Reporter for SonicWall Release Notes
Reporter for SonicWall 1.0.1.32 (2018-06-11)
  • The time that Scheduled Reports start each day can now be customised using a direct API URL (there is no UI for this yet). The URL is:

    http://fastvuereportersite/_/api?f=Settings.Reports.SetScheduledReportsStartAtTime&minutes=60 

    Replace fastvuereportersite with your actual Fastvue Reporter URL and replace 60 with the number of minutes after midnight that you would like the scheduled reports to start. Note, this is a global setting for all Scheduled Reports. It cannot be set for individual Scheduled Reports.
     

  • The first day of the week used in 'Weekly' scheduled reports can now be customised using a direct API URL (there is no UI for this yet). The URL is:

    http://fastvuereportersite/_/api?f= Settings.Reports.SetScheduledReportsFirstDayOfWeek&day=Sunday 

    Replace fastvuereportersite with your actual Fastvue Reporter URL and replace Sunday with either Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Weekly reports will then contain data from that day and the following 6 days. Note, this is a global setting for all weekly Scheduled Reports. It cannot be set for individual Scheduled Reports.
     

  • The Scheduled Reports Start Time can be retrieved using this direct API URL:
    http://fastvuereportersite/_/api?f=Settings.Reports.GetScheduledReportsStartAtTime
     
  • The First Day Of Week can be retrieved using this direct API URL:
    http://fastvuereportersite/_/api?f=Settings.Reports.GetScheduledReportsFirstDayOfWeek
     
  • Policy widgets in the Firewall Dashboard and Overview Reports no longer include blank/null policies.

Reporter for SonicWall 1.0.1.31 (2018-06-08)
  • Emailed report notifications now indicate if the report is blank rather than provide a button/link to view the report.
  • Fixed LDAP import to correctly merge Security Groups from multiple domains.
  • Sharing non-private reports from the Reports tab now uses the correct URL.
  • Report emails now use a query parameter (?reportID=abc), rather than a # (#reportID=abc) to identify the reportID in the report's URL. This is because some email clients strip out everything after # when clicking links in emails.
  • Accessing Reports.aspx with a report GUID that doesn't exist now displays a "Report does not exist" message.
  • Date pickers on the Reports tab no longer display a drop-down showing most recently selected dates.
  • Internal 'Filesystem' source type now supports compressed files (zip, gz, tgz/tar.gz, tar).

Reporter for SonicWall 1.0.1.30 (2018-03-19)
  • Fixed "Error in Report Processor Process Thread: Invalid Unicode code point found at index 1. Parameter name: unicode" that may occur when running reports.
  • Sources page no longer displays 9999/1969 when no data has been received and instead shows "Waiting for data" for 20 seconds after adding a source. After 20 seconds, a message and link to the troubleshooting KB article is displayed.
  • Adjusted the data storage auto-recovery logic to avoid issues when threads are aborted.
  • Updated all UI error handlers to display the error message given by the backend API.
  • Double-quotes in error messages no longer cause Javascript errors.

Reporter for SonicWall 1.0.1.29 (2018-02-07)
  • Added Filename and Filename Extension fields to the list of fields you can filter reports and alerts by. You can also add these fields as columns in Alert evidence tables. Filename includes contains values such as myimage.jpg and myapplication.exe, and Filename Extension includes values such as jpg and exe.
  • If SonicWall logs "Unknown" as the username, Source Host (if available) or Source IP will be shown as the User.
  • Changed the casing on all instances of SonicWALL to SonicWall, as per SonicWall's updated branding.
  • Settings | Licensing | User Statistics no longer double-counts users with when they're logged as both 'username' and 'domainusername'
  • Updated Self Harm Searches Alert Keywords (fresh installs only).
  • Improved Fastvue Reporter's DNS resolution for when a Username or Source Host is not logged.
  • LDAP import now imports a user's First/Last Name if their Display Name attribute in Active Directory is blank.
  • Added more diagnostic logging to LDAP security group import to help troubleshoot errors.

Reporter for SonicWall 1.0.1.28 (2017-11-03)
  • Fixed issue where clicking the navigation menu in Overview Reports doesn't scroll to report section in Chrome.
  • Search term alerts no longer trigger on search terms containing "tbn:" (Google thumbnail IDs). Unfortunately, this change will not affect existing installs. Existing users will need to go to Settings | Alerts, and add a 'tbn:' to the Search Terms 'Does not contain' filter in the Search Term alerts.
  • Updated Site Clean Settings (Snapchat CDNs and adnxs junk URLs).

Reporter for SonicWall 1.0.1.27 (2017-10-03)
  • Reports now remove browser polls to the facebook chat service that occur when the browser is minimised.
  • Domain extraction from URLs now uses the public suffix list from https://publicsuffix.org to resolve issues extracting domains for some ngTLDs, SLDs under ccTLDs, and reversed ccTLDs. 
  • The default placeholder filter is now removed when using the 'Load Filter' option. 
  • Duplicate import sources can no longer be added.
  • The Start/Welcome page now redirects to the Dashboard page if at least one source has been added.
  • Fixed "AJAX error 0" issue that may display occasionally on certain pages of the application 
  • A modal dialog is now shown in the UI if the backend service is not responding, telling the user to try refreshing or ensure the Fastvue Reporter service is running.
  • Updated default Junk URLs and Domain Substitutes. 
  • Fixed error when attempting to remove license keys in Settings | Licensing.

Reporter for SonicWall 1.0.1.26 (2017-08-04)
  • Fixed issue that may cause the import engine to lock up and stop importing data.
  • Updated default keywords for Extremist Searches alert
  • Updated Site Clean Settings
  • Any errors when saving alerts and productivity settings are now displayed correctly

Reporter for SonicWall 1.0.1.25 (2017-07-21)
  • Added new default alerts for Extremist Searches, Extremist Websites, Self Harm Searches, Adult and Profanity Searches, and Virus Detected.
  • Blocked Sites widget in Overview and User Overview Reports now separate Blocked, Forbidden and Dropped traffic.
  • Added a 'Network' section and reordered the Firewall sections of Overview Reports and User Overview Reports.
  • The Search Terms field now includes LinkedIn searches and any other site that uses the 'keywords' query parameter in the URL.
  • Data import now continues when your installed license key(s) have expired (reports and alerts will no longer function when expired).
  • Fixed timestamp formatting in the Search Terms section of User Overview Reports.
  • Fixed issue where the Web UI may not display when accessed by a machine with unknown or invalid regional settings.
  • Device Count in Settings | Licensing | User Statistics only counts source IP addresses that are considered internal or link-local by IANA (RFC 1918, 3927, 4193, 4291, 6890).
  • Fixed licensing / registration issues.
  • Data produced when running in demo mode now illustrates the site clean feature.
  • Dashboard buttons now highlight when going directly to a dashboard page via a # link (e.g. /dashboard.aspx#productivity)

Reporter for SonicWall 1.0.1.24 (2017-06-13)
  • Added 'User Login Name' field to show the raw username (without Active Directory display name) so that you can add this as a column to your alert evidence table.
  • Added more diagnostic tracing to the import process when in Verbose logging mode.

Reporter for SonicWall 1.0.1.23 (2017-05-29)
  • No change in Fastvue Reporter for SonicWall (fixes for Fastvue Reporter fo Barracuda caused  a Fastvue Reporter platform version number increment)