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Agate 1.0.1

A closet page built around a visit, one Devices list per closet, a rebuilt switch page, a clearer asset drawer, and licensing. Each screen now starts with the question an operator brings to it.

Release notesReleased October 4, 2026All releases

New

A closet’s Overview now answers the questions before a visit: what is open there right now, how to get in, which spares to bring from the nearest storeroom, what a visit affects, and what changed since your last visit. Plan a closet visit
Record how to get into a closet: where the room is in the building, the key or badge, a contact and access notes. Every change is recorded with who made it.
A new Capacity page for each closet shows free ports by type, PoE remaining and ports that have been down for 30 days, and answers whether the closet can take a number of new devices. Check a closet’s capacity
A new Lifecycle page for each closet lists every unit with its end of support and end of life, warranty, support, software against the approved versions and any planned refresh. Read a closet’s lifecycle
Print a door label for a closet: a 4 by 2 inch label with a QR code that opens the closet’s page.
Record whether a network device is approved to connect from its record, with an optional note. The answer is dated and names who gave it. Record connect approval
Licensing: each district imports one signed license file in Settings › License. Cenovel checks it on the appliance, with no internet connection needed. Licensing and renewals
Settings › License shows the status, how many sites are counted against the license and why each place counts or not, the term and days left, and every license imported.
Going beyond the licensed site count by more than the tolerance starts 30 days of grace, then the console becomes read-only until a license for more sites is imported or sites are retired. A license for more sites covers them from the day the count went over.
After a term ends there are 30 days of grace, then the console is read-only until the renewal is imported. A renewal starts on the old end date, and one imported early waits for its start date.
In read-only, people can still sign in, read, export, take backups and import a license, and monitoring, outage detection and alerts keep running. Changes are refused with a clear message.
A modular building that is away from every site is not counted as a site. Settings › License says why each place counts or not.
If the server’s clock was wrong and Cenovel kept a later time, an Administrator EX can choose The clock was wrong in Settings › License once the clock is confirmed by the time source or by steady hourly checks. Every attempt is recorded.

Improved

A closet’s switches and servers are in one Devices list with a type filter. Links to the old Switches and Servers pages open Devices with that type chosen. Work with a switch or stack
The switch page leads with five answers: whether it is answering Cenovel, ports up, PoE used, software and end of support. The switch card holds the views, legend, faceplates, Front and Rear, zoom and a table view, and a port’s card appears only when you select a port.
Switch facts, Lifecycle and Where it sits now sit side by side under the switch, and a stack shows each member’s PoE and lifecycle where members differ.
The switch page names a stack member that a device read found but nobody recorded, under Device read differences.
The asset record opens on four answers (status, where, last seen and when support ends), then groups its facts into Where and who, Identity and software, Purchase and coverage, and E-Rate, each with one action. Move, check out and hand over equipment
The asset record’s footer keeps Edit, Check out or Check in and Move at hand, with Hand over, Start repair, Create work, Replace and Report lost or stolen under More.
Dialogs share one layout across the console, and every dialog has a close button.
The cause filter on a site’s outages moved into the register’s toolbar, and Storage’s less-used commands moved under More.
Dates, states and counts that some pages showed in raw form are now written in words.

Fixed

A closet’s outage count and its list of open outages now agree, including outages quieted by a maintenance window.
A port card shows its coverage state in words and its read times formatted, instead of raw values.

Upgrade notes

Upgrading adds storage for closet access details and for each person’s last visit to a closet. Nothing already recorded changes.
Upgrading removes the tables an older inventory system left in an upgraded database. Cenovel never read them; they held that system’s staff accounts, sign-in history and settings. Only the backup taken before the upgrade keeps them.
An install that already holds data gets 90 days after the upgrade with a notice to administrators only; nothing is refused. Import the district’s license in Settings › License before then; contact Cenovel for it. A new install works with up to 5 sites until a license is imported.

Known issues

A stack’s software is shown as one version, because a read stores one version per management address.
What a visit affects can count only the links recorded in Cenovel. With none recorded, it says so rather than showing zero.
Manual reads such as Poll now are refused while the console is read-only. Scheduled monitoring is unaffected.