H06.25 Software Installation and Upgrade Guide

Migration Considerations
If a Maintenance Switch or UPS has been configured in a prior version of OSM, the OSM Access
Community Names will not be available. OSM will attempt to access it with the default values of
“public” for read access and “private” for Write access. If these are not the values with which the
device has been configured, the device will be displayed as “Down.” To recover, do one of the
following:
• Stop monitoring, and restart monitoring with the correct values.
• Change the values to the defaults by opening a Telnet session to the device and rediscovering
the device in OSM.
For more information and instructions, see the OSM Configuration Guide.
Safeguard Password Quality Enhancements
The T6533H04^ABM and later versions of Standard Security and the T9750H04^AFC and later
versions of Safeguard, initially released with the H06.09 RVU, provide these additional password
enhancements:
• Option to enforce certain rules governing user or alias passwords
• Use of embedded spaces in user or alias passwords
The following new attributes are introduced:
DescriptionAttribute
When set to ON, passwords must contain at least one uppercase
character.
PASSWORD-UPPERCASE-REQUIRED
When set to ON, passwords must contain at least one lowercase
character.
PASSWORD-LOWERCASE-REQUIRED
When set to ON, passwords must contain at least one numeric
character.
PASSWORD-NUMERIC-REQUIRED
When set to ON, passwords must contain at least one special
character (any nonalphanumeric character except for commas, double
quotes, or semicolons).
PASSWORD-SPECIALCHAR-REQUIRED
When set to ON, passwords may optionally contain embedded
spaces.
PASSWORD-SPACES-ALLOWED
Specifies the minimum number of quality criteria that must be met
when a password is set or changed. Valid values are 0 through 4.
PASSWORD-MIN-QUALITY-REQUIRED
The password quality attributes are disabled by default, and must be explicitly enabled through
SAFECOM (if Safeguard is running) or by using the PWCONFIG command. The password quality
attributes take effect only if the PASSWORD-ENCRYPT attribute is set to ON and the
PASSWORD-ALGORITHM attribute is set to HMAC256. In addition, for
PASSWORD-SPACES-ALLOWED to take effect, PASSWORD-COMPATIBILITY-MODE must be set
to OFF.
For more information on the password quality enhancements, see the Password Quality
Enhancements support note.
Migration
There are no migration considerations specific to the quality password feature. However, a mitigation
procedure is available for handling any unexpected failures that might occur during migration.
This procedure is described under “Migration in a Safeguard Environment” (page 46).
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