NQE permission control
Release 23.3 introduces the ability to restrict write access to the NQE library queries. Our users have expressed the desire to protect the queries they and their teams have been working on from accidental or intentional editing by other users. By default, users with an Admin or network operator role have full write access to NQE queries. With this release, our users can define permissions on folders within the NQE Library to control who can edit individual queries and the contents of query folders themselves.
Expose hostnames in the data model
This addition to the NQE data model brings in the network device's hostname. Our users have asked to add that information, so they could write queries that help them in the reconciliation and improved correctness of their CMDBs.
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New Discovery folder and queries in the Forward library
The release 23.3 adds a new Discovery folder to the NQE Forward library, the out-of-box library of NQE checks developed by Forward for its users. Within this new Discovery folder, our users can find two new queries:
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- Uncollected CDP-LLDP neighbors - This query looks within the collected CDP/LLDP files and finds names of devices that have not been included in the Forward modeling, potentially uncovering areas of the network infrastructure that the Network Admin could then add to the Forward inventory for collection
- Uncollected next hops - This query looks into the collected routing tables to find any IP addresses of next hops that are not on currently collected devices. The goal, like for the previous query, is to help with discovery of devices that are missing from the model.
