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NMIS 8.8.0

Highlights for the 8.8.0 release

Model changes

• Silence the warnings from the Host_Resource Plugin

• Fixing default handling of custom model for ifNumber changes

• Host resources check if empty values

• Added support for Calix model

• Added support for limit ifspeed in Adtran plugin 

• Add F5 LTM table collection and state - OFF by default with model policy as large.
• Mitel3000 Modelling added.
• Updates Huawei QoS to include 'Interface Name' in QoS graph
• Fine tunes plugin install/plugins/QualityOfServiceStattable.pm. Updates Teldat QoS and BRS to include 'Interface Name' in QoS graph
• Added the missing Model-ServiceOnly.nmis file
• Updated models for Huawei MA5600 and Ruckus Controllers and Devices
• Updates to Ruckus, Windows 2003, 2008, 2012 and ZyXEL
• Adds models-install/Model-Teldati60-uses-common.nmis
• Updates models-install/Model.nmis
• Only displays active interfaces for Juniper devices for Juniper_CoS: Updates install/plugins/jnxCoStable.pm
• Modelling updates for fixing Huawei and Alcatel
• Updated Huawei GPON model
• Updating F5 BigIP Models to be NMIS8 and NMIS9 Compatible

New Features

• Updated jQuery version to 3.6.0 and jQuery UI 1.13

Fixes

• Attempts to install CGI::Session from OS Package Manager first
• Fixing default handling of custom model for ifNumber changes
• Some hardening of NMIS against corrupting the node.json files
• Fixed issue when variable not defined in model-discovery

NMIS 8.7.2-1G

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• New and improved device support for RAD Optimux, Eltek Power UPS, net-snmp-based devices, Alcatel devices.
• Calculate and alert/threshold test and value expressions now support combining multiple variables in expressions.
• Improved CBQoS metrics
• rrd_tune helper script can now set a ceiling for a node's responsetime.
• Improved browser and standards compatibility in the GUI.
• The traplog receiver now works better with traps from multiple sources, both forwarded as well as directly submitted ones.
• Service testing has been streamlined, with improved graphs and the reporting of the response time for the service test.
• Service testing now supports calling external programs to test a service state.
• Improved handling of models with systemHealth sections, where all collected data is now stored in node files (and available to the GUI) instead of just when an update is run.

Fixes

• All GUI components now work in widget and standalone mode.
• Nodes that are down during updates are now correctly handled and artificial gaps in the reachability graphs are no longer created.
• Per-interface thresholds can now be disabled from the GUI.
• The fpingd behaviour now fully matches the documentation and fallbacks to the system ping client should no longer happen.

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• New install and upgrade script
  Simply run ./install.pl -h after unpacking NMIS to see its options.
• New Device Support
  New and improved support for GE, Zyxel and Alcatel devices, and improved support for displaying resource utilisation (cpu and memory).
• Outage Scheduler tool
  The new tool bin/schedule_outage.pl allows one to schedule future outages for groups or individual nodes.
  schedule_outage.pl sets up one-off outages only and can be run from cron to create recurring outage windows.
• Node View with configurable fields
  The new configuration option network_viewNode_field_list controls which fields  are shown in the Node View and in what order.
  The default setting  includes a standard set of properties, but custom fields are fully supported.
• Compression of rotated logs
  The configuration for log rotation was updated and streamlined,  and NMIS logs are now compressed after a week.
  install/logrotate.conf should be copied to conf in order to activate this, as well as to fix a path issue with this configuration file.
• New Global Model Overrides
  The configuration option global_collect_ifDescr was added to override the models' interface collection rules, and ifDescr was added  as a per-model collection option.
  Both of these options support regular expressions.
• More Event Details
  The new configuration option global_events_bandwidth controls whether event details should include an interface's bandwidth.

 Fixes

• Improved loading of device information for the NMIS dashboard, improving load times for large deployments
• Escalation policies now work with Event_Element fields that contain "/" characters.
• Various layout fixes for group overview and status pages, and improvements for system health display.
• The snmp maximum message size is now fully adjustable, both on a global basis as well as a per-node setting (on the Edit Node page).
• Node configuration and model editing work both as widgets and as standalone pages now.
• Unprivileged users are no longer shown menus that they are not allowed to access.
• The script subsystem for collecting service data now works as documented.
• The display type "textbox" for custom tables now works as documented.

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