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1. A link to ASTI website has been added to the dirty media message Notification and Logging he default log bundle size has been changed to 7 days 1324 ACL propagation now resumes after reboot and power failure rather than restarting from the beginning OS Kernel 1044 Remove support for filesystem quotas 1142 Replication System folders are excluded from replication 1207 Enhanced UDOGuard interface to include Master Archive key management he UI menu under Data Protection has been renamed to Security 1116 Added progress indication in ACL propagation in dev shm acl_ propagate Security An Openssl library vulnerable related to the Heartbleed bug has been 1382 addressed The heartbeat has been disabled AMS was never exposed to his bug but the heart beat feature has been disabled anyway to ensure security License keys recovery has been added to RestoreFlashContents 19 22 Support and manufacturing Add script to determine SNAZ OS version on system volume check_os_version This is to be run from maintenance mode and determines the OS version in the least intrusive way possible Internet Explorer version 8 tooltip issues such as clipped by edge of page UI Look n Feel have been addressed Minor improvements to Wizard interface including automatic reconnection Wizard after reboot 23 24 oO N 25 4 Company Confidential Recalls from cloud storage may time out if the network bandwidth2. is not sufficient to download the migration container file This is a current limitation but will be addressed in a future release While recalls from the cloud are occurring depending on the available network bandwidth the CIFS connection will block for longer than from optical media This in turn can result in a timeout of concurrent write operations from the same client If the Master Wrapping Key has been restored it is necessary to restart SSM as the cloud service needs to be re initialised and validated When the backup target is changed UDO Network Share it is necessary to restart the SSM service for the change to take effect In the highly unlikely event that imported key pages are missing from the key page cache WITHIN the range of key pages i e not the first or last key page the key recovery will report this and stop In this event the key recovery needs to be restarted If it fails again the key recovery should be restarted again and the cycle should continue until the recovery completes Installation Note New users should refer to the Archive Appliance Installation Guide 810 103403 00 Rev B for setup instructions Users who are upgrading from an earlier release should refer to the Archive Appliance System Upgrade Guide 810 103029 05 for upgrade instructions Supported Upgrade Paths Users can upgrade to AA 5 0 from these earlier releases 4 11 39 All Patches see note below 4 12 43 Al
3. recall Add file system option to repair If a file system cannot be mounted or repaired it is now possible as without deleting journal log a final resort to delete the file system journal However taking this action will result in some loss of files recently written Add Remove SCSI log action SCSI logs can now be purged from the Diagnostics System button to Ul Information Log Files page with the most recent log being retained Allow library to be Action button is now available to disable the library enabled disabled through UI UI rebrand Color scheme and minor look and feel changes have been made to the Ul in line with ASTI product branding Confirmation prompt if volumes A warning message will appear if the user attempts to create more exceed 12 instances than 12 archives This exceeds the general recommended scalability limit To note the total number of archives is very much dependent on a number of factors which include the total number of files and total activity levels Create archive checks for If the media in the library does not match the media type specified matching media type in library the user cannot create archives that utilize that media This is to ensure that archives are not added that cannot be migrated Multi archive support on AAE The AAE will now support one optical based archive along with platform multiple cloud based archives Category Descriptive Notes Significant scalability and perform
4. Archive Management Software Product Release Notes Release Details Archive Management Software AMS Release Note Number 5 00 17 MD5 6383d5221 9faf96a5321 cbaba009f64d J Software Release Date June 10 2014 License Release Date une 10 2014 12 00 00 UTC Release Type Feature Release UDO Drive Firmware Version UDO1 U06C and UDO2 WO6D H07 and G07 Midrange Gx G05e H06e 6 40 Documentation Version Software Upgrade Guide 810 103029 05 Administration Guide 810 102532 06 Service Manual 800 103405 02 Supported Platforms SuperMicro PDSM4 PDSM4 and SuperMicro X8SI6 F AMS 5 0 Product Enhancements Description Benefit Archive to Cloud Amazon S3 AMS now offers Cloud Integrated Storage Support Archive data may be migrated to Cloud storage optical media or both The user interface has been enhanced to manage Cloud provider accounts initially Amazon only show cloud status and link a cloud provider to specific archives defined by the user Each archive can be linked to only one cloud provider Full recovery support is provided in which the AMS will automatically synchronize with the cloud account Encryption key management Archive Data files can now be encrypted using a FIPS compliant key generation and encryption software library Keys are generated when required and are protected to either a special cloud account or on the CIFS backup share For the protection of cloud account passwords and file encryption keys symm
5. ance improvements to ssm_fsc c have Backup been made Previously the checker could run out of memory and or could Recovery ake hours to run Additionally some additional data integrity checks have been added Updated self test to add verification of the encryption keystore integrity and unctionality Update status page to reflect cloud agent status Include cloud enable option in Archive configuration page Added cloud service to service page Encryption amp Keys ee Install Startup Paes on a system must be of same size even if the disk sizes are 1188 Media o handle RMDB growth as it can become very large over time a database o Management _ leanup compaction is performed on SSM restarts Key Restore can be started from Key Recovery menu option 1364 Migration Recall SSM could previous not handle very large UID This has now been resolved 3 Company Confidential Occasionally entries in the HSM active list did not get removed causing the active list table to grow very large If a file cannot be located on the file system any associated file events are now removed and the administrator is notified Associative recall default has been change to off After analysis there lappears to be no benefit in running associative recall NTPD security vulnerability has been fixed and NTPD service has been upgraded Network Gateway was not set if AMS is running with as a DHCP client 1 14 Nee
6. etrical encryption wrapping keys at the Appliance and Archive Volume levels are employed to encrypt this data providing compliant key management and the ultimate level of protection FIPS compliancy The Archive Management Software AMS uses an embedded FIPS 140 2 validated cryptographic module Certificate 1747 running on a Linux 3 2 platform per FIPS 140 2 Implementation as per Guidance section G 5 guidelines Backup option to internal SSD With select library models a second SSD is now available in the E12 which can be configured as a backup device Boot image backup A boot image can be created from either Normal or Maintenance mode Mechanism for preventing Creating the var opt ssm ock prohibit_backup file will prevent the backup from running backup from running This option should be utilized only after consulting ASTI Technical Support 1 Company Confidential Cloud integration support tool A new ssmcloud command utility has been provided to assist in troubleshooting cloud integration issues including encryption key backups Key management support tool New ssmkey and ssmrestorekeypages command utilities have been provided to assist in viewing the key database status and troubleshooting encryption key database or encryption key cache related issues EDAC support Error Detection And Correction has been added to prevent hardware memory errors from causing data corruption Trigger logs for specific UDO UDO dri
7. imate number of files written to the archive volume is files on volume page now shown on the Volume page under the Archive tab It is located next to Total Data Archived and displayed in brackets When migrating data to the cloud this is useful to see that all data has been migrated NFS 4 0 support NFS service for Linux has been upgraded to the last level Always assign RW media to RW media can only be used as a backup medium It requires backup pool manual intervention to assign RW media to an archive A new command has been provided to create a RW test archive create_production_archive New log to track SMART errors Separate log file var log disk_error csv will be created if significant for SATA drives SATA drive errors occur Add option to create secure log Log bundles are created without any information that could bundle compromise security Notification if file inode limit is As the archive approaches 100 million files an email notification is exceeded sent to alert the customer that the archive has reach its scalability limits Archives that contain more than 100 million files can suffer degraded performance Full replication scan option When replication is started from the UI an option is presented to scan the entire archive This is to allow user driven verification of the replication status of every file 2 Company Confidential Self test per archive Allow selected archives to be self tested for migration
8. l Patches see note below 4 20 23 All Patches see note below 4 20 31 All Patches will automatically reboot after initial install for second phase Note The 5 0 upgrade is performed in two phases After the first phase is completed the system MUST be rebooted into maintenance mode manually Failing to reboot into maintenance mode will break the Normal boot mode 5 Company Confidential
9. ve error logs are now written out when specific SCSI errors drive errors are encountered before any power off power on cycle is required Upgrade of OS to latest level The AMS Linux kernel has been upgraded to level 3 2 54 with SMP support along with CentOS 6 2 and Samba 3 6 19 Feature License Product licensing support has been added for Replication capacity Cloud and encryption license Replication quota is enforced by tracking the amount of data replicated All information is tracked in a secured data store In SCP in maintenance mode Allow files to be copied onto the AA RAID in maintenance mode Most Recently Closed OMM Added new offline media management policy option to offline the policy most recently closed media This facilitates working in conjunction with applications that retain a copy of the most recently utilized archive data on tier 1 storage to minimize recall times Drive cleaning function UDO drive can be marked for cleaning When the cleaning cartridge is added through the library mail slot using the Add media key pad option the cleaning process is automated Once completed the cleaning cartridge is then ejected from the library ssmcheck progress File progress count is now periodically written to ssm log after each 100 000 files Set drive module into service A drive and its module can be switched into and out of service mode on Ent G library mode from the Drive UI page Show approximate number of The approx
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