New ZAC Features

Ziti Administration Console
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New ZAC Features

Hey Everyone! You may have noticed recently a few new features make their way into the Ziti Admin Console (ZAC). If you're already using them great! If you haven't come across them yet, or just want a better understanding of what's been added, below is a quick preview:

Simple Service Workflow

When clicking the + button from the services list page, users will now be presented with 2 creation workflows. Choose either the "Advanced" workflow (which will open the existing create/edit page), or the new "Simple" workflow.

The simple workflow is split into 3 main sections.

  1. Service Details (ie. name & attributes)
  2. Accessing Configuration
  3. Hosting Configuration

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  • The Accessing Configuration maps to the creation of an intercept.v1 config and a service dial policy

  • The Hosting Configuration maps to the creation of a host.v1 config and a service bind policy

After hitting save you'll be prompted with a summary of all the entities that were created and associated with this service.

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You'll also see options to copy the CLI Commands and/or API Requests that were used to create each individual service, config, and policy.

Identity Service Path Visualizer

The Visualizer assists users in creating a visual rendering of the connection(s) between the identity and the service, as well as identifying the accessible routers between the identity and the service. It provides an end-to-end overview on the identity-to-service communication pathway. You can find it as a menu option on the Identities list page.

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If you get a chance, give these features a try and let us know if you have any questions or if you run into any issues.

Thanks!

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In ZAC version 3.2.1, when editing policy, it's not possible to import the selected "IDENTITY ROLE ATTRIBUTES" and "SERVICE ROLE ATTRIBUTES"? (It seems to be a new bug?!)

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Hi @Jameshclai, and welcome to the community!

I just took a look into this and can verify this is a bug. I've opened an issue in the ziti-console project and should have a fix for this shortly.

Thanks for finding and letting us know!

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@Jameshclai this should be resolved now with the 3.2.2 release of ZAC. Let us know though if you are still having issues. Thanks!

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Am I the only one experiencing this issue? Filter identities is not working after updating ZAC to 3.2.2.

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@kaiba_seto2004 hmm I have not run into this yet, but will take a closer look and see if there might be an issue.

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@kaiba_seto2004 I was able to reproduce this, and have merged/deployed a fix into the latest release. Version 3.2.3 of ZAC should have this resolved if/when you want to try it again.

Thanks!