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Cisco UCS Director Shell Guide, Release 6.9

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Chapter: New and Changed Information for this Release

New and Changed Information for this Release
New and Changed Information

New and Changed Information for this Release

This chapter contains the following sections:

New and Changed Information

The following table provides an overview of the significant changes to this guide for this current release. The table does not provide an exhaustive list of all changes made to this guide or of all new features in this release.

Table 1. New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Director Shell, Release 6.9(4.0)
Feature	Description	Where Documented
Warming message about insecure protocols	A warning message is displayed during the execution of shell commands involving HTTP, Telnet, or FTP to alert the user that support for these insecure protocols will be deprecated.	Applying a Patch to Cisco UCS Director Applying a Signed Patch to Cisco UCS Director Backing Up the Database Restoring the Database Enabling HTTP Access
Warming message about enabling NTP authentication	Cisco UCS Director displays a warning message highlighting the importance of enabling NTP authentication when synchronizing time with an NTP server.	NTP Authentication During Time Sync with NTP Server

Table 2. New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Director Shell, Release 6.9(3.0)
Feature	Description	Where Documented
Migration of firewall configuration	Cisco UCS Director supports 'nftables' as the firewall framework, since the support for 'iptables' has been deprecated in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 environment.	Granting Client Access to MariaDB Port Denying Client Access to MariaDB Port
Managing Hosts Configuration	Allows you to view and perform hosts configuration, and update and delete host entries using the Shelladmin option Hosts Configuration.	Managing Hosts Configuration

Table 3. New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Director Shell, Release 6.9(2.0)
Feature	Description	Where Documented
Shelladmin options for ucsdadmin user	The root user access is disabled and ucsdadmin user access is enabled by default. The following shell admin options are introduced for the ucsdadmin user access: Manage ucsdadmin Access Login as ucsdadmin	Managing ucsdadmin Access
Configuring password policy	The new Shell admin option Configure Password Policy allows you to define a password policy that must be followed while setting passwords for shelladmin, ucsdadmin, and root users.	Configuring Password Policy

Table 4. New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Director Shell, Release 6.9(1.0)
Feature	Description	Where Documented
Scale Setup Configuration	The new Shelladmin option Configure Scale Setup allows you to set up the scale configurations based on the VM counts for standalone node or primary and database node.	Configuring Scale Setup
NTP Authentication during time synchronization with NTP Server	The enhanced Shelladmin option Time Sync allows you to use NTP server with authentication.	NTP Authentication During Time Sync with NTP Server
Configuring DNS Server with DNSSEC Feature	The Shelladmin option Configure DNS allows you to configure a DNS server with DNSSEC feature that enhances DNS security and prevents potential attacks on the network.	Configuring DNS

Table 5. New Features and Changed Behavior in Cisco UCS Director Shell, Release 6.9
Feature	Description	Where Documented
Shell scripts enhancements	Shell options output updated to display additional details	Most of the sections in this guide are updated. Configuring a Network Interface Displaying Appliance Network Details

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