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June 2021

Alexandre de THOMASSON
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Cloudi-Fi’s Updates in June 2021: Summary of Changes and Improvements.

 

Hi everyone!

Welcome to June 2021 Release note, this month we continued our UI refresh effort, we moved some settings features, and we rebuilt a great integration module to make it even better:

 

New features

Integrations:

  • Meraki: with this new version, you can control what Cloudi-Fi can synchronise from your Meraki infrastructure. You can now automatically create locations from some or all of your networks or even your device tags if that’s how you manage them. Our synchronisation mechanism is also twice as fast, even if it may still take some time if you have an extensive infrastructure. This is why we made this new integration “stateful, " meaning you can start, leave it aside, and resume it later. Last but not least, we now support multiple activations so that you can plug your Cloudi-Fi account into different Meraki organisations and/or select different settings for different networks. More information can be found on Meraki integration in our KB article.

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  • Zscaler: Cloudi-Fi can now be enabled on any existing exiting Zscaler tenant with SAML authentication enabled. With the previous synchronisation method, a dedicated Zscaler was required. Today, we extended our capabilities by providing a solution to customers who would like to enable Cloudi-Fi directly in their Zscaler tenant and re-use existing Tunnels. Furthermore, tunnel provisioning is now nearly real-time. You can create your location and almost immediately get your tunnel connection details.

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  • Cambium: We now support integration with Cambium network infrastructure with an on-premise CN Maestro controller.

 

General improvements:

  • My Account and Company Account: those sections were revamped. Subscription and service usage are back in the Company Account in a more readable way than before.

  • Advanced Settings: this section is gone, and its features were split into Auth Modes, Integrations, and Extensions.

 

Guest registration:

  • SAML authentication for Sponsors on Guest account validation

  • Multi-step validation - Multiple services may have to give their agreement before a Guest can connect to the network

  • QR Code scanning to grant access to your guests. A QR Code may appear on the Guest screen in connection to the portal. Once scanned by a Sponsor, the Guest accesses the Wifi Network.

  • LDAP Authentication support

 

Bug fixes

  • Improved authentication and session (users were disconnected too frequently)

  • The wrong portal was showing up randomly due to a caching issue.

  • User recognition randomly failed due encryption key access issue.