Sentinel Rapid Deployment is a new packaging option for the Novell market-leading Sentinel Security Information and Event Management solution. Sentinel Rapid Deployment includes the full Sentinel functionality and is ideal for smaller organizations or regional installations.
Sentinel 6.1 Rapid Deployment SP2 is available as a clean installer or an upgrade installer. The upgrade installer applies the latest software fixes and enhancements to an existing installation of Sentinel Rapid Deployment 6.1 SP1.
Sentinel Rapid Deployment is now supported on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP1 64-bit platform.
Novell is in the process of phasing out support for Legacy Collectors in the Sentinel product line. In previous versions of Sentinel Rapid Deployment, the system produces a warning if you import a Legacy Collector. Starting with the SP2 version, clean installations of Sentinel Rapid Deployment and Collector Manager do not run Legacy Collectors. However, upgraded Sentinel Rapid Deployment systems and Collector Managers continue to run Legacy Collectors as before.
NOTE:Legacy Collectors were written using the Legacy Collector Builder application, which is no longer shipped with Sentinel products. They are replaced by JavaScript Collectors that are written using the Sentinel Plug-In SDK. The JavaScript Collectors are available at the Sentinel 6.1 Plugins Web site.
Sentinel Rapid Deployment 6.1 SP2 includes multiple updates to improve the security of the product:
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) has been upgraded to version 1.6.0_24.
Apache Tomcat has been upgraded to version 6.0.29.
The PostgreSQL database has been upgraded to version 8.3.12.
For information on what’s new in Sentinel Rapid Deployment 6.1 SP1, see the Sentinel Rapid Deployment SP1 Readme
.
For detailed information on hardware requirements, supported operating systems, and browsers, see System Requirements
in the Sentinel Rapid Deployment Installation Guide.
The installation is now simplified and the tar file name is no longer required as input. You can download the installer, extract it to a directory, and then install it as a root or non-root user by simply running the script. You can also give command line arguments to create only the user, install the Rapid Deployment server, create service to automatically start Sentinel Rapid Deployment on system startup or install only the Rapid Deployment server without creating the user or service.
To install Novell Sentinel Rapid Deployment 6.1 SP2, seeInstallation
in the Sentinel Rapid Deployment Installation Guide.
Before proceeding with the upgrade, ensure that you have installed Sentinel 6.1 Rapid Deployment SP1 on the system where you want to install this service pack:
To upgrade to Sentinel Rapid Deployment 6.1 SP2, see Upgrading Sentinel Rapid Deployment
in the Sentinel Rapid Deployment Installation Guide.
You can access the online User guide for Sentinel Rapid Deployment by clicking
in the Sentinel Control Center. However, if you are working in a secure environment where direct Internet access is denied, you can download and extract the online help file to the Sentinel Rapid Deployment server as a one-time procedure. After the help files are extracted to a specific location, you can access the documentation from either the server or the remote system. You can view the help files through any Web browser.NOTE:The help files are only in English.
To download the online help:
Go to the Sentinel Rapid Deployment documentation site.
Click s61rd_user_help.zip file to your local machine.
in the Downloadable User Guide Help section, then save theUse the following commands to copy and extract the downloaded file:
cp s61rd_user_help.zip <Install_Directory>/3rdparty/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/novellsiemdownloads/help
cd <Install_Directory>/3rdparty/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/novellsiemdownloads/help
unzip s61rd_user_help.zip
IMPORTANT:You cannot access the help files unless you extract the s61rd_user_help.zip file to the specified location.
Do either of the following to view the help files:
In the Sentinel Control Center, click
.Open the <Install_Directory>/3rdparty/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/novellsiemdownloads/help/s61rd_user_help/index.html file.
The Index.html file lists the topics in the navigation pane. Click the desired topic to open the Help page for that topic.
NOTE:If you download and save the help files to the specified location on the Sentinel Rapid Deployment server, clicking the
menu in the Sentinel Control Center always lists the downloaded help content available on the server.If you want the Sentinel Rapid Deployment User Guide that is available online, remove the s61rd_user_help at <Install_Directory>/3rdparty/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/novellsiemdownloads/help folder from the Sentinel Rapid Deployment server.
menu to redirect you to theThe following table lists the defect numbers and the solutions provided for these defects in Sentinel Rapid Deployment 6.1 SP2:
The following table lists the enhancements made in Sentinel Rapid Deployment 6.1 SP2 to improve usability:
The updated documentation and release notes are available at the Sentinel Rapid Deployment documentation site.
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