

The 11.4 and 12.0 clients should be able to upgrade to 12.1 and should be able to connect and work normally. What will happen if 11.4 or 12.0 clients try to connect to a 12.1 appliance that is using V4 profiles?Ī. This is because a majority of products qualify in both categories. Antivirus and Antispyware have been merged to Antimalware. I see a new category "Antimalware Program" replacing the Antivirus Program and Antispyware Program. in OESIS V4 we support "full" Scan of the system. However, there is a minor change for File System Scanned i.e.
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We don't have any changes in the functionality of signature update and Realtime Protection. Do we have any changes in the existing functionality of signature update, Files system scanned, Realtime Protection required?Ī. Ideally the administrator should make use of the "Forced" or "Required" setting under the page Access Methods | Network Tunnel Client Settings until all end users upgrade their clients to the 12.1.x version. No, the clients will need to be upgraded to 12.1.x in order to work based on the new OESIS V4 device profiles. Will the OESIS V4 compliant profiles work for older Connect Tunnel clients like 12.0.x or 11.4.x?Ī. Contact SonicWALL Support for assistance. Even though it's not recommended, you can override the default behavior and create a new OESIS V3 compliant device profile by adding a CEM value in the management console. However, for some unavoidable reasons, I need to create a new OESIS V3 compliant profile.

I understand that all newly created profiles should be OESIS V4 compliant since OESIS V3 support may be stopped anytime. The new profiles will by default be OESIS V4 profiles.

Customers are recommended to delete the existing profiles and recreate them. I have migrated to 12.1.x version and I see warnings on the Management Console against a few device profiles saying "There are device profiles using OPSWAT V3 attributes." and a tool tip saying "OPSWAT V3 attributes are deprecated". 12.1.x or newer is recommended with 11.4.0 going End of Support November 1, 2019. Support for OESIS V4 was added to 11.4.0 by hotfix. Customers are encouraged to move to 12.1.x to leverage the benefits of OESIS V4 as well as to avoid the risk of going into a mode where the EPC Anti-malware and Firewall product definitions are not constantly updated and kept current via the portal. What should customers on versions 11.4.x, 12.0.x or older do?Ī. However, for existing customers like SonicWall, OPSWAT will continue supporting them for an additional period of time. The OESIS V3 libs have already been declared out of support by OPSWAT. How long will the OESIS V3 libs be supported by OPSWAT?Ī. This article is an FAQ on upgrading OSPWAT OESIS libraries from OESIS V3 to OESIS V4 in SMA 1000 12.1.X release.Ĭustomers are encouraged to move to 12.1.x to leverage the benefits of OESIS V4 as well as to avoid the risk of going into a mode where the EPC Anti-malware and Firewall product definitions are not constantly updated and kept current via the portal.
