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Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.0.11 Beta (2019-02-22)
  • Fixed Settings | Diagnostics | Database page showing NaN% on disk usage when total is 0.
  • Service stop stage when installing now shows 'Stopping service…' instead of 'Extracting files…'.
  • JRE unpack stage in installer now waits for 'binjava.exe' to exist before proceeding to work around asynchronous file creation issues.
  • Dashboard engine now processes widgets at the correct interval.

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Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.0.10 Beta (2019-02-15)
  • Added 'best_compression' option to Elasticsearch instance to reduce disk size of imported data.
  • Excluded certain URLs from the Search Term widgets and alerts to reduce auto-complete searches and other noise
  • Restyled the sub-report-type tabs to look more consistent with the rest of the app.
  • Fastvue Reporter now monitors disk space usage separately for both Reporter's data storage location and Elasticsearch's database location.
  • Disk usage warning/critical thresholds are configurable separately for storage and database, either as percentages of total space or as fixed sizes. This is configured in the Settings.xml file with the following settings: 
     <Item Name="DiskSpaceStorageLowSpaceWarning" Type="System.String, mscorlib" Value="15%" /> <Item Name="DiskSpaceStorageLowSpaceCritical" Type="System.String, mscorlib" Value="5%" /> <Item Name="DiskSpaceDatabaseLowSpaceWarning" Type="System.String, mscorlib" Value="15%" /> <Item Name="DiskSpaceDatabaseLowSpaceCritical" Type="System.String, mscorlib" Value="5%" />
  • Added email notifications for when disk usage threshold limits are reached.
  • Added cleanup task that automatically runs when either storage or database disk usage thresholds switch to warning or critical.
  • Added a notification message to site header when database disk space is critically low.
  • Added a link to Settings | DataStorage to the Storage row of the Database status page in Settings | Diagnostics | Database.
  • Low disk space warning/critical status changes the database status colour in Settings | Data Storage and Settings | Diagnostics.
  • Elasticsearch disk status critical now only stops import but continues to allow queries.
  • Elasticsearch status will be changed to red if the 'critical' disk space threshold is passed.
  • An email will be sent to the System Notifications email address (specified in Settings | Email) when the disk space status changes.
  • Legacy data migration process now applies data retention policy to legacy data stores.
  • Migration status now shows if it is rereading up to its last position for the current store (shows 'Preparing migration for (date) (xx%)').
  • Elasticsearch statistics are now cleared when the connection is lost so that UI doesn't show stats while disconnected.
  • Added exponential backoff (1s-300s) to Elasticsearch automatic restart in case of unexpected Elasticsearch termination.
  • Improved Elasticsearch restart logic when Elasticsearch is unexpectedly terminated.

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Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.0.9 Beta (2019-02-05)
  • Fixed issues when filtering on Productivity groups.
  • IP fields in Elasticsearch can now be filtered using StartsWith/EndsWith/Contains and their inverse variants.
  • Fixed issue filtering on blank values.
  • Series 'Other…' is now forced for charts where it makes sense to do so.
  • The installer now removes existing JRE before installing new JRE version, and when uninstalling the product.
  • Elasticsearch self-managed mode now supports custom instance location using the DatabaseElasticSelfManagedPath in Settings.xml which falls back to (datalocation)/Data.elastic if unset/blank.
  • Elasticsearch self-managed mode now prefers JRE in instance path first.
  • Updated Elasticsearch package to 5.6.14.
  • Updated JRE package to OpenJDK OpenJ9 1.8u192.
  • Elasticsearch interface now updates status to 'Warning' or 'Failure' if Elasticsearch unexpectedly switches to yellow or red status during normal operation instead of changing colour but continuing to display 'Operational'.
  • X-UA-Compatible header no longer causes an error about duplication.

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Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.0.8 Beta (2018-12-20)
  • Some fields now support case-insensitive filtering, such as Users.
  • Fixed forced lowercasing of LDAP display names.
  • The installer now correctly sets the IIS App Pool to .Net 4.0.
  • Increased Elasticsearch self-managed startup timeout to 5 minutes from 2 minutes.
  • Increased Dashboard update interval to 15 seconds from 5 seconds.

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Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.0.7 Beta (2018-12-17)
  • Report popover dialog now presents options for Internet Usage, IT / Network, All Usage and Activity Report.
  • Hovering over a user will run the appropriate 'User' report from the popover dialog.
  • Changed the styling of the popover report buttons to be consistent with the report buttons at the top of the page.

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Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.0.6 Beta (2018-12-17)
  • The Overview and User Overview Reports now have three sub-report-types – Internet Usage, IT and Network Security, and All Usage.
  • Improved Browsing Time calculation.
  • Fixed filter StartsWith, EndsWith and Contains operators and their inversions.
  • Usernames are now forced to `DOMAINusername@domain` casing before being indexed in Elasticsearch.
  • Added three tabs to Settings | Diagnostic: Logs, Resource Usage, Database.
  • Moved database status display to Settings | Diagnostic | Database.
  • Added CPU, RAM, and Disk charts, as well as Database charts for CPU and RAM to Settings | Diagnostic | Resource Usage.
  • Improved database status information provided by API, details about Elasticsearch's nodes and shards are now provided in a structured form and displayed in Settings | Diagnostic | Database.
  • Changed the layout of text on the Settings | Diagnostic page and updated the log location to show the new location of the logs.
  • Added database interface status display in Settings | Data Storage.
  • Errors during record import will now queue the failed record to be imported again with the next import batch.
  • New API:
    – Storage.GetDatabaseStatus – Gets the current database/Elastic status (also available via Storage.GetStatistics().Database).
  • Elasticsearch startup timeout is now configurable via setting `DatabaseElasticSelfManagedTimeout` in Settings.xml (default 120s).
  • Elasticsearch interface now checks the Elasticsearch version on connect.
  • Elasticsearch interface now stores scripts in Elasticsearch rather than passing the script source with each query.
  • Elasticseach interface now waits for Elasticsearch to complete index recovery before loading indexes, pushing scripts, or accepting query/index requests.
  • Fastvue Reporter now uses health status to automatically attempt to reconnect to Elasticsearch on connection failure and reload indexes and push scripts.
  • Fastvue Reporter now reloads indexes and pushes scripts if a health check fails.
  • Fastvue Reporter now disconnects/reconnects to Elasticsearch completely if no health check has succeeded within the last 60s.
  • Index settings are now updated in parallel with error checking and retry.
  • Stored scripts are now stored in parallel with error checking and retry.
  • Restructured stored scripts push logic to precache all of the scripts before storing them in Elasticsearch.
  • Elasticsearch node stats update no longer logs errors if no response is received.
  • Elasticsearch start now scans for the major version of Elasticsearch in use and sets command line arguments to java appropriately.
  • Elasticsearch now logs the full command line used at Verbose level.
  • Elasticsearch wildcard/prefix queries are now added to the 'must' section of the query instead of the 'should' section.
  • Elasticsearch index deletion now also removes the cached date statistics.
  • Elasticsearch interface will now consider the instance started when the HTTP server is reported active.
  • Fixed GetDates in Elasticsearch interface not correctly checking connected status.
  • Elasticsearch interface now ignores 'yellow' cluster health status from Elasticsearch for 30 seconds after attempting to create an index.
  • Errors in index creation or bulk indexing will now force the index list to be reloaded to ensure consistency.
  • Updated Elasticsearch version to 5.6.13.
  • Data retention will no longer attempt to scan an empty list of dates.

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Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.0.5 Beta (2018-11-19)
  • Log parsing/loading improvements.

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Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.0.4 Beta (2018-11-16)
  • Added Syslog over TCP support
  • Improved performance of report widget generation.
  • The appropriate sidebar item in Overview Reports now highlights properly when Report Drawer and Report Options are shown at the top of the page.
  • Added error handling to legacy data migration.
  • Improved filtering on aliased values such as Productivity and Departments.
  • Re-added Data Path setting to Settings | Data Storage page.
  • Removed version number from default Program Files paths in installers.
  • Added verbose logging for report widget generation timing.
  • User/Device statistics calculators no longer fail to read a file when duplicate names are present.
  • Diagnostic log archival now zips to a temporary file ({logname}.zip.temp) before moving to the final archive name ({logname}.zip) after the zip operation has completed.
  • Elasticsearch interface now only queries indexes related to the query by date filter (or if no date filter, queries all indexes).
  • Queries will now be retried if they fail due to '429 Too Many Requests' error.
  • Elasticsearch stats API call now has a timeout of 2s instead of 500ms.
  • Per-date statistics (record count and disk size) are now cached separately to database interface to allow for Elastic to lazy-load its index statistics without causing the appearance of missing or slowly loading data in Settings | Data Storage.
  • Elasticsearch interface no longer fails when connecting to an Elastic instance with indexes that do not follow the expected naming convention.

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Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.0.3 Beta (2018-10-24)
  • Reworked Overview and User Overview Reports.
  • Elasticsearch now creates a new index for each date. 
  • Improved data size calculation per date in Settings | Data Storage.
  • Added Data Migration feature to automatically migrate legacy Fastvue Reporter data stores (FVFS format) to Elasticsearch. Data migration process can be viewed in Settings | Data Storage
  • New APIs:
    – Storage.GetMigrationStatus() – Returns the status of the current migration task if any.
    – Storage.StartFvfsMigration() – Manually start the Data.Fvfs migration.
    – Storage.SetMigrationPaused(paused) – If paused is true, pauses the migration, otherwise resumes it.
  • Performance Improvements.
  • Improved Installer (error checking, bug fixes)
  • Fixed issue where the Time Analysis Widget would fail to generate correctly.
  • Fixed issue with Activity Reports not rendering.
  • Improved diagnostic logging.
  • Reporter now monitors Elasticsearch process status and restarts it automatically if Elasticsearch terminates or exits without being instructed to do so by Reporter.

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Reporter for SonicWall 2.0.0.2 Beta (2018-09-26)
  • First working build of Reporter 4.0 with Elasticsearch

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