NMIS 8.4.10G

Tuesday 4 April 2014

Highlights for the 8.4.10G General Release

This release incorporates a variety of bug fixes and some new features.

Enhancements

• New and improved device support for RAD Optimux, Eltek Power UPS, net-snmp-based devices, Alcatel devices.
• Calculate and alert/threshold test and value expressions now support combining multiple variables in expressions.
• Improved CBQoS metrics
• rrd_tune helper script can now set a ceiling for a node's responsetime.
• Improved browser and standards compatibility in the GUI.
• The traplog receiver now works better with traps from multiple sources, both forwarded as well as directly submitted ones.
• Service testing has been streamlined, with improved graphs and the reporting of the response time for the service test.
• Service testing now supports calling external programs to test a service state.
• Improved handling of models with systemHealth sections, where all collected data is now stored in node files (and available to the GUI) instead of just when an update is run.

Fixes

• All GUI components now work in widget and standalone mode.
• Nodes that are down during updates are now correctly handled and artificial gaps in the reachability graphs are no longer created.
• Per-interface thresholds can now be disabled from the GUI.
• The fpingd behaviour now fully matches the documentation and fallbacks to the system ping client should no longer happen.

NMIS 8.4.8G

Tuesday 28 January 2014

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This release incorporates a number of features requested by Opmantek commercial customers and a variety of bug fixes. This release also provides a combined script for automatic installation and upgrading..

Enhancements

• New install and upgrade script
  Simply run ./install.pl -h after unpacking NMIS to see its options.
• New Device Support
  New and improved support for GE, Zyxel and Alcatel devices, and improved support for displaying resource utilisation (cpu and memory).
• Outage Scheduler tool
  The new tool bin/schedule_outage.pl allows one to schedule future outages for groups or individual nodes.
  schedule_outage.pl sets up one-off outages only and can be run from cron to create recurring outage windows.
• Node View with configurable fields
  The new configuration option network_viewNode_field_list controls which fields  are shown in the Node View and in what order.
  The default setting  includes a standard set of properties, but custom fields are fully supported.
• Compression of rotated logs
  The configuration for log rotation was updated and streamlined,  and NMIS logs are now compressed after a week.
  install/logrotate.conf should be copied to conf in order to activate this, as well as to fix a path issue with this configuration file.
• New Global Model Overrides
  The configuration option global_collect_ifDescr was added to override the models' interface collection rules, and ifDescr was added  as a per-model collection option.
  Both of these options support regular expressions.
• More Event Details
  The new configuration option global_events_bandwidth controls whether event details should include an interface's bandwidth.

 Fixes

• Improved loading of device information for the NMIS dashboard, improving load times for large deployments
• Escalation policies now work with Event_Element fields that contain "/" characters.
• Various layout fixes for group overview and status pages, and improvements for system health display.
• The snmp maximum message size is now fully adjustable, both on a global basis as well as a per-node setting (on the Edit Node page).
• Node configuration and model editing work both as widgets and as standalone pages now.
• Unprivileged users are no longer shown menus that they are not allowed to access.
• The script subsystem for collecting service data now works as documented.
• The display type "textbox" for custom tables now works as documented.

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