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Key Takeaways
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Release 23.4 Cumulative Update 4 (CU4) for DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) adds significant improvements to the product’s security stance and extends technical currency to support modern infrastructures. The release builds on the proven track record of DX UIM to deliver enterprise-ready capabilities and monitoring coverage, while meeting the highest standards for security, scalability, and performance.
Password policy enhancements
With CU4, the password policy applied across the product gets a significant update. Administrators can now tailor aspects of the DX UIM password policy to align more precisely with SecOps guidelines of the organization. In the security policy, administrators can now specify the following:
- The number of days before passwords expire.
- The number of previously used passwords a user would be pre-empted from using when updating a password.
- The number of days prior to password expiration to notify users via the UI.
Additionally, users can now be required to adhere to more stringent password guidelines when setting their access credentials. These stipulations include requirements that passwords contain at least one upper case, one lower case, one number, and one special character.
Enhanced MCS supportability with callbacks
This release delivers new enhancements to the user experience of the Monitoring Configuration Service (MCS) for administrators by providing them with in-context access to deployment event logs. This allows administrators to validate the success of the deployment of an MCS profile to any set of target devices. In cases of failure (or pending failure), administrators can determine the failure point and understand its context directly from the inventory page of the operator console so that they can take corrective action.
Monitoring probe updates
DX UIM continues its practice of delivering security and technical currency updates on various monitoring probes.
Notably, critical monitoring probes like CDM, RSP, Net_Connect, VMware, and more are being upgraded with enriched topology collection and accurate metric nomenclature to support advanced infrastructure observability. This enables accurate visualization of topology, closely resembling what is seen in the actual enterprise environment. It also greatly improves such capabilities as cross-domain correlated alarms, business-driven impact analysis, the latest in generative AI, and many other topology-driven capabilities for AIOps and observability. Through the ingestion of telemetry collected by DX UIM into DX Operational Observability (DX O2), additional powerful use cases are now available to users.
The release also includes significant performance and stability improvements in the OI Connector and APM Bridge connectors, which are now also able to send data collected by monitoring probes with enriched topology to DX O2.
Finally, the Sybase monitoring probes (Sybase, and Sybase_RS for Replication Server monitoring) now support configuration using the MCS. This removes a constraint regarding their use in large-scale enterprise environments. The updated probes also support the latest Sybase ASE v16 along with an updated security policy that uses the industry-standard AES 256 as the default encryption algorithm, while deprecating support for weaker algorithms like AES 128 and TWOFISH.
Support for Jasper Reports Server 9.0 and OAuth
This CU4 update adds support for CABI with Jasper Reports Server 9.0. Additionally, CABI now enhances its authentication support with its ability to integrate with any OAuth-based OpenID provider. Stay tuned for updates on ongoing work on an open, REST API-based framework in lieu of CABI to support integration with any contemporary business intelligence tool, and on support for out-of-the-box reporting via UIM BI.
Platform updates
Finally, Release 23.4, Cumulative Update 4 adds support for Microsoft Windows 2022 and 2025 to host DX UIM components, such as server, hubs, robots, and system probes, even with non-root access privileges. This release deprecates support for RHEL 7.
Ravishu Arora
Ravishu Arora is a Principal Product Manager at Broadcom Software leading our infrastructure monitoring solutions. He has nearly 20 years of experience working on enterprise products for some of the largest names across industries and is known for being a customer experience champion in the organization.
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