Build: May 2021

Overview

The supported authentication mechanisms have been extended to include the API-based assessment. Script-based life-cycle actions are supported. A number of bugs have been fixed.

What’s New?

Authentication for API-based assessment

Three types of authentication mechanism have been added to the API libraries configuration:

• Basic authentication
• Bearer token
• API key

This adds more flexibility to the API-based assessment of lab tasks.

Script-based life-cycle action

The life-cycle action feature enables the instructor to control the lab flow more accurately. Sometimes additional lab configurations need to be done during the lab execution: for example, the creation of credentials and a tenant for students in the cloud for cloud-software oriented labs. This can be done through configurable actions timed for a certain phase of a lab’s life-cycle.

A lab has a finite life-cycle consisting of the following phases: the lab environment start, actions in the environment, the lab environment deletion, etc.

Updates

• Authentication for the API-based assessment
• Script-based life-cycle action

Fixed Issues

• Error when deleting a lab
• Cannot resume a session in a suspended virtual lab
• Make the “Resume” button in a paused machine’s UI clickable
• API Library wizard completely resets on an error
• Acceptance Criteria and Life-Cycle Actions should be copied when the lab is duplicated
• Windows Server 2019 low-performance
• Acronis on-premise agent is a part of the image
• Session ID and Password cannot be copied in a live lab
• Ability to create two tenants via API
• Acronis branded UI
• Make passwords in the lab script randomized
• Firefox update appears when a lab starts