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Improvements

Verified support for Customisation of Enterprise Services View

Bug Fixes

Minor bug fix for restart daemon functionality.

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Improvements

Added improved support for opCharts to allow insecure (self-signed) SSL certificates, this uses the "omk_ua_insecure" configuration item in opCommon.json

Added support for including the number of rows in a dashboard componentAdded support for Customisation of Enterprise Services View

Bug Fixes

Various minor bugs with the Administration tool

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Improvements

Huge inventory speed improvements, with the release of NMIS-9.4.2 we have improved the data storage of inventory records with node metadata. Please see opCharts Inventory Database Performance

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The Release also features new OMK landing page .

Improvements

• The opCharts installer now handles polling definition in a better way, which reduces the installation time by 6 minutes.
• Fixed issue with certain node resources having a broken link.
• Dark mode enhancements for welcome wizard 
• Element Lists now include an ordering option for creating better operator forms for data entry and maintenance
• Enterprise Services in an opHA Cluster now updates the poller inventory.  Enterprise Services tags were being overwritten by inventory updates in a poller.

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Big release with an upgraded GUI framework to deliver accessibility enhancements and dark mode.

Improvements

• This release includes improved Accessibility options, including support for Dark Mode. We have taken the opportunity while we tidied up the screens to change Opmantek to FirstWave. These are new features that are backward compatible with earlier releases.

• In Administration, editing NMIS configuration files such as Contacts and Locations will now support  (#, -, /, (, ) ) characters in the name.

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If you using portal roles before opCharts-4.5.0 please see "Repair RBAC for an enterprise service" Enterprise Services

opCharts 4.4.3

Improvements

• New inventory cache, this will speed up loading of the Inventory View.
  • This is controlled by opcharts_use_cache and defaults to "true"
  • opcharts_inventory_display_cache_expire_time will control how long the cached documents are held in MongoDB before they expire
    
• New cli option to run the cache as a cron job or to clear the cache
  • opcharts-cli.exe act=cache-resources
  • opcharts-cli.exe act=clear-cache-resources
• New config option to control same site cookies, auth_samesite_cookie in opCommon.json
  • Supports:
    • Strict (Default)
    • Lax
    • None
  • Note if you are set auth_samesite_cookie to anything Lax or None you will need to set auth_secure_cookie to "true" or newer browsers will reject the cookie.
• Node view will limit rendering longs lists of Node Resources and will instead showing a link to take you through to inventory, use opcharts_gui_node_max_display_resources to control the display length.
• Improved inventory display query.
• Improved Node Resources query.

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New config option to help support MongoDB 4.2 going forward with feature development, we will announce in the release notes and opCharts MongoDB 4.2 Feature

Improvements

• Enterprise Services Beta updates
  • You can now add an Enterprise Service to a map
  • Nodes, Interfaces and Services will raise a proactive event on a degraded state and will put the Enterprise Service into degraded
  • Nodes, Interfaces and Services being down will raise an overall Enterprise Service Down Event and put the Enterprise Services into a down state, we are working on the full documentation for this feature.

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Improvements

• Support for MongoDB 4.2, see Upgrading to MongoDB 4.2
• Metadata for Elements list, see opCharts Form Schema
• Added a shortcut button for "Node Tools" on Node page in opCharts 
• When viewing node in opAdmin, show toolbar  displays Node and Event Context buttons.
• When changing a password for a local password you will need to provide your previous password
• When an enterprise service creates a service only node it will not be activated in NMIS or opConfig
• Node configuration can be redacted from users using the Access_Redacted_Values Access Policy (Requires MongoDB 4.2) please see opCharts redacting content
• Note if you do not have Mongodb 4.2 and you have the access policy for "Access_Redacted_Values" set to 0 for any user level then the nodes will not show, set back to 1 to restore.
  

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Improvements

• New list manager feature opCharts Element Lists
• Users can upload logos and set them via the user preferences, see opCharts MSP Configuration Options to enable.
• Users can create sub folders under conf/table_schemas/ with the role name of an rbac user, this allows you to set custom table schemas for a users RBAC role.

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Improvements

• Fix issue with certain inventory queries timing out with users in large node count environments.

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Improvements

• New Locations view to see all your configured locations with a map to show the nodes associated with that location
• Improved CSS for node panels in dashboards
• Enterprise Services now raise events for a service-only node instead of the first node in the Enterprise Service
• Enterprise Services now show the status on maps
• When adding an Enterprise Service to a map it now gives you a list of Enterprise Services to select from
• When viewing a topology map in the Node view you can select between the nodes location view or the node topology
• Edit node button added to the nodes view.

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Improvements

• Editing node configuration is possible via the 'Node' page in admin
• The user groups when adding a user shows all the possible groups in the dropdown and is multi-select

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Improvements

• Admin can now set passwords for users, requires auth_method_1 to be htpasswd

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Improvements

• Spanish Language translation  improvements
• Inventory chart icon will only display if we have graph data for the inventory dateset.

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We recommend NMIS9.2 and greater for this release.

Improvements

• Improved query performance for nodes panels when showed as a resource.
• New action in opcharts-cli setup-db, this updates opCharts indexes in MongoDB on install and can be manually run from the cli.
• Node topology now supports ipv6
• opcharts-cli act=import-subnets has improved debug logging, set debug=1 to see how its calculating subnets
• opcharts-cli act=clear-subnets removes all cached subnets in the database.
• Two new configuration items items to help change sizing of components

  • "opcharts_gui_default_component_size" this sets the components sizes across the application, excludes node detail view

    • Default is 210

  • Before this release the component size was hard coded as 280 and would cause certain components to render larger than desired
    
    • "opcharts_gui_nodes_detail_component_size" this changes the size of the components in the node detail view.
    • Default is 280
• Inventory view for concept interfaces shows enabled and disabled interfaces for collect.

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Improvements

• Business Services Interfaces table can now be configured by the schema file "opCharts_business_services_interfaces.json"
• Inventory search improvements
  • inventory.data.Description is now searchable in the GUI with iregex
  • inventory.data.ifSpeed is now searchable as a string match
• LLDP Improvements
  • If NMIS9 has LLDP neighbor in its inventory opCharts will use its currently polled neighbors interface to show utilization and metadata
• CDP Improvements
  • If NMIS9 has CDP neighbor in its inventory opCharts will use its currently polled neighbors interface to show utilization and metadata
• Improved the panels in Business Services including a new Monitored Services Panel
• If the Interface or Node Panel cannot find any performance or utilization data it will show "No Data" instead of rendering nothing
• Business Services have improved rendering of panels into rows.

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Improvements

• opCharts installer has automation to help upgrade from opCharts-3.x to opCharts-4.2.1

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