This release brought significant updates across monitoring, configuration, and reporting workflows. Following are the standout features:
Client onboarding card - Displays the total number of clients successfully onboarded out of all connection attempts over selectable time periods (3 hours, 1 day, 7 days, 30 days). This metric helps assess overall network onboarding health and provides detailed reasons for unsuccessful connection attempts, enabling targeted troubleshooting.
HPE Networking copilot - An AI-powered assistant designed to enhance troubleshooting and operational efficiency. Copilot enables natural language queries across network components (access points, clients, alerts), integrates with search agents for documentation and contextual insights, and supports advanced query generation. Notably, it translates natural language to CLI commands for AOS-CX switch configuration, streamlining admin workflows. For more details, refer to the online help.
New health metrics Replaces and improves the previous Time Travel workflow, offering a unified, real-time snapshot of health and event-related information for sites or devices. Operators can correlate alert occurrences and KPIs with periods of poor health, viewing health across access points, switches, gateways, and clients. The time travel widget is available in multiple contexts for flexible analysis.
Enhanced link-node topology view Central's default topology view is now the Link-Node view, which more accurately represents how network operators understand network diagrams,. The enhanced view now displays the count and details of isolated devices within the site. Operators can customize the topology display based on Device Information and Link Information. The link side panel has also been updated to show detailed information about the destination device, alongside the source device details, including supported ports and interface detail.
Other enhancements – Over 15 new alerts were added across APs, switches, and gateways, including support for a Temperature Fault alert for third-party switches. Operational workflows were improved with the extension of firmware management support to AOS-S devices and the introduction of account-level migration in the Floorplan Manager, which enables the bulk migration of all sites associated with a user account.
To explore the full list of over 70 new features and enhancements, refer to the release notes