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What's new in this version

Following are new features for the Version 8.5 FortiNAC Control Manager. For information on features added between your current version and this, refer to prior versions of the Release Notes.

Feature

Description

User Interface

The FortiNAC Control Manager views and menus have been updated to align with FortiNAC. Additional views have been added to enable the Administrator to easily manage multiple FortiNAC Servers.

The following views have been added to the FortiNAC Control Manager:

Settings

Endpoint Compliance Policies

Admin Profiles

Endpoint Compliance Configuration

Device Profiling Rules

Endpoint Compliance Scans

User/Host Profiles

Dashboard - Alarms Panel

The following menu and option have been removed from the FortiNAC Control Manager:

NS Servers > Server List

The Host Propagation option has been moved to the Settings > Network Control Manager > Server Synchronization View.

The following menus have been replaced with the Settings view:

System > High Availability
Configuration

System > Properties > Control Panel

System > License
Management

System > Properties > SNMP Server

System > Services

System > Updates > Download
Settings

Feature

Description

The following menu and option have been removed from the FortiNAC Control Manager and replaced with the Users > User View:

Users > User License

The following menus have been added to the FortiNAC Control Manager:

Users > Admin Profiles

Logs > Event Management

Users > Guest Templates

Policy > Policy Configuration

Hosts > Device Profiling Rules

Policy > Roles

Logs > Admin Auditing

System > Groups

Logs > Alarms

System > Scheduler

Logs > Events

System > Settings

Logs > Event to Alarm Mappings

Global Object Synchronization

Global Object Synchronization has been added to enable automatic synchronization of the FortiNAC Server(s) with the FortiNAC Control Manager. Views that include global information display the Global column to indicate which information is synchronized with the FortiNAC Server(s). When enabled, automatic synchronization occurs once per minute. See Server synchronization.

Import button

Selected views allow you to import information from the FortiNAC Server(s) to the FortiNAC Control Manager. This eliminates the need to manually enter the information on the FortiNAC Control Manager. When it is imported to the FortiNAC Control Manager, the information is global.

What's new in this version

Following are new features for the Version 8.5 FortiNAC Control Manager. For information on features added between your current version and this, refer to prior versions of the Release Notes.

Feature

Description

User Interface

The FortiNAC Control Manager views and menus have been updated to align with FortiNAC. Additional views have been added to enable the Administrator to easily manage multiple FortiNAC Servers.

The following views have been added to the FortiNAC Control Manager:

Settings

Endpoint Compliance Policies

Admin Profiles

Endpoint Compliance Configuration

Device Profiling Rules

Endpoint Compliance Scans

User/Host Profiles

Dashboard - Alarms Panel

The following menu and option have been removed from the FortiNAC Control Manager:

NS Servers > Server List

The Host Propagation option has been moved to the Settings > Network Control Manager > Server Synchronization View.

The following menus have been replaced with the Settings view:

System > High Availability
Configuration

System > Properties > Control Panel

System > License
Management

System > Properties > SNMP Server

System > Services

System > Updates > Download
Settings

Feature

Description

The following menu and option have been removed from the FortiNAC Control Manager and replaced with the Users > User View:

Users > User License

The following menus have been added to the FortiNAC Control Manager:

Users > Admin Profiles

Logs > Event Management

Users > Guest Templates

Policy > Policy Configuration

Hosts > Device Profiling Rules

Policy > Roles

Logs > Admin Auditing

System > Groups

Logs > Alarms

System > Scheduler

Logs > Events

System > Settings

Logs > Event to Alarm Mappings

Global Object Synchronization

Global Object Synchronization has been added to enable automatic synchronization of the FortiNAC Server(s) with the FortiNAC Control Manager. Views that include global information display the Global column to indicate which information is synchronized with the FortiNAC Server(s). When enabled, automatic synchronization occurs once per minute. See Server synchronization.

Import button

Selected views allow you to import information from the FortiNAC Server(s) to the FortiNAC Control Manager. This eliminates the need to manually enter the information on the FortiNAC Control Manager. When it is imported to the FortiNAC Control Manager, the information is global.