This section contains a listing of the new features available in the latest version of Nsure Audit.
Several enhancements were made to the eDirectory™ instrumentation. These include the ability to:
Several additional fields were added to the Nsure Audit event structure to enhance querying and reporting. The Nsure Audit event structure now contains fields to report the originator of an event, the target and subcomponent affected by the event, as well as additional text and value fields.
The installation has been enhanced on all supported platforms to provide more flexible, integrated installs. You now have the option of installing components individually, configuring the Platform Agent during install, and installing the Nsure Audit iManager plug-in during the process.
The Nsure Audit Secure Logging Server now has the ability to store events in the Microsoft* SQL Server database. The Nsure Audit iManager plug-in has been updated to support establishing this connection.
The Secure Logging Server now supports Windows* 2003 Server, RedHat* AS and ES.
The JDBC* Log Channel Driver has been enhanced to support any JDBC-enabled database, enabling you to log events to a number of different data stores supporting JDBC.
The Query and Verification Builder interface in iManager has received several enhancements, including the ability to use custom macros in SQL queries. These custom macros make is simple to convert from hex to decimal, use IP addresses in queries, and reference the Nsure Audit table name using a keyword.
You can now also perform lightweight event verifications using the iManager interface.
The Platform Agent now has additional parameters, contained in logevent.cfg, enabling you to specify the maximum size of the Nsure Audit event cache, and specify the action Nsure Audit takes when this limit is reached (stop logging, drop cache, or generate a warning).
The Platform agent has an additional parameter, contained in logevent.cfg, enabling you to specify the maximum size of the data field for each event. This option provides additional flexibility for applications logging events to Nsure Audit, as they can use an expanded event data field to increase the amount of information that can be stored with each event.
This increased size is optional, so applications not requiring this functionality can leave this off for increased performance.