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a new BUG in V18 GA as well the original server time displayed on reports still broken.

Hi,

there have been a number of discussions about this bug over many releases of XG.

The XG reports do not understand daylight saving. I have started threads on this in the past and is obviously not important to Sophos. Not very professional looking when you can't get your report to generate at the correct time. The following screen shot is taken from the report this supposed to be generated at 1am Melbourne time.

The time the report wa ssent according to the XG.

The report scheduling settings.

The time the report was delivered to me.

Ian



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  • Hi folks,

    we are now up to v18 GA and the reporting is still strange.

    I have two daily reports sent to me. V18 has changed the time when one of my reports is generated at 24 hours and the other at 1 hours. The fine tuning has been removed so there is no longer the ability to send a report on the half hour.

    So today I have the following, mind you I am still under daylight savings.

    This is from today's published report.

    Ian

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  • It seems that devs do not care at all.

    I am struggling with some customers about this. They do not take Sophos seriously on this and on log viewer!

  • Hello  

    There is an issue that has affected the XG since v17.1 whereby the reporting module doesnt notice the DST change.  This was supposed to have been fixed in v18 as per the bug ID.

    However if you are talking about the reports not coming into your mailbox at the exact time you have set, then this is expected behaviour as the timers run at certain intervals.

    If your problem is indeed about the XG not respecting DST time, then I would suggest you open a case up and quote bug ID NC-45236.

    If your problem is about the reports not being delivered at the exact time you have set, there is not much one can do but open up a feature request.

    If your problem is about getting duplicated reports, check to see if the reporting dates are the same, and you are running in HA, try turning of the 1 unit for 1 reporting cycle to see if you still get duplicated reports.

    Thanks!

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  • Hi KingChis,

    the DST is no longer shown in the daily report even though DST is still running in Victoria/Australia.

    I am not running HA.

    I am a home user and therefore do not have access to support.

    In today's example I have two copies of the same web access report from yesterday, I have today's executive report, I have a new copy of yesterday's executive report.

    Ian

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  • Hi  

    Hmmm....that is going to make troubleshooting this a bit long....

    I would suggest deleting the reports and recreating them to see if that gets rid of any possible duplicated jobs in the timer component.

    Thanks!

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  • Hi KingChris,

    Devs have access my XG via ZOOM and support tunnels. I was running a ZOOM session with the EAP reporting team yesterday.

    Ian

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  • Hi  

    As v18 is now GA, all issues go through support.  For the reporting EAP that is a different story.

    Development will not work community issues now that v18 is GA.

    Thanks!

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  • Hi KingChris,

    The support tunnel option is always there for support to poke around, this has been done before.

    Ian

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  • Hey Ian,

    Let me follow up with the team regarding this issue.

    Thanks,


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  • Hi Ian,

    I have received 2 reports every time the XG does a change for DST or a firmware update. That should clear out on your next report hopefully. It has for me in the past.

    This is a long standing issue though. NC-29573 and NC-45236 are both part of this issue. I was the one that got both opened. I have been waiting for a fix since V17.0. Hopefully they will fix it soon. I was told V18GA but obviously this didn't happen.

    Mike

  • Hi MichaelB,

    you are confusing two different issues. I understand about extra reports after every software upgrade.

    The DST settings have changed again, now there is no DST addition even though I am still under DST.

    What I am talking about is two or three different reports each day since the upgrade to V18 GA. My XG has been online for just over 3 days after I restarted when re-enabling ATP. Please refer to my earlier post in this thread showing the extra reports delivery. Some are duplicated from the previous day eg two copies of the same report for the same day.

    Ian

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  • Hi Ian,

    I should have explained more. I know it is a different issue but from your reports, it looks like the same underlying issue with DST. I could be wrong though. Just wanted to share my cases so it could be tracked.

     

    It has been a long time since I went through this with an engineer but if I recall, the OS and system had a different time that the services and processes Sophos uses. I will have to look back at my notes. This caused lots of issues and I had similar report issues as you describe.

     

    One workaround I remember was to change the timezone of the unit, reboot it, change it back, and reboot it again. That fixed it until the next DST change. This won't work with a cluster though.

    Mike

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  • Hi Ian,

    I should have explained more. I know it is a different issue but from your reports, it looks like the same underlying issue with DST. I could be wrong though. Just wanted to share my cases so it could be tracked.

     

    It has been a long time since I went through this with an engineer but if I recall, the OS and system had a different time that the services and processes Sophos uses. I will have to look back at my notes. This caused lots of issues and I had similar report issues as you describe.

     

    One workaround I remember was to change the timezone of the unit, reboot it, change it back, and reboot it again. That fixed it until the next DST change. This won't work with a cluster though.

    Mike

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  • Hi MichaelB,

    the DST issue was supposed to be fixed, but hasn't been.

    I have had support look at my XG on this subject in the past and case was created.

    The report now arrive at the same time and according to the date in the reports within minutes of being generated except they are out by an hour and being generated the day before in some cases.

    If need be I can post report dates and associated delivery time/date.

    I originally started this thread in Dec 2017.

    Ian

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  • Hi folks,

    I was too hasty with my post here...

    I tried the workaround by changing timezone to africa from europe, after reboot changing it back to europe.
    I set the report to the next hour, so I will have to wait and give feedback!

  • Hey folks!

    Changing timezone to any and back solved the problem, hopefuly for longer than a week ;)