2008

scVENUS 2.3 Release (June 2008)

Extended support of Microsoft Windows

• Support of the MSI package format
• Windows patch management using scVENUS software depot
• User management in Active Directory
• Typical Windows functions through scVENUS methods

 

Greater efficiency in administration

• Clear documentation of administration with the new Job Log Browser
• Buttons on the GUI for fast access to certain functions

 

Other important improvements

• Enhancement of scVENUS Monitoring through the reporting functionality
• Password policy for more security
• Improved management of Linux cluster nodes

Please read the release notes for details on all the improvements.

 

Announcement: Release (June 2008)

• Patch Release 2.2.1

 

Announcement: Extended Platform Support (January 2008)

• SUSE 10.3 Support

 

Discontinuation of Support (January 2008)

Two years ago it was announced that a number of platforms will be outdated. Support for the following platforms is therefore discontinued:

• AIX 4.3, 5.0
• Debian 3.0
• Fedora Core 2, 3
• FreeBSD 4x, 5x
• HP-UX 10x
• OSF all versions
• Windows NT

According to the servicing conditions, this is the second step, i.e. there will be no new versions.

The following platforms will stay in "maintenance mode":

• Red Hat 7x, 8
• Solaris 5.5-5.7
• SUSE 8x, 9.1

New versions are only made available upon the customer's specific request.

 

2007

Announcement: Extended Platform Support (August 2007)

• Debian 4.0 Support

 

Announcement: Extended Platform Support (July 2007)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Support

 

Announcement: Release scVENUS Monitoring 2.2.3 (May 2007)

• New features in the scVENUS Monitoring GUI
• Improved scVENUS Monitoring framework
• scVENUS Monitoring now supports SUSE 10.2 and Solaris 10, Intel

 

Announcement: Extended Platform Support (March 2007)

• SUSE 10.2 Support

 

2006

Announcement: Phasing-Out of Platforms (December 2006)

The following platform will be discontinued in the near future, i.e. it is now in maintenance mode:

• HP-UX 11.22

 

Announcement: Extended Platform Support and Releases (October 2006)

• SUSE SLES 10 and SLED 10 Support
• scVENUS Patch Release 2.2.1
• scVENUS Monitoring Release 2.2.2

 

scVENUS 2.2.1 Release (June 2006)

In addition to many minor improvements, the most important new features of scVENUS 2.2.1 are:

• enhancement of monitoring with report monitoring and accounting

• activation of hosts in standby mode for administration processes via Wake on Lan

• simplified administration of NetApp file servers through direct support of the NDMP protocol

• support of the Apple operating system Mac OS X

For further information on other improvements and new features please see the Release Notes, which you can download as a pdf file.

 

Announcement: Phasing-Out of Platforms (April 2006)

The following platforms will be discontinued in the near future, i.e. they are now in maintenance mode:

• AIX 4.3, 5.0
• Debian 3.0
• Fedora Core 2, 3
• FreeBSD 4x, 5x
• HP-UX 10x
• OSF all versions
• RedHat 7x, 8
• Solaris 55-57
• SuSE 8x, 9.1
• Windows NT

 

 

2005

Announcement: Extended Platform Support (November 2005)

scVENUS 2.1 and 2.2 now also support SUSE 10 and Solaris 10.

 

Announcement: Extended Platform Support (October 2005)

scVENUS 2.1 and 2.2 now also support Debian 3.1.

 

scVENUS 2.2.0 Release (August 2005)

In addition to many minor improvements, here are the most important new features of scVENUS 2.2:

• Multiple directory services
• Support of LDAP
• Support of Multicast
• Inventory Conforms to ITIL
• Package Manager Rework

Other new features and enhancements are included in the release notes (pdf), which you are welcome to download.

 

Announcement: Extended Platform Support (June 2005)

scVENUS 2.1 now also supports SuSE 9.3.

 

Announcement: Extended Platform Support (March 2005)

scVENUS 2.1 now also supports RedHat Fedora Core 2 & 3 and RedHat Enterprise Server 4.0.

 

Announcement: Extended Platform Support (March 2005)

scVENUS 2.1 now also supports AIX 5.3.

 

Announcement: Extended Platform Support (January 2005)

scVENUS 2.1 now also supports SuSE 9.2 und SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.

Furthermore, the package for RedHat Enterprise Server 3.0 has been exchanged. With the new package, Itanium and Opteron machines can also be included into the scVENUS cluster.

 

 

2004 

Announcement: Extended Platform Support (June 2004)

scVENUS 2.1 now also supports SuSE 9.1.

 

Announcement: Extended Platform Support (May 2004)

scVENUS 2.1 now also supports SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8.

 

Release: scVENUS-GUI Version 2.1.1 for scVENUS 2.1.1 (April 2004)

Enhanced GUI functionality for the scVENUS Release 2.1.0

New features are in short:

• Host Administration
• Software Depot Administration
• Distributing Files
• Enhanced Functionality of the Configuration Depot Browser
• Logging of all Executed Server Commands

Details are included in the release notes (pdf), which you are welcome to download.

 

Announcement (March 2004)

The following platforms will be discontinued in the near future, i.e. they are now in maintenance mode: SuSE Linux 7.0 - 7.3 and RedHat Linux 6.2

 

Announcement: Extended Platform Support (February 2004)

scVENUS 2.1 now also supports SuSE 9.0.

 

 

2003

Announcement: Extended Platform Support (December 2003)

scVENUS 2.1 now also supports Debian Linux 3.0.

 

Announcement (October 2003)

Discontinuation of support for scVENUS 1.8.5 effective April 30th, 2004

As scVENUS 1.8.5 will not have a direct successor in the 1.8 branch, we would like to discontinue support for this version after April 30th, 2004. This will mean in detail:

• no bugfixes,
• no new platform support.

 
Discontinuation of support for direct upgrade from 1.8.x to 2.2.x

Effective with scVENUS 2.2.0, there will be no guarantee anymore for a direct upgrade from scVENUS version of the 1.8.x branch. Clusters using an 1.8.x version of scVENUS at the time scVENUS 2.2.x is released, will have to upgrade via 2.0 or 2.1. If this is not an option, we will be happy to assist you with additional support.

 
Discontinuation of support for V2/V3 packages

Effective with scVENUS 2.2.0, support for software packages of the formats V2 and V3 will be discontinued. This means in detail:

• commands scsoftfile, scsoftinfo and scsoftpkg will cease to exist,

• V2/V3 packages will not be found/recognized anymore by the scVENUS lookup mechanism,

• V2/V3 packages cannot be installed anymore by scVENUS means, e.g. scaddpkg.

 

scVENUS 2.1.0 Release (September 2003)

• Support for non-reachable clients (Queueing): Method executions and software (de)installation can be re-executed from master or client, either automatically or manually.

• SecureVenus: Regarding the communication between master and client, SunRPC is replaced by an SSL based protocol for firewall friendly communication.

• GUI: New features configuration depot browser, queueing, venusgroups, gscpm and gscsnapshot.

• Software depot: Synchronization of secondary depots.

• Inventory: Enhanced configuration.

• New Platforms: AIX 5.2, HP-UX 11.22 (Itanium), MSC 2002.November, RedHat 8.0 and 9, SuSE 8.1 and 8.2 and Windows Server 2003.

Additionally, this release includes all bugfixes since scVENUS 2.0.1. Other new features and enhancements are included in the release notes (pdf), which you are welcome to download.

 

scVENUS 2.0.1 Release (January 2003)

• Compared to Version 2.0.0 the following new platforms are supported: SuSE 8.0, RedHat 7.3, Solaris 9, Windows XP.

• Now scVENUS offers a new command to register/deregister new scVENUS groups:scadd/delvenusgroup. Hosts can only be added to registered scVENUS groups.

• Improved behaviour of the secure communication even in case of abort (Control-C).

• Automated installation of scVENUS-Monitoring.

• New scVENUS-Functions for Perl.

• scVENUS now also supports Python for programming scVENUS-Methods.

• New scVENUS-Method "shutdown".

Additionally, scVENUS 2.0.1 includes all bugfixes since Version 2.0.0.

 

 

2002

Announcement (December 2002)

To maintain the overview about the supported plattforms of VENUS, some older plattforms will be discontinued in the near future:

• IRIX 6.2 - 6.4
• DEC True64 5.0
• SuSE 6.4
• MSC Linux Aug/01

 

scVENUS 1.8.5 Release (November 2002)

New platforms: SuSE 8.0, RedHat 7.3, Solaris 9 (SunOS 5.9), Windows XP (only client)

scVENUS 1.8.5 is a mere platform release including bugfixes.

 

scVENUS 2.0 Release (August 2002)

• Graphical User Interface scVENUS GUI (in addition to the command line interface

• Integration of new security tools:
  A scVENUS master authentifies himself with the scVENUS client through public key cryptography, i.e. through the application of public/ private keys. Primary goal of the revised security concept is to make scVENUS robust against IP spoofing. scVENUS clients can only be administered from an authorized scVENUS master. Changes to the configuration and software installation are handled on the scVENUS master as before with root privileges (Unix), or system privileges (WindowsNT/2000).
  
  

 

2001

scVENUS 1.8.4 Release (December 2001)

New platforms: SuSE-Linux 7.3, RedHat 7.2, AIX 5.1
 

scVENUS 1.8.3 Release (October 2001)

New platforms: MSC.Linux, SuSE-Linux 7.2, HP-UX 11.11i

• Extended delegation in sc-acctrl

 

scVENUS 1.8.2 Release (July 2001)

New platforms: SuSE 7.1, RedHat 7.1

• scVENUS monitoring is now available for NT

• The inventory functionality was enhanced

• Operations of set theory can be used in clientlists

• Pre- and postmethods for method execution

 

scVENUS 1.8.1 Release (April 2001)

New platforms: Redhat 6.2-7.0, Tru64 5.1

• With scVENUS 1.8.1 in addition to the tcsh shell the bash shell is distributed.

• Method execution from a scVENUS client is possible with the new scVENUS command scinstall.

• New scVENUS functions are venus_print_message, venus_exit_on_error and venus_check_diskusage.

 

2000

scVENUS 1.8 Release (December 2000)

New modules, new OS support

The system administration tool scVENUS, developed by science + computing ag, offers a framework for efficiently administrating heterogeneous UNIX-, Linux- and WindowsNT- environments. It is based on the modules software and configuration management as well as user and file system management.

Version 1.8 offers the following new features:

• scVENUS-Inventory facilitates querying host specific data (hard disc space), thereby providing asset management for the administration of large computer networks.

• By means of Monitoring the changing host specific features are registered (e.g. the hard disc space), thereby granting permanent control.

• From scVENUS 1.8 on SuSE 7.0, FreeBSD-4.x, Tru64 and MS Windows 2000 are also supported.

 

scVENUS 1.7 Release (May 2000)

Integration of Unix and Windows NT

science + computing released Version 1.7 of scVENUS last February 2000. scVENUS is a systems management tool that enables the transparent and efficient administration of heterogeneous Unix and WindowsNT systems. scVENUS offers easy management of system configurations, users and their files, as well as software packages. Through the use of scVENUS methods that are included in the distribution, the administrator can easily build a Single-System-Image environment for a seamless integration of the various operating systems in the cluster. The features that were added to the new release of scVENUS are:

• WindowsNT support:
  scVENUS enables the integration of UNIX and WindowsNT machines through homogeneous file access on both sides. scVENUS also allows the automatic distribution of software on WindowsNT machines by using packages residing in a software depot. Third party software is packaged and stored in the depot and can then be installed on any machine in the cluster. Management of the WindowsNT systems also follows the scVENUS method concepts, that incorporates knowledge on the systemconfiguration.

• improved softwarehandling

• the Perl language can now be used for scVENUS methods, and all scVENUS functions are also available under Perl, both on UNIX as well as on WindowsNT clients.