20.02 enhancements

TrueSight Server Automation 20.02 offers the following key features and enhancements:

• • RSCD agent enhancement
  • Patch enhancement
  • Enhanced offline database cleanup
  • Compliance template enhancements
  • BLCLI enhancement
  • Security enhancement
  • Support for new REST APIs
  • Support for new operating system
  • Related topics

The RSCD agent now includes a new Smart Agent feature to perform the following tasks:

• Monitor the status of RSCD agent and share the status information with the Application Server.
• Send a request to the Application Server to register the new server without manual intervention.

For more information about the capabilities provided by Smart Agents, see Overview-of-Smart-Agents.

For information about using the Smart Agent capabilities, see Getting-started-with-Smart-Agents.

TrueSight Server Automation now supports the rebooting of Windows servers before applying patches to prevent patch job failures. When you run a patch job on the Windows server that is waiting for a reboot, the server is first rebooted and then the job is started.

For information about using this option, see Specifying-job-options.

TrueSight Server Automation now supports the cleaning of unused data from the BL_Value tables to improve the Application Server performance. For details, see Running-the-offline-database-cleanup-utility.

TrueSight Server Automation now supports the following new templates: CIS Windows 2019 and DISA STIG Windows 2019 

For information about downloading and importing these templates, see the following topics:

• CIS-Windows-Server-2019
• DISA-Windows-Server-2019

The new "Utility - simpleExportAuditResultV2" command is added to export the results of an Audit job. For more information, see BLCLI-commands-added-updated-or-removed-in-recent-versions.

The "* rw" parameter, which allowed anonymous access to the RSCD agent host, is now disabled in the Exports file that is deployed with the RSCD agent installation. Therefore, you must configure the Exports file to grant access to the RSCD agent. If you want to use the "* rw" parameter, configure the Exports file to uncomment this parameter.

You can configure the Exports file during the RSCD agent installation. For more information, see the following topics:

• Installation on Windows systems:
  
  • Update the Exports file during the custom installation of the Agent. For more information, see Installing-the-RSCD-agent-Windows.
  • Provide the EXPORTSFILETEXT parameter as an input. For more information, see Using silent mode to install the RSCD agent (Windows).

• Installation on Linux systems:
  Add the EXPORTSFILETEXT parameter in the nsh-install-defaults file. For more information, see Configuring-the-installation-parameters-for-the-NSH-or-the-RSCD-agent.
  
  
• Installation during provisioning
  • (Windows) Update the post-installation options or script. For more information, see Post-install-configuration-Windows-and-Windows-R2.
  • (UNIX and Linux)
    • Add the EXPORTSFILETEXT parameter in the nsh-install-defaults file. For more information, see Configuring-the-installation-parameters-for-the-NSH-or-the-RSCD-agent. 
    • Update the post-installation script. For more information, see these topics:
      
      • Post-install configuration - Red Hat Linux
      • Post-install configuration - Ubuntu Linux
      • Post-install configuration - SUSE Linux
        
        

New REST APIs are added to the following resources: Deploy jobs, NSH script jobs, Patching jobs, and BLPackage

You can use these new APIs to perform the following operations:

• Execute with approval operation on Deploy, NSH Script, and Patching jobs.
• Update schedules for NSH Script and Deploy jobs.
• Retrieve the details of a BLPackage.

For more information, see REST-API-endpoints.

TrueSight Server Automation now supports RHEL 8 for virtualization. For more information, see Supported-platforms.

Related topics

Downloading-the-installation-files

Known-and-corrected-issues