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• 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 .than before
  
  • 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 number of NMIS processes.

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• NMIS now includes a full-fledged node administration tool for command line and script use
  • admin/node_admin.pl can create, export, update and delete nodes
  • it can also rename nodes, and all RRD and other node database files are renamed accordingly
• nmis.pl can now add any groups that are set for specific hosts but not globally configured (command line argument type=groupsync).
  This is not done automatically as groups are meant as an administrative mechanism for selecting/skipping nodes' in the GUI.
• NMIS now consistently supports "true/1/yes" and "false/0/no" for setting boolean configuration values everywhere.
• 8.5.4 includes improved new versions of the support tool and the nmis_file_cleanup.sh data pruning tools
• logging was 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 improved fpingd.pl with more precise logging. fpingd now can also optionally log stateless node information (see otion option 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 and bug fixes

NMIS 8.5.2G

Tuesday 9 September 2014

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