Remote Device Management Support

The remote device management feature provides the user with the ability to enable or disable the remote access to the device configuration page from Cisco IOx Local Manager over a non-link local address.

More information can be found in the Cisco IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Deployment Guide.

Manual Date and Time Options

The date, time and timezone can be set manually on the IC3000 via Local Manager (LM) GUI under the Device Configuration tab.

Note : This option is available via the LM in developer mode only. After modifying the date and time, the device should be reloaded to make sure that features depending on time and date function properly.

Manual DNS Settings

Previously, DNS configuration through only a DHCP server was supported. This is called auto DNS. Now there is a manual option to allow users to add DNS configuration. A user configured DNS configuration will co-exist with the configuration received through DHCP server, but given priority.

During the mode change from Auto to Manual and vice versa, DHCP on the interface will be not restarted. Therefore, no network disruption is introduced. Save and restore on a reload of user DNS configuration is supported.

The following DNS options are user configurable:

■Up to 3 name servers

■Up to 3 search directives

■Only 1 domain directive

Feature Assumptions

■This feature is exposed to the user through FND and LM.

■3 name server entries total can be added either by the user or the DHCP server. If a user adds all 3 entries, then entries added from the DHCP server will not be added to the configuration.

■In the case where 3 name server entries added by the user are deleted, there may be no name server in the configuration. DHCP lease time will decide when entries by the DHCP server are updated again.

■The same assumptions are true for domain and search directives.

Command Line Interface

The following CLI commands are supported:

Manual NTP Settings

In a manual NTP configuration, the user can configure the NTP servers. The user configuration co-exists with the NTP configuration received by DHCP server.

The following NTP options can be set by the user:

■Up to 5 NTP servers.

■Polling interval includes max and min poll.

■NTP Authentication - User provides the id, type and value of the keys.

Feature Assumptions

■The manual configuration is done through the FND and Local Manager.

Command Line Interface

The following CLI commands are supported:

New Reset Button Options

The device can be returned to the original factory configuration by using the reset button. The reset button is a small button accessed through a pinhole located on the front of the device. For the location, see the IC3000 Hardware Configuration Guide.

The reset button options are:

■Press 10 to 15 seconds - Device is reloaded.

■Press 30 to 35 seconds - All user configurations are removed and device is reloaded.

■Press 60 to 65 seconds - All user configurations are removed, all images are cleared except for the factory image, and the device is reloaded with the factory image.

Reboot Button on Local Manager GUI

The IC3000 can be rebooted remotely with a reboot button in the Local Manager (LM) GUI under the Device Configuration tab.

FND 4.5.1

FND 4.5.1 New Features shows details about the new features in FND release 4.5.1. For additional information see the Release Notes for IoT Field Network Director, Release 4.5.x

Table 1 FND 4.5.1 New Features

IOx 1.8

The following are the new features for Cisco IOx Release 1.8.0. For additional information see Release Notes for Cisco IOx Release 1.8.0.

■All /myapps and /localapps APIs have been deprecated and a single unified API /apps has been provided for all apps related operations.

■Support to add authorized devices into Fog Director.

■Subscription for alerts call back feature.

■Support for installing any version of an app on a set of devices from Fog Director.

■App health monitoring inside containers.

■New appearance of apps dashboard on Fog Director.

■Support for importing ova files into Fog Director.

■Support for installing docker apps from Fog Director and Local Manager.

■Support for installing docker apps from the docker hub without any additional IOx metadata.

Open Caveats

■ CSCvq81535

On re-installation of an application, FD sends the same runtime option which caused the failure during first try.

Conditions : Trigger docker app installation on a device with invalid/ black listed runtime options. For example: --name Application deploy failed with "Error while changing app state:App Activation error: Given option:'--name' is black listed!" Trigger a re-installation on the same failed device with the correct run time option -p 5201:5201. The browser console shows that ? action payload has correct run time option which was used.

Workaround #1 : Uninstall the application and install again with the correct runtime options. The list of run time options that are not supported can be found here:

https://developer.cisco.com/docs/iox/#!platform-information/cisco-ic3000-gateway

Workaround #2 : Retry and remove forever, then trigger the application installation with the correct run time options.

■ CSCvr04482

Factory reset operation fails to clean up and delete CAF partitions.

Symptoms : Pressing the factory reset button fails to delete applications. This occurs when Release 1.1.1 is not a factory image, or devices which were running a previous version of Release 1.0.1 as a factory image.

Workaround : Perform factory reset operation again when the device returns to 1.0.1 image by pressing the reset for more than 10 seconds.