NMIS 8.5.2G

Tuesday 9 September 2014

Highlights for the 8.5.2G General Release

8.5.2 is primarily a bug-fix release, but we couldn't resist adding a number of nifty new features as well.

• NMIS now collects, graphs and trends Key Performace Indicators for every node. The health measurement KPIs are configurable in terms of weighting as well as time window (see metrics section in Config.nmis).
• NMIS now supports configurable audio notifications for events of particular severities (see the sound section in Config.nmis).
• URLs in event details are now detected and presented as clickable links.
• The log viewer now supports a simplified binary scheme for coloring event based on severity (see overall_node_status_coarse in Config.nmis).
• Interface speeds are now shown in human-friendly format.
• NMIS is now less noisy if you use a distribution-provided rrdtool instead of compiling your own.
• The NMIS support tool was improved to collect more essential system status information, and to interoperate with the OMK Support tool if present.
• The Apache configuration created by nmis.pl type=apache was corrected and modernized.
• NMIS now supports both old-style crypt and Apache-MD5-style password hashing  for authentication.
• New and Improved support for GE and Netgear devices, adjustments to the Cisco model (for collecting "Tunnel" interface data), improvements for VMware ESXI and Windows 2008
• Improved display and robustness for service monitoring
• The precision of NMIS' log information was improved and a number of nuisance/false positive log messages were eliminated.
• Logging of Node configuration change events can now be enabled and disabled selectively (see log_node_configuration_events in Config.nmis).
• The SNMP Tuning parameters were adjusted for better robustness and interoperability and max_repetitions must now be enabled for a particular node.
• The log rotation config file was adjusted to include all relevant log files.
• An improved script for purging of old files is provided.
• And a number of smaller bug fixes and minor improvements.

NMIS 8.5G

Wednesday 18 June 2014

Highlights for the 8.5G General Release

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