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- NMIS now supports Variable Frequency Polling policies, configurable separately for each device.
This feature can also lower the overall load substantially as not all node poll cycles need to start at the same 5 min boundary anymore.
The minimum frequency is 60 seconds for SNMP/WMI collecting; possibly a bit lower for pinging (depending on your number of nodes). - It is now possible to schedule recurring outage or maintenance windows with very flexible candidate and period selectors,
and NMIS now displays outages when in effect and raises outage open/close events for external consumption. - All NMIS tables now support configurable input data validation; this include the main system configuration.
Additionally, numeric values for interface speeds and threshold rising/falling levels are now also enforced in the GUI. - Audit logging
All outage manipulations are now logged with timestamps and originator in the newaudit.loglogfile; this will be extended for other important activities in future versions. - Various Model fixes, including corrected threshold-rising/falling 'Normal' level logic, repairs to model policy evaluation.
- Configurable Context Links
NMIS now supports a per-node-configurable (and -nameable) 'Context Link' which is shown for a node's primary view.
The node's collect and update graph is now also reachable from the Diagnostics menu in that view. - New and improved models for Juniper, Netscreen ScreenOS, HP ProCurve, MikroTik, Alcatel, Fortinet devices, also for Cisco, Lucent and Zyxel DLSAM DSLAM devices
- Installer robustness and efficiency improvements
NMIS 8.6.2G was verified to install cleanly on CentOS 6 and 7, Debian 8 and 9 and Ubuntu LTS 16.04.1.
On minimal installations without perl, the installer now offers to bootstrap itself by installing the perl core first. - and heaps of bug fixes and minor improvements
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