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NMIS 8.7.0G

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

Highlights for the 8.7.0G release

8.7.0G is a major release with lots of new features, improvements and bug fixes.

Installer fixes

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• 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

Model Enhancements

• Modelling enhancements: 
  Add support for new models:
  • Viptella models
  • Ericsson Router
  • Vyatta VYOS devices
  • Cisco BGP MIB 
  • Huawei HQOS graphs
  • Stats metrics to the Cisco routing model
  • Bluecoat Model 
  • f5 model
• 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

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• 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

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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

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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

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Fixes and Improvements

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• 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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