What's New in this Release
This section describes the new features and enhancements in this release of AsyncOS for Secure Email and Web Manager.
Feature |
Description |
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TLS 1.3 Support for Web Interface and API Server |
You can use TLS 1.3 for TLS communication across the legacy or new web interfaces of your Secure Email and Web Manager and the API services. For more information, see Secure Communication Protocol. |
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Monitoring Vault Service and Sending Alerts |
Your Secure Email and Web Manager now monitors the Vault service and keeps track of its status, whether it is initialized or not. It also sends appropriate alert messages and logs status information into mail_logs. You can access the alert logs using one of the following ways:
If the Vault service fails to initialize due to any issues, you receive alert messages (in the mail, on the web interface, and in the CLI) to indicate that the Vault service is down, and you have to execute the Vault Recovery process to restore the Vault service.
You will receive alert messages in the following scenarios:
To restore the Vault service, you have to execute the Vault Recovery process.
For more information on how to save the Secure Email and Web Manager’s configuration, see Saving Secure Email and Web Manager's Configuration section in the Release Notes. For information on how to execute the Vault Recovery process, see Executing Vault Recovery Process to Resolve Vault Issues section in the Release Notes. |
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Mandatory Usage of Cisco Smart Software Licensing for On-Premises Users |
The Cisco Smart Software Licensing usage is mandatory from this release (all releases post AsyncOS 15.0 release) for Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager.
Prerequisite: Make sure you create a smart account in the Cisco Smart Software Manager portal and enable Cisco Smart Software Licensing on your Secure Email and Web Manager. For more information, see Smart Software Licensing. After you enable Cisco Smart Software Licensing, you can upgrade your Secure Email and Web Manager to this release and continue to use the existing feature licenses in the Smart Licensing mode. |
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Search Filter Enhancement |
To enhance your search, two new filters, Contains and Does Not Contain, are added to the drop-down list on the Search ribbon at the bottom of the reporting pages on the new web interface. For more information, see Searching and the Interactive Email Report Pages |