Micro Focus Security ArcSight Management Center Software 2.96 has been released

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Micro Focus is announcing the release of

Product: Security ArcSight Management Center Software
Version: 2.96
Languages: English

To download version <2.96>, you must first select version <2.90> in the Software Licenses and Downloads Portal

This release of ArcSight Management Center contains the following new features:

• Deployment and configuration of Transformation Hub in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment that leverages its cloud-native services and capabilities. 
• Support for the latest SmartConnector release, v8.1.0. In addition to CEF and ESM_Binary formats, this release now supports emitting Avro-formatted event streams.
• ArcMC and Transformation Hub have been enhanced to enable routing of Avro streams and consumption and routing of Avro events forwarded from ESM or Logger.
• Windows Native Connector (WiNC) on a Connector Host Appliance (CHA) can now run in a Windows 2019 Server VM on Gen10 CHAs.
• New dashboard - A new list view dashboard shows host systems in an exception status (FATAL, CRITICAL, or WARNING). Pertinent information like the container and rule that was breached is displayed. It is periodically refreshed like other dashboards.
• New Device Export Option - Device export can now use recent and locally cached status data from the last refresh to generate the device status report .csv file. In prior releases, device export queried each device in real-time, causing long delays when there were hundreds or thousands of devices.
• When the new ArcMC_Instance_Name= property is configured, this instance name is shown in all pages to uniquely identify the ArcMC instance.
• The last refresh time is now shown in 24-hour military time.
• Platform component version updates have been certified on RHEL 8.2, CentOS 8.2 with updated releases of Azul Zulu Java runtime and Apache Tomcat. Component libraries include current vulnerability compliance, and ciphers are up-to-date.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes. Refer to the Release Notes for the specific defects addressed.

Installation and updates

Please check the product’s software for installation instructions, release notes and user manuals. This documentation can also be downloaded from Software Support Online (select Dashboards>>Manuals). 

For further SmartConnector updates, please visit the Software License and Downloads Portal. To receive product specific update alerts, select the ‘Email Signup’ link under “Customer Resources” at the bottom of the Software License and Downloads Portal homepage. Note that for some of these portals you are required to login with your Passport account that is linked to your Support Agreement ID(s). If you do not yet have a Passport account, click on ‘Register for Software Passport’ on Software Support Online.

Support

We are here to advise and help with the installation process. In the unlikely event that you encounter an issue, please check Software Support Online which includes a knowledge base for self-service help, as well as additional support information. If you are unable to resolve your issue, please open a Service Request (select Service Requests (Incidents)) and one of our engineers will contact you. 
To optimize your software throughout its lifecycle, a portfolio of support services is available; check the Software Support Offerings page for more information.

Community

As a valued Micro Focus customer, we recommend you to take advantage of the free Software Customer Community Program, which can help you optimize the returns on your software investment. Within the community we have entitled support customer forums that are staffed by our support engineers, who will be actively monitoring posts, prepared to answer your questions. Since access is determined by valid Support Agreement ID (SAID) numbers, users will be able to discuss topics in a secure environment, once logged in. We encourage you to try this method of getting help with product technical issues first, rather than placing a telephone call or logging an online support ticket. Your discussions and posts will help all community users.

Join the forums to: 

• Discuss product-specific topics
• Get access to best practices, support tips, and tricks 
• Discuss technical issues
• Connect with your peers in the industry to share best practices
• Participate in our product related Expert Days
• Learn more about product events

It is fast and simple to register for membership at the Micro Focus Software Community homepage. Please visit the ArcSight User Discussions page for more information. 
Services Complementing our Support services, Micro Focus’ Professional Services and Education Services are available at any point in the software lifecycle. Whether you need help with planning deployment, implementing software or ensuring that it is continuously delivering against your objectives, please visit our Services page for the IT services portfolio we offer, or for how to contact us for a no-obligation chat. 

Learn more at 
https://software.microfocus.com/

This release is part of our larger ArcSight 2020.3 release. You can read more about the details of this release, and how it will enable your SOC, in our “ArcSight’s Latest and Greatest” flyer available here: https://www.microfocus.com/media/article/arcsights-latest-and-greatest-article.pdf
A video summary of the release is also available on our SecOps Unplugged channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWfeits4KBY-pyqvwM8szWw

For more information, please check the Release Notes for this version (available from MySupport).    

If you have an active support subscription for these products, please plan for downloading this version from the Software Licenses and Downloads Portal. To access these products in the Software Licenses and Downloads Portal, you will need to sign in with your Micro Focus credentials.

Our goal is to provide you with clear visibility into the support time-line of software products, enabling you to use this information to plan, test, and deploy new product versions. For more information, check our MySupport Software Product Lifecycle pages. Please take note of the end of support dates for the latest available version of this product:

Please note that all Security ArcSight Management Center customers with active support subscriptions are eligible to update to Security ArcSight Management Center version 2.96.