Umbrella Virtual Appliance - Version 2.7

On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Cisco Umbrella will release Virtual Appliance (VA) version 2.7.10 to the stage track. These VAs will upgrade from version 2.7.9 to version 2.7.10.

On Thursday, February 27, 2020, Cisco Umbrella will release Virtual Appliance (VA) version 2.7.10 to the first, second and third wave of the production track. These VAs will upgrade from version 2.7.9 to version 2.7.10.

On Monday, March 2, 2020, Cisco Umbrella will release Virtual Appliance (VA) version 2.7.9 and version 2.7.10 to the final wave of the production track. These VAs will upgrade from version 2.6.2 to version 2.7.9 and 2.7.10 in quick succession.

Note: VA version 2.7.10 is a patch release and will not cause the VA to restart. 

Important Notice: If you are using SNMP to monitor disk utilization on the VA, please note that the OID for disk utilization is changed in version 2.7.9. You will need to start monitoring the new OID as mentioned below. 

SNMP OID for disk utilization:

Version 2.7.6 and prior: .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.9.1.9.9

Version 2.7.9 and above: .1.3.6.1.4.1.8072.1.3.2.4.1.2.9.100.105.115.107.117.115.97.103.101

The threshold for monitoring remains the same i.e. if the value returned on querying this OID is consistently greater than 0.8, then this indicates that the VA is running out of disk space. 

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Customer VAs may upgrade over a period of days as opposed to consecutively upgrading one after another. To receive this upgrade, ensure that your firewall is configured to enable access to disthost.umbrella.com.

As a reminder, two VAs must be configured in order to upgrade automatically during these windows.  

CHANGE SUMMARY (2.7.9 to 2.7.10)

• Patch release to address an issue around NTP server configuration on upgraded VAs. This release will not cause a restart of the VA.

CHANGE SUMMARY (2.7.6 to 2.7.9)

• SNMP OID for monitoring data disk usage is changed. 

 CHANGE SUMMARY (2.7.1 and 2.7.2 to 2.7.6)

• Addresses issues where internal domain resolution was failing for some customers. 

 CHANGE SUMMARY (2.7.1 and 2.7.2 to 2.7.6)

• Addresses issues where internal domain resolution was failing for some customers. 

CHANGE SUMMARY (2.6.2 to 2.7.6)

• Support for configuring custom NTP servers on each Virtual Appliance
• Support for receiving AD user-IP mappings from the Umbrella AD Connector and GSuite user-IP mappings from Umbrella Chromebook clients over HTTPS (This requires the AD Connector to be running version 1.5.1 or above and the Umbrella Chromebook Client to be running version 1.3.3 or above)
• Support for rate limiting DNS traffic on a per-IP basis
• Support for configuring multiple routers as BGP peers for the Anycast configuration on the VA
• Support for BGP peering over multiple hops for the Anycast configuration on the VA
• Support for using the Umbrella US-only resolvers instead of the global Umbrella resolvers
• Addresses issue where VA console cannot be accessed due to low screen resolution on some systems that are upgrading directly from versions prior to 2.4. 
• Addresses issue where swap space on the VA was getting fully utilized in some situations
• Addresses issue where the console on the VA was getting hung occasionally
• Support for receiving incoming DNS from an Infoblox appliance running NIOS 8.3 or higher and forwarding it to Umbrella
• Fixes some issues around SNMPv3 configuration

Previous release schedule 

On Monday, December 2, 2019, Cisco Umbrella released Virtual Appliance (VA) version 2.7 to the stage track. 

On Tuesday, December 3, 2019, Cisco Umbrella released Virtual Appliance (VA) version 2.7.1 (same as previous version 2.6.2) to the stage track and production tracks. Only Virtual Appliances running version 2.7.0 will upgrade to version 2.7.1.  

On Tuesday, December 10, 2019, Cisco Umbrella released Virtual Appliance (VA) version 2.7.2 to the stage track.  

On Monday, January 20, 2020, Cisco Umbrella will release Virtual Appliance (VA) version 2.7.6 to the stage track.  

On Monday, February 17, 2020, Cisco Umbrella will release Virtual Appliance (VA) version 2.7.9 to the second and third wave of the production track. These VAs will upgrade from version 2.6.2 to version 2.7.9.

On Monday, February 10, 2020, Cisco Umbrella will release Virtual Appliance (VA) version 2.7.9 to the first wave of the production track. These VAs will upgrade from version 2.6.2 to version 2.7.9.

On Tuesday, February 4, 2020, Cisco Umbrella will release Virtual Appliance (VA) version 2.7.9 to the stage track. These VAs will upgrade from version 2.7.x to 2.7.9.