Sophos Central Firewall Manager - CFM 17.1.0 GA Released

Hi XG Community!

We've finished CFM v17.1.0 GA. 

What's New

Key Features

• Shadow IT management across firewalls
• Improved alerting contents

• Comprehensive management of all features available in Sophos XG Firewall v17.1

Enhancements

• Added additional Settings to Authentication Servers -> RADIUS Server
• Shadow IT discovery support
• Configurable SSL VPN port
• Allow user to edit rule while double clicking on the rule
• Easily control Google QUIC during firewall rule creation
• Added Email Exceptions
• Allow creation of empty smart filter
• Allow and Block lists for Email/Domains on Admin Portal

Notes

Here's a overview of the compatibility of CFM to different Sophos Firewall versions: 6710.Compatibility Guide for CFM and SFOS.pdf

Known Limitations

• Admin can not change password of SF 17.5 device from SFM/CFM device level.

• In CFM, device info service is not responding. Therefore UI is taking some minutes to load which lead to feel CFM is not responding.

Issues Resolved

• NCCC-6339 [SCFM] CFM does not fetch SF firmware detail through feature 'check for latest firmware' due to opcode timeout
• NCCC-6369 [SCFM] Connection status show disconnected though HB packets are reaching to CFM/SFM
• NCCC-6398 [SCFM] Unable to import all configuration as template from SG device
• NCCC-6422 [SCFM] Scheduled backup is not taken in SCFM
• NCCC-6671 [SCFM] XG devices losing sync to CFM frequently
• NCCC-6697 [SCFM] Schedule backup is taken on next day in SCFM
• NCCC-6430 [SFM] Unable to push the application based traffic shaping policy to the firewall from SFM using template
• NCCC-6731 [SFM] Unable to modify Admin user
• NCCC-6737 [SFM] Firewall rules showing up "0" in template when importing configuration into template in SFM
• NCCC-6750 [SFM] Cannot delete host: Selected Entity(ies) cannot be deleted due to dependency. Check Entity Usage Reference for dependency details.
• NCCC-6765 [SFM] Template with more than one remote networks does not work
• NCCC-3198 [SFM-SCFM] Unbound or disabled physical port on XG firewall should not shows up as "interface status" DOWN in SFM/CFM
• NCCC-6443 [SFM-SCFM] Unable to restore backup from SCFM
• NCCC-6666 [SFM-SCFM] SCFM unresponsive at times. Extremely slow most of the time
• NCCC-6667 [SFM-SCFM] Cannot add generic top-level domains to the Web's URL groups