EOL - Legacy VPN Support for Harmony Media Bar

Learn about extending legacy VPN support to the Harmony Media Bar, and how to take advantage of new features and improved security.

Last published on: August 23rd, 2023

EOL Announcement: Legacy VPN support for Harmony Media Bar

OpenMethods announcesEnd-of-Life (EOL) of the Legacy VPN configuration and controllers for Harmony Media Bar.

The milestone events, descriptions, and dates for these affected products are shown below. Customers with active agreements will continue to receive support from OpenMethods in accordance with the End-of-Life (EOL) and product migration milestones outlined below. 

Affected Customers

This EOL announcement is relevant for customers using Harmony Media Bar with any VPN controller below version 6.9.221 and using SHA-1 encryption.

End-of-life milestones

Milestone Definition Date
End-of-Life (EOL) Announcement Date The date the document that announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life of a product is distributed to the general public. August 31th, 2023
End-of-Support (EOS) Date The last date to receive applicable service and support for the product. After this date, all support services for the product are unavailable, and the product becomes obsolete. A migration to the GA Version is required. September 31st, 2023**

 

Product Migration Options

Any client using a legacy VPN migration will be moved to an upgraded VPN controller configured with IKEv2, SHA-256 a DH group of 21.

For more information 

For more information please reach the End-of-Life Policy

Customer Usage

Please note that the announcement of EOL and EOS do not abdicate customer commitments associated with contract terms.