OctoSAM 1.9.9 Release

Can be downloaded from the Filebase

Supported Environments - minimum Requirements

New Features

• Improved Java detection
• Oracle GA / BPR release detection for Java 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8
• HTTP/S based scan file collection server is now also available on Windows / IIS.
• A summary of detected Java versions and features can be found here
• Improved VMWare ESX Support to directly indicate VCenter to ESX host relations required for Oracle licensing calculations
• Catalog based Oracle Core Factor. Can be manually overridden per machine.
• Software catalog update can now be scripted (OctoUtil) or automated in import service
• Improved performance of the Windows GUI.
• Improved application startup performance by significantly reducing the number of database round trips.
• Improved OctoUtil plan processing logging and .csv parsing.
• Master catalog info now lists package to publisher relations
• Improved High DPI rendering of the Windows GUI
• Additional Fields in Queries
• Data model clean-up

Potentially Breaking Changes

• Windows Server 2008 no longer supported
• Windows 7 without Service Pack 1 no longer supported
• WIndows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 need patches to support SHA-2

Potentially Breaking Changes for Custom Queries

• Attribute sortstyle is no longer supported for multiselect and dropdownlist controls

Potentially Breaking Changes in the Data Model

• Tables and Columns in the database that were not used have been removed in this release
• User.Guid must now be unique. You cannot migrate the database is this requirement is not met

Potentially Breaking Changes in OctoUtil Import Plans

• The .csv parser has been refactored. Comment lines starting with # are now always ignored, The new implementation of skiplines does no longer count comment lines.

Scan File Compatibility

• The 1.9.9 import service can read 1.9.9, 1.9.8, and 1.9.7 scan files.

Update Instructions

• 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 1.9.8 is not supported.
  Update to version 1.9.8 and run a full housekeeping before updating to 1.9.9
• Make a backup copy of all configuration files
• Run the .MSI Installer
• Merge the configuration settings with the new configuration template files.Update the software catalog
• Import Standard Queries and Reports from provided .zip file.
• Start OctoSAM services
• Update Octoscan2 windows scanner
• Update the Mac and Linux 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.