Release Notes CSG 5.0.30

Collax Security Gateway
09.08.2011

New in this Version

Collax SSL-VPN: Single sign-on (SSO) for RDP Applications

For RDP sessions over SSL-VPN the option Single Sign On can be enabled. This means that the login credentials of the web access session are delivered to the RDP session. The user does not need to login again to the RDP server.

Add-on Software: Scaling performance of Collax Virus Protection Avira Antivir improved

This update improves the performance of Collax Virus Protection and Avira Antivir. The software stability is also going to be improved for installations of 100 users or more.

Misc: Samba 3.4.13

Samba has been updated to version 3.4.13. in particular this results in an increase in stability More details can be found here:

http://www.samba.org

Misc: Heimdal (Kerberos implementation) version 1.4

This update provides support for the Heimdal Kerberos version 1.4. More details can be found here:

http://www.h5l.org/

Hardware: Linux Kernel 2.6.32.43

This update installs Linux kernel 2.6.32.43. Together with the kernel updated and new drivers are provided. This includes the higher performing VirtIO driver for Collax VMs. More details can be found here:

http://www.kernel.org

Issues Fixed in this Version

GUI: Auto-logout

In version 5.0.26 there was an automatic logout in the system integrated. In several situations the user activity was not detected correctly, so that the user was logged off too often. This behavoir has been corrected. Also there is now the choice with this update to manually set the time out in a the form Settings → Usage Policy → Administrator. The default is set to one hour. For user sessions via Collax web access the time out can be changed in the form Settings → Services → Webserver. The default is set to one day.

Authentication: Usage Policies of Active Directory Groups

When importing groups from an Active Directory lower case and upper case hadn’t been considered. Consequently the group permissions hadn’n been set properly and users weren’t able to use services. This caused that permissions of imported users weren’t set correctly. With this update lower and upper case is included, users get the right permissions for Collax services.

Misc: High Load when updating ClamAV manually

The manual pattern update of ClamAV led to an infinite loop, which caused high CPU load. This will be fixed in this update

System Management: Amavis SNMP agent is shown as critical even if it is not activated

The active monitoring tried to check the Amavis SNMP agen so far, even if SNMP was not activated. This problem is solved now. The service is now only monitored if the SNMP is activated.

Notes

Add-on Software: New Licensing of Avira Antivir

The Anti Virus product Avira Antivir will now be identically licensed like all Collax Modules. With this method a higher handling comfort is reached.

Add-on Software: Download Progress Bar when using Avira Antivir Web-Virus-Filter

The anti virus product Avira Antivir displayed a special progress bar while scanning downloaded files. With the new anti virus technology within this update this progress bar becomes superfluous. From this update the progress bar of Avira Antivir is going to be removed.