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v9.6.2 Release Notes for CyBlock Appliance

Category: Release Notes

Enhancements

  • Enhancements
    • System
      •  Added ability to import Groups and IDs through Directory Agent.
    • System Status
      • Messages
        • Visualizer
          • Added screen to view Visualizer profiling information.
    • Reporting
      • Dashboard
        • Visualizer
          • Added preconfigured dashboard templates for users to select when creating new dashboards.
          • Updated timeframe selection to always be relative when creating/editing dashboards. Modifying the timeframe in the dashboard view page is only temporary and a button is added to reset back to default timeframe selection. Navigating away also resets the timeframe back to dashboard default.

Corrections

  • Reporting
    • Dashboard
      • Visualizer
        • Corrected visualizer link in product menu when user account does not have a valid email address by redirecting to logon accounts modification screen.

v9.6.0 Release Notes for CyBlock Appliance

Category: Release Notes

Enhancements

  • Enhancements
    • System
      •  Added ability to import Groups and IDs through Directory Agent.
    • System Status
      • Messages
        • Visualizer
          • Added screen to view Visualizer profiling information.
    • Reporting
      • Dashboard
        • Visualizer
          • Replaced all existing dashboards with Visualizer. This new charting solution allows you to create and save panels on multiple dashboards as opposed to the single view that you had to configure each time you went to the charts. Any non-ad logon will automatically be able to log into the visualizer using the same credentials.

v9.5.1 Release Notes for CyBlock Appliance

Category: Release Notes

Enhancements

  • System
    • Upgraded Java Run-Time Engine to Version 11.
    • Caching product update information to prevent constant polling while on home screen.
  • Settings
    • Email
      • Replaced all legacy e-mail client with newer version.
      • Added option for e-mail client to connect using ssl.
      • Added SSLStart capability to e-mail client.
    • Secure interface
      • Forcing TLS1.2 for default interface certificates.
      • TT-2232 Added Subject Alternate Names as option to generating Certificate Signature Request.
  • Reporting
    • Log File Text Parser 
      • Updated next generation reporting engine to parse web type data configurations. Product now capable of reading multiple record types for single data configuration.
    • Added Office365 reporting module.
      • Added configuration option in Data Management – Setup.
      • Added Office365 option in Report Templates including all available reporting fields for creating Office 365 report sections.
      • Updated Reporting engine to pull data from Office 365 data stored in metric server.
  • Data Management
    • Added option to compressed log data that was generated by Wavecrest product (eg. syslog, or CyBlock).  This option is disabled by default.
  • User Management
    • Authentication – Bypass
      • Added ability to assign custom username to use for individual bypass rule.

Corrections

  • System
    • Removed log4j and replaced with latest fully patched log4j2 version. 
    • Improved UI speed by removing unnecessary health check calls.
    • Removed unused libraries from installer.
    • Implemented new library implementation for tracking CPU and Memory usage for Windows installs.
  • Data Manager – Log File Download
    • TT-2340 Fixed calendar incorrectly setting last available download date.
  • Reporting
    • Dashboard Charts – Trend – Classifications
      • TT-2235 Corrected parameter issue that caused chart to not load.
    • Report Manager
      • TT-2314 Fixed the no network segments exist message.
    • Reporting
      • Real-Time Monitor – Protocol
        • TT-2334 Fixed Groups and IDs selection issue that prevented selection of groups or ids. Also present in Block Protocol screen.
  • Categorization
    • TT-2291 URLs that are uppercased in log source now properly match to list or custom URL entries.
  • Web Management – Web Search
    • Corrected Google Safe Search feature that prevented safe feature being applied to google search requests.

Configuring date/time on the appliance

Category: Administration

There are two ways to set the time on the appliance.

Method 1: Synchronizing with NTP

Newer appliances have been updated to include a daily cron job (scheduled task) to sync the date/time setting.

  1. To enable advanced options, enter http://<applianceip>/setadv.php in the browser address bar, and set the flag to enabled¹.
  2. Navigate to System Status – ADV Shell Scripts.
  3. Enter the following, and click Submit:

yum install ntpdate -y
echo ntpdate pool.ntp.org > /etc/cron.daily/ntpdate
chmod 755 /etc/cron.daily/ntpdate
/etc/cron.daily/ntpdate

Method 2: Manual entry of date/time

1. Follow the above instructions to get to ADV Shell Scripts.

2. Enter the current date and time manually, using the following format

date -s “ddMMM YYYY HH:mm:ss”

3. Click Submit.

 

¹ For version 6.8.3a and earlier, the shell-script executor is located in the hidden menu. In the browser address bar, enter http://<applianceip>/admin/hidden.php. In the Appliance section, select Shell Script Executor. Enter the commands above.