1. Security Guide
  2. What's New in This Release

What's New in This Release

This chapter tracks the changes in the documentation. It includes the following topics:

What's New in Siebel Security Guide, Siebel CRM 23.9 Update

The following table lists the changes in this revision of the documentation to support this release of the software.

Topic

Description

Procedure to Modify Encryption Seed

New topic. The procedure to apply custom seed for encryption is applicable from Siebel release 23.6 and it is a non-mandatory post installation task. There is no need to re-apply customer seed in the subsequent patch once it is enabled in 23.6 or above updates.

What's New in Siebel Security Guide, Siebel CRM 22.12 Update

The following table lists the changes in this revision of the documentation to support this release of the software.

Topic Description

Changing Siebel Administrator Account Password on UNIX

Changing Siebel Administrator Account Password on Windows

Modified topics. Steps 8-11 are new in these procedures (and apply to Siebel CRM 17.x Update and later releases).

About the Siebel Web Client and Using HTTPS

Modified topic. Added information about using HTTP/HTTPS with Siebel Application Interface and SES.

Using OAuth with Siebel REST

New topic. Describes the customizations required to use OAuth with Siebel REST.

Using OAuth with Siebel REST Inbound Web Services

New topic. Outlines the keynotes for using OAuth with Siebel REST inbound Web services.
Configuring OAuth Support for Siebel REST Outbound Connections

New topics. Describes how to configure OAuth support for Siebel REST outbound connections for Siebel Update 21.8 to 22.8.
Configuring OAuth Support for Siebel REST Outbound Connections - 22.9 Onwards

New topics. Describes how to configure OAuth support for Siebel REST outbound connections for Siebel Update 22.9 onwards.

What's New in Siebel Security Guide, Siebel CRM 22.3 Update

The following table lists the changes in this revision of the documentation to support this release of the software.

Topic

Description

Certificate Requirements for Communications (second bullet and Step 1)

Modifying Keystore and Truststore Files (Step 2c)

Disabling Certificate Based Mutual Authentication (Step 1 and Step 2)

Siebel Application Interface Profile Parameters (very last line removed)

Modified topics. As of Siebel CRM 22.3 Update, Siebel Enterprise Cache is no longer supported.

What's New in Siebel Security Guide, Siebel CRM 21.7 Update

The following table lists the changes in this revision of the documentation to support this release of the software.

Topic

Description

Centralizing the Location of the Key File

New topic. Depending on your requirements, you can optionally centralize the location of the key file (keyfile.bin, installed by default in the SIEBSRVR_ROOT\admin directory) for your Siebel CRM deployment, such as in the Siebel File System or in another secure repository.

Session Cookies with sameSiteCookies Set to Strict

New topic. Describes how to modify sameSiteCookies="Strict".

Siebel Application Configuration Parameters

Modified topic. You can use LDAP authentication with Siebel Tools.

Managing Ciphers

Modified topic. Describes how to manage ciphers in Siebel CRM 17.0 and later. This topic was previously called Disabling Weak Ciphers.

What's New in Siebel Security Guide, Siebel CRM 21.5 Update

The following table lists the changes in this revision of the documentation to support this release of the software.

Topic

Description

Disabling Weak Ciphers

New topic. This topic was renamed Managing Ciphers in Siebel CRM 21.7 Update.

Creating Siebel Gateway Security Profile with Database Authentication Advanced Mode

Modified topic. This procedure shows how to create a Siebel Gateway security profile with Database Authentication Advanced mode for Single Sign-On (SSO) and non-SSO.

When creating a Siebel Gateway security profile with Database Authentication Advance mode, the Database Connection can be one of the following: any SQL Style of Database, Oracle Data Guard, or Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters).

Configuring Object Manager's Database Security Adapter in Advanced Mode

Modified topic. This topic is specific to SSO.

What's New in Siebel Security Guide, Siebel CRM 21.3 Update

The following table lists the changes in this revision of the documentation to support this release of the software.

Topic

Description

Enabling SSL Acceleration for Application Interface/Enabling HTTP

Modified topic. Describes how to configure SSL acceleration for communications between application interface traffic.

Updating siebel.cfg Before Running Key Database Manager

New topic. Describes the parameters to set in the siebel.cfg file before running the Key Database Manager utility.

Setting the ConfigLdapFailoverTimeout Parameter

New topic. Describes why and how to configure the ConfigLdapFailoverTimeout parameter, which is a new configuration parameter for the LdapSecAdpt subsystem available as of Siebel CRM 21.1 Update.

Configuring Object Manager's Database Security Adapter in Advanced Mode

Modified topic. The SecAdptMode parameter must be set to DBSSO (as of 21.3 Update) if you implement Single Sign-On (SSO) with a database security adapter.

Procedure to Configure Reverse Proxy

Modified topic. Shows how to modify the server.xml file to include separate connectors for internal and external users who are on the same application interface.

Multiple topics.

As of Siebel CRM 21.2 Update, the applicationcontainer directory has been replaced by two directories, as follows:

  • applicationcontainer_external (for Siebel Application Interface)

  • applicationcontainer_internal (for all other Siebel Enterprise components)

In the Siebel Application Interface Installation, Web artifacts for application configurations, which were formerly located in applicationcontainer\webapps\siebel, now map to applicationcontainer_external\siebelwebroot. The siebelwebroot directory contains subdirectories such as files, fonts, htmltemplates, images, migration, scripts, and smc.