CB Protection: Custom Notifier not saving in Advanced Custom Rules

Products

• Carbon Black App Control (formerly Cb Protection)

Issue/Introduction

• Setting a custom notifier and hitting save, reverts the notifier setting. 
• Restarting services does not revert settings. 

Environment

• CB Protection: Server 8.0.x

Cause

This is a known issue identified as as EP-2472 and has been resolved in the 8.1 release. 

Resolution

• Upgrade to the latest release.
• If an upgrade is not possible, a manual workaround may be possible using the following steps:
  1. Stop the CB Protection Server, and Reporter services. 
  2. Navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Bit9\Parity Console\WebUI\include\Objects\Pages
  3. Edit the CustomRuleDetails.php file. 
  4. Place the following line of code on line 208:

     RulesUtil::setExecNotifierIdFromReq($data, $rule);

  5. Save the file. 
  6. Restart the services. 

Additional Information

The section of code, after change should show:

}else if($operation == 'exec' && $data['execute']){
RulesUtil::setExecuteActionFromId($data['execute'], $rule);
RulesUtil::setExecNotifierIdFromReq($data, $rule);
$rule['writeOpType'] = $defaultRuleFields['writeOpType'];
$rule['writeNegationMask'] = $defaultRuleFields['writeNegationMask'];
$rule['writeActionMask'] = $defaultRuleFields['writeActionMask'];