Have you upgraded to Continuity Engine 18?
Complete, consistent, and cost effective availability solution for mission-critical, business applications
Customers who have had the Continuity Engine in place for over a decade choose Neverfail for its proven reliability and stability. Although this testifies to the resilience of Continuity Engine, v18 offers incredible new features and improvements that Neverfail users should not miss out on. Now is the time to take advantage and upgrade protected applications with Continuity Engine v18.
Neverfail continues to push the boundaries with product innovation and performance. The launch of Continuity Engine Version 18 mitigates the risk of downtime and delivers seamless business continuity.
What’s New?
In-Product Notification
Easy-to-absorb, streamlined communication between your Engine Management Service and Neverfail’s Notification Services. Allows you to stay informed with product updates and company announcements.
Licensing Services
Important: Engine Management Services (EMS) upgrade to v17 (or newer) is required for maintaining access to Licensing Services.
- If you’re using an older version, you won’t be able to get new or renewed license keys.
- The EMS user interface now shows the status of your software version—whether it’s supported, nearing end-of-life, or no longer supported.
Engine Management Service (EMS) Alerting based on Managed Server Telemetry
- The first chapter in unlocking advanced monitoring and alerting is to enable new telemetry service, which will seamlessly extract relevant information about events happening on the Engine nodes.
- By enabling telemetry, you empower the EMS to deliver better monitoring and alerting for critical events that matter most to your business. This will translate into quicker response times, more accurate alerts, and ultimately, greater peace of mind knowing that your systems are running optimally.
- v18 enables In-Product Notification feature which may be used for announcing and alerting customers with relevant Engine information.
Manage Offline Licenses
- UX improvements for hardened environments: managed server will show Product Version on grey background with tooltip message “Cannot validate support”. Access to offline licensing is permitted.
- Self-service offline licensing based on telemetry data: customers may claim license keys directly from Engine Management Service for deployments which are not managed via EMS.
- To do this, install EMS on a supported Windows machine with internet access to the Engine Licensing Server.
- Then, claim your license keys from the Support section based on your subscription.
Backward Compatibility
Continuity Engine 18 Management Service is compatible with older versions. However, previous versions will eventually reach end of life. Upgrade to v18 and take full advantage of the new features and reduce the risk of cyberattacks.
Application Management – Automating Discovery and Protection via Dedicated Plugins (on-going)
- New plugins will be developed and added to the Continuity Engine family, release by release. These plugins will replace the manual implementation of User Defined application protection.
- Application protection made simple and reliable.
Security
Continuity Engine’s objective is to keep your systems up, running, protected, and safe. Having the latest security updates, fixes and patches for the used open-source software is critical.
- Azul Zulu and Apache Tomcat version updated to latest.
Snapshot Management for Ransomware Recovery Improvements
With Snapshot Management organizations can take snapshots each 15 minutes and roll back the dataset to before the incident happened thus restoring the protected application server to full operating conditions.
Patching Downtime Reduction with Passive Management Name
Continuity Engine’s Passive Management Name feature enables the ability of patching of standby passive nodes in centralized update management environment.
