News & comment tagged ‘update’
● XML Gateway 3.4.9
posted by John B on 16th January 2011
A new release of XML Gateway gateway, 3.4.9, is now available. Improvements include:
New HTTP destination in message sending framework allowing raw SOAP messages to be built and sent. Example SOAP message included.
CXF SOAP library can now be used from AR System, allowing Axis to be retired from the gateway in a future release.
Example RSS feed included.
● XML Gateway 3.4.8
posted by John B on 11th December 2010
A new minor release of XML Gateway gateway, 3.4.8, is now available. Improvements include:
Date/time values can be output as the number of milliseconds since 1970 (epoch).
Ability to remove control codes that are not legal in XML that may be present in AR System field values, assuring well-formed output regardless of serialiser.
Various under the hood bug fixes.
● SSO Plugin 3.2
posted by John B on 29th November 2010
SSO Plugin version 3.2 has been released. This release improves on existing functionality to offer easier configuration, while adding exciting new functionality such the ability to raise incidents in BMC ITSM Incident Management for non-SSO enabled users.
* Integration with BMC ITSM, allowing incidents to be raised for users without SSO enabled accounts.
* Built-in Active Directory integration requiring just four pieces of information, two of which are the username and password of a service account.
* Improved Windows installer.
* Ability to deprecate BMC AREA LDAP plugin to reduce AR System configuration complexity.
● XML Gateway 3.4.7
posted by John B on 15th October 2010
The latest release of the XML Gateway includes a range of new functionality, including:
Improved Java Messaging Services support by upgrading to the Spring 3.0.5 framework.
The ability to impersonate users through the AR API impersonate functionality.
Improved scheduled tasks allowing XML documents to be created and sent to a JMS queue/topic, and if successful, the original entry status value can be modified (or the entry can be deleted). This allows developers to build integrations where the gateway actively looks for new data to transmit and cleanly sends to a JMS.
Improved XPath notation, allowing /a/b/c/text() to be replaced with /a/b/c.
● SSO Plugin 3.1.1
posted by John B on 9th September 2010
A update release of SSO Plugin 3.1 has been released. The changes are largely focused on usability improvements and more informative logging to the SSO Administration Console.
A high level summary of the improvements in SSO Plugin 3.1 follows:
Support for Open ID, a commonly used web based SSO system used by Google, Yahoo, Flickr, Wordpress, Verisign, Facebook and other high profile organisations. You can now integrate the same technology into the BMC AR System Midtier. Please see our SSO Plugin and Open ID video walkthrough.
Full support for built-in Windows Authentication using the Kerberos and NTLMv2 protocols. This allows Windows 7, 2008, Vista, etc., clients to authenticate without an IIS front end.
Improvements to the SSO Administration Console including a range of Flashboards providing a graphical view of SSO activity. This can be seen at the end of the new installation video.
● SSO Plugin 3.0
posted by John B on 7th April 2010
The third major release of the SSO Plugin provides a range of improvements to both usability and the integration with third party systems. A high level summary of changes follows:
Full support for IIS as a front end to SSO Plugin. This includes the ability to delegate Windows Authentication to IIS.
Improvements to built-in authentication (formally known as internal Windows Authentication), which provides Kerberos and NTLMv1.
A new UI for the Midtier SSO Plugin component, fully integrated into the existing BMC Midtier configuration. Users can not access the SSO Plugin configuration without entering the Midtier configuration password.
Improvements to the Midtier 'test SSO' page in order to more accurately resolve SSO problems - most commonly, where users do not have a blank password or no entry in the User form.
Automated integration with BMC Remedy Knowledge Management, allowing users direct SSO access to RKM without first logging into ITSM.
Improvments to the Windows User Tool SSO module in order to work around a range of BMC issues that stopped some components functioning (such as Flashboards).
Improvements to the SSO Administrator Console, that sits neatly beside existing AR System Administration Consoles. The SSO AREA Plugin is fully configurable through this interface.
In version 2.4, the SSO AREA Plugin configuration was moved to the AR System, allowing a simplified deployment across multiple AR System servers. In version 3, the Midtier SSO Plugin configuration is stored in the AR System, so users need only configure the Midtier once, allowing other Midtiers to automatically pick up the configuration from the AR System.
Authentication logging within AR System allowing administrators to create user authentication management reports.
● SSO Plugin 2.4u4
posted by John B on 2nd April 2010
Support for IIS as a front end to the Midtier, fixes to AREA Plugin (with respect to server groups and timeouts reading configuration) and Siteminder integration fix.
● XML Gateway 3.3
posted by John B on 17th February 2010
The XML Gateway has been updated with various bug fixes reported and new features, including:
Checksums: Updating thousands of records generates a huge load on your AR System. By defining a checksum, update operations will only occur when the input data has changed.
Throttling: Restrict the number of operations, such as ten per minute, one hundred per hour, etc.