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syslog-ng Store Box 7.1.0 - Release Notes

Resolved issues

The following is a list of issues addressed in this release.

Table 1: General resolved issues
Resolved Issue Issue ID

The debug bundle creation hang has been fixed

In some rare cases, the debug bundle creation could not respond and stuck to a running state on a file error. The error handling was hardened to prevent the failure of debug bundle creation in similar cases.

386393

The NFS timeout has been increased

The NFS timeout was originally set to 15 seconds in SSB, while the default value is 60 seconds. The lower timeout setting did not provide any benefit, but it could cause connection loss during NFS operations. The NFS timeout is now set to the default 60 seconds.

388968

Known issues

The following is a list of issues, including those attributed to third-party products, known to exist at the time of release.

Table 2: General known issues
Known Issue Issue ID
Due to the recent kernel security update, the indexing performance of the SSB appliance may have been decreased. Indexing of incoming logs may fail and saved logs may be inaccessible for a search operation until the affected logs are not reindexed manually. This issue is noted and scheduled to be fixed depending on future priority evaluation. 403937

Product licensing

To enable a trial license

  1. Log in to the Trial Licenses page. Watch the short demo under How to Create a Trial License using Trial Depot?.

  2. Request a Trial License using the Trial Depot.

    The license keys will be emailed to you.

  3. Once you have the license keys, download the ISO image from the Free Trial of syslog-ng Store Box page.

To enable a purchased commercial license

  1. Navigate to My Account > My License Assets on the support portal.
  2. To access your license key, click Retrieve Key next to your product.
  3. Once you have the license keys, navigate to My Account > My Products and click Download next to your product. The Download Software page is displayed.
  4. Download the ISO image (install cdrom) of your product.

If you need help with accessing your license, navigate to the Licensing Assistance page, and follow the instructions on screen.

Upgrade and installation instructions

Prerequisites and notes

This is a Long Term Supported release, which means that it will be supported at least for 3 years.

NOTE: You need a new license file to upgrade an existing deployment to version 6.0. For details, see "Updating the SSB license" in the Upgrade Guide.

CAUTION: Before upgrading to SSB version 7.1.0 in High Availability (HA) mode, ensure that the nodes have already been restarted since the last upgrade. Otherwise, you have to restart the nodes before upgrading SSB to version 7.1.0.

For details on upgrading to version 7.1.0, see Upgrade Guide.

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