Cisco Dynamic Attributes Connector Release Notes

Thank you for choosing Firepower. These are the Cisco Secure Dynamic Attributes Connector Release Notes.

New Features in This Release

Migration from DockerHub to Amazon ECR

Docker images for the Cisco Secure Dynamic Attributes Connector are being migrated from Docker Hub to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR).

To use the new field packages, you must allow access through your firewall or proxy to all of the following URLs:

Supported Platforms

  • Ubuntu 18.04 to 22.04.2

  • CentOS 7 Linux

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 or 8

  • Python 3.6.x or later

  • Ansible 2.9 or later

Minimum requirements for all operating systems:

  • 4 CPUs

  • 8GB RAM

  • For new installations, 100GB available disk space

We recommend you size your virtual machines as follows:

  • 50 connectors, assuming 5 filters per connector and 20,000 workloads: 4 CPUs; 8GB RAM; 100GB available disk space

  • 125 connectors, assuming 5 filters per connector and 50,000 workloads: 8 CPUs, 16 GBRAM, 100GB available disk space


Note


Failure to size your virtual machines properly can cause the dynamic attributes connector to fail or not to start.


If you wish to use vCenter attributes, we also require:

  • vCenter 6.7

  • VMware Tools must be installed on the virtual machine

List of connectors

Table 1. List of supported connectors by Cisco Secure Dynamic Attributes Connector version and platform

CSDAC version/platform

AWS

GitHub

Google Cloud

Azure

Azure Service Tags

Microsoft Office 365

vCenter

Version 1.1 (on-premises)

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Version 2.0 (on-premises)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Version 2.2 (on-premises)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Issues Fixed in This Release

Version 2.2.0 Fixed Issues

Table 2. Version 2.2.0 Fixed Issues

Bug ID

Headline

CSCvy62798

You can now upload a certificate chain for a vCenter connector or On-Prem Firewall Management Center adapter in addition to fetching the certificate chain.

CSCwf03852

The dynamic attributes connector now maintains one persistent REST connection to the Secure Firewall Management Center.

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