Duty3G/Duty3G 5.1 Release Notes

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Overview and Features

Duty3G

Duty3G V5.1 encourages sound management practices by making it possible to perform the regular operations workload on UNIX, Linux and Windows servers in a way that is efficient, reliable, verifiable, compliant, and repeatable whilst protecting privileged user access. With duty3G you assign the privilege to the duty, and then assign the duty to the user.

New features in Duty3G V5.1

Key features of the new release are:

Enhanced operations

• Enhanced schedules, for example, a Weekday schedule can now exclude public holidays.
• You can now assign duties to a class/folder, so the duty name no longer needs to be prefixed with a Class or Category. Now it is much easier to locate that ‘XYZ’ duty.
• You can now order duties in the order they should be performed, so the duty name no longer needs to be prefixed with a Sequence number
• You can now force the user to re-authenticate before running certain duties giving added security.
• Duties can now be auto disabled and/or auto re-enabled on given dates. This is useful during system rollouts or migration projects.
• Duties are now run asynchronously, meaning if you have a long running duty it no longer stops you from running another duty.
• As a duty is performed, that duty is now “locked” so no other user can run the same duty with possible undesirable results.
• End user's can set their own start-up view (at-request or outstanding duties) and start-up Class, along with a reminder period before duties become overdue.
• End user’s can now view upcoming scheduled duties for a selected day or date in the future – “What has to be done on Friday?”. This is also useful for Administrators to check that duties have been scheduled correctly, for example, making sure certain duties are not scheduled for Christmas Day.
• You can now filter your view of duties:

• for a selected class
• that run on a selected host
• for a selected users' role

Improved auditing

• Filtering has been added to make viewing the Duty audit trail more meaningful:

• by selected time period
• that have ended in error
• for selected duty
• for selected user
• for selected mode

• Duty audit trail entries are now colour coded to make it easier to spot abnormal entries.
• New duty compliance reports are generated daily and can be viewed at any time. These reports highlight failed, missed and skipped duties – exceptions that affect operations compliance.

Documentation

• An HTML or text document can now be associated with a duty, so end users can see what Policies and Procedures the duty is supporting.
• You can now link directly to online help (user guide), release notes and other documentation, and even report a bug via duty3G

Installation Requirements

Software prerequisites

To install and run Duty3G V5.1 on a host, you must have:

• COSmanager V4.2.5 or later already installed on the host (see the COSmanager User Guide for instructions)
• a duty3G distribution
• a valid license key for this host (see your COSmanager distributor if you don’t have a valid license key)
• sufficient disk space
• COSmanager Manager access, or equivalent
• the ability to open a root shell

Disk space required

Running Remote Duties on Windows

The current duty3G release supports running remote duties on Windows hosts which have the EWC (Enterprise Windows Client) V3.1.1 installed. This product may be purchased separately.