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One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Sessions 8.0 LTS - Safeguard Desktop Player User Guide

Summary of changes Features and limitations Installing Safeguard Desktop Player First steps Validating audit trails Replaying audit trails Replaying encrypted audit trails Replaying encrypted audit trails from the command line Replaying audit files in follow mode Searching in the content of the current audit file Search query examples Exporting the audit trail as video Exporting the sound from an audit trail Exporting zat and zatx files Sharing an encrypted audit trail Replaying X11 sessions Exporting transferred files from SCP, SFTP, HTTP, and RDP audit trails Exporting raw network traffic in PCAP format Exporting screen content text Troubleshooting the Safeguard Desktop Player Keyboard shortcuts

Summary of changes

Version 1.8 - 1.9
Changes in product:

  • For RDP and ICA trails, you can select a keyboard layout depending on the language used in the trail and recreate the subtitle of the trail.

    For more information, see Replaying audit trails.

  • The installation of the Safeguard Desktop Player on Windows has been improved. You no longer need elevated privileges to install the Safeguard Desktop Player, and for future versions, you can install the new version without first having to uninstall the previous version.

    If you already have an earlier version of the Safeguard Desktop Player application installed on the host (version 1.8 or earlier), uninstall the previous installation. For future versions of the Safeguard Desktop Player, you do not need to uninstall the previous version before you can install the new version as this will be done automatically.

    For more information, see Installing Safeguard Desktop Player on Windows.

Version 1.6 - 1.8
Changes in product:
Version 1.5 - 1.6
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Version 1.4 - 1.5
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Version 1.3 - 1.4
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Version 1.2 - 1.3
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  • It is now possible to jump to interesting events within an audit trail using configurable, color-coded indicators on the seeker.

    You can also choose to display subtitles for audit trails. Subtitles list certain user events as they occurred in a session.

    For details, see Replaying audit trails.

Version 1.1 - 1.2
Changes in product:

  • It is now possible to replay the audit trails of X11 sessions. For more information, see Replaying X11 sessions.

Version 1.0 - 1.1
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Features and limitations

NOTE: You can replay audit trails in your browser, or using the Safeguard Desktop Player application. Note that there are differences between these solutions.

For details on the Safeguard Desktop Player application, see Safeguard Desktop Player User Guide.

The following table details the differences between the solutions provided by the browser and the Safeguard Desktop Player application when replaying audit trails.

Browser Safeguard Desktop Player
Works without installation ✔ -
Works on any operating system ✔ Windows, Linux, Mac
Replays audit trails recorded with SPS 5 F4 and newer ✔ ✔
Replays TN5250 sessions ✔ ✔
Extracts files from SCP, SFTP, HTTP and RDP sessions - ✔
Replays HTTP sessions - Only exports raw files from the command line
Replays X11 sessions ✔ ✔
Starts replay while rendering is in progress ✔ ✔
Follows 4-eyes connections - ✔
Replays live streams in follow mode ✔ ✔
Exports to PCAP - ✔
Displays user input ✔ ✔
Displays subtitles for video ✔ ✔
Exports audit trail as video - ✔
Exports screen content text - ✔
Searches in the contents of the audit trails - ✔

Installing Safeguard Desktop Player

This section provides information on how to install the Safeguard Desktop Player application in different operating systems.

Safeguard Desktop Player system requirements

The Safeguard Desktop Player application supports the following operating systems:

  • Microsoft Windows:

    • 64-bit version of Windows 10 (from version 1607)

    • 64-bit version of Windows 11

    • Windows Server 2016 (from version 1607)

    • Windows Server 2019

    • Windows Server 2022

    Install the appropriate driver for your graphic card.

  • Linux:

    RHEL 8 or newer. The Safeguard Desktop Player application will probably run on other distributions as well that have at least libc6 version 2.17 installed.

    Depending on the distribution, you will need to install the following packages:

    • On Debian-based GNU/Linux:

      • libxcb-render-util0

      • libxcb-keysyms1

      • libxcb-image0

      • libxcb-randr0

      • libxcb-xkb1

      • libxcb-xinerama0

      • libxcb-icccm4

    • On CentOS/Red Hat:

      • xcb-util-renderutil

      • xcb-util-keysyms

      • xcb-util-image

  • Mac:

    macOS macOS Monterey 12, or newer.

To install the Safeguard Desktop Player application, you need about 200MB disk space, and a temporarily used disk space to store the audit trails that are replayed. The size of the temporary files depends on the size of the replayed audit trails.

You can install the Safeguard Desktop Player application with user privileges.

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