IT Management Suite 8.8.1 General Availability

[Mike Grueber]

On behalf of Broadcom, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high-quality, innovative software and services.  As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly release updated versions of our products. Today, we are pleased to announce that IT Management Suite 8.8.1 is now available. 

Highlights of the Symantec IT Management Suite 8.8.1 release include:

• Symantec Management Agent
  • Support for Windows 11 25H2
  • Support for macOS 26 (Tahoe)
  • Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7, 10 and 10.1
  • Support for Oracle Linux 9.7. 10 and 10.1
  • Support for SUSE 16 (except Deployment Solution and Patch Management Solution)
  • Real time retrieval of credentials from Azure Key Vault (Entra) secret when executing several tasks using specific user accounts
  • Get Agent Troubleshooting Data task retrieves log files from CEM connected devices without requirement to open network port 445 for SMB traffic

• Symantec Management Platform
  • Support for SQL Server 2025 (which enables IT Analytics component of ITMS to use Power BI Report Server)
  • New ephemeral CEM client certificates enabling agent to automatically generate CEM client certificates as needed
  • Four new REST API methods provide increased flexibility for importing data to (and exporting data from) ITMS CMDB
  • Data Connector can now call external APIs, enabling end-to-end solution for importing data to (and exporting data from) ITMS CMDB
  • Key ITMS solutions and components support management of devices in IPv6 only environments
  • Maintenance Window Startup Power Action enables system to be restarted before opening maintenance window if pending restart detected
  • Web socket support for communication between Notification Server and Site Servers
  • Microsoft Entra support for Workflow Process Manager, enabling implementation of Multi-Factor Authentication
  • Microsoft Entra authentication support for multiple tenants without defined trust relationships
  • Report Viewer modernization providing the ability to filter by data in individual columns, sort data by multiple columns, create multi-level groupings based on column headings, ability to save results in PDF format, and flexible and sophisticated graphing and charting capabilities
  • Role security policies enable simultaneous editing of privileges associated with multiple security roles
  • Ability to prevent the independent running of tasks while allowing them to be executed from within jobs
  • Default values for Repeat Task Schedules eliminated (schedules previously defaulted to be executed every minute)
  • Ability to create lists of custom defined values for task tokens
  • Symantec Installation Manager no longer supports 30-day built-in evaluation (license key now required to install ITMS); future releases of ITMS will require new version of Symantec Installation Manager to be downloaded from Broadcom Support Portal

• Inventory
  • Basic Inventory capabilities expanded to collect Computer Description
  • Standard Inventory capabilities expanded to collect ODBC Data Source information from Windows devices
  • Standard inventory capabilities expanded to collect BitLocker data
  • Standard Inventory capabilities expanded to collect names of USB-connected Plug and Play devices
  • Standard Inventory capabilities expanded to collect data regarding features installed on Windows Server computers

• Software Management
  • New view showing apps imported from Microsoft Store
  • Ability to import apps from Microsoft Store that are not available in the United States and ability to filter the list of available apps by country
  • Expanded list of operators for Windows Version applicability and detection rules

• Patch Management
  • Use of Windows Update Agent integration to install device drivers
  • Windows Patch Management Support for eight additional vendors/apps (added in Windows patch management data feed)

Please see the ITMS 8.8.1 Release Notes for more information.

ITMS 8.8.1 can be downloaded from the Broadcom Support Download Center.

If you have any questions or require assistance, please contact Broadcom Customer Care online or use the Customer Care web form: Customer Care web form .  You can also call Broadcom Customer Care at [phone] in North America or see this page for the local number in your country. 

Your success is very important to us, and we look forward to continuing our successful partnership with you.  Thank you again for your business.

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[twister12]

Dear All,

is there a workaround or fix for the issue in 8.8.1 witj pxe and secureboot.

we only get ipxe to work as a workaround.

Best regards 

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[Johannes Engstle]

Hi,

same here, we are very interested if a workaround is possible.

thanks

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[Johannes Engstle]

Hi twister12, 

you can try this:
ITMS 8.8.1 - PXE boot not working when secure boot is enabled | IT Management Suite

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