[Cb Response] Announcing General Availability of 6.1.8 Windows Sensor

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Hello all,

Today, the Cb Response Team is announcing General Availability of the 6.1.8 Windows sensor. This sensor release is focused on stability improvements and bug fixes.

For more details, please check out the release notes here:

• Cb Response Windows Sensor 6.1.8 GA Release Notes

It is always recommended that you adopt a phased roll-out of this sensor in-line with your organization's software deployment best practices. Installing new sensors --- To install the sensors on to your server, run through the following instructions:
1) Ensure your yum repo is set appropriately

• The Cb Response Repository file to modify is /etc/yum.repos.d/CarbonBlack.repo
• baseurl= https://yum.distro.carbonblack.io/enterprise/stable/x86_64/

2) Run yum install --downloadonly --downloaddir=<local directory to download the package into> <package>

• <package> is replaced by cb-sensor-6.1.8.80911-win

3) Run rpm -i --force <package downloaded>  (for example:cb-sensor-6.1.8.80911-win-noarch.rpm) Then:

• On 6.x servers -- Run /usr/share/cb/cbcheck sensor-builds --update

Your new sensor should now be available via the console. If you have any issues, please contact Carbon Black Technical Support.

Thanks!

The Cb Response Team

[UPDATED 9/20/18 at 2:38PM (ET)]

CbR Cloud announcement can be found here:

• [Cb Response Cloud] Cloud Update Notification: 6.1.6 Windows Sensor

[ranjit_kolli]

Hi,

While downloading the issue is as below

Downloading Packages:
https://yum.distro.carbonblack.io/enterprise/stable/x86_64/cb-sensor-6.1.8.80911-win-noarch.rpm: [Errno 12] Timeout on https://yum.distro.carbonblack.io/enterprise/stable/x86_64/cb-sensor-6.1.8.80911-win-noarch.rpm: (28, 'connect() timed out!')
Trying other mirror.

Error Downloading Packages:
  cb-sensor-6.1.8.80911-win-6.1.8.80911-win.noarch: failure: cb-sensor-6.1.8.80911-win-noarch.rpm from CarbonBlack: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

Regards,

Ranjit