BNX Authenticated Sign-On™ 5.5: What’s New and Release Notes

 

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What’s New?

Release Notes

 

What’s New?

 

BNX Authenticated Sign-On 5.5 introduces new and exciting enhancements to BNX’s flagship identity and access management solution.  These new enhancements are focused on speeding up deployment and reducing the management burden while maintaining the robustness, flexibility, and security that BNX Authenticated Sign-On is known for.

Express Mode for Adapter Building

The current BNX Adapter Builder is a wizard-driven tool for creating adapters to enable web, Windows, and terminal applications for enterprise single sign-on (E-SSO).  The Adapter Builder is a powerful tool with unparalleled features and capabilities that make it the most robust on the market; and now we’ve made it easier to use with Express Mode.

 

BNX Authenticated Sign-On 5.5’s new Express Mode for the Adapter Builder simplifies adapter building for typical Web and Windows applications.  Using the express mode, administrators can build E‑SSO adapters in just a few clicks – enabling them to create adapters for any application with little time investment. 

 

Simplified Interface and Process for Building Advanced Adapters

The popular robust features of the current Adapter Builder have been preserved, simplified and are now using the improved and simplified Advanced Mode.

 

Note: The Adapter Builder is always installed with BNX Administration software. It is also a distinct installation option and can be installed separately from all other BNX components. This offers numerous advantages. First, it allows BNX administrators to minimize their installation footprint. An administrator may need to create adapters on multiple machines, but only use a single machine for administration. Second, it allows non-administrators to create adapters without implicit administrative privilege, allowing a team to delegate various adapter creation responsibilities away from the administrator. For example, an end user could be assigned responsibility for creating basic web adapters for logging into simple intranet pages. Another user could specialize in creating complex adapters for legacy console applications, and so on. Such adapters cannot be deployed in the BNX system prior to being cleared and applied by the administrator, so the administrator still retains ultimate control of the process.

 

 

Credential Auto Discovery

One of the most time-consuming aspects of enterprise single sign-on (E-SSO), especially during the initial deployment phase, is the manual process of inputting all usernames for the E-SSO enabled applications into the system, traditionally performed by the administrator. 

BNX Authenticated Sign-On 5.5 gives administrators the option to allow users to input these credentials themselves the first time they use the E-SSO enabled application.  If this feature is enabled, users are prompted to save their username and password for each of the E-SSO enabled applications the first time the application is launched.  Additionally, users can manage their credentials locally through a new tool in the BNX Client called Credential Manager.

 

Other Enhancements

In addition to the above features, BNX Authenticated Sign-On provides built-in driver support for fingerprint devices that utilize the Authentec 3400/3500 sensors such as the APC Biopod and the Fellowes Secure Touch Optical Mouse.  Previously, the drivers for such devices had to be downloaded and installed manually. BNX has also added support for iKey and Authentec server-side matching (SSM) devices in Citrix environments.

 

 

Release Notes (back to top)

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Resolved Defects

Known Issues

Resolved Defects

The following defects have been successfully resolved and verified in BNX Version 5.5. For more information on particular issue, contact BNX Customer Care.

 

ID

Description

Found in

Component

5266

"Missing Template" error code to be added.

BNX 5.4

Administration Manager

4268

Authentication Failure with Rainbow iKey Device Results in Program Error

BNX 5.1

Citrix

5262

Insufficient support for numerous search criteria for SSL certificates

BNX 5.3

Enterprise SSL

4538

BNX-5.3-SQL-Admin. Settings are not applying on the Client once Cache is Enabled (Downloaded) and then Cache is disabled

BNX 5.3

Cache Operations

5319

Cannot boot workstation into Safe Mode with Networking if BNX Windows Client is installed

BNX 5.4

Authentication Client

4838

SQL - Authentication Profile Screen displays Server Side Matching for Non SSM devices if the authentication method is changed

BNX 5.4

Authentication Profile

4852

ADS - BNX Server Configuration Wizard closes if a wrong Admin User Name is entered and then valid Admin User Name is entered while Creating a Admin User

BNX 5.4

Active Directory (LDAP)

4866

Sequence of the Adapters/Application is changed when logged through Cache

BNX 5.4

Cache Operations

4900

SQL/ADS - Awkward handling of client/server reconnection

BNX 5.4

SSO Client

4911

SQL/ADS -  Modify, Delete and Set Default buttons are enabled even though Password Rule template does not exist .

BNX 5.4

Administration Manager

4914

SQL/ADS - Changed default Start Up settings are not taken into effect once the SSO Cache is downloaded

BNX 5.4

Cache Operations

4989

Disable User functionality does not work once the cache is downloaded for the User

BNX 5.4

Cache Operations

4991

SQL - System Prompts for WinNT Password change even if only Password Expiry is defined

BNX 5.4

Administration Manager

4999

ADS - LDAP Data removal application does not function properly when user clicks on "no" to cancel.

BNX 5.4

Install

5002

SQL - Modify install Repair option should be removed or disabled if it does not work

BNX 5.4

Install

5351

Allow multiple paths to the application in an SSO adapter

BNX 5.4

SSO Adapter Builder -- Both Modes

5206

ADS - When more than 1000 users are created in AD, BNX is not able to view them or search them

BNX 5.4.1

Administration Manager

5226

Enrollment with FaceIt device fails

BNX 5.4.1

Authentication Device

5324

While installing Administration Manager no error message is displayed if the required adminpak is not installed in Windows 2003 server

BNX 5.5

Install

5390

TE adapter doesn't work for Desktop launch on Citrix environment

BNX 5.5

Citrix Split Adapter

5391

Web adapter doesn't work for Desktop launch on Citrix environment

BNX 5.5

Citrix Split Adapter

 

 

Known Issues (back to Release Notes) (back to top)

The following issues exist in version 5.5. For more information on particular issue, contact BNX Customer Care.

 

ID

Found in Version

Component

Description

4759

BNX 5.1

Adapter Builder Advanced Mode

When creating a Terminal Emulator (TE) adapter (or any adapter with a TE substate), you cannot use multi-process match. In these situations, we will attempt to match states with any open process. With TE, that means sending keystrokes to get the screen onto the clipboard. This could result in unexpected behavior for applications not expecting such keystroke combinations. Using a new process match works, but the appropriate application must be defined in the secondary executables list.

4716

BNX 5.4

Administration Manager

A Password Rule created through Password Plus Rule Templates is displayed in Password Rule Manager with all defined attributes as empty. There is no known workaround at this time.

4913

BNX 5.4

Cache Operations

Because BNX software distinguishes between SSO and Authentication contexts, Authentication works even when the SSO Cache is downloaded and BioServer Services are stopped.

4865

BNX 5.4

Authentication Profile

The system displays an error message if you open an Authentication Profile template with a method that has not been installed. There is no known workaround at this time.

5144

BNX 5.4.1

Administration Manager

In the Japanese version of BNX Software, the system does not accept numbers entered through the Alphanumeric keyboard (i.e., numbers above alpha characters). The system accepts numbers entered through the numeric keyboard (i.e., numbers below the Num Lock key on the keyboard).

5302

BNX 5.5

SSO Toolbar

In the case that the same adapter is used for two different application and a) one application is applied to the domain level, b) The second application is applied to the user level, then only the user level application is listed when the user logs in to SSO. The application assigned to the domain level is not listed.

5377

BNX 5.5

SSO Credential Auto Discovery

Hot keys do not function properly in the Manage Application Credential window.

4463

BNX 5.2

RSA Token Support

RSA Client Side matching will not work if the Ace Client is not installed and the RSA method is not selected during BNX installation. There is no known workaround at this time.

5264

BNX 5.4.1

SSO Toolbar

When users change any of the setting in the Secure Sign On (SSO) toolbar (position, icon size, etc.), the setting are not stored and retrieved the next time they log in.

3960

BNX 5.2

Active Directory (LDAP)

The BNX Administration Console takes a significant time to display windows and perform administrative functions. There is no known workaround at this time.

4986

BNX 5.4

Administration Manager

If you enter a comment in the profile script of an authentication profile, the system discards the comment after a save followed by an attempt to further configure that profile. There is no known workaround at this time.

4481

BNX 5.2

SSO Adapter Runtime

An adapter launching a batch file or some other 3rd party executable which in turn launches an instance of Internet Explorer can cause user confusion and system instability if there are already multiple instances of Internet Explorer running.

5389

BNX 5.5

Citrix Split Adapter

Launching a web adapter in a Citrix environment may return an internal error in the SSO client.

4896

BNX 5.4

Password Plus

An improper error message is displayed when creating a Password Plus Rule template with the same name of an existing Password Plus Rule template. There is no known workaround at this time.