VitalAAA 5.0 Release Notes

Last revised: March 15, 2006

Product Name Change

The NavisRadius product has been rebranded as VitalAAA.

Java Version

VitalAAA version 5.0 requires version 1.5.0 or later of Java. Please see http://java.sun.com to get the latest version of Java.

Contents

These release notes are intended for VitalAAA 5 programmers and administrators. They cover the following information:

• New Product Features
• Diameter Implementation Limitations

These release notes supercede all other included documentation for the VitalAAA product. Further information can be found at http://www.vitalaaa.com/.

New Product Features

VitalAAA 5.0 includes the following new features:

• Diameter protocol support. (Optional feature)
• An LDAP view of the USS session database. (Optional feature)
• Remote communication from the SMT to the policy and configuration servers can now be protected by an SSL connection.
• Remote communication to the HTTP servers can now be protected by an SSL connection.
• SSH access is now available for the Admin Interface.
• VitalAAA can now be hosted on a machine using IPv6 interfaces for RADIUS server and client traffic.
• Add versions 2C and 3 support to SNMP.
• Diameter Test Client with SMT support.
• EAP support for Radius and Diameter test clients.
• PolicyFlow methods may now define optional logging actions upon SUCCESS, FAILURE or ERROR.
• PolicyFlow programs may now be contained in multiple files and may be invoked as needed.
• The SMT graphical interface has been redesigned for improved ease-of-use.
• Method Selectors has been replaced with Method Dispatch. This offers improved performence and better scalability for implementation of complex policy flows.
• The Snmp plug-in has been added. The Snmp plug-in can send an SNMP Get, Set, Trap or Inform PDU using SNMP version 1, 2c or 3.
• The If plug-in has been added. Used to simplify policy flow branching on booleans
• The WriteDelimitedFile has been added. Can be used to output call detail records in delimited format.
• Allow arbitrarily nested call, fork, and tunnel policy flows.

Diameter Implementation Restrictions

This initial Diameter release has some limitations that may be removed in subsequent releases.

• TLS/TCP/IP and TCP/IPSEC/IP are the only transports available.
• Diameter application specific logic needs to be implemented in policy flow.
• Dynamic peer discovery is not supported.
• IPv6 transport is not available on Microsoft Windows.