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NMIS 8.5.4G

Monday 24 November 2014

Highlights for the 8.5.4G General Release

8.5.4 is a major new release with numerous new features.

the NMIS installer now reports missing modules better, and aborts (by default) if there are any crucial missing modules
NMIS now handles critical sections and long-running NMIS processes much better.
- PID files are no longer used, and instead the actual process table is checked.
- New config option max_child_runtime can be used to limit collect/update job runtime.
- If NMIS jobs runs over-time, a warning event is generated unless config option disable_nmis_process_events is set to false.
- Collect jobs can now optionally run longer than a single collect cycle, if the command line option ignore_running=true is given - in which case NMIS will just warn about old NMIS processes that are still running, not kill them as it does by default.
- The NMIS Collect Runtime graph now includes average and maximum numbers of NMIS processes.

NMIS now consistently supports "true/1/yes" and "false/0/no" for setting boolean configuration values.
improved new versions of the support tool and the nmis_file_cleanup.sh data pruning tools
improved logging, reduced false positives in the logs
improved device support for Net-SNMP-based hosts and Windows hosts, Cisco devices
new and improved device support for Huawei routers, including Quality of Service collection and graphing
improved rrd_tune_interfaces.pl helper script now sets interface speed maxima, and correctly adjusts them on repeat execution
improved fpingd.pl with more precise logging. fpingd now can also optionally log stateless node information (see otion fastping_stateless_log) for external consumption
event escalation is now handled more robustly and consistently
improved activation of opMaps and opFlow display widgets
improved file permission handling for improved performance
numerous graph improvements

Tuesday 9 September 2014

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