RIVERBED PRODUCT RELEASE NOTES

PRODUCT: XIRRUS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (XMS)

RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 14, 2018
VERSION: 8.2.7-8408

CONTENTS
1) New Features
2) Fixed Problems
3) Known Issues
4) Limitations and Conditions
5) Upgrade notes
6) Hardware and Software Requirements
7) Contacting Riverbed Support

1) NEW FEATURES
New AP Support
• Support for a new outdoor AP model XH2-240

Other Features and Enhancements

• For backup, support for an FTP server that requires SHA2 support

2) FIXED PROBLEMS
Resolved Issues between 8.2.5-8381 and 8.2.7-8408
• 33531 When Filter Traffic Limit (per station or for all stations) value is set below 250
Kbps, configuration push will result in failure, for APs with AOS 8.4.3 or above.
• XMSE-772 In Station Count widget and Monitor -> Stations, scoping by profile/group
doesn’t display stations that were connected in the past and roamed to an AP not in the
selected profile/group scope.
 • XMSE-1123 Station Count widget shows the wrong number of online stations
• XMSE-2466 Data disk usage increases exponentially to the point of filling the disk.
Systems with large number of APs/Stations/Sessions are particularly susceptible.

3) KNOWN ISSUES
• 21504 Port Mappings by Switch does not show any port mappings.
• 30892 Upgrading AOS from version 7.6 to version 8.3.2 requires a refresh (either
automatic or manual) to start working over secure web-sockets

4) LIMITATIONS AND CONDITIONS

• After backup is restored to a machine with a different IP address from the original
machine, Access Point refresh is required to configure all Access Points with new XMS
machine
• After EasyPass is configured on an SSID, this SSID could not be used for other captive
portal types.
• EasyPass Portal should not be deleted in XMS-Cloud until the corresponding SSID is
deleted from XMS-Enterprise.
• When using EasyPass Personal, SSID statistics data is calculated for Personal SSIDs,
however these SSIDs will not be displayed in configuration panels
• When an existing Captive Portal is configured on an SSID, EasyPass cannot be used on
this SSID
• Duplicate Access point entries are displayed when the name of Profiles or AP groups are
differentiated only by underscored (“_”) and a white space
• XMSE-752 Configuring multiple SSIDs with the same name but different casing, will only
display last configured SSID

5) UPGRADE NOTES
• If you are upgrading from a release earlier than 8.1.1, please upgrade to XMS-
Enterprise 8.1.7 first, with the XMS Upgrade tool.

• After restarting XMS for the first time after upgrading, it may take 5-10 minutes or
longer for the Web UI to be available.

• If you are using AOS older than 7.6, please upgrade AOS before you upgrade XMS.

• Access Points which are not online during upgrade, need to be discovered manually
after the upgrade process.

• XMS Enterprise 8.x requires an SSH credentials to the Access Points to perform

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 Discovery. Please make sure you have SSH user(s) configured on the system.

• Upon upgrade from previous releases, column selection will revert to default.

6) HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

XMS-Enterprise 8.2.7-8408 is a feature release that supports the following
Xirrus AP and HD AP Versions:

XS Series Not supported

XN Series Not supported
XR-320 AOS Lite 8.2.4 and above
X2-120 AOS Lite 8.2.4 and above
XR-520/H AOS 8.3.6 and above
XR-620 AOS 8.3.6 and above
XR-630 AOS 8.3.6 and above
XR-1xxx AOS 8.3.6 and above
XR-2xxx AOS 8.3.6 and above
XR-4xxx AOS 8.3.6 and above
XR-6/7xxx AOS 8.3.6 and above
XD4-130 AOS 8.3.6 and above
XH2-120 AOS 8.3.6 and above
XD2-230 AOS 8.4.2 and above
XD2-240 AOS 8.3.6 and above
XD4-240 AOS 8.3.6 and above
XA4-240 AOS 8.3.6 and above

• The software is available to customers with a premium support contract. You will
need a new license key to update from XMS release 8.0.6-7441 or earlier.

• Xircon Access default: XMS-E versions prior to 7.0 had Xircon access set to OFF by
default and versions 7.0 and beyond have it set to ON by default (to allow for
diagnosing issues on Arrays). If you had Xircon set to off and upgraded from a pre-7.0
to a 7.0 or later build your setting will be preserved. The recommendation is to set
Xircon ON.

• XMS-Enterprise 8.2.7-8408 is upgradable from XMS-Enterprise 8.2.5-8381. Do not

downgrade from this version to an earlier version.
o Please see Upgrade Notes if you are upgrading from XMS-Enterprise version
earlier than 8.1.x.

• XMS-Enterprise 8.1.x (and above) requires minimum of 8GB of RAM.

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 • Ports 9444 and 8085 to be open between APs and XMS-Enterprise (in addition to the
ports in previous releases).
Supported Platforms
This release supports the following platforms:

• VMware ESXi 5.5, 6.0, 6.5

• Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V Role.
• Windows Server 2012 R2 Core with Hyper-V Role
• Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V Role
• Windows Server 2016 Core with Hyper-V Role

Supported Browsers

Latest and one older version of the following browsers as of December 2018.
• Chrome
• Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Safari
• Edge

7) CONTACTING RIVERBED SUPPORT

Visit the Riverbed Support site to download software updates and documentation, browse
our library of Knowledge Base articles and manage your account. To open a support case,
choose one of the options below.
Phone
Riverbed provides phone support at 1-888-RVBD-TAC (1-888-782-3822). Outside the U.S. dial
+1 415 247 7381.
Online
You can also submit a support case online

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