Reporter for SonicWall Release Notes
Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.41 (2020-08-07)
  • Filtering reports by Filename Extension no longer requires the extension to be entered in UPPERCASE.
  • Fixed an issue where strange Search Terms such as “56,148,835,15” were being extracted from YouTube.
  • Fixed issue preventing picklists from being presented when filtering by certain fields such as Event/Message Types.
  • Improved support for SonicWall SMA VPN log lines.


Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.40 (2020-06-25)
  • Reports can now be filtered by ‘Manager’. For example, select Manager ‘Equal to’ Bob to filter a report by all of Bob’s employees/subordinates as defined in Active Directory. You can of course schedule this report to send to Bob every day, week or month.

Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.39 (2020-06-10)
  • Added support for SonicWall SMA models running firmware v12.x (enterprise models such as 6210, 7210 & 8200V)
  • Changes to default Alerts:
    • Added Drug Searches alert.
    • Removed Site Resource criteria from existing Search Term alerts as this is now handled in the Search Term extraction.
    • Changed Downloads > 100 MB to Downloads > 1 GB and decreased its priority to Medium.
    • The Unproductive Browsing alert now triggers when over 1 hour of unproductive browsing occurs within four hours.

      Note: If upgrading, you will not see the new Alerts automatically. Please see our article on Updating Alerts to the latest version while keeping any custom alerts.
  • SonicWall’s App Control Filename events (Message ID 1574) now populates the Filename field in Fastvue Reporter.
  • VPN Session Type for VPN event IDs 139, 140 and 141 is now set to vpnc unless otherwise logged.

Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.38 (2020-05-12)
  • Fixed issue where the Schedule Report button would not work (issue was introduced in build (2.0.1.35)
  • Fixed issue where links to Private Reports would no longer work once the Fastvue Reporter service is restarted.
  • Fixed URL parsing issue where URLs shorter than 15 characters with no scheme (e.g. http or https) appeared as an invalid URL.
  • Viewers of Private Reports can now export the report to PDF or CSV.
  • Fixed issue where the Connected and Disconnected times in the VPN sessions widget were truncated when exported to PDF.

Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.37 (2020-04-23)
  • Fixed issue where launching reports from an existing report (via hover-over) includes an extra date in the date range, and shows an incorrect date range in the report title.

Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.36 (2020-04-14)
  • Fixed issue where a CSV report is always attached when a report is shared via email or scheduled on the Reports tab with all attachment formats unchecked.
  • VPN section of the IT and Network Security report now has a VPN Users widget that has both VPN Users (by size) and VPN users (Alphabetically) widgets.
  • VPN Users by Size section no longer shows activity that is not related to VPN connections.
  • Connected and Disconnected times are no longer incorrect when the exporting VPN Sessions to PDF or CSV
  • Improved the detection of VPN start and end events when loading SonicWall Firewall and SonicWall SMA log files.
  • Improved the logic that determines unique VPN sessions
  • Log import now compensates for SonicWall’s Filename logging event having incorrect size values, by setting the size to 0 for these events (log event 1574 under Firewall | Application Control | Filename logging)
  • VPN Sessions widget in Reports now shows up to 1000 connections
  • VPN Users By Size widget in Reports now shows up to 100 Users
  • Failed VPN Logins widget in Reports now shows up to 100 login attempts

Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.35 (2020-03-30)
  • Added a new VPN Dashboard and a VPN section to the IT and Network Security Report.
SonicWall VPN Dashboard
  • You can now monitor the number of active VPN sessions throughout the day to help plan for extra capacity or use the reports to find who has not connected recently.

    You can also easily see when most people connect and disconnect, and proactively respond to unexpected disconnections or excessive invalid login attempts.

    For more information, see Introducing SonicWall VPN Reports and VPN Dashboard
  • Fixed issue preventing new reports from being launched within Private Reports.

Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.34 (2020-03-18)
  • No change. Fixes for Fastvue Reporter fo FortiGate, Reporter for Palo Alto and Reporter for Sophos Web Appliance caused a Fastvue Reporter platform version number increment.

Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.33 (2020-03-11)
  • No change. Fixes for Fastvue Reporter fo FortiGate caused a Fastvue Reporter platform version number increment.

Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.1.32 (2020-03-11)
  • Fixed an issue that may prevent Search Term Alerts from working after the alerts are edited. If you’re experiencing this issue, edit your Search Term alert, and make sure the filter for Site Resource with the values /s and /su are set to ‘Not equal to’. There was an issue where this portion of the filter would be set to ‘Equal to’ if the alert was edited and saved, preventing the alert from working correctly.
  • Fixed issue that may result in out of memory issues after startup when the data retention policy attempts to calculate the size of old / closed indexes.
  • Elasticsearch no longer writes out enormous heap dump files when it runs out of memory. Any existing heap dump files will be deleted when disk space gets low.
  • Installation now cleans up Elasticsearch package extraction temporary files even if the extract fails.
  • Fixed issue in Alert Settings where the Alert Evidence Config Table sets example data to ‘User’ after the table is loaded.