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NMIS 8.3.18G is being released for general availability, This release provides many bug fixes and a few new features.

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# copy newer configuration files (check that you don't have local changes to these files before running) 
cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/Tables.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf 
cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/Table-*.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf 
cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/Logs.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf 
cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/Users.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf
cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/BusinessServices.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf
cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/ServiceStatus.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf 
cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/Services.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf
cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/License.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf
cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/Modules.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf
cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/Escalations.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf
cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/Portal.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf
cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/logrotate.conf /usr/local/nmis8/conf
cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/users.dat /usr/local/nmis8/conf

Update Server Configuration

File Permissions

Change Config.nmis to tell NMIS to use the new file permission scheme

%hash = (
--SNIP-- 
  'system' => {
  --SNIP--
    'os_execperm' => '0770',
    'os_fileperm' => '0660',

Authentication

We recommend updating the authentication system from apache to htpasswd (so NMIS does authentication instead of Apache). 3 steps need to be taken to change this.

1. Change Config.nmis to tell NMIS to use htpasswd 

   Code Block
   %hash = ( --SNIP-- 'authentication' => { --SNIP-- 'auth_method_1' => 'htpasswd', # <= change this FROM apache TO htpasswd

2. Backup old apache configGenerate new apache configuration (if you have customised yours edit it and remove the auth portions instead of generating a new one) 

   Code Block
   #backup old config cd /etc/httpd/conf.d/ cp 00nmis.conf 00nmis.conf.pre-8.3.18G.bak

3. Create new config to replace old config and restart apache 

   Code Block
   /usr/local/nmis/bin/nmis.pl type=apache > /etc/httpd/conf.d/00nmis.conf service httpd restart

Fix Data Type on mib2ip Counters

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