser check before every release
- Fixed Every ACI fault, not the first hundred. On a large fabric Aegis showed only part of the active faults, so a leaf with a lowered health score could show none at all, while a leaf at 100 showed critical faults. All faults are read now, and the switch detail keeps two kinds apart: faults on the switch itself, which count in its health score, and configuration faults of tenant policy on its ports, such as an EPG on a port that is shut, which the APIC counts against the tenant. Both come with their numbers per severity and the port.
- Improved Checked in a real browser before release. Every release is now opened in Chrome and Firefox before it is published, page by page, so a layout fault that shows in only one browser is caught before it reaches you.
v1.4.240
Friday 9 October 2026
The sidebar fills the window again
- Fixed The sidebar in Chrome and Firefox. Aegis shows its pages at 80% so more fits on one screen. Recent versions of Chrome and Firefox measure the window height differently under that zoom, which left the sidebar at 80% of the window, with the page colour showing under the menu and a scrollbar in it once the menu got longer. The pages now measure what the browser does and correct for it, so the sidebar fills the window again in every browser.
- Fixed The logo fits its box. In Chrome the Aegis logo could run past the edge of the sidebar, with the ® mark pushed out of view. The logo now keeps to its box, and a sidebar that scrolls vertically no longer grows a horizontal scrollbar.
- Improved Topology at the same scale as the rest. The Topology page did not apply the 80% view and so looked larger than every other page. It now uses the same scale, and fills the window the same way.
v1.4.237
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Who has standby duty
- New The On-Call card shows who has duty. Choose your standby team under Admin → SIGNL4 and the card says who has duty in that team right now, with the week's hand-overs and stand-ins in its tooltip, read from the SIGNL4 roster once an hour. Aegis only reads; the roster stays in SIGNL4.
v1.4.234
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Alerts that count, and warnings that alert to SIGNL4 once
- New Acknowledged and closed in the alert history. Each acknowledgement and close is recorded once, at the time it happened in SIGNL4 and with the name, so the history of an alert now reads raised, acknowledged, closed, cleared. Kept for 90 days like the rest.
- Improved The Active Alerts figure counts what you can act on. Only the Alerts tab counts on the dashboard card; the line under the figure says how many insights there are and how many alerts on-call has closed. An acknowledged alert still counts and stays on the Alerts tab, greyed, because someone is on it but it is not done.
- Improved High 5 GHz utilization has to last. A radio that is busy for one poll no longer shows up. The insight appears once the AP has been above the threshold in two polls at least 30 minutes apart, and starts over when the radio calms down in between. The site health score and the RF service line follow the same rule, so a one-poll spike no longer costs a site points. The clocks survive a restart of the appliance.
- Improved One administration for on-call status. The On-Call Alerts card, the alert list and the history all read the same record, which the alert loop keeps up to date every couple of minutes.
- Improved Discovery says why it cannot log in. When a switch answers but refuses SSH, the result now gives the reason under the device, such as an access list on the VTY lines or SSH not being enabled, instead of only listing it as discovered.
- Fixed A warning alerts to SIGNL4 once. A warning that was still open when its window closed in the evening came back as a new alert the next morning, every morning until the problem was solved. It now goes to SIGNL4 once and is closed when the problem clears. An update or restart of the appliance no longer sends open warnings again either.
v1.4.227
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Stack monitoring and fixed on-call counter
- New Data stack and power stack monitoring. Every stacked Catalyst switch is checked once an hour. A data stack whose ring is no longer redundant warns before the next failure splits the stack, a StackPower cable that drops warns, and a stack member in a bad state is a critical alert. The switch tile colours along, so a degraded stack is orange on the site overview, and the switch detail gains a Stack card with the members, their roles, the ring state and the power stack.
- Improved It knows what a stack is. A switch with a pre-provisioned member slot that was never filled counts as a single switch, and StackWise Virtual pairs on the core are left alone: neither can raise a false stack alert. A power stack that simply has no StackPower cabling stays silent too.
- Fixed The on-call counter cleans itself. The On-Call Alerts card on the dashboard could keep showing alerts that had long been handled, when a Signl had already been closed on the SIGNL4 side. The administration behind the counter now releases those entries right away, so the number on the card matches what is actually open.
v1.4.219
Sunday 4 October 2026
Which switch ports are really in use
- New Port usage report. The Reporting page has a second tab that shows which access ports have not been used for 3 months, or for 6, 12, 24 or 36 months or a number you choose. Per switch you see the ports in use, the unused ones and when each port was last used, and the report points out the switches and stack members where every port is unused: the hardware and licences you can save on.
- New A record that survives a reboot. A switch forgets its counters with every reboot, so Aegis keeps its own record of when each port was last up or carried traffic, including a device that was plugged in and out between two polls.
- New Unused ports from day one. When Aegis first sees a switch it asks, once, about the ports that are down. A port whose counters are still zero has carried nothing since the switch last restarted, and the switch knows when a port went down. The report counts from that moment, so a port that has been dark for a year shows as unused right away, with the real number of days without use. The record is also filled in with the traffic history the appliance still holds.
- New One switch, a few, or the whole estate. Pick sites or search and select switches, and follow the number of ports in use per month over the years. Download the selection as CSV or print it to PDF.
- New Leave a port or a whole switch out. A spare you keep on purpose, a port reserved for an emergency, a lab switch or one that is being phased out: none of them is something to save on. Leave out on a port, or Leave this switch out on a switch, takes it out of the count with a reason you give. It stays listed as left out and counts in no total. Count again brings it back.
- New Cambium in the availability report. Cambium access points, switches and NSEs have their own category in the availability report while the Cambium integration is switched on. With the integration off they are not in the report.
- Improved The availability mail is a covering note. The scheduled mail now holds a few lines with the period, the number of devices and the overall figure. The report itself is the PDF attachment, with the score per category and per device.
- Improved Honest about what it has measured. A port is only called unused once it has been observed for the whole period. Until then it is listed as too early to say, with the date since when it is measured. Dates from a switch are only used when they fit its uptime, and use that Aegis sees later always wins.
- Improved In the backup. The record and everything you left out travel with the configuration backup. A restore merges the record with what the appliance has seen since, so nothing is lost and nothing is counted twice. Every port or switch you leave out or count again is in the audit log with who did it.
v1.4.203
Saturday 3 October 2026
Availability reporting, and calmer nights for on-call
- New Availability report. A new Reporting page shows per device a score up to 100% over the previous month, the last 30 or the last 7 days, with an average per category and one overall figure, lowest scores first. Time inside a maintenance window does not count against a device. When the appliance has not been measuring for the full period, the report says from which date it measures instead of pretending the quiet days were perfect.
- New Compose your own report. Pick the sites and filter the device names, and the scores follow your selection. A print button turns the page into a clean document, so saving it as PDF is one click.
- New The report in your inbox. Send it automatically, monthly or weekly, to its own list of recipients: the category averages plus only the devices that dropped below 100%, so it stays readable on any fleet size.
- Improved One mail per site outage. When several devices of one site go offline together, the mail folds them into one message that names the devices, how many switches of that site still answer, and whether the site firewall answers at that very moment. The dashboard and escalations keep seeing every device on its own.
- Fixed A switch that answers is not offline. Something in a network path can swallow ping for minutes while the switch keeps responding to its monitoring. The poll now takes its own answer as proof of reachability, so those minutes no longer wake anyone up.
- Fixed Two devices down in one site are two alerts. For ISE nodes, Infoblox members, servers, firewalls, load balancers and Cambium devices, two alerts of the same kind in one site counted as one: one Signl and one mail for both, closed as soon as the first device recovered. Each device now has its own alert, its own Signl, its own line in the mail and its own duration. Two expiring certificates on one ISE node are two alerts as well.
- Improved Wireless alerts belong to their controller. AP not joined, 100 Mbps uplink, high 5 GHz utilization and backbone connectivity name the controller they come from. Two controllers in one site no longer share an alert, a maintenance window on the controller covers them, and the alert opens that controller on the Wireless page.
- Improved Open alerts survive the update. An alert that is open while you update keeps its start time and is not mailed again. In SIGNL4 the Signl that was open is closed after the update and the alert comes in again, one per device.