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This release is not essential and does fix some issues, but nothing major. I consider it same as Advantech bug fixes and some goodies release. Below is my list of stand out changes. Full release notes are here Release Notes. Highlight changes Support for 802.1X Authenticator Configuration File Parameters increased to 1000 lines This helps when you want to have few User Modules and as some do have a lot of configuration parameters. Now they all fit into the configuration backup file. Nice. Firmware Update Improvement The process of firmware update was improved for devices with eMMC memory. One of the...

How to troubleshoot 4G router connectivity problems and not to deploy full monitoring suite? Similar questions or simple. My 4G router (Advantech) behaves strange, how to find out, what is going on? Not want to use or go via the hassle of setting up SNMP monitoring or similar. What about getting notification into a Slack channel, when some router metrics changes. This can provide quick and easy insight into what is actually happening and we can use software tools, which are ready available. We will end up with something like this in your Slack channel: Let’s start with Slack. Follow...

Work on location beacon for industrial harsh environment is progressing very well. With metal parts delivered. I could start to test different materials for additive manufacturing process. I focus only on materials, which can be used long term outdoors under harsh Australian conditions. Ambient temperatures reaching over 60°C. Below picture is showing 68°C in lovely November temperature in Brisbane, Australia. This would be because of the black plastic housing of the temperature meter as Bosch BME280 in white housing was reporting 56°C. As we do have temperature sensor available on the location beacon. Monitoring the temperature inside of the housing...

We have put together sample script to demonstrate how to manage group of routers on scale via scripts. The script is using encrypted and secure HTTPS protocol to transfer all data. If you would like to use it in your application, please let us know.   Attribution Background vector created by freepik - www.freepik.com

As usual, 6.1.10 brings a line of fixes and improvements on board. Just to point out some: Brute-force login attack blocking mechanism Implemented a protection mechanism that will block any HTTP(S) access from an IP address for one minute after three unsuccessful login attempts. Filtering out of Sensitive Data Sensitive data from the report are now filtered out for security reasons. Note #1: The report can be generated in the GUI on Status -> System Log page by Save Report button.   Note #2: The report can be generated by the report command from the command line as well. Dynamic execution...