In this release, Pulse Secure Virtual Traffic Manager has more enhancements for closer integration with Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) and Pulse Policy Secure (PPS), including support for simpler session persistence of RADIUS.  Highlights in this release include: Enhanced LB for PCS/PPS - Extending the capability of earlier releases, Traffic Manager now supports enhanced load-balancing for Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) VPN gateways and Pulse Policy Secure (PPS) network access control. Traffic Manager is able to use a built-in service discovery plugin to measure the license headroom of individual cluster nodes and configure weights, so that new sessions are directed more towards nodes that have more available license capacity. Additional support for RADIUS - For closer integration with Pulse Policy Secure (PPS) and to help organizations manage session persistence of RADIUS, we have added a new function in TrafficScript to provide access to the RADIUS Calling Station . This makes it very easy to set session persistence based on the Calling ID: for example, this TrafficScript code segment uses the Calling Station ID to set universal session persistence: $id = radius.getCallingStationId(); connection.setPersistenceKey( $id ); For information on this and other examples of using TrafficScript to manage transactions, see the TrafficScript reference guide in the user documentation. For more information, please refer to the release notes, available on the download portal. A complete set of user documentation is also available on http://pulsesecure.net/vadc-docs including getting started guides, installation, configuration and API reference documentation. ... View more

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In this release, Pulse Secure Virtual Traffic Manager has additional tools to help with intelligent load balancing of Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) and Pulse Policy Secure (PPS). In addition, new global settings for Session Persistence allow for simpler workload management with timeout of unused session entries in the persistence cache table. Intelligent LB for PCS/PPS - Traffic Manager now supports intelligent load-balancing for Pulse Connect Secure VPN gateways and Pulse Policy Secure network access control. This capability uses a new built-in service discovery plugin to discover PCS/PPS cluster nodes, and can optimize the license usage across cluster nodes by directing new sessions based on available license capacity. Session Persistence Timeouts - Closer control over the persistence cache in Traffic Manager makes it easier to redistribute workload following node reconfiguration or failure, by providing all session persistence entries with an optional lifetime. After an entry expires it is deleted from the persistence cache: a global timeout value can be set for each of the three persistence methods, Source IP, J2EE and Universal persistence. Note that the timeout value is measured since last use, rather than first use: new SNMP monitors are also available to help track session expiry. Long-Term Support release - For customers who prefer longer support cycles to support their operational model, Pulse Secure is identifying Pulse vTM 19.2 as an LTS (Long Term Support) release. As a result, support for Pulse vTM 19.2 will be available for three years after the release date. For more information, please refer to the release notes, available on the download portal. A complete set of user documentation is also available on http://pulsesecure.net/vadc-docs including getting started guides, installation, configuration and API reference documentation.   ... View more

In this release, Pulse Secure Services Director offers the capability to deploy Application Templates to automate configuration of clusters. In addition, Services Director supports a new secure websockets connection for more robust management of Traffic Manager instances in Kubernetes and NAT-enabled networks. Highlights include: Application Templates -   Services Director now supports application templates that simplify and automate the configuration of vTMs for specific applications. Once a template has been installed, an instance of that template can be created with specific parameters (e.g. certificates, node IPs) and applied to a vTM cluster. The template instance's parameters can also be edited afterwards. All the changes to the parameters are propagated automatically to the cluster when the changes are applied. The application templates are published and updated separately. Details are available in the Pulse Secure User Community at   https://community.pulsesecure.net/   vTM-SD Communications Channel   -  Services Director now supports a new vTM-initiated channel for communication between vTMs and Services Director. This allows Services Director to provide its full range of functionality for vTMs that cannot be routed to by Services Director (e.g. because they are behind a NAT device). This feature will be used by default for self-registered vTMs where the vTM and Services Director versions are at least 19.1. Automatic Removal of Inactive vTM Instances -  Services Director can now automatically remove vTMs that have repeatedly failed monitoring from its records, complementing its ability to automatically accept new vTM registration requests. This feature is off by default. Improved MySQL Replication Log Management -  Services Director HA pairs now proactively remove database replication logs that have already been processed, reducing the likelihood of disk space running out for customers with large estates. The setting for the number of days to keep replication logs now only has an effect on non-HA Services Directors or when database replication has failed. For more information, please refer to the release notes, available on the download portal. A complete set of user documentation is also available on http://pulsesecure.net/vadc-docs including getting started guides, installation, configuration and API reference documentation.   ... View more