At the 2018 Nexus User Conference I presented 5 features in 15 minutes: what you don’t know about Lifecycle.
Multiple LDAP servers
- can be used to create different configurations for the same server, each configuration is unique
- order them by auth precedence, preferably ranking the better performing configurations first
- documentation: LDAP Integration
- 1.25 - Jan 2017
Success Metrics
- visualize impact and adoption at a high level
- reports are defined on a per-user basis - report created by one user will not be visible to others
- report on an organization, an application, or any combination
- choose to make the report live or for monthly aggregations - monthly aggregations are good for quarterly reviews
- documentation: Success Metrics
- 1.37 - Sep 2017
WebHooks
- various events, presentation showcased the application evaluation event
- Webhooks Example: IQ and Slack Integration: Using Webhooks: IQ & Slack Integration
- 1.25 - Jan 2017
Vulnerability Info
- new users ask what we have over a CVE or other public source
- help page describes our data: Sonatype Vulnerability Data
- presentation used a recent blog post on ‘marked’: CVE-2017-17461 - Vulnerable or Not?
- 1.14 - Apr 2015
Condensed data format
- our internal validation has shown a reduction of 50% to 75% of the database size
- seen similar reduction with customers large databases, previously 60 GB and greater
- upgrade duration could be significant since data is being migrating to the new format
- help page describes the upgrade process and precautions: Upgrading the IQ Server to Version 1.45
- 1.46 - Apr 2018
What are your favorite features?