ManageEngine® Password Manager Pro - Release Notes
PMP Release 6.4
New Features & Enhancements
MS SQL Server as Backend Database
- Support for MS SQL server as the backend database in PMP.
High Availability Support with MS SQL Server
- Uninterrupted access to passwords by deploying redundant PMP servers and MS SQL database instances
AES 256 Encryption
- Support for AES 256 encryption for sensitive data when using MS SQL server as backened
Remote Password Reset of LDAP Servers
- Remote password reset support for LDAP servers belonging to the types Microsoft Active Directory, OpenLDAP, Oracle Internet Directory and Novell eDirectory
Password Reset Schedules
- Option for assigning the same password to all the accounts of a group of resources and changing the password automatically during every schedule
PMP Agents
- Prior to 6400, some of the communication between PMP server and agents was initiated by the server, which required the agents to keep a TCP port open. To eliminate this risk and the need to manipulate firewall rules to allow traffic to a non-standard port on the agent side, the communication model is changed where the agents always initiate communication with the server. The agents periodically check for tasks by opening a secure connection with the server and no longer need to have a port open in the system they are installed.
LDAP - PMP User Database Synchronization
- Whenever new users get added to the LDAP, provision to create synchronization schedules and automatically add the users to PMP and keep the user database in sync.
Active Directory
- Support for using the same user credential to import information from multiple domains, based on the privileges and trust setup in AD.
Copy Resources
- Provision to create copies of one or more resources to facilitate easy addition of identical resources
Copy/Move Accounts
- Provision to copy a single account or multiple accounts of a resource and adding the under one or more resources
- Provision to move an account or multiple accounts of a resource to a different resource or resources
Configuring Server Settings, SSL Certificates through GUI
- Support for changing the PMP server port and SSL certificates from PMP GUI. This eliminates the need for manually editing the configuration files
Custom SSH/Telnet ports
- Support for using any custom port for SSH and Telnet for connecting to remote resources
Instant Backup
- Support for taking one-time backup of PMP database anytime
Performance Enhancements
- The client responsiveness in 'Home' tab and 'Resources' tab have been optimized
Changes / Bug Fixes
- Earlier, there was an option to send notifications to users after importing them from Active Directory. This option has now been removed.
- Earlier, in LDAP user import, the OU and other details entered were not persisted. Now, the details are saved and displayed
- Earlier, while creating scheduled tasks for custom reports, the option to send the report to the users specified under 'other users' did not take effect. This has been fixed.
- Earlier, the password reset of Ubuntu resources did not work when 'sudo' had been used. This is fixed
- In Internet Explorer, there was an issue in auditing the reason entered by the users for retrieving a password using auto logon helper. This has been fixed
- Earlier, there were issues in editing the properties of resource groups. This has been fixed.
- The issue in generating AD user schedules report as a PDF has been fixed
- The issue related to exporting personal passwords as XLS has been fixed
- In PMP build 6400, the share permissions to the user groups imported from Active Directory did not take effect. This has been fixed.
- In certain scenarios, generating the 'User Access Report' as a PDF did not work. This has been fixed
- Earlier, when password access control had been enabled, in certain scenarios, when a user made a request to access a password, there were issues in sending email notifications for approval to the administrators. This has been fixed.
- Earlier, in High Availability set up with MySQL, when the slave database was restarted, PMP raised an alert stating High Availability was not alive. Now, in scenarios like this, PMP will double-check the status before raising the alert
- In personal password management, the issue related to deleting the personal categories has been fixed