Summary for Patch 957 rev2 (Verified)

Summary Add reporting on "false denials", improved DEFAULT map behavior
Platform Unix
Category functionality
Valid for 6.2.x, 6.3.x
Requires 6.2.0.7 - 6.2.1.5: 893
Client Required Patch/es
Supersedes 934, 930, 897, 895, 887, 839, 926, 883, 840, 859
Superseded by 962 : Verified / Not hidden
Affects Server: Core
Last Updated October 8, 2014

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Description

This patch includes the following updates and improvements

* Add false-denial identification and reporting

Data 75 (License logfile events) can be used to report on "false denials" after this update.
Note that the data type must be regenerated after the patch has been installed before
the new information is available.

* Improve the DEFAULT mapping behavior used in the user-to-groups.map file

Previously a user would be considered mapped, if he was present in any map in the 
whole map file. With the new update, a user can trigger a DEFAULT hit for each group 
type.

* Small speed improvement in processing for most archive types. 

Depending on archive type a speed increase of 10-15 % may be expected. The licpoll2 
archive type was the prime goal for the improvement.

Revision 2 adds support for 6.3.0.3.

Supersedes Patch Description

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Patch 934 — Fix for Core server running less than 24hours
This patch fixes Core servers running less than 24 hours by correcting the detection of time
zone/DST on the southern hemisphere. (E.g. Brazilian DST time.)
Patch 930 — Back-end update to handle new licpoll data format with update token info
General Description: This patch includes back-end update to add support for improved
token feature handling added to licpoll. 

Detailed Description: Without this patch the server will not be able to handle the new licpoll data
provided by patch 1275 (windows) and patch 947(unix). It is also recommended to install patch 931
for showing token information in License Monitor.
Patch 897 — Archiver fix for new archive types
Fixed a bug in archiver that fails automatic data generation for new archive type (data group
configuration).
Patch 895 — Fix problem with splitting of archive files on data from late clients
When licpoll data contains a first polling (e.g. from an overworked client)
where the first polling time happens later than the polling interval, it
would consider it a "shifted" client (30 minute offset) compared to the
server and split it in two. This actually produces invalid files and blocks
processing.

This fixes the offset test so this type of problem will not happen. I.e.
it will no longer split files unless it actually has full 30 minute shift from
the server time.
Patch 887 — Add license denial reason to License Logfile events (data type 75)
Adds support for denial reason information in data types 75, License logfile events.
After the patch is installed the data type needs to be regenerated before the
database is populated with this data.

E.g. with

  /opt/openit/bin/regenerate_data --datatype 75 2013-08-01 2013-08-31

Regeneration in month periods is recommended.
Patch 839 — Add mechanism to handle licpoll data from half hour shifted timezones
Licpoll data is read and processed in file by file and the back-end expected
to get a complete hour input from a single file. When server and client timezones
have 30 minute timezone shift this caused the processing to "loose" half an
hour from every input file.

This update adds a new binary that is run when data is arriving and will split
licpoll data files on the server if these have a 30 minute offset (compared to 
server).

The same binary can be run manually to split already collected data. As the
installed server user run binary with the following options

  /opt/openit/bin/licpollarchivefilesplitter -s YYYY-MM-DD -e YYYY-MM-DD

E.g.

  /opt/openit/bin/licpollarchivefilesplitter -s 2012-12-01 -e 2013-03-01
Patch 926 — Fix for missing data in hourly report
This patch contains the fix for missing data in generating hourly reports.

--  This will fix how the filtrator processes split archive data. Filtrator will now skip broken
archive data.
Patch 883 — Backend fix for filtrator: freeze archives for version 6.2.1.5
-Fix for handling of freeze data with too many log events and susp events.

Patch 840 — Backend fix for filtrator: freeze archives
Fix for handling of freeze data with too many log events.
Patch 859 — filtrator: conflict in applying license host mapping
Support for host that can be a member of another hostgroup issue hostgroup when applying license
host mapping . But it will ignore the other mapping when it sees the first one, only the first
mapping will be used.

Installation

Unpack tar file in e.g /tmp/patch on the Open iT host. Do the following as root:

	cd /tmp/patch
	./patch.pl

Corresponding Windows Patches

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