Cobalt 1.3 Release Features

Cobalt 1.3 depends on M-Vault 19.0 or subsequent versions

M-Vault Management Support

• M-Vault Bootstrap.   Enables operation in conjunction with M-Vault 19.0 to support headless bootstrap.
• Managing users in M-Vault groups, such as Directory Server Administrators  and Messaging Configuration Read/Write.  This enables Cobalt to control user and operator rights to access M-Vault.
• AD/LDAP passthrough support
  • Allow users (per domain) to support mandatory or partial passthrough
  • Set and validate passthrough entry for user
  • Identify users in passthrough server that might be added to domain

Messaging Management

• Profile Editor for supporting and managing M-Switch Profiler.
  • SIC Coverage UI. Provide full list of SICS, showing which addresses each one goes to.   This enables operator to ensure that all SICs are sensibly handled.
• File Transfer By Email capability is now managed by Cobalt, replacing capability previously in MConsole.
• For Organizations and Military DLs enable control manage capability functions:
  • Max Message Size
  • Max Line Length (for ACP 127 destinations)
  • Charset Restrictions (for ACP 127 destinations)
  • Allows/block attachments
• Option to show for a user which DLs the user is in, and give easy addition to other DLs.  This facilitates managing DL membership.

New Views

• Non-Human Users (Special Users).  Need to support accounts with passwords that are not humans.   For XMPP, Email or both.
• View for end users, rather than administrators.  User can:
  • Change password.
  • See all of own entry and modify  attributes.   The list of modifiable attributes can be configured.
  • See references to entry and email list membership.
• User Groups, to enable management of directory groups (Distinguished Names).

Cobalt Access Control

• New Cobalt roles, that can enable selective control of which users can access directory admin controls, and which users can set OAUTH rights and can add OAUTH Clients.
• Restrict Password set/change rights, so that only selected Cobalt administrators can do this.

Security Enhancements

• When deleting a user, remove the password.   This will make it safe for applications searching whole DIT as you can’t authenticate with a deleted user’s account.
• Security Clearance can be selected for any role or user, based on a configured catalogue.  This supports key M-Switch and Harrier feature to check clearances.

Miscellaneous

• When assigning a new email, search entire DIT for conflicts, not just Cobalt area.   This  helps SASL resilience
• Can add Photos to Routed UAs and Organizations.
• Check References on Delete. Cobalt has a “References” button on user/role form that displays all references of a user/role.  On deleting, references are deleted as well.
• Tool to check references to users in AD, so that when users in AD are deleted, dangling references can be picked up.
• Remove default domain concept
• On deletion of domain in Cobalt, give option to delete all the domain data
• Option to end all  cobalt logged in sessions of an operator, to allow an operator to logout from all browsers with a single action
• There is also an option for an operator with appropriate rights  to end sessions of another Cobalt operator.