August 2022

What's New in this Release

Location Hierarchy

The following new features are introduced in Location Hierarchy to support the Cisco Smart workspaces use cases.

Location Hierarchy background synchronization now supports:

  • Synchronization of the Meraki MT sensor devices in the Meraki networks or floor locations.

  • Synchronization of Cisco Webex devices with meeting rooms and desks.

What's Changed in this Release

Cisco Spaces Partner Dashboard

The following enhancement is made in the Cisco Spaces Partner dashboard:

A new event called NETWORK_STATUS_UPDATE is added in the Events section. This event provides network information such as status, last heard, type, connector name, IP address and so on.

Cisco Spaces Dashboard

The following enhancement is made in the Cisco Spaces dashboard:

OpenRoaming SDK Profile

Cisco Spaces now supports configuration of OpenRoaming Wi-Fi profile using the Menu () Integrations > Cisco Spaces SDK > Configure Profile window. You can create a customer specific profile for a particular tenant based on the values you provide in the Configure Profile window.

Prior to this enhancement, the profile used to be updated manually in the backend.

Data Export

Data export configuration now supports the following additional data export types:

  • Captive portal - Customer Acquisition

  • Right Now - People Count (Camera)


Note

For Cisco Spaces dashboard SEE license customer accounts, data export types such as Captive portal, and Engagement and Location Personas are not available for export. For ACT license customer accounts, all data types are available for export.

Location Hierarchy

During the background synchronization process, the Meraki Scanning API Notification URL for configuration template networks are updated automatically.

Firehose API

A new field, openRoamingUserId, is added for the Wi-Fi events in the Firehose API. This field carries the identity of the OpenRoaming users who are onboarded by the SDK. In other cases, the value of this field is nil.

Map Service

Map Service API performance is enhanced to get the import history and status.

Issues

Issues describe unexpected behavior in the Cisco Spaces application. The Resolved Issues and Open Issues sections list the issues in this release.

The following information is provided for each issue:

  • Identifier: Each issue is assigned a unique identifier (ID) with a pattern of CSCxxNNNNN, where x is any letter (a-z) and N is any number (0-9). These IDs are frequently referenced in Cisco documentation, such as Security Advisories, Field Notices, and other Cisco support documents. Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) engineers or other Cisco staff can also provide you with the ID for a specific issue.

  • Description: A description of what is observed when the issue occurs.