NetApp moved most menu options to the left-navigation pane and reorganized menus for easier navigation in the NetApp Console.

NetApp renamed several elements, data services, and features to clarify their purpose. Key changes include:

Access and manage your Console agents from the Administration > Agents menu. NetApp has changed how to select a Console agent for the Systems page (formerly the Canvas). NetApp has replaced the Connector menu name with an icon , allowing you to select the Console agent that you want to view systems for.

You can also manage your agents from the Administration > Agents menu.

NetApp has reduced the required network endpoints for the Console and Console agents, enhancing security and simplifying deployment. Importantly, all deployments prior to version 4.0.0 continue to be fully supported. While previous endpoints remain available for existing agents, NetApp strongly recommends updating firewall rules to the current endpoints after confirming successful agent upgrades.

You can deploy Console agents in VMware environments using an OVA file. The OVA file includes a pre-configured VM image with Console agent software and settings to connect to the NetApp Console. A file download or URL deployment is available directly from the NetApp Console. Learn how to deploy a Console agent in VMware environments.

The Console agent OVA for VMware offers a pre-configured VM image for quick deployment.

When you deploy a Console agent from the NetApp Console, you now have the option to validate the agent configuration. If the Console fails to deploy the agent, it provides a downloadable report to help you troubleshoot.

The Console agent has improved error messages that help you better understand issues. Learn how to troubleshoot Console agents.

The NetApp Console's Home page dashboard provides real-time visibility into storage infrastructure with metrics for health, capacity, license status, and data services. Learn more about the Home page.

New users with the Organization admin role can use the NetApp assistant to configure the Console, including adding an agent, linking a NetApp Support account, and adding a storage system.
Learn about the NetApp assistant.

The NetApp Console supports service account authentication using either a system-generated client ID and secret or customer-managed JWTs, allowing organizations to select the approach that best fits their security requirements and integration workflows. Private Key JWT Client Authentication uses asymmetric cryptography, providing stronger security than traditional client ID and secret methods. Private Key JWT Client Authentication uses asymmetric cryptography, keeping the private key secure in the customer’s environment, reducing credential theft risks, and improving the security of your automation stack and client applications. Learn how to add a service account.

The system logs out users after 24 hours or when they close their web browser.

You can create partnerships in the NetApp Console that let partners securely manage NetApp resources across organizational boundaries, making collaboration easier and security stronger. Learn how to manage partnerships.

Added the Super admin and Super viewer roles. Super admin grants full management access to Console features, storage, and data services. Super viewer provides read-only visibility for auditors and stakeholders. These roles are useful for smaller teams of senior members where broad access is common. For improved security and auditability, organizations are encouraged to use Super admin access sparingly and assign fine-grained roles where possible. Learn more about access roles.

Added the Ransomware Resilience user behavior admin role and the Ransomware Resilience user behavior viewer role. These roles allow users to configure and view user behavior and analytics data, respectively. Learn more about access roles.

NetApp has removed the support chat feature from the NetApp Console. Use the Administration > Support page to create and manage support cases.

This release of the BlueXP Connector includes security improvements, and bug fixes.

The 3.9.55 release is available for standard mode and restricted mode.

The BlueXP UI is now available in the Japanese language. If your browser language is Japanese, BlueXP displays in Japanese. To access documentation in Japanese, use the language menu on the documentation website.

The Operational resiliency feature has been removed from BlueXP. Contact NetApp support if you encounter issues.

Identity and Access Management in BlueXP now provides the following feature.

BlueXP now supports an Operational support analyst role. This role grants a user permissions to monitor storage alerts, view the BlueXP audit timeline, and enter and track NetApp Support cases.

Learn more about using access roles.

A new private mode release is now available to download from the NetApp Support Site

The 3.9.54 release includes updates to the following BlueXP components and services.

For more details about private mode, including how to upgrade, refer to the following:

BlueXP alerts has been renamed to ONTAP alerts.

You can access it from the NetApp Console left navigation bar by selecting Storage > Alerts.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

You can quickly identify ONTAP clusters that have low capacity or low performance, gauge the extent of availability, and identify security risks. You can view alerts related to capacity, performance, protection, availability, security, and configuration.

You can drill into alert details and find recommendations.

With BlueXP alerts, you can view alerts associated with your ONTAP storage environment and drill into the details that are linked to ONTAP System Manager.

Learn about BlueXP alerts.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

You can now view information about Brocade Fibre Channel SAN switches that are entitled for support. This includes details about the switch model, serial number, and support status. Learn how to view support entitled switches.

The Recently Stopped Sending (RSS) limit, in the AutoSupport widget, has been extended from 48 hours (2 days) to 216 hours (9 days) before a system is flagged as RSS. This is done to accommodate platforms like StorageGRID that only send weekly AutoSupport data.

A new deprecated API section is available in the Digital Advisor API catalog. It lists the APIs that are scheduled for deprecation, along with deprecation timelines and alternative APIs.

The capacity forecast V2 and end of support API modules are scheduled for deprecation. To access the deprecated APIs or to know about the deprecation timelines and alternative APIs, navigate to API services → Browse → Deprecated APIs.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

You can now remove subscriptions from the digital wallet if you have unsubscribed from them.

When viewing PAYGO subscriptions, you can now view the consumed capacity of the subscription.

The digital wallet homepage has an updated dashboard of your NetApp licenses and Marketplace subscriptions, with the ability to drill-down into specific services, license types and required actions.

The BlueXP digital wallet now allows you to configure your subscriptions to provider credentials. Typically you do this when you first subscribe to a Marketplace subscription or annual contract. Previously changing the subscription's credentials could only be done on the Credentials page.

You can now update the organization to which a subscription is associated directly from digital wallet.

You now manage Cloud Volumes ONTAP licenses through the home page or the Direct licenses tab. Use the Marketplace subscriptions tab to view your subscription information.

The BlueXP digital wallet now enables you to manage licenses for BlueXP disaster recovery. You can add licenses, update licenses, and view details about licensed capacity.

Learn how to manage licenses for BlueXP data services

Several improvements to the Cloud Volumes ONTAP usage reports are now available:

For more information about the usage reports, refer to Download usage reports.

BlueXP economic efficiency has been renamed to Lifecycle planning.

You can access it from the NetApp Console left navigation bar by selecting Storage > Lifecycle planning.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

Some BlueXP economic efficiency features have been temporarily disabled:

If you have existing assets in place and want to determine whether a technology needs to be updated, you can use the BlueXP ecomomic efficiency technology refresh options. You can either review a short assessment of your current workloads and get recommendations, or if you sent AutoSupport logs to NetApp within the past 90 days, the service can now provide a workload simulation to see how your workloads perform on new hardware.

You can also add a workload and exclude existing workloads from the simulation.

Previously, you could only take an assessment of your assets and identify whether a technology refresh is recommended.

The feature is now part of the Tech refresh option in the left navigation.

Learn more about the Evaluate a technology refresh.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.
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You can view Google Cloud Storage buckets on the BlueXP Canvas for quite a while. Now you can add new buckets and change properties for existing buckets directly from BlueXP. See how to add new Google Cloud Storage buckets.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

The Keystone dashboard in BlueXP now includes a Monitoring tab for managing alerts and monitors across your subscriptions. This new tab enables you to:

To learn more, refer to View and manage alerts and monitors.

You can view the performance service levels information, now moved from a separate tab to an expandable view, within the Subscriptions tab. Click the down arrow next to the Expiration date column to view them for each subscription. To learn more, refer to View details about your Keystone subscriptions.

A new column, Total footprint, is added to enhance Keystone consumption tracking for FabricPool volumes:

This column displays the total logical footprint for volumes using FabricPool tiering, including data from both performance and cold tiers, so you can accurately calculate Keystone consumption.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

You now need one of the following access roles to view, discover or manage on-prem ONTAP clusters: Organization admin, Folder or project admin, Storage admin, or System health specialist. Learn about access roles.

You can now discover NetApp ASA r2 systems when using BlueXP in private mode. This support is available starting with the 3.9.46 private mode release of BlueXP.

BlueXP software updates has been renamed to software updates.

You can access it from the NetApp Console left navigation bar by selecting Health > Software updates.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

You now need one of the following access roles to install software updates: Organization admin, Folder or project admin, Storage admin, Storage viewer, or Storage health specialist. Users with the Storage viewer role have various permissions related to software updates, but cannot install software updates. Learn about BlueXP access roles.

In the summary section of BlueXP software updates, you can now view the total number of risks that can be mitigated by the operating system update. This allows users to assess the security and stability improvements on their installation base.

The following permission is now available in read-only mode for Databases: cloudwatch:GetMetricData.

Permissions reference change log

The BlueXP workload factory notification service enables workload factory to send notifications to the BlueXP alerts service or to an Amazon SNS topic. Notifications sent to BlueXP alerts appear in the BlueXP alerts panel. When workload factory publishes notifications to an Amazon SNS topic, subscribers to the topic (such as people or other applications) receive the notifications at the endpoints configured for the topic (such as email or SMS messages).

Configure BlueXP workload factory notifications

When using BlueXP workload factory CloudShell, you can start typing a command and press the Tab key to view available options. If multiple possibilities exist, the CLI will display a list of suggestions. This feature enhances productivity by minimizing errors and speeding up command execution.

The workload factory user interface and documentation now use "read-only" to refer to read permissions and "read/write" to refer to automate permissions.

When using CloudShell, each time you issue an ONTAP CLI command and an error occurs, you can get AI-generated error responses that include a description of the failure, the cause of the failure, and a detailed resolution.

Use CloudShell

Now you can manage the iam:SimulatePrincipalPolicy permission from the workload factory console when you add additional AWS account credentials or add a new workload capability such as the GenAI workload.

Permissions reference change log

CloudShell is available from anywhere in the BlueXP workload factory console. CloudShell allows you to use the AWS and ONTAP credentials that you've provided in your BlueXP account and execute AWS CLI commands or ONTAP CLI commands in a shell-like environment.

Use CloudShell

The following permission is now available in read mode for Databases: iam:SimulatePrincipalPolicy.

Permissions reference change log