Release Notes

Anyware Manager

24.03.3

Current supported release General Support

Release 24.03.3 of the Anyware Manager is a maintenance release which replaces and deprecates 24.03.2.

It includes the following:

  • Includes a patch that was inadvertently excluded from the previous version.

Previous release information:

Version 24.03.2 of Anyware Manager as a Service contains bug fixes and stability enhancements. There are no new features in this release.

24.03.2

End of Availability
This release is no longer supported.

Version 24.03.2 of Anyware Manager as a Service contains bug fixes and stability enhancements. There are no new features in this release.

24.03.1

End of Support
This release is no longer supported.

Release Overview

These release notes highlight key additions, resolved and known issues for Anyware Manager 24.03.1.

Note: All features listed for Anyware Manager as a Service will be included in Anyware Manager.

What's New in This Release

The following details “What’s New” in Anyware Manager 24.03.1.

  • Anyware Manager can now use Splunk for log collecting instead of Sumologic.
  • Anyware Monitor data is now integrated into Session History Table in the Admin Console. If Anyware Montor is installed on a workstation, it shall serve as a primary source of information.

Other improvements and bug fixes

Some minor bugs and security issues were fixed in this release, including:

  • Admin Console could not check if the Anyware Manager's administrator had accepted the EULA when users signed in through an AD account, which resulted in an error. This issue is now fixed.

23.08.4

Technical Guidance

Release Overview

These release notes highlight key additions, resolved and known issues for Anyware Manager 23.08.4.

Note: All features listed for Anyware Manager as a Service will be included in Anyware Manager.

What's New in This Release

At HP Inc., our constant endeavour is to enhance our products to best suit your business needs. Our focus in this release was quality, stabilization, usability, and feature enhancements to evolve Anyware Manager into an Enterprise-grade offering with ease of operations. The following details  “What’s New” in Anyware Manager 23.08.4.

Proxy Agent Package causes API failure

When updating the Proxy Agent package, APIs configured to use proxy failed with an unknown error. The issue is fixed in this release.

Other improvements and bug fixes

Some minor bugs and security issues were fixed in this release.

23.08.2

End of Availability
This release is no longer supported.

Release Overview

These release notes highlight key additions, resolved and known issues for Anyware Manager 23.08.

Note: All features listed for Anyware Manager as a Service will be included in Anyware Manager.

What's New in This Release

At HP Inc., our constant endeavour is to enhance our products to best suit your business needs. Our focus in this release was quality, stabilization, usability, and feature enhancements to evolve Anyware Manager into an Enterprise-grade offering with ease of operations. The following details  “What’s New” in Anyware Manager 23.08.

Federated Authentication and Single Sign-On Released

The Federated Authentication and the Single Sign-On functionality are available in this release. These configurations can be enabled in the Admin Console.

Administrators can log off users from the Remote Workstations

In this release, Administrators can monitor the Remote Workstation table in the Admin Console and log off users from their respective remote workstations.

Holding times for Workstation Assignment

In this release, you can assign workstations to users for the desired number of days or hours.

Session History for past and active Sessions with Remote Workstations

Using the Session tab in the Admin console, you can view a comprehensive table of sessions, including both past and currently active sessions in your deployment in this release. There are four possible status for a session:

  • Unknown
  • Active
  • Ended
  • Attempted

Other improvements and bug fixes

Some minor bugs and security issues were fixed in this release.

23.04.1

Technical Guidance

These release notes highlight key additions, resolved and known issues for Anyware Manager 23.04.1.

Note: All features listed for Anyware Manager as a Service will be included in Anyware Manager.

What's New in This Release

At HP Inc., our constant endeavour is to enhance our products to best suit your business needs. Our focus in this release was quality, stabilization, usability, and feature enhancements to evolve Anyware Manager into an Enterprise-grade offering with ease of operations. The following details  “What’s New” in Anyware Manager 23.04.1.

Anyware Monitor Bulk Installation and Registration

With significant enhancements in the installation experience, Anyware Monitor can now be deployed and registered on multiple host machines (new or existing) through scripts in this release.

Anyware Monitor Golden Image Installation

Golden image installation for Anyware Monitor allows you to pull and run an installation image on a system. Using bulk installation, the golden image can carry out up to 50 simultaneous installations in a dark site environment.

Alternative  Hostnames

Alternative hostnames can now be configured for workstations with a multiple Network Interfaces Card (NIC). This is useful, especially in provisioning Intel® AMT workflows for ZWorkstations with dual NICs.

Ability to Configure and Reset Admin Passwords

With this release, Administrators must configure a password of choice during installation. Auto generation of the one-time password for Anyware Manager is deprecated with this release. Administrators must provide flag --manager-admin-password <password> for installation to specify the password, otherwise will be prompted for a password. Administrators can run the command anyware-manager configure --reset-manager-password  to reset the password

Log off Users and Customize Session-end Notification Message

In this release, Administrators can terminate active sessions from the Session column on the Remote Workstation page in the Admin Console. A Session-end Notification message is sent to the user if their session is terminated. Administrators can also customize the message to let users know the reason for session termination.

Other improvements and bug fixes

Some minor bugs and security issues were fixed in this release.

23.01.1

Technical Guidance

Release Overview

These release notes highlight key additions, resolved and known issues for Anyware Manager 23.01.1.

Note: All features listed for Anyware Manager as a Service will be included in Anyware Manager.

What's New in This Release

At HP Inc., our constant endeavour is to enhance our products to best suit your business needs. Our focus in this release was quality, stabilization, usability, and feature enhancements to evolve Anyware Manager into an Enterprise-grade offering with ease of operations. The following details  “What’s New” in Anyware Manager 23.01.1.

Improvements and bug fixes

  • The issues causing the communication malfunction between Anyware Manager and Monitor are fixed in this release.
  • Security issues and bugs are fixed in this release.
  • Reliability in the Remote Workstations page in Anyware Manager Admin Console is further improved.

 

 

 

23.01

End of Support
This release is no longer supported.

Release Overview

These release notes highlight key additions, resolved and known issues for Anyware Manager 23.01.

Note: All features listed for Anyware Manager as a Service will be included in Anyware Manager.

What's New in This Release

At HP Inc., our constant endeavour is to enhance our products to best suit your business needs. Our focus in this release was quality, stabilization, usability, and feature enhancements to evolve Anyware Manager into an Enterprise-grade offering with ease of operations. The following details  “What’s New” in Anyware Manager 23.01.

Hardware alerts for Intel® AMT enabled workstations with Hardware Monitor installed

In this release, Anyware Manager displays Hardware alerts, including system boot errors and power supply errors for Intel® AMT enabled workstations that have a hardware monitor installed. HP ZCentral Hardware Monitor detects and displays power supply errors. 

Note: The system will only detect and display operating system-related errors for all Intel® AMT workstations without the hardware monitor installed.

Anyware Monitor in-session notifications

In this release, Anyware Monitor has the following functionalities:

  • A 'pending end-of-session' notification alert to the workstation when a log-off is scheduled for an active session in the Admin Console.
  • Administrators can choose to customize the notification messages being sent to a workstation.

Anyware Monitor installation on a single workstation

Anyware Monitor installer files are now packaged within the Anyware Manager 23.01 installable suite to ensure support for Anyware Manager Darksite users.

Other improvements and bug fixes

Some minor bugs and security issues were fixed in this release.

Updated Software License Terms

Updated the software use license terms; by installing and using these updates you agree and accept the new license terms. For more information, see HP Anyware End User License Agreement.

22.09

End of Support
This release is no longer supported.

Release Overview

These release notes summarize and highlight key additions, resolved issues, and known issues for Anyware Manager 22.09.

Note: All features listed for Anyware Manager as a Service will be included in Anyware Manager.

What's New in This Release

At HP Inc., our constant endeavor is to enhance our products to best suit your business needs. Our focus in this release was quality, stabilization, usability, and a few enhancements to enable Anyware Manager to evolve into an Enterprise-grade offering with ease of operations. The following details  “What’s New” in Anyware Manager 22.09.

CAS Manager Rebranding

As part of the HP integration effort, HP-Teradici has launched a fresh new look and rebranding for the CAS suite of products.

  • CAS Manager is rebranded as Anyware Manager.
  • CAS Manager as a Service is rebranded as Anyware Manager as a Service.

AMT Power Management in Anyware Manager

Anyware Manager can now use Intel AMT® to remotely power operate physical workstations. Once the physical workstation is provisioned with Intel AMT® and is within the deployment, Power Management can be performed through the Admin Console or when a PCoIP session is established.

Workstation Session Information in Anyware Manager

With this release, we are introducing a new component called Anyware Manager Monitor. The focus of this new component is PCoIP session monitoring and management while offering the ability to log off users from remote workstations. Anyware Manager Monitor must be installed on the respective workstations to enable this feature.  

End of Session Clean up

Anyware Manager Monitor also enhances shared workstations' experience in a floating assignment pool. When a user disconnects from a machine assigned to them via a pool, it will immediately be marked as available for the next requested session. However, If a user disconnects without gracefully logging off,  IT Admins can force the session to end and log off the user via the Admin Console.