Changelog > Infoserver > Version 6.3.2.0 Release 02.02.2021

This version contains the following components

•Cordaware bestinformed Web Interface (Version 6.1.6.0)

•Cordaware bestinformed Infoserver (Version 6.1.15)

•Cordaware bestinformed Infoclient (Version 6.3.2.8)

•Cordaware bestinformed Database (Version 6.2.3.4)

•Cordaware bestinformed Migration 5 to 6 (Version 1.0.2.0)

General improvements of the software performance

•Adjustments in the surveys app for the interval server. (Start and end of a survey)

New functions in the web interface

•New app: Clients > Extern registered

•New app: Socks > Overview socks (Overview of socks client für best_tele)

•New interface: REST API

oA button to export an info in the syntax for the REST API has been added to the info editor.

oNew settings for the REST API have been added in System > System (global).

Dashboard

•The cluster status was adjusted.

New Info (Infoeditor)

•Sending calendar entries via the info editor is now possible.

•In the "Time" tab, there is now a setting to have info automatically moved to the history as soon as it is finished.

•Formatted user list on a new info in the "User" tab.

•Random generator in the Infoeditor in the "Users" tab.

oNew permission in roles for the usage of the random generator in the Infoeditor.

Infos

•A width can now be set for the Infofields.

Alarm

•Tooltips for alarm computer / room and other views have been added in the Alarm app.

•Export of alarm room + user assignments in the Alarm app is now possible.

•New Alarm + ASM Serverboard entries to adjust the "One-time" behavior of the INI configurations:

o[alarm] ini_onetime = false (boolean true/false, default: false)

o[asm] ini_onetime = true (boolean true/false, default: true)

•Dependencies of the serverboard alarm setting "computer_to_upper" with room names have been removed.

Surveys

•New automatic export of survey results for completed surveys.

oThe file name of the automatic export of the survey results consists of the survey name + ID.

oThe time for starting the automatic export of survey results can be set in infoserver.ini.

oAutomatic export of results can be set per survey even if the survey is not finished.

oNew serverboard settings have been added for this purpose:

▪[bi_survey] automatic_export = true (boolean true/false, default: false)

▪[bi_survey] interval = 1440 (number in minutes, default: 1440)

▪[bi_survey] start_at = 12:00 (time in HH:mm, default: 00:00)

oThe results will be exported to the "best_web\etc\survey" folder.

•Folders for grouping surveys can be created. For surveys (existing and new) the folder can be specified.

•Initiated surveys

oWhen initiating a survey, a red hint message is flown in from the top if, for example, the start or end of a survey is already in the past.

oThe description of initiated polls is displayed.

oAn overview of email recipients for the initiated survey has been added.

•Surveys can be deleted from the history, this deletes the email recipients and the answers/results to the survey from the database.

•Survey floating records, on the last page of the survey the field "finished: true" is added to the record to identify the complete answers.

•Survey notifications

oIn the survey notification a start and end time of a survey can be set for the type "New survey initiated". The time is automatically set to 00:00 each time.

oSurvey notifications can be shared in the role via resource sharing and edited within the same role.

oEmails on a survey notification are now sent one after the other. (previously: simultaneously)

•The corporate design of surveys has been revised. Among other things, the title of the survey is now displayed in the center and without a blue bar.

System

•New system info automatically generated for the following events:

oLicense exceeded

▪The following ScriptVars are available:

•event_connection

•event_passive

•event_license

•event_cluster_connection

oLow RAM

▪The following ScriptVars are available:

•event_memory_total

•event_memory_allocated

▪The following settings are available when configuring the Infoserver's best_local.ini:

•[best] low_ram = 85 (percent of the currently allocated RAM).

•[best] low_ram_time = 60 (interval in seconds)

oLow Hard Disk

▪The following ScriptVars are available:

•event_disk_list

▪The following settings are available when configuring the Infoserver's best_local.ini:

•[best] low_disk = 85 (percent of the currently allocated disk space).

•[best] low_disk_time = 60 (interval in seconds)

•Periodic infos about system

oThe following ScriptVars are available:

▪event_connection

▪event_passive

▪event_license

▪event_cluster_connection

▪event_cpu

▪event_memory

oThe following settings are available when configuring the Infoserver's best_local.ini:

▪[best] system_time = 60 (time in minutes, calculated until 00:00).

•In addition these general ScriptVars are available:

oevent_type

oevent_type_link

oevent_date

oevent_time

•In addition, these general settings are available when configuring the Infoserver's best_local.ini:

o[best] event_date_scriptvar = event_date (name of the ScriptVar, outputs the date at the time of the event, default: event_date)

o[best] event_time_scriptvar = event_time (name of the ScriptVar, outputs the time at the time of the event, default: event_time)

•New SSL settings for domains to connect via LDAPs.

•New serverboard setting to display details (type, descriptions) for tagfield (e.g. for new info, filters, groups, groupings):

o[general] tagfield_details = true (boolean value true/false, default: true).

•Repeated attempts at SMTP Server can be set in the SMTP app how often it tries to send the email. (Default: 3)

Fixed bugs in the web interface

Infos

•Error when loading the entire info overview has been fixed.

•Info overview and info details, display of channels, dynamic addressing, groups, exclusion groups, filters, exclusion filters, gropued groups, exclusion grouped groups if they have been deleted.

Team

•Safari browser scrolling issues in the roles app.

Alarmierung

•ASM all-clear appears for clients that have not received actual alert.

•Alert of type "Alarm to all other rooms" appears for clients who did not receive the actual alert.

Umfragen

•Surveys selection list - cleanup \r\n or \n when initiating a survey.

•Problems with scrolling in the survey history have been fixed.

•Problems with resetting a user's survey responses were fixed.

•Problems with resuming and ending surveys were fixed.

•Only answers containing "finished: true" are taken into account in survey evaluation.

•Survey notifications

oProblems with editing and recreating survey notifications were fixed.

oReading of e-mail addresses for survey notifications was improved.

oImplementation of other message ID's when sending e-mails.

System

•SMTP authentication is now enforced when specifying username and password.

New Infoserver functions

•New interface: REST API

•SSLv3 is no longer supported. The database connection is done via TLS.

•Update of the internally transmitted response of the Infoclient when autoupdating to another Infoclient version.

•The timestamps of registered mobile and external clients are now transmitted in ISO 8601 format.

•When "Only notify selected users, no groups or/and filter" is used, script, WakeOnLAN or Info2Mail filters are no longer executed.

•New function "member_of_filegroup({tab, Name}, ...)" to be able to check if a certain client is recognized by a text file.

oCompared to "member_of_filegroup(Name, ...)" no placeholders are supported, but the new function is more performant.

•New SSL settings for domains for connecting via LDAPs.

•Infos can now be automatically moved to the history as soon as they are finished.

•Support for new system info has been implemented.

•Infos can now be sent randomly to random recipients.

•Better synchronization of mobile clients in the web interface.

Fixed bugs in the Infoserver

•User/computer checking for Passive and NotAllowedDuplicateUserList is now case-insensitive.

•Fixed the calculation of connected clients on different cluster nodes.

•Fixed a sporadic timeout when loading files on mobile clients.

•Fixed incorrect language detection for registered mobile clients.

New Infoclient functions

•The internal SSL library has been updated.

•Multiple processes can be addressed by a single guardian by using a double comma separated list, e.g.: *notepad*,,*explor*

•IPv6 addresses can now be used in the Infoclient

•New Inifile settings:

o"LoadBalancerCacheTime": Time in seconds after which the cache of the load balancer will be deleted

o"LoadBalancerIPv4": Boolean, whether IPv4 addresses will be used by the load balancer or not

o"LoadBalancerIPv6": Boolean, whether IPv6 addresses will be used by the load balancer or not

o"LoadBalancerIPv6First": Boolean, whether if IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are used the IPv6 addresses should be prioritized by the load balancer

•Extension of internal debugging functions

Fixed bugs in the Infoclient

•An error that an empty list is created when using the load balancer has been fixed.

•Infos in the Infogrid were not manually playable in combination with dynamic channels, this was fixed

•An error with the address resolution at the start of the Infoclient was fixed