OctoSAM 1.9.7 Release

Can be downloaded from the Filebase

Supported Environments

New Features

• OctoSAM License: detailed software item change history
• OctoSAM License: more compact layout of pages
• OctoSAM License: Publisher landing page with list of Items
• OctoSAM License: Context Queries
• Unified Python based macOS and Linux scanner
• New web-based upload server for scan files
• Windows scanner: more robust configuration parsing, canary test for new versions of the scanner
• Windows scanner: improved Java installation detection
• Windows scanner: metadata about custom files can be scanned. This allows to scan for specific files on a windows machine.
• WIndows scanner: improved Oracle database detection
• GUI: improved optional High DPI support
• GUI: cleaner loading of documents with less screen flickering
• GUI: Improved performance for tree controls
• GUI: Updated 3rd party components with many integrated bug fixes
• GUI: Group information and link now available on the Software Package document for published applications
• Improved Active Directory import performance and stability
• Completely refactored LDIF import with much better performance for importing huge files
• Up to 4 site-specific Active Directory extended schema properties can now be imported per User and Machine object
• All standard grids now contain a hidden column "CurrentDateTime" with the time the data was read
• Extensions to the Repository and Catalog structures allow centrally managed client specific queries, reports and catalog items
• Unique Customer and Installation IDs are now encoded in the License file
• Improved performance of software usage queries
• Extended Query engine to support more flexible rendering on web pages
• Cleaned up Data Model including Documentation
• Support for new SQL Server 2017 and 2019 Cumulative Update versioning
• Support for SWID tag files schema version 2015
• Anonymizer now handles computer account user objects consistently using the anonymized machine name

Removed Functionality

• None

Potentially Breaking Changes in the Data Model

• Fields DirectoryExt1 / DirectoryExt2 and Ext1 / Ext2 are now used to optionally load site specific schema extension properties from Active Directory. If these fields were previously used to load site-specific Data from external sources, this needs to be re-designed.

Potentially Breaking Changes in octoscan.config

• if match conditional regex comparison is now case in-sensitive

Potentially Breaking Changes in config files

• default encoding for LDIF import is now 'utf-8', ldif lookup configuration may have to be adjusted
• default Active Directory Lookup.Method changed from "accountmanagement" to "directoryservices"

Scan File Compatibility

• The 1.9.7 import service can read 1.9.7, 1.9.6 and older scan files. 1.9.7 and 1.9.6 .scan Files can only be imported on 1.9.6 or newer.

Update Instructions

• Order an updated License for 1.9.7 from Octosoft
• Stop OctoSAM services on the server
• Make a backup copy of the database
• Migrate the database schema using the provided migrate_* scripts
  Note that a direct Migration from a Version other than 1.9.6 is not supported.
  Update to version 1.9.6 and run a full housekeeping before updating to 1.9.7
• Make a backup copy of all configuration files
• Run the .MSI Installer
• Merge the configuration settings with the new configuration template files.
• Install the updated license
• Update the software catalog
• Import Standard Queries and Reports from provided .zip file.
• Start OctoSAM services
• Update Octoscan2 windows scanner
• Update the Mac Scanner
• Update other scanners and their start scripts

Known Limitations

• DPI scaling is still experimental and does sometimes not work over RDP sessions, depending on the version of the server, the RDP client and DPI settings on the server.
• FlexLM Diag scan supports only first configured vendor daemon, expiry date and other data scanned from diag is not available for other vendor daemons on the same FlexLM Server.
• Group Settings Published Software Packages: Changes to the published Software Packages are immediately written to the database, cancel out of the dialog is ignore