What's New in 2.0
Version 2.0 of our product includes many new features and enhancements.
Support for the Conductor 500 and the HIPswitch 500
The 2.0.3 release officially supports our new 1U rack-mount platforms, the Conductor 500 and HIPswitch 500 hardware platforms. The new 500-Series platforms are only supported on version 2.0.3 and later. No previous versions of the software are supported.
HIP Relay
New in this release is the ability for a HIPswitch to function as a HIPrelay, which you can configure in the Conductor user interface. A HIPrelay controls traffic between HIPswitches, allowing them to securely communicate with each other when direct communication between two switches is not possible or desirable.
To use this feature, check Allow HIPswitch to act as a HIPrelay on the Edit Settings page of a HIPswitch. Additionally, the HIPrelay rules tab allows you to control which HIPswitches can communicate with each other via a HIPrelay.
For more information, see Identity-Based Routing with HIPrelay in the Conductor Administration section of this document.
Smart Device Groups
Also new in this release are Smart Device Groups. Smart Device Groups allow you to dynamically add devices to a group by using a user-defined rule. Once a rule is created any new devices that match the rule are added to the group automatically.
This feature can greatly simplify the creation and management of large groups of devices. A Smart Device Group can be used to dynamically create and manage devices based on criteria such as organizational hierarchy, geographic location, or network domain.
For more information, see in the Dynamic Device Management with Smart Device Groups section of this document.
Monitors, Events, and Actions
The Conductor user interface in this now contains a bell icon in the upper right corner of the user interface that allows you to access the new alerts and events settings. Selecting the icon displays a new Event Monitoring and Alerting page. This page provides you the ability to create events with user-defined criteria, from the Event Monitors tab and view and take action on alerts from the Alert Notifications tab.
For more information, see Configure Monitors and Alerts in the Conductor Administration section of this document.
PCI Compliance
The IDN 2.0 Conductor and HIP Services are compliant with PCIDSS guidelines and Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards. We provide secure transport of logs, firewall rules creation and reporting, retention of activity logs, and audit reporting of system configuration changes. To access PCI data, go to and click Downloads to access the PCI Report & Reference Download Page.
For more information see Conductor and HIPservice PCI Compliance in the Conductor Administration section of this document.