Users Guide
Type Action Scenario SQL Privilege Required
Back end Upgrade By definition, upgrades
already have DB and Login/
User established
db_owner
Back end Restore Install Restore involves an existing
DB and login.
db_owner
Back end New Install Use existing DB db_owner
Back end New Install Create new DB dbcreator, db_owner
Back end New Install Use existing login db_owner
Back end New Install Create new login securityadmin
Back end Uninstall NA NA
Proxy Front end Any NA NA
Resolved Technical Advisories v9.11
● Added 08/2018- Dashboard notification of immediate threats now read "Advanced Threat Prevention". [DDPS-4995]
● Dell Security Management Server Virtual 9.11 is built with Workstation 10.x hardware compatibility. [DDPS-5085]
● Customer is now able to upgrade with a default non-standard JKS password when trying to do a server recovery.
[DDPS-5854]
● Adding devices to an existing endpoint group no longer requires a policy change for the destination endpoint group
[DDPS-6002]
● Endpoints screen now displays serial number based off the bios serial number WMI value. [DDPS-6161]
● ATP Widget is now displayed by default for Administrators who log in to the WebUI before ATP is provisioned . [DDPS-6268]
● An issue resulting when a user would decline the End User License Agreement while set to English, the language screen
would not appear after a reboot to the machine has been resolved. [DDPS-6365]
Technical Advisories v9.11
● When a user double clicks the login button on the Dell Data Guardian Web Portal, the download page will open instead of the
upload page. To work around this issue, open a new tab and navigate back to the primary web portal URL. [DDPS-6792]
● Added 11/2018 - When upgrading from v9.10 to the latest Dell Security Management Server, default setting exclusions for
weak ciphers are lost. To disable weak ciphers, seehttps://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/sln301519/how-to-
disable-weak-ciphers-in-dell-security-management-server-and-virtual-server-dell-data-protection-enterprise-edition-and-
virtual-edition?lang=en. [DDPS-7301]
New Features and Functionality v9.10
● The option to remove user sweeps from protected status calculation on the server has been added.
To enable, the administrator must modify the InventoryObjects.config file which is located in < C:\Program Files\Dell
\Enterprise Edition\Core Server\> by default.
the section to change is :
<object name="DeviceInventoryQueueProcessor" singleton="false"
type="Credant.Inventory.Processor.DeviceInventoryQueueProcessor, Credant.Inventory.Processor" >
<property name="EvaluateLastLoggedInUserForProtection" value="true"/>
</object>
Changing the "true" value to "false" (this is not case sensitive) will require a restart of the core server service. Once the
service has restarted the user sweep values are not calculated into the protected status for the device.
● Data Guardian has added the policies for protected office documents :
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Dell Security Management Server Technical Advisories