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
| Software | Approximately 1 MB in the duty3G home directory. |
|---|---|
| Temporary Files | While installing duty3G: less than 1 MB, to hold a copy of the software distribution. While duty3G is running: less than 1 MB in /tmp. |
| Audit Trail | For the duty3G audit trail, about 10 - 50 MB in the system spool area. The actual amount will depend on the activity on your system (e.g. how many duties are run), and how often you archive and delete the log files. |
| Compliance Reports | For the duty3G compliance reports, about 5 - 20 MB in the system spool area. |
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.
Upgrading duty3G
Figure 13 — Installation messages—upgrading from COSduty 3.0
- Download the distribution file to /tmp on the target host.
- From the Configuration menu, select COSmanager configuration > Applications.
- Select Application > Install.
- Press Choose. You will see a list of the applications that can be installed. Choose the entry titled duty3G, and press Accept.
- COSmanager copies the duty3G files from the distribution file to the target directory, updates the duty3G audit trail and creates the duty3g compliance report directory.
- To migrate your existing COSduty 3.0 database to the newly installed version press Copy. Your existing database is copied and updated with new table columns.
- To make the newly install duty3G the default version press Accept, then press Continue.
- Any automatic duties are added or re-added to the cosmos crontab.
- This completes the upgrade installation. You must now restart COSmanager for the new version of duty3G to come into affect.