Documentation Updates

The following video provides an overview of the new features included in SL1 Forum, version 11.3.0:

The following table contains a list of new features that were documented in the latest version of SL1, along with links to the corresponding documentation in HTML and PDF format.

Documentation Updates for SL1 11.3.0

Updates to the Product Documentation for SL1 Forum, version 11.3.0 PDF Documentation

Added new user-related fields to the Account Permissions, Account Properties, and Authentication Resource Editor pages for LDAP/AD Authentication.

Active Directory and LDAP

Added new procedures to the manual for configuring the Linux agent to run as a non-root user.

You can now delete an agent device on the Device Manager page (Devices > Device Manager) as well as on the Agents page (Devices > Agents).

Agent Monitoring

You can specify one or more services as favorites by clicking the star icon for those services from the Business Services page or from the Overview tab.

You can now edit the Poll Frequency Har Provider value in the Business Services page's Info drop-down menu.

Business Services

Updated the appearance and table functionality of Dashboards throughout SL1.

Dashboards

You can specify one or more devices as favorites by clicking the star icon for those devices to make them easier to find on the Devices page.

Added the ability to define data pruning thresholds for SSL certificates, ports, processes, and file systems.

Added new Summary and Performance Metrics tabs to the Device Investigator. These tabs replicate the content of the Device Summary and Device Performance tabs from the classic SL1 user interface.

Updated the Collections tab in the Device Investigator to add support for single row selection, which opens an existing sidebar.

Device Management

Updated the guided discovery wizard to enable you to go directly to a screen in the wizard by using a correctly-formatted URL.

Discovery and Credentials

Added an Event Insights page that collects alert metrics from SL1 to provide greater detail about the volume of alerts handled by SL1.

Events

Introduced a Setup and Config page () that displays all information relevant to getting started in SL1 for administrator-level users. Included on this page are a number of intuitive self-service workflows that will guide you through the most common SL1 system tasks. You can access this page through left-hand navigation menu in SL1.

Added a new node configuration utility that admin you can access at <IP address>:7700/node-config using the em7admin account. The Node Configuration Utility is the other utility application you can use to configure and edit your SL1 appliance. In the Node Configuration Utility, you can view the Collector Connection Status, configure the Proxy Server, and add and edit a Bonding Interface.

You can now update the web configuration password by using the node configuration utility.

Removed all licensing information and licensing menu options from the classic Web Configuration Utility at <IP>:7700.

SL1 no longer specifies the default credentials when adding an SL1 collector to a stack. As a result, you will need to specify the credentials for the collector on the Appliances page in the DB User and DB Password fields.

Installation and Initial Configuration

Snippet and Internal Collections Dynamic Applications were updated to be compatible with Python 3.

Internal Collections Dynamic Applications

The new Setup and Config page provides guided journeys to help you configure and manage SL1.

You can select a specific page in the user interface to be your landing page when you first launch SL1.

Introduction to SL1

Added improved messages and notifications for actions on the Machine Learning page.

Machine Learning-based Anomaly Detection

Updated the SL1: Concurrent PowerShell Monitoring PowerPack with several new and updated internal event policies and alerts for PowerShell connectivity and execution issues.

Added steps for Enabling and Disabling the Python PowerShell Remoting Protocol Client.

Monitoring Windows Systems with PowerShell

Released Restorepoint version 5.4.

Released Restorepoint version 5.5.

Restorepoint version 5.4

Restorepoint version 5.5

Added a new Execution Environment drop-down field in the Run Book Action Editor for snippets to specify which Python version the Run Book Action should use.

Updated the Execution Environment drop-down for Custom Action Types to contain the concatenated Python version for the selected environment.

Run Book Automation

On the new API Keys page, you can you can create API Keys based on roles and delete them as needed. You can use these API keys to request API endpoints, specifying them by a header or a query string.

The System Health widget on the PowerFlow Control Tower page now displays data from the (pfctl) command-line utility and also from and Couchbase.

Updates to the (pfctl) command-line utility.

Multiple enhancements to the user interface to improve usability and accessibility.

Multiple updates to the Configuration pane and the Configurations page.

SL1 PowerFlow Platform version 2.5.0

You can now write Dynamic Application snippets using Python 3, create Python 3 execution environments, and import Python 3 ScienceLogic Libraries.

To support the ability to create Python 3 execution environments, you can now use a new Environment Type field on the Environment Editor page (System > Customize > ScienceLogic Libraries > Actions > Execution Environments > New) to select which version of Python you want to use for new environments.

A new Env Type column now appears on the Environment Manager page (System > Customize > ScienceLogic Libraries > Actions > Execution Environments) to indicate the Python version for each execution environment.

On the ScienceLogic Library Manager page (System > Customize > ScienceLogic Libraries), a new Python Version column indicates the Python version of each library listed.

ScienceLogic Libraries

New local variables are available to use in your snippet code for Snippet Performance and Snippet Configuration.

Snippet Dynamic Application Development

If you require a proxy server to connect to the ScienceLogic billing server via secure HTTP (https), you can use either HTTP or HTTPS.

Subscription Billing


Configuration files for rsyslog were completely updated. This new configuration gives you the option of configuring TLS to send or receive syslog messages, forwarding logs to a security information and event management (SIEM) tool, filtering inbound logs, and other features.

New columns were added to the Collector Groups page, and new fields were added to the Add/Edit Collector Group modal.

For new installations of SL1 version 11.3.0 from the SL1 ISO file, the default MariaDB user will be "clientdbuser". This user has the same password as em7admin and root, and the password is set during the initial installation. The "clientdbuser" user does not have root privileges.

System Administration

The Product Documentation site at https://docs.sciencelogic.com now includes the following sections and pages:

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