What's New in CTERA Portal Version 8.2.x

CTERA Portal version 8.2.x includes a number of new features for global and team portal administrators and for end users.

Global Administration

Global administrator features:

• New Look and Feel
• Support for Multiple Edge Filers Connected to Varonis Data Security Platform
• Notification Service (Metadata Connector)
• Changes to the Palette Generator

New Look and Feel

The global administrator portal user interface has changed to have the same look and feel as the CTERA Edge Filer user interface.

Support for Multiple Edge Filers Connected to Varonis Data Security Platform

The CTERA Portal Varonis service now supports logs from more than one CTERA Edge Filer.

The Varonis service has been hardened to be more resilient. However, the changes to the Varonis service require changes to the setup as follows:

• All CTERA Edge Filers must be removed from the Varonis Management Console and re-added.
• The Varonis collector hostname and IP address must be added to the /etc/hosts file on every portal server in the portal cluster.
• You need to run CLIs on each CTERA Edge Filer that you want to send logs to Varonis Data Security Platform. For information, contact CTERA support.

Notification Service (Metadata Connector)

The CTERA Notification service provides a programmable, RESTful API, interface included in the CTERA SDK, to enable capturing CTERA Edge Filer and CTERA Portal metadata, such as file names, types, sizes, path, to identify events and use this information to create tailored functionality. For example:

• Pass selected events to an external system, such as SnowFlake or Splunk, for handling by the external system.
• Index text files.
• Generate transcripts for audio files.

Any global file system event, such as rename, create, update, or delete, is captured and can be sent to the external software to use.

Input and output uses the JSON format.

For full details, see https://ctera-python-sdk.readthedocs.io/en/latest/UserGuides/DataServices/NotificationService.html.

Changes to the Palette Generator

The palette generator ADMINISTRATION PALETTE has been simplified.

8.2.x	Earlier Portal Versions

Team Portal Administration

Team administrator features:

• New Look and Feel
• Cloud Drive Folders Created with Windows ACLs

New Look and Feel

The team portal user interface has changed to have the same look and feel as the CTERA Edge Filer user interface.

Cloud Drive Folders Created with Windows ACLs

By default cloud drive folders are created with Windows ACLs enabled.

The default can be changed in the virtual portal settings.

End User Portal View

End user features:

• Sharing Content to Microsoft Teams
• Creating Public Links and Folders with ACLs Enabled

Sharing Content to Microsoft Teams

Access to a CTERA Portal can be added to Microsoft Teams as part of a channel or a group chat inside a team or as a personal tab for an individual user. When using the portal within Microsoft Teams:

• You can share content within Microsoft Teams using public links, for files in cloud drive folders where Windows ACLs are not enabled.
• Share permalinks within Microsoft Teams.

For details about setting up a CTERA Portal within Microsoft Teams, see Integrate CTERA Portal in Microsoft Teams.

Creating Public Links and Folders with ACLs Enabled

Public links can only be created for cloud drive folders when Enable Windows ACLs is not checked for the cloud drive folder definition.

As of this version, by default cloud drive folders are created with Windows ACLs enabled.