Welcome to the extraxi blog...

If you found this page accidentally and don't know what extraxi is about... we specialise in reporting solutions for the Cisco Secure ACS and Funk SBR access control servers (aka AAA servers).

The servers are predominantly used to secure network services such as dial, wireless lan, vpn, firewall and network device management.

Typically these servers just chuck out MBs of raw CSV log data about network activity. What we do is to help collect this data then import and turn it into useable information.

Wednesday 17 October 2007

aaa-reports! v2.2.1

v2.2.1 will be posted onto the download page in the next week or so. This release has some significant new features and as usual is available free for customers with support contracts.

Enhancements include
  1. Multi-Database feature enhanced to allow database “cloning”. Cloning allows the creation of a new database by copying any existing database and provides a simple mechanism to quickly create pre-configured blank databases or copy existing populated databases for diagnostic work or as point-in-time snapshots.
  2. User List import (for inactive user reports). It is now possible to populate the User List from an ACS Dump/CAB File. Where users have access to the Dump/CAB file this can be imported instead of creating and importing a separate CSV file with User List data.
  3. New Data Purge facility with much improved filtering and selection options to make it easier to identify and purge specific log data.
  4. Improved processing of ACS logs to find and handle known problematic issues with log content.
  5. Support for very long filenames (previously 64 characters) to offer more flexibility when processing logs with CSVsync and/or CSVsplit and adding descriptive suffixes and AAA Server names to create meaningful filenames.
  6. Recognition of logs with underscores in place of spaces in their filenames. Some systems appear to automatically insert underscores into filenames when downloading logs from ACS, e.g. “Administration Audit 2007-10-10.csv” becomes “Administration_Audit_2007-10-10.csv”. Previously filenames with underscores were not recognised as valid log files.
  7. Improved detection and warning when importing logs that have a different date format to the MDY or DMY setting in Options. Specifying the wrong date format will result in log dates being misinterpreted and have adverse affects on the integrity of reports.
    Extended handling of common issues with log content that can otherwise prevent logs being parsed correctly.
  8. Improved regional support for the Log Import process running in Locales where the comma character “ , ‘” is not used as the Field Separator character. Users in most affected regions no longer have to change to a compatible locale prior to importing log files.

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