New features in 8.7.0

The following are the new features available with the Xprotect version 8.7.0 released on the 24th of July, 2020:

Set custom Connectivity status thresholds for hosts

On the Settings > Configurations page, specify the custom time thresholds after which Xprotect must consider hosts to be Offline and Unreachable. Hosts can be deemed Offline after they are not reachable (to Xprotect) for 8 minutes or more and for up to 60 minutes. Hosts can be deemed Unreachable when they are not reachable for more than 2 minutes after they are Offline and up to 30 days after they are Offline. 

If you set custom thresholds, the data on the Dashboard widgets, the Hosts page (Status column), and filters and Bookmarks that use Connectivity status as a criterion, automatically start to use the custom thresholds.

Use this feature with the Auto-delete Unreachable hosts feature to only retain the essential hosts, on the Hosts page.

See Set custom Connectivity status thresholds for more details.

Schedule auto-deletion of entries of Unreachable hosts from the Hosts page

On the Settings > Configurations page, configure the Auto-delete feature to let Xprotect delete the entries of unessential hosts that have been Unreachable for some time. This can help you see only essential hosts on the Hosts page.

To set hosts for auto-deletion, you must tag the hosts when you install agents on them, or from the Xprotect UI, or include the tags in the configuration for Auto Scale or similar features on third-party clouds. Later, you must configure the Auto-delete feature using the following:

• Auto-delete tags - a list of 'include' tags and 'exclude' tags of the hosts whose entries that must be deleted when delete jobs are run. Xprotect retains the hosts with the 'exclude' tags, even though they are tagged with the 'include' tags.

• Auto-delete duration - selected Unreachable host entries (with 'include' tags, but not 'exclude' tags) are deleted after this time duration, when delete jobs are run. The default is 14 days.The minimum allowed duration is Zero and the maximum allowed duration is 30 days.

• Auto-delete rule - an Auto-delete rule is a combination of One or more Auto-delete tags and the Auto-delete duration. You can create multiple Auto-delete rules for a tenant.

• Auto-delete frequency - the frequency at which the jobs for the Auto-delete rules must run. By design, the job runs once every day at 12 AM GMT. The default frequency is One day. You can set this frequency for up to 30 days. This is a global setting for all Auto-delete rules.

See Schedule auto-deletion of unessential Unreachable hosts for more details.