Copyright © 1996-2011 BalaBit IT Security Ltd.
July 08, 2011
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Welcome to syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) version 2 F1 and thank you for choosing our product. This document describes the new features and most important changes since the latest release of SSB. The main aim of this paper is to aid system administrators in planning the migration to the new version of SSB. The following sections describe the news and highlights of SSB 2 F1.
This document covers the syslog-ng Store Box 2 F1 product.
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For step-by-step instructions on upgrading to 2 F1 see How to upgrade to syslog-ng Store Box 2 F1 at http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/. |
As of June 2011, the following release policy applies to syslog-ng Store Box:
Long Term Supported or LTS releases (for example, SSB 4 LTS) are supported for 3 years after their original publication date and for 1 year after the next LTS release is published (whichever date is later). The second digit of the revisions of such releases is 0 (for example, SSB 4.0.1). Maintenance releases to LTS releases contain only bugfixes and security updates.
Feature releases (for example, SSB 4 F1) are supported for 6 months after their original publication date and for 2 months after succeeding Feature or LTS Release is published (whichever date is later). Feature releases contain enhancements and new features, presumably 1-3 new feature per release. Only the last of the feature releases is supported (for example when a new feature release comes out, the last one becomes unsupported).
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Downgrading from a feature release to an earlier (and thus unsupported) feature release, or to the previous LTS release is officially not supported, but usually works as long as your SSB configuration file is appropriate for the old SSB version. However, persistent data like the position of the last processed message in a file source will be probably lost. |
Starting with version 2.1, SSB can forward messages to an SNMP destination using the SNMP v2c or the SNMP v3 protocol.
Starting with version 2.1, a 64-bit operating system is used to power SSB in order to expose the capabilities of the underlying hardware to the fullest.
The firmware upgrade process has been streamlined and made more robust. For details on how to upgrade your SSB to version 2 F1, see How to upgrade to syslog-ng Store Box 2 F1.
Unconfigured SSB systems (if the Welcome Wizard has not been completed yet) attempt to request an IP address via DHCP from the local DHCP server. If this fails, SSB starts listening for connections on the 192.168.1.1 IP address.