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Novell Sentinel™ 6.1.1.0
March 17, 2009
These are the release notes for the Sentinel 6.1.1.0 (6.1 SP1) Release.
Section 7, "Defects Fixed in Sentinel 6.1 Release," on page 8
1 Overview
The information in this Release Note file pertains to Novell Sentinel™ 6.1.1.0, which provides a
real-time, holistic view of security and compliance activities, while helping customers monitor,
report, and respond automatically to network events across the enterprise.
This Service Pack will apply the latest software fixes and enhancements to an existing installation of
Sentinel 6.1, including the updates in Sentinel 6.1 Hotfix 1 (6.1.0.1). Sentinel 6.1 must already be
installed before applying this Service Pack.
The Service Pack must be installed on all existing Sentinel 6.1 installation machines, client and
server. This includes machines with Sentinel Server the Correlation Engine, Sentinel Database,
Collector Manager, Sentinel Control Center, Collector Builder, and Sentinel Data Manager.
This Service Pack is mandatory for all users who subscribe to the Advisor data service.
1.1 Prerequisites
If Sentinel is not yet installed, it must be installed using the Sentinel 6.1.0.0 installer. Please see
the Sentinel Installation Guide for instructions.
If Sentinel 5.x is installed, it must be upgraded to Sentinel 6.1.0.0 using the upgrade installer.
Please see the Patch Installation Guide for instructions.
If Sentinel 4.x is installed, Sentinel 6.1.0.0 must be installed using the Sentinel 6.1.0.0 installer.
Some data can be migrated to the Sentinel 6.1.0.0 installation. Please see the Patch Installation
Guide for instructions.
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Section 10, “Legal Notices,” on page 13 1 Overview The information in this Release Note file pertains to Novell Sentinel™ 6.1.1.0, which provides a real-time, holistic view of security and compliance activities, while helping customers monitor, report, and respond automatically to network events across the enterprise. -
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Sentinel database. If this is not possible, then at a minimum a backup of the contents of the ESEC_HOME directory should be made. This will help protect your system against unexpected installation errors. Novell Sentinel™ 6.1.1.0... -
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Sentinel Collector Builder Sentinel Data Manager Solution Designer 5 Shut down the Sentinel services running on this machine: On Windows, use Windows Service Manager to stop the “Sentinel” services. On Linux/Solaris, run $ESEC_HOME/bin/sentinel.sh stop Novell Sentinel™ 6.1.1.0... -
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User has the environment variable ORACLE_HOME set to the directory where the Oracle software is installed. User must be a member of the Oracle "dba" group. User has the Java 1.5 executable java in its PATH. Novell Sentinel™ 6.1.1.0... - Page 5 8 After the script is done applying the patch, check for any errors. If there are no errors, you are done with the Sentinel Database patch. If there are errors, resolve the errors and re-run the PatchDb utility. Novell Sentinel™ 6.1.1.0...
- Page 6 8 After the script has done applying the patch, check for any errors. If there are errors, resolve the errors and re-run the PatchDb utility. 9 After the patch runs with no errors, “Sentinel” services should be restarted. Novell Sentinel™ 6.1.1.0...
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Java Web site (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html). 1 Edit the file. SentinelPreferences.properties On Windows: %ESEC_HOME%\config\SentinelPreferences.properties On *NIX: $ESEC_HOME/config/SentinelPreferences.properties 2 Uncomment the following line and modify to customize date and time format for Sentinel Control Center event date/time fields. com.eSecurity.Sentinel.event.datetimeformat=yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ Novell Sentinel™ 6.1.1.0... - Page 8 FIXED: Partial or corrupted feed files are re-downloaded by Advisor client and all feed files will be then processed. 451601 Issue: Cannot reliably download feed files. FIXED: Partial or corrupted feed files are re-downloaded by Advisor client and all feed files will be then processed. Novell Sentinel™ 6.1.1.0...
- Page 9 The stored procedure that generates the database view has been fixed so imported data is available in these scenarios. NOTE: The event data will still not show up in Historical Query or Offline Query. Novell Sentinel™ 6.1.1.0...
- Page 10 Fixed. Raw data tap now updates correctly. SEN-8467 Issue: Sentinel Data Manager login screen hangs up throwing exception if any table space (used,free,total) exceeds 2,147,483,647 MB. Fixed. SDM login works properly. Novell Sentinel™ 6.1.1.0...
- Page 11 Issue: Sentinel Data Manager (SDM) does not ever finish loading when it encounters an error from the database. Fixed. SDM finishes loading properly. SEN-8039 Issue: PatchDB fails on non-English install. Fixed. PatchDB now installs on non-English system properly. Novell Sentinel™ 6.1.1.0...
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In this documentation, a greater-than symbol (>) is used to separate actions within a step and items in a cross-reference path. A trademark symbol (® , TM, etc.) denotes a Novell trademark; an asterisk (*) denotes a third-party trademark Novell Sentinel™ 6.1.1.0... -
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Further, Novell, Inc. reserves the right to make changes to any and all parts of Novell software, at any time, without any obligation to notify any person or entity of such changes.
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