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What's new at Cato? 25th November 2024
"Hey Robin, what's new at Cato Networks this week?" Great question, have a sub-1 minute video giving you a digest of the latest and greatest. Naturally, you can find a full list on our Knowledge Base here:https://support.catonetworks.com/hc/en-us/articles/23222708288157-Product-Update-November-25-2024 Don't forget - it's Thanksgiving in the US this Thursday, so let's reflect on the things we're thankful for: 1) Cato's rapid product development which helps keep us secure, protected and connected 2) Star Wars 3) Memes Happy Monday ya'll! 🦃
Hey, Robin! I currently use Okta to manage my users. How complicated is this to set up with Cato?
You know those situations where someone asks you a question, and you think to yourself "this is something that's going to be asked multiple times?" Yeah, this is one of them. While I was talking with a future Cato Customer, they asked a simple question about how difficult it would be to provision their users with SCIM into the Cato Management Application. Naturally they were hesitant (as this can be a mammoth task with many vendors), but with us, it's a pretty light-lift. Being the egotistical buffoon I am, I thought to record a video in a dimly lit hotel room. Of course we have fantastic product documentation that explains this procedure in detail, but some people are visual learners who want to see the 'final product' instead of the steps along the way. Remember, 5 hours of troubleshooting can often save you 10 minutes of reading the documentation 😀
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Area for users to submit and vote for RFEs
Currently the only option to submit an RFE is to contact CATO representative by email and answer a set of template questions. With this method, different users are not aware of RFEs already opened, their status etc. and it is likely they submit similar or the same ideas independently. I would recommend to create an area in this community portal to submit RFEs, review the ones already opened by others and maybe vote for the ones you appreciate. Vote results could be a way for CATO Team to understand what are the needs and expectations of the customers, and maybe prioritize some RFEs over another. RFEs submitted by users could go through a review/approval process first, so CATO Team checks if something similar was already created in the past (to avoid duplicates) or if provided description is complete and enough to start the process.Setting up custom email alerts for changes in CMA
We would like to see email alerts when either of the following changes are made in the Cato Management App Firewall policies are added/modified Routing changes are made. changes are made to the TLS inspection policy Any other changes that could affect the security profile How can we setup such email alertsA simple example in Python
import json import ssl import urllib.parse import urllib.request headers = { "x-api-key": MY_API_KEY, "Content-Type": "application/json" } body = { "operationName": "accountSnapshot", "variables": {"accountID":MY_ACCOUNT_ID}, "query": ''' query accountSnapshot($accountID:ID!) { accountSnapshot(accountID:$accountID) { id } }''' } request = urllib.request.Request(url='https://api.catonetworks.com/api/v1/graphql2', data=json.dumps(body).encode("ascii"), headers=headers) response = urllib.request.urlopen(request, context=ssl._create_unverified_context()) print(json.loads(response.read().decode("utf-8","replace")))
