Reporter for SonicWall Release Notes

Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.51 (2021-08-17)

Fixed issue introduced in build 2.0.1.49 where users only get associated with one Security Group, causing issues filtering reports by Security Groups.
You can now add LDAP and Email servers with no authentication details (fixes issue introduced in build 2.0.0.50)
Fixed issue in Settings | Sources where the issue “Unable to read data from the transport connection” could repeatedly appear.
Improved the display of expired license keys in Settings | Licensing.

Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.50 (2021-07-26)

Fixed a critical security vulnerability where anyone with access to the Fastvue Reporter site could potentially exfiltrate the credentials specified for connecting to your email server, LDAP server, or proxy server.

Please update your Fastvue Reporter software immediately, and change the password associated with the credentials specified in Settings | Email, Settings | Proxy Server and any specified LDAP server in Settings | Directory / LDAP (you’re not affected if you’re using the ‘Default Domain Controller’ option).

Also, make sure authentication and authorization is configured for the Fastvue Reporter site so that only the required people have access to the site. To do this, see our KB article: How do I secure the Fastvue Reporter interface with login credentials.

Thank you to security researcher, Sina Kheirkhah (LinkedIn, Twitter), for reporting the vulnerability.
Improved memory usage
Fixed issue extracting VPN start events from SonicWall SMA 1000 series log data.
Fastvue Reporter now merges VPN sessions for the same user where the start time is +- 1 minute from each other. This is in an effort to remove duplicated VPN sessions where SonicWall sends more than one VPN disconnection event with the second event having a slightly different duration.
When the Memory Settings in Settings | Diagnostic | Database are set to ‘Automatic’, the JVM Xms (initial heap size) now scales from 256MB to 2GB depending on total physical RAM.
Fixed issue preventing the ‘no syslog data received’ alert from triggering. To configure this alert see our KB article: How to setup email notifications when syslog data is not received.

Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.49 (2021-06-22)

Reduced the impact of syslog data import on system performance.
Improved the raw loading speed of log data into the Elasticsearch database.
Now shows VPN sessions from the SonicWall SMA 100 series when a NetExtender disconnection occurs without an explicit logout event.
Improved search term extraction.

Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.48 (2021-05-18)

Fixed a major issue introduced in x.0.1.47 causing high resource usage and Overview Reports to fail.
Search Terms are now extracted for the common search engine URLs regardless of the URL category. Previously, Fastvue Reporter only extracted search terms from URLs where the URL Category was set to ‘Search Engines’ or equivalent, as well as a few other categories. This was an issue for customers whitelisting sites such as Google, resulting in a different category being logged for the traffic.
Fixed issues preventing the Report page’s “Cancel Report” button from correctly cancelling the generating report.
SourceHost, DestinationHost, and ReferrerHost are now imported as lowercase resolving case sensitivity issues.

Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.47 (2021-04-01)

Fastvue has recalled this version due to issues reported by several customers after upgrading. If you have upgraded to this version and are experiencing high resource usage (CPU/RAM) and/or reports are failing, please downgrade to the previous build below. Download the update and click Next through the installation wizard without making any changes.

Improved the performance of the Alerts engine resulting in lower RAM usage of the Fastvue Reporter process.
Fixed the extraction of YouTube searches after a YouTube change altered the way search results get logged by firewalls.
Improved VPN Reporting. Netextender disconnection events are now used in addition to ‘user log out’ events to terminate VPN sessions.
Search Terms are now always extracted from the common search engines, regardless of the URL category logged by the firewall (a different category can be logged due to whitelists and custom categories).
Updated default keywords relating to Drug Searches. Note: You will not see the changes to Alerts automatically. Please see our article on Updating Alerts to the latest version while keeping any custom alerts.
Alert Evidence that contains special HTML characters such as < > & “” are now displayed correctly on the Alerts tab and in Alert emails.
Fixed issue that occurs on some non-english systems (such as Turkish) where some aspects of the user interface would not function correctly.
Fixed issue that prevented installation on systems without a .vbs file association.
The Source issue “Unable to read data from the transport connection” is no longer regularly displayed when importing syslog data over TCP.

Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.46 (2021-02-16)

Updated text in Settings | Licensing to remove the message about the number of license keys relating to licensed sources. A single key can now license multiple sources.
Updated default keywords relating to Adult and Profanity alerts and suspicious searches. Note: You will not see the changes to Alerts automatically. Please see our article on Updating Alerts to the latest version while keeping any custom alerts.

Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.45 (2020-11-17)

Improved licensing system. Each installation of Fastvue Reporter can now support a single key in Settings | Licensing that can be renewed rather than replaced at renewal time with a new key. Fastvue Reporter also no longer requires a separate key for each firewall that needs monitoring.
Added a Proxy Settings page to enter the details of your proxy server if one is required for Fastvue Reporter to connect to the internet. The Fastvue Reporter server needs to access licensing.fastvue.co and api.fastvue.co for license activation and Site Clean updates.

Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.44 (2020-10-26)

Improved VPN Session Analysis for SonicWall SMA thousand series. This relies on SMA logging Accounting Records. If you’re using the thousand series, go to User Access | Realms and configure/edit your realm(s). Check the Enable accounting records checkbox.
Fixed issue preventing Gateway Anti-Virus traffic displaying in the Viruses Detected reports and alerts.
Fixed issue preventing the export of reports with long titles.
Reports are now automatically unloaded from memory after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Fixed issue preventing the import of Security Groups with more than 1500 members.
Improved search results extracted from Yahoo, Bing and YouTube.
Authenticated traffic is now correctly matched to an Active Directory user object when the firewall logs the UserPrincipalName as the user.
Fixed issue where filtering Activity Reports by Productivity groups provided unexpected results in some cases.

Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.43 (2020-09-22)

Fixed issue where certain SonicWall events were showing in the Failed VPN Logins widget in the VPN Dashboard and the IT Network and Security Report such as “All packets from <IP address> will be allowed”, “Device register request from <user> approved” and “Effective User SSOPolicy is ‘Allow”

Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.42 (2020-09-02)

Fixed issue with excessive memory and CPU usage when an alert is configured using the ‘Greater than’, ‘Less than’, ‘Greater than or equal’, or Less than or equal’ operators on numeric fields that are not aggregates, such as Hours or Ports.
‘User Data Usage And Throughput’ log lines from SRA/SMA v9 logs are now ignored as they were excessively bloating bandwidth/size figures.
2 Factor Authentication challenges are no longer shown as ‘Failed Logins’ in the VPN dashboard or reports.
Fixed issue where the timezone offset was not applied correctly for SonicWall SMA v10 data.
The ‘Details’ column in the VPN Session report widget is now better populated when using SonicWall SMA v10 data.