What's New

Following are the new features available in Lighthouse 24.06.

UI Enhancements

  • Updated user interface and work flows.

  • Reworked navigation and menus.

  • Updated styling and icons.

Connected Resource Gateway

  • New feature to build and manage a catalog of resources that are within the Smart Management Fabric (SMF) discovered networks.

  • Support for clientless network access to resources via either SSH, HTTP, or HTTPS proxy services.

  • Accessed via the new Resources page.

Resource Tagging

  • Support for user defined resource filters.

  • Support for user defined tags.

  • User group access control with resource filters.

  • Searching with Resource Filters.

  • Port Tags have been renamed to Resource Tags in the UI and API expanding it’s functionality to cover both Serial Ports and Resources.

Certificate Handling Enhancements

  • Automatic renewal of node and other certificates used to authenticate to Lighthouse.

  • Configuration of certificate management via the new cert_manage CLI command

AWS Lighthouse

  • For fresh AWS installs, a new default super user account lhadmin is provided and should be used for initial configuration.

  • By default, root login is now disabled over SSH for new installs. Existing AWS installs are unaffected.

  • By default, password authentication is now disabled over SSH. Existing AWS installs are unaffected.

  • Added support for AWS Lighthouse to allow login on IPv6-only subnets, enabling access for instances without public IPv4 addresses or any IPv4 addresses.

Smart Group Renaming

  • Smart Groups are now renamed to Node Filters within the Lighthouse UI. However, Smart Groups retain their naming within the CLI and API.