This Up2Date adds two new features “WebAdmin Auditor role”, “Web Security Reporting for blocked pages” and fixes issues in different areas which increases stability and performance.
New Features and Enhancements
WebAdmin Auditor role
Users with Auditor role will be able to login to WebAdmin with restricted (read-only) access, so they only can only view reports and logfiles without permission to change system settings.
Web Security Reporting for blocked pages
New Web Security Reports list all websites that have been blocked by the Astaro Web Filter due to viruses found, blocked file extensions or blocked URL categories. Different views are available sorted by categories, users, domains, and more.
Please check also the V7.1 Release Notes PDF.
Fixes
The following issues have been fixed with the current release, among others:
High Availability
Several fixes have been made for High Availability configurations, including proper start-up of IPsec services, synchronization of authentication state when using external authentication like eDirectory, synchronization of configuration data and logfiles as well as the Up2Date process.
HTTP Proxy
Several minor issues with the new HTTP Proxy have been fixed, i.e. with time based profiles, misbehaviour when parent proxy is not resolvable and with sites not working correctly.
Authentication
Auto-usercreation now only creates lowercase usernames in order to avoid duplicate, case-sensitive usernames with remote authentication back-ends. Furthermore Single Sign-On within clustered eDirectory environments has been improved.
Tunnel Reference within live log
When using the IPsec live log viewer, the tunnel references will now be resolved to the tunnel names. That should help while debugging/viewing the IPsec status.
MMS connection tracking helper
The connection tracking helper for MMS has been removed as the protocol is only rarely used and also causes unstable behaviour in some cases.
Public List of Bugfixes:
Fix [7097]: Nics listed twice in WebAdmin overview
Fix [7314]: Bridge can not be disabled after importing a backup
Fix [7475]: IPsec starting in wrong mode after restart of HA system
Fix [7483]: Lots of config changes cause SMTP restarts
Fix [7491]: eDirectory SSO synchronisation: use overlapping sync intervall
Fix [7569]: Unresolved HTTP parent proxy kills the backend system
Download Information
The Astaro Up2Date technology makes it easy to upgrade your installed Astaro Security Gateway to the latest version. There are two ways to apply an Up2Date package to the system (All Up2Dates are GNUPG-signed):
- Log on to WebAdmin, navigate to Management >> Up2Date >> Overview and use Update to latest version now to install the Firmware Up2Date. Click on then Watch Up2Date Progress in new window and an extra browser window will show the progress of the Up2Date installation and the System administrator will receive a notification email once the Up2Date process has finished successfully.
- Download the Up2Date package from our HTTP or FTP Server and install it under Management >> Up2Date >> Advanced:
(MD5sum: 0172f86b763945e63722239218d065a0 Size : 96,980,676 bytes)
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Feedback
If you want to provide feedback or want to discuss any of the ASG V7 features you should post it on our User Bulletin Board. Please take care to add always(!) the version you refer to (e.g. “[7.102] new auditor role”). There is also a demo server to check ASG V7: http://demo.astaro.com.
Your Astaro R&D team
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The original article/video can be found at Up2Date 7.102 released