6.4.2 EA Release

Netsweeper is pleased to announce the Netsweeper 6.4.2 EA release. This is the second release in the 6.4 release cycle.

Features in 6.4.2 EA include:

New APIs

  • Account Template APIs have been created to assign permissions, Groups and IP Ranges to Account Templates: account_template_assign, account_template_list, account_template_query, and account_template_remove, account_template_create, account_template_group_assign, account_template_group_query, account_template_group_remove, account_template_ip_assign, account_template_ip_query, and account_template_ip_remove.
  • New Deny Pages APIs have been added to link, unlink, list, query, and delete group/policy denypages: group_denypage_link, group_denypage_unlink, group_denypage_list, group_denypage_query, and group_denypage_delete.

NSProxy

  • The NSProxy thread stacksize has been reduced to 1Mbyte to lower the NSProxy memory footprint.

WAgent and Client

  • A WAgent Workstation name has been added into the Clients table and into Reporter output.
  • There is now the ability to set and change the workstation name of a Client in the WebAdmin. This can then be passed to the logging framework.
  • The WAgent API call can now save the workstation name into the database.

DirSync:

  • AuthDirSync’s ability to authenticate with only a specific domain passed into the script has been improved.
  • DirSync update operations have been reduced to improve the NSD performance for config settings reload.

Authentication Redirect

  • Pre-authorization module settings for Group Authentication Redirect have been added. These fields have been added to the ‘Group Authentication Redirect’ window: Pre Auth Lowercase Username, Pre Auth Remove Domain from Username, Pre Auth Append Domain to Username, Post Auth Lowercase Username, Post Auth Mangle Username to username@domain, and Post Auth Override Domain.

Additional Features:

  • For DNS Filtering, there is now the ability to Replace the hostname with dns://DROP which will drop the DNS request and dns://NOERROR which will respond with an empty DNS reply.
  • Online Help for some tabbed windows has been added.
  • Database triggers have been improved so as not to update the nsd-config-table and cause an NSD reload when non-critical fields are updated. The Client Filter protocol can now parse the Workstation Name from the Client Filter in 7.25 and later releases for logging purposes.
  • The -q option for ‘Silent Mode’ has been added to loggertest to speed up the parsing of data. In addition, performance improvements have been added when running with -f mode.

If you have any questions or concerns about planning an upgrade to this release, please contact Netsweeper Technical Support support@netsweeper.com.

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Download

To download the latest release, please use the following links:

http://repo.netsweeper.com/netsweeper-el6-x86_64-6.4.2-1.iso (md5) (sha256)

Change Log 6.4.2

Ticket Description
19885 FEATURE: The NSProxy thread stacksize has been reduced to 1Mbyte to lower the NSProxy memory footprint.
21627 FEATURE: New Account Template APIs have been added: account_template_assign, account_template_list, account_template_query, and account_template_remove. See also Ticket 22528.
21686 FEATURE: New APIs have been added to link, unlink, list, query, and delete group/policy denypages: group_denypage_link, group_denypage_unlink, group_denypage_list, group_denypage_query, and group_denypage_delete.
21840 BUG: The Pie Chart in the ‘Request Log Viewer’ did not show the correct filtered Categories.
21967 FEATURE: A WAgent Workstation name has been added into the Clients table and into Reporter output.
21986 FEATURE: There is now the ability to set and change the workstation name of a Client in the WebAdmin. This can then be passed to the logging framework.
22248 FEATURE: AuthDirSync’s ability to authenticate with only a specific domain passed into the script has been improved.
22264 BUG: Duplicate responses were being logged for API logging.
22429 FEATURE: For DNS Filtering, there is now the ability to Replace the hostname with dns://DROP which will drop the DNS request and dns://NOERROR which will respond with an empty DNS reply.
22459 BUG: List Migrator hover text has been fixed in some browsers.
22497 BUG: Fixed an error where Account Templates would load data for Accounts with the same name instead of the template. If no Account existed. an error would occur.
22499 FEATURE: Online Help for some tabbed windows has been added.
22503 FEATURE: Database triggers have been improved so as not to update the nsd-config-table and cause an NSD reload when non-critical fields are updated.
22504 FEATURE: DirSync update operations have been reduced to improve the NSD performance for config settings reload.
22505 FEATURE: The WAgent API call can now save the workstation name into the database.
22506 FEATURE: The Client Filter protocol can now parse the Workstation Name from the Client Filter in 7.25 and later releases for logging purposes.
22508 BUG: Quotes in the Comments field would corrupt the URL List Export.
22511 BUG: The SysOp Account could delete Clients without the required permissions.
22512 BUG: Windows Active Directory Sync did not sync all users if one user had an empty Attribute value.
22528 FEATURE: Account Template APIs have been created to assign permissions, Groups and IP Ranges to Account Templates: account_template_create, account_template_group_assign, account_template_group_query, account_template_group_remove, account_template_ip_assign, account_template_ip_query, and account_template_ip_remove. See also Ticket 21627.
22529 BUG: You could not change the Account Template Type.
22530 BUG: The Account Manager Groups tab would load incredibly show when there were too many Groups.
22531 BUG: The ‘Client Filter Settings’ List tab would display an error for non-master admin users.
22532 FEATURE: Pre-authorization module settings for Group Authentication Redirect have been added. These fields have been added to the ‘Group Authentication Redirect’ window: Pre Auth Lowercase Username, Pre Auth Remove Domain from Username, Pre Auth Append Domain to Username, Post Auth Lowercase Username, Post Auth Mangle Username to username@domain, and Post Auth Override Domain.
22534 BUG: Online Time Estimation Reports that are grouped hourly would not display hourly groupings.
22538 DOCUMENTATION: The documentation for client_move_ip has been corrected.
22539 DOCUMENTATION: API documentation has been updated for the WebAdmin API Test Tool to now point to the WebAdmin location.
22546 BUG: DirSync kept trying to connect to the same Google Directory on failure and stops to process other directories.
22565 FEATURE: The -q option for ‘Silent Mode’ has been added to loggertest to speed up the parsing of data. In addition, performance improvements have been added when running with -f mode.
22571 BUG: If you failed to authenticate to the auth portal, the URL would get corrupted and the Group Settings could not be loaded.
22572 BUG: The nsdctl command would check log file permissions on start. This would look in the /usr/local/netsweeper directory and not in /usr/local/netsweeper/logs.
22573 BUG: The Client Filter per brand configuration for local network detection is not loaded into the policy service causing a policy service restart in prior releases.