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Table of Contents

NMIS 8.7.0G

This maintenance release of NMIS was published on 22 May 2020.

Highlights for the 8.7.0G release

  • Installer fixes: 
    • Get PAM module from repositories
    • Now installer uses cpanm for cpan installs as it is more flexible and does not need initial configuration as cpan does
  • Modelling enhancements: 
    • Add support for:
      • Viptella models
      • Ericsson Router
      • Vyatta VYOS devices
      • Cisco BGP MIB 
      • Huawei HQOS graphs
      • Stats metrics to the Cisco routing model
      • Bluecoat Model 
      • f5 model
    • Improvements: 
      • Cisco Meraki and Meraki Cloud 
      • Improved models for Juniper IVE devices
      • Improved Fortinet FG model
      • Improved Microtik model
      • Improved Cisco Nexus model
      • Display temperature of the sensors in AristaSwitch model
    • Fixes for the Cisco Temperature model. Updates to the Cisco models to include temperature values
    • Work around net-snmp snmpd which reports almost anything as hrfixeddisk
    • Removing the degrees symbol from Units in Alerts
    • Added 'option' => 'small' to generate small graph when small graph requested in maxbits
    • Some graphs updated to show Max values, not only averages
    • Enhancing the Host Resource Model with thresholding
    • Added Opengear to Model.nmis to use Default-HC
    • Added lldpLocal to Model-Policy
    • Adding the missing ADSL graph to the NMIS source and fix ADSL model files
    • Added new RouteNumber section so variable accessible through stats
    • Common-database.nmis updated to include 'TeldatQoSStat' and 'TeldatBTSStat' entries
  • Plugin Improvements: 
    • Cisco Meraki Cloud
    • Viptella models
    • Added the OSS banner to the plugin code
    • Improvement in NMIS having a plugin include reach data
    • Enhancements to NMIS for health metrics for plugins and implementing ifNodeCollectable
  • Collect improvements:
    • Only run services polling on nodes which have service polling defined
    • Improvement to ifAdminStatus change detection to handle ifIndex changes. New event (Interface IfAdminStatus Changed)
    • Adding 300 seconds to node reset detection for odd Linux SNMP sysUpTime
    • Added collect_wmi/snmp properties to allow disabling either protocol (snmp_enabled, wmi_enabled). Also, added the migration script migrate_collectpatch to support this properties, added support for SNMPv3. Added an script test in admin/upgrade_node_collect
    • Optimisation to stop running services if no service polling required on a node
    • Improved debugging for a single node, runEscalate is skipped for a single node collect
    • Add a new configuration option sort_due_nodes, to order nodes based on last_time_poll
    • Improving the polling so that nodes do not get polled too frequently
    • Added escalate_poll_cycle to control when the escalate cycle is run
  • Admin tools:
    • Added new utility script admin/import_zenoss_backup to import devices from Zenoss device dump file (Example in admin/samples/zenbatchdump_sample.txt )
    • model_discovery to automatically determine which existing modelling exists
    • alcatel_interface_discovery admin tool has been deprecated
  • Other fixes and Improvements:
    • Updated printCrontab to split the running of collect and services to separate cycles. Also include additional info for run=escalate
    • fix in node.pl to show type=metrics, group=network graphs
    • Added support to preserve -- when lowercase names are wanted
    • Improve the debug output. Remove passwords from logs
    • Added support for Common-event.nmis event model policy handling for custom node roles
    • Added Node Count per poll cycle count
    • Added handling for new types of loopback interfaces called lo0
    • The minimum length of time that a graph can show has been reduced from 30 min to 10 min, this allows to see shorter periods with better details
    • Updated polling summary to include demoted nodes and pingonly nodes,  show stats for demoted and non snmp polled nodes
    • CVAR support for threshold controls
    • Add interface description in custom test alerts
    • Fix issue with notifications for elements with /
    • Update the installed modules detection
    • Added support for Crowd Auth
    • Add support for env_temp with the new configuration item env_temp_legacy_support

NMIS8 installer may stop at CPAN attempt to install WWW::Mechanize on Redhat6 or Centos6

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