Understanding Revisions

By default, SecureTrack shows the revisions created in the past 72 hours. You can see the number of recent revisions next to each device in the list of monitored devices. If SecureTrack receives a new revision while you are in the Compare view, a "New Revision" message appears next to the Filter button. To show the new revisions in the revision history, click the alert. You can also click on the device to always to refresh the revision history.

Revisions

SecureTrack shows each revision with these details:

  • Revision: The revision number assigned by SecureTrack.
  • Action: The operation on the device that generated the new revision. The list of actions includes:

    Note that some actions are available only for specific devices

    Automatic Revision icon

    Automatic revision
    Based on the periodic polling frequency setting

    Installed revision icon

    Policy was installed on the device

    Saved revision icon

    Policy was saved

    Restored revision icon

    Policy was restored
    (For Check Point only)

    Global policy assignment revision icon

    Provider-1 Global Policy was assigned
    (For Check Point only)

    Global policy assign and install revision icon

    Provider-1 Global Policy was assigned and Last Policy installed
    (For Check Point only)

    Global policy removed revision icon

    Provider-1 Global Policy was removed
    (For Check Point only)

  • Date: The date the revision was created.
  • Time: The time the revision was created and saved in the SecureTrack database.
  • Administrator: The device administrator that performed the operation.
  • GUI Client : The name or IP address of the host used to make the revision.
    • For Cisco and Juniper, you can only see this if you configure monitoring with syslogs.
    • For Check Point Provider-1, when you assign a Global Policy this field shows the Customer that the policy was assigned to.
  • Ticket ID: The Ticket ID used in the Comment or Description field of a rule or object. You can configure the Ticket ID to link to actual tickets in a third-party Change Management system.
  • Comment: SecureTrack Administrators can add and edit a comment to the revision here. This information is saved in SecureTrack's database and can subsequently be used as a filter criterion (see below).

For Check Point only:

  • Installed On: The gateways which the policy was installed on.
  • Audit Log: The audit log number that relates to the revision.
  • Policy Package: The name of the policy package that was most recently open in SmartDashboard before the change was made. In most cases, this means that a change was made to this policy package.
  • Global Policy: The name of the assigned Provider-1 Global Policy.