BeyondInsight for Unix and Linux 9.3.0 Release Notes

August 4, 2020

New Features and Enhancements:

Access Control

Created policy repository, storage, and retrieval objects.
Created policy middleware for entitlement evaluation.
Added roles to endpoint mappings for middleware.
Added role management to users via new user details section.
Roles for users are now displayed in Console Access grid.
Added new roles management UX for groups and users, available via Settings > Roles.
Updated application to remove elements currently authenticated user is not entitled to. Links updated to reflect missing permissions. Direct URL access performs middleware check and routes to new unauthorized page.
Added Roles filter to Users grid.
Split Console Access screen into two sub-sections: Users and Groups.
Added role entitlements to group objects.
Updated first account creation logic to grant sysadmin role.
Created Group grid and filtering, as well as Role display.
Added group role membership to group details to display users in groups.
Group role management added to group details section.

Software Uploads

Added feature toggling to enable or disable application features.
Updated the Settings > Software page to enable uploads of zip and iso files for installers for BIUL to push. Packages are automatically unpacked upon completion. Upload progress bars and resume included.
Software upload feature disabled for UVM builds in order to not conflict with BT Updater usage.

Installation Templates

Added installation template editor, available via Settings > Software in the PMUL product row. Includes create, edit, delete, and clone options.
Added default installation templates for backwards compatibility.
Added read-only options for templates and applied to defaults.
Added methods to serialize installation templates to run-time installation flags for product.

Host Tagging

Added host tag editor to Host Details, which allows for complete management of tag inventory and assignment to hosts.
Added filtering for tags on Host lists.
Added ability to display tags for hosts in Hosts lists.

Host Inventory and Action Redesign

Added Host Inventory section to the UX. This is an updated replacement for Host Management, focused on management of hosts in the system.
Discovery has been moved into the Inventory section.
Created a new wizard UX.
Implemented a new Action wizard, which is available via new bulk actions menu or via the Inventory grid row menu.
Ported sudo actions to the wizard.
Ported AD Bridge actions to the wizard.
Ported Profile action to the wizard.
Ported Solr actions to the wizard.
Ported PMUL actions to the wizard.
Extended jobs API to support progress display.
Added action finalized to display progress of selected action.

Miscellaneous

Added confirmation to logout button.
Added Check All option to inventory grid.
Added user details and editing sub-section.
SSH port is now configurable in Host Details.
Added grid row menu.
Updated switches to display current state as label.
Added profile script for machines that do not have profile binary available.
Added automatic migration of database schema.
Policy and log server for PMUL are now editable via Host Details > PMUL settings. Multiple log and policy servers can be configured.

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