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PACKAGE : syslog-ng Agent for Windows
VERSION : 3.2.1
SUMMARY : new stable release
DATE : Oct 8, 2010
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DESCRIPTION:
A new feature version of syslog-ng Agent for Windows (3.2.1) has been
released. This version contains changes, improvements, and new features.
For a full description on stable and feature releases, see the Version
Policy at
http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/central-syslog-server/sup…
CHANGES:
3.2.1
Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:20:55 +0100
WARNING
Upgrading to syslog-ng Agent version 3.2 is supported only
from syslog-ng Agent version 3.0.8 and 3.1.1.
NEW FEATURES
File sources
* The syslog-ng Agent for Windows application now handles multi-line
messages. Therefore, more messages can be processed than if all the
lines were handled separately.
* Encoding can now be selected for files.
Filtering
* Besides global filtering, now filtering per destinations is also possible.
Therefore, different messages can be forwarded to different destinations.
* File sources can now also be filtered with whitelist filtering.
Protocols
* Snare support is now handled better; Snare-compatible message processing
is now accessible as a separate protocol, and uses correct message format.
* When using IETF-syslog protocol for eventlog messages, macros received
during processing can be sent as name-value pairs in the SDATA part of
the message. This is the default setting in new installations.
* In new installations, the IETF-syslog protocol is the default.
Configuration
* It is possible to export the configuration to an XML file (both from
command line and GUI), and it can be imported to other agents
from command line.
* Configuring destinations is now more user-friendly.
* Clicking help in the GUI opens the relevant part of the Administrator
Guide in Internet Explorer browser window.
BUGFIXES
* There was a rare issue when there were several destinations configured,
the syslog-ng Agent terminated abnormally. This has been corrected.
HOW TO UPGRADE
WARNING
Upgrading to syslog-ng Agent for Windows version 3.2 is supported only
from syslog-ng Agent version 3.0.8 and 3.1.1.
WARNING
Downgrading from a feature release to an earlier (and thus
unsupported) feature release, or to the stable release is not
supported: this means that once you upgrade a system from a stable
release (e.g., 3.0) to a feature release (e.g., 3.1), you will have to
keep upgrading to the new feature releases until the next stable
version release (e.g., 4.0) is published, or risk using an
unsupported product.
Both the stable and the feature branches will be supported via
maintenance (e.g., bugfix) releases.
* When upgrading a machine running version 3.0.8 in standalone
mode, run the .exe installer and verify that the displayed information
is correct.
* When upgrading a machine running version 3.0.8 in domain
mode, follow the steps described in section 'Installing the syslog-ng
Agent on the hosts of a domain' of the documentation.
The system will automatically recognize that the new package will
update the syslog-ng Agent for Windows package.
DOWNLOAD:
Download the latest binaries from:
http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/central-syslog-server/upg…
Note that to download the binaries, you have to login into your MyBalaBit
account.
The documentation of the syslog-ng Agent for Windows application is
available in The syslog-ng Agent for Windows 3.2.1 Administrator Guide at:
http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/