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New and Changed Features in r12.1 SP2

This section contains the following topics:

CA User Activity Reporting Module as a Virtual Appliance

Role-Based Access Control in API Login Calls

CA User Activity Reporting Module as a Virtual Appliance

You can deploy CA User Activity Reporting Module as a virtual appliance in the Open Virtualization Format (OVF). The virtual appliance requires less time to provision than the time required to provision a CA User Activity Reporting Module server on a virtual machine.

OVF is an open standard for packaging and distributing virtual appliances. CA User Activity Reporting Module uses the Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) file format based on OVF.

Simplified Agent Administration

This updated feature simplifies provisioning of a new CA User Activity Reporting Module server. With this feature, you can:

Update a list of CA User Activity Reporting Module servers at the Agent Explorer level or an individual agent group level.
Add a new server to an existing server list, and CA User Activity Reporting Module updates the server list in each agent.

Role-Based Access Control in API Login Calls

You can perform role-based access control on a user logged on to CA User Activity Reporting Module through API. You can define the data access filters applied to the query, in XML format. You could use this specification to filter a query or report result according to your role when you use the certificate name and password authentication.

Information about the access filter XML is available in the API Programming Guide.

LogSensor Help Files

A LogSensor Guide for each logsensor is provided with this release. You can access a LogSensor Guide from the Integration Wizard of the UI.

Retain a Report Configuration

You can retain the configuration of a report by selecting the Retain after Expiry option in the Schedule Report wizard. After the report is generated, you can modify the report configuration and reschedule the report. This feature is valid for both the run-once and run-now reports.