General community discussion

Hi everyone,I wanted to share that my last day as Community Manager will be June 30.It has been an absolute pleasure to be the community manager for Network VIP and to get to know you all and work on building this space for you. It has always been such a highlight of my job to organize community events and advocate for the community whenever and however I could.Thank you for your kindness and openness with me and with us all on the community. Your participation is really what makes the ultimate difference. Thank you for making this community what it is. I’ve truly appreciated every interaction. I will be around to help until June 30th, and then ​@anna.kim will be your main point of contact until the next community manager starts. You will be in great hands. All my best if we don’t cross paths again :) 

Hi all, I just wanted to post a quick message that I’ll be out of office for most of March, from Mar 6 — Mar 28th. In my absence, please contact ​@amartyn who will be covering. You’re in great hands. Alternatively, you can also email community@bluecatnetworks.com. —Quick updates before I head out: Integrity Beta Integrity 26.1 starts on March 9th and emails go out to you all on March 10th. Once you’re approved and in the Integrity 26.1 Beta Group, you’ll need to submit a form to get the license keys from the product management team. If you need specific help with the beta and are having trouble you can email integrity-feedback@bluecatnetworks.com Integrity User Group Integrity user group will skip March and be back at the end of April. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback in the survey. Expect a little more structure for the next user group. We are also considering opening up topics to be submitted ahead of time. Does the community like the idea of submitting topics? Please let

Hi all, I just wanted to share some news with the community that came out today. Just in case it may be of interest to the community.BlueCat just announced our upcoming Horizon platform. What is Horizon? In short, it’s “a SaaS-first Intelligent NetOps platform for cross-domain network operations”. You can read a bit more about BlueCat Horizon in the press release on the BlueCat site which describes it in more detail.Link: https://bluecatnetworks.com/press/bluecat-introduces-bluecat-horizon-a-saas-first-intelligent-netops-platform-for-cross-domain-network-operations/Let me know if you have any initial thoughts or questions. 

What are the various methods for tracking overlapping IP space today? If you know some medieval ways, let us know.credit for this discussion topic to ​@mark.mikhail!  

As some of you may have heard from your Customer Care representative, Customer Care is rolling out a new SFTP server.This new system will replace bluecatsftp.bluecatnetworks.com. The hostname has changed, it is now transfer.bluecatnetworks.com. Eventually, the old host record will point to this new server, but during this time of transition, they will be separate.SFTP services on transfer.bluecatnetworks.com are currently available to you. You should start using this server as soon as you need to send data to Customer Care or Professional Services. We understand your change-management cycles to allow traffic to this system may not be swift, so we will have both running in parallel for a few weeks. We plan to shutting down the SFTP service on the old system on 12 May 2025. If your change-management process does not allow for that quick of a turn-around, we can work with you.This system remains SFTP-only. You will continue to use your current SFTP client. There is a new option available