4. Ivanti Automation
Source: Gartner
AutomationO n b o a r d U s e r
AD account
Mailbox
AD Groups
Create account
Assign rights
Create account
Assign rights
Access ftp
Deploy Software
S e r v i c e R e q u e s t
6. Deploy software /
server config
(DC, SQL, IIS)
Virtual resources
provisioned and
access granted
to requester
Ongoing VM
management /
maintences
User requests
VMs from Self
Service Portal
Provisioning of Virtual Machines
7. Product
Strategy
Optimizing Administrator experience
with new template libraries, reporting
and analytics
Extend integration tools & APIs enabling
Ivanti, partners and customers to
leverage Automation in their solutions
Expand Automation connector library,
deliver prebuilt templates focused on
key verticals
Deliver best in class enablement training
to our teams and customers
8. Ivanti Automation Product Roadmap – Objective Map
Q3 2021Q4 2020 Q1 2021 Q2 2021
Grow
Automation
Usage
OUTCOME TIME FRAME
Integrate
Ivanti and
Beyond
Unify IT
Improve usability & expand features of core
technology
Extend ecosystem of connector & ability to
integrate
Key technology enabling Ivanti Portfolio
9. 2020.0 Released January 23d 2020
• View trace content in Console
• New task for changing team membership for agents
• New task to query team membership
• Enhanced the Dispatcher WebAPI functionality (remove an agent from environment, change team
membership, retrieve output parameters for a job)
• Release notes
https://help.ivanti.com/res/help/en_US/IA/2020/Admin/Content/relnotes.htm?cshid=relnotes#2020-0
10. View trace content in Console (2020.0/1)
Agent traces can be activated, obtained,
and deactivated from Console. . The trace
content is transferred and saved in the
database server in a compressed format.
11. Team Membership tasks (2020.0)
1. A new task was introduced to
change team membership for
the configured agent(s).
2. New task was introduced to
query the agents that are
members of the specified
team(s).
12. Enhanced the Dispatcher WebAPI functionality (2020.0)
1. Remove an agent from environment
2. Change team membership
3. Retrieve output parameters for a job
13. 2020.1 Released April 23d 2020
• Data compression for active jobs and job history
• Added support for a new licensing method (prototype)
• New Linux agents were added - SUSE v15.1 (ppc64le), CentOS v7 and v8, RedHat v8 (x86, x86/64, and ppc64le)
• Extended the “View trace content in Console” functionality
• Search by GUID in the Library view
• Custom job invoker in Dispatcher webAPI
• Tree-view like global variables menu
• Evaluator for Local User task
• Extend Firewall task to accept port ranges
• Enhanced the WebService Invoke task
• Invoke Web Service - Allow dynamic Host name
• Improved search for agents
• Various database improvements
https://help.ivanti.com/res/help/en_US/IA/2020/Admin/Content/relnotes.htm#2020-1
14. Support Ivanti License Server (2020.1)
We have introduced a new tab, Ivanti License Server, where the user can configure the settings for a
new licensing method.
15. Tree-view like global variables menu (2020.1)
If the number of global variables is
greater then 20, the context menu in
various places (like tasks) will no longer
present the list of global variables.
Instead, you can click the See
more... context menu option to show a
tree-view list of global variables
16. Evaluator for Local User task (2020.1)
The evaluator tab was introduced for the
"Local User (Query)" task. You now can
set the output of the query to a
parameter
17. Invoke Web Service (2020.1)
1. Support additional authentication
methods: Negotiate & NTLM User.
2. Support dynamic host name. Allows
modules built using the Web service
task to be portable.
18. 2020.2 Released July 23d 2020
• GDPR search and replace in Console
• Filter job results
• Secondary database password
• Preserve job result views in Console
• Copy-paste task, Add (task, module, project, job) and Duplicate (task, module, project, job)
• Added support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and SUSE 15 x86_64 Linux agents
19. GDPR search and replace in Console (2020.2)
Console users can search and/or replace strings from the Job History. This was initially implemented as
a command line option in processor.exe. To make this easier, we added a GDPR button the Console's
Job History view, since the main purpose for this view is to anonymize data in the Job History content.
The only input required is the search string. Note that the operation can take a while depending on
the size of the Job History content. Once the search is complete, you can review the search results by
clicking the Results button.
20. Filter job results (2020.1)
Console users can filter the entire Job History based on the same table headers present in
the Job History view. There are some filtering capabilities in the Job History view also, but
those apply only to the entries from the current page, while the new filtering will apply to the
entire Job History.
Combine the filter criteria as needed and click OK to view the filtered entries.
21. Preserve job result views in Console (2020.2)
The Job results details window will preserve its settings, if modified. Until 2020.2, each time the job
results details window was opened, a standard layout was used. Starting with 2020.2, each change to
the job history details window will be saved for each job source and the Console user will not need to
re-arrange the columns in the Tasks or Agents tabs
22. 2020.3 Released October 26th 2020
• PowerShell Core support for Windows
• Filter in Audit Trail view
• Add agents to teams based on new rules (AD Group, AD OU, environment variable)
• Windows version and build number info in Topology views
• Linux/Unix/MacOS download resource task optimization
• The Printers (Query) and Registry Settings (Query) tasks now support evaluators
• Tasklet Editor (Preview feature)
23. PowerShell Core support for Windows (2020.3)
A new task to support PowerShell Core
(7.1) was created. Its available only for
Windows agent for now. We will add
support for Linux/MacOS also in the
next release.
24. Add agents to teams based on new rules (2020.3)
Three new rules were added to the
automatic agent to team membership. If
the agent is part of a particular AD
Group or OU or has defined a specific
system environment variable, the agent
will automatically join the team. These
rules will be evaluated once each 24
hours to better reflect the AD computer
state in AD.
25. The Printers (Query) and Registry Settings (Query) tasks
now support evaluators (2020.3)
Before 2020.3, these tasks did not support applying evaluator logic on the returned data. They now
have an Evaluator tab.