Advanced Authentication 6.1 Patch Update 2 includes enhancements, improves usability, and resolves several previous issues.
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Advanced Authentication 6.1 Patch Update 2 provides the following enhancements and fixes in this release:
Advanced Authentication 6.1 Patch Update 2 includes the following enhancements:
The helpdesk administrator can now monitor authentication logs of a user. When the helpdesk administrator logs in to the Helpdesk portal and selects a user to manage, a User report tab is displayed. This tab contains details such as the login time of a user, tenant information, server details, event name, user name, and so on. This report enables the helpdesk administrator to examine how often a user logs in, the different logged in events, and authenticators used for login.
For more information, see Monitoring User Authentications Activity
in the Advanced Authentication- Helpdesk Administrator guide.
This release facilitates security questions to be localized in a preferred language. When a user tries to enroll or authenticate on an operating system which has a locale other than the English, the security question is displayed in that specific language. The administrator must specify the security questions in the different supported languages in the Administration portal.
For more information, see Security Questions
in the Advanced Authentication - Administration guide.
NOTE:Localization of the Security questions is not supported in the SAML2 and OAuth2 integrations.
Administrators can now configure the Email OTP method for an event according to the requirement. This enhances the Email OTP authentication that can be specific for an event.
For example, for the Report logon event, the administrator can set the OTP period or OTP format that is different from the other events.
For more information, see Email OTP
in the Advanced Authentication - Administration guide.
This release introduces a search option for tokens based on the serial number or owner name in the Token Management and the Administration portals. This eases the search for tokens.
Advanced Authentication 6.1 Patch Update 2 includes the following software fixes:
Issue: When the Syslog server is not reachable, the syslogs are not recorded in the log file.
Fix: The CEF forward must be configured to the syslog server to record all syslog entries in the log file.
Issue: After installing Advanced Authentication 6.1, users are unable to access the Advanced Authentication portals except for the Configuration portal (port :9443) though the processor with SSE 4.2 is in use. When user executes the docker ps -a command, a message aaf_webd_1 container exited is displayed. This issue may happen due to a slow hardware or a server is rebooted after the installation without a wait time of 15 minutes.
Fix: The DH parameters have been changed to DSA parameters and these parameters are generated much faster on the first start. This resolves the issue.
You can upgrade to Advanced Authentication 6.1 Patch Update 2 from Advanced Authentication 6.0 and above.
For more information about upgrading, see Upgrading Advanced Authentication Appliance
in the Advanced Authentication Install and Upgrade guide.
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