Release Notes
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Release Notes for Cisco Security Manager 4.0
OL-21744-02
What’s New
What’s New
Cisco Security Manager 4.0 Service Pack 1
Security Manager 4.0 Service Pack 1 provides support for changes to the mechanism used for
downloading sensor and signature updates from Cisco.com.
Security Manager 4.0 Service Pack 1also provides fixes for various problems. For more information, see
Resolved Caveats—Release 4.0 Service Pack 1, page 16.
Cisco Security Manager 4.0
In addition to resolved caveats, this release includes the following new features and enhancements:
• New Event Viewer feature enables you to selectively monitor, search, view, and examine events from
ASA and IPS devices. You can filter the stream of events to quickly select the view--or even the
particular event or value--you require at the moment. Further, the view criteria you select can be
saved and recalled as needed.
• The applications now require CiscoWorks Common Services 3.3, which is included in the Security
Manager installation program.
• The Security Manager installation program no longer performs a mandatory backup. Although you
are provided the option of performing a backup during installation, we recommend that you perform
the backup before running the installation program, and verify that the backup completed
successfully.
• Support for ASA Software version 8.3. If you upgrade a device to ASA 8.3, ensure that you delete
it from the Security Manager inventory and then add it back in so that newly-converted policies are
discovered correctly.
• ASA 8.3 support includes features that can help when converting from Checkpoint to ASA:
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Global access rules—Instead of creating access rules for each interface, you can create global
rules once. These rules are applied to every interface and are processed after any
interface-specific access rules.
Table 1 Supported Versions for Components and Related Applications
Application Support Releases
Component Applications
Cisco Security Manager 4.0
Auto Update Server 4.0
Performance Monitor 4.0
CiscoWorks Common Services 3.3
Resource Manager Essentials (RME) 4.3
Cisco Security Agent 5.2
Related Applications
Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS) 6.0.5, 6.0.6
Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) for Windows
Note Cisco Secure ACS Solution Engine 4.1(4) is also supported.
4.1(3, 4), 4.2(0)
Cisco Configuration Engine 3.0