Overview

This article introduces you to the release of GFI LanGuard 2011 Service Release 2 (Build 20111128).

Information

Product:

GFI LanGuard 2011

Improvements:

• Improved management of security issues: ignore, acknowledge, or change their severity.
• New advanced computer grouping and filtering based on user-defined attributes.
• Power saving options with Wake-on-LAN support.
• Support for fixed IP address for agent status communication.
• Filtering and generation of scheduled reports by IP address range.
• Redesigned Add more computers wizard.
• Network discovery queries Active Directory in addition to the Windows Explorer API.
• Optimized agents management.
• Support for agents on computers having administrative shares disabled.
• Alerting options can be customized for each scheduled scan or report.
• Organizational units can now be scanned recursively.

Resolves:

• Importing a scan XML from version 9 to version 2011 does not update the Dashboard and Reports.
• The report PCI DSS Requirement 11.2 is missing the additional information URL.
• Error message on remediation targets in some rare circumstances
• Application auto-uninstall validation process times out.
• Not all patches are downloaded when patch auto-download is enabled.
• The patch management database cannot be updated when the patch auto-download is enabled.
• Database cannot be compacted (MS Access only).
• Database retention policy not working.
• Occasional failures to connect to SQL Server when using Windows Authentication.
• Access Violation when expanding the Users node in the Scan page.
• Operating systems are allowed to be unauthorized in Application Inventory.
• Handle leak in the attendant service.
• Occasional crash while performing UDP port scanning. 
• False positives at vulnerability scanning.
• The agent removes itself from the server in some circumstances, requiring product re-install.
• Advanced filters not limited to the current computer state.
• Not all patches are listed in Configuration -> Patch Auto-deployment.
• The Scan Targets Security History section is multiplied in some reports.
• Some unauthorized applications are not listed for auto-uninstall validation.
• Connection to administrative shares is not closed after a scan.
• Agents may fail to deliver the list of General Software due to incorrect handling of locale settings.
• Network discovery on organizational units is not working.
• The service occasionally requires a restart to unlock remediation jobs.
• The remediation warning message is displayed even if the option is disabled.
• Network discovery scans hang occasionally.
• Activity Monitor fails to properly monitor scans occasionally.