This is a brief overview of the major changes between opCharts releases.
opCharts 2.6.4
Highlights
- Authentication expiry timeout now configurable, auth_expire_seconds
- Dashboard editor now loads faster when chart/map files have many definitions
Fixes
- Custom chart colours fixed, no longer uses same colour for all datasets
- Node info panel: node status link now links to same location as the name
- Node view page: Node status now found in more uniform way
- Monitored services back button no longer shows JSON
opCharts 2.6.2
Highlights
- Custom Link type for Maps
- Chart components now show period being displayed in title
- Starting point of empty geological map now configurable
Fixes
- Show only known Monitored Services when not in master mode
- Fixed issue with deleting entities on map
- Network maps no longer have bottom 20px of background clipped
- Loading and no data found notifications for charts fixed
- Consistently show % in TopN tables
Known Issues
- Topological and Network maps do not render correctly in Safari 9.0.1
opCharts 2.6.0
Highlights
- Monitored Services
- Zoom lock added to maps that support zooming
- Single Sign On (SSO) with other omkd's, when configured and using FQDN
- Edit/Delete nodes in Geographical maps, delete links
- Links to view node in other Opmantek apps if installed
Fixes
- Viewing interface graphs on their own now ensure the correct node is being displayed
- Better map background placement in Network Maps
- Long node names now shorten better in node list
opCharts 2.4.12
Highlights
- Node search performance on large NMIS installs significantly improved
- Node selector panel only shows selections in top section, hides the single option below
- Node list number of rows/columns now configurable ('opcharts_node_list_rows_per_page','opcharts_node_list_cols_per_page')
- Node search on slave node now redirects directly to slave node info
Fixes
- Node search suggestion drop-down box now appears in a more appropriate spot
- omkd restart/shutdown now properly shuts down when event viewer visible in GUI
opCharts 2.4.10
Fixes
- Issue with node list where selected filters are lost when a different page is selected.
opCharts 2.4.8
Highlights
- Spanish translation update
- Automatic language detection can now be disabled in config (omkd_auto_detect_language)
- Service data now available in chart creator
- Automatically uses NMIS users.dat file if it exists, installer backs up current and sym-links to NMIS file
Fixes
- Can now select EN as language in GUI when default language was not EN
- Pages with partial translations fixed
- Dataset edit button in chart creator fixed
- Customer Chart/Dashboard files holding old stock definitions are now replaced on install preventing potential odd behaviour in GUI
- Maps with blank placeholders now work with links/interface links
opCharts 2.4.6
Highlights
- Maps can now hold nodes from slaves
- TopN only considers data from the last 15 minutes (so old data will be ignored), time period is configurable
- Maps holding nodes a user is not authorised for appear grey (but are still on map)
- More uniform support for master/slave nodes
Fixes
- Users no longer see nodes in node search that they cannot access
- Better at handling blank nodes in NMIS
- TopN report only runs once every 5 minutes (configurable) no matter how many times it is called (force option available)
- Dashboard viewing now verifies a user has rights before displaying anything
- Pressing new button on auto-generated charts fixed
- Verified whole system to ensure nodes only visible to users who have rights to see them
opCharts 2.4.2
Fixes
- Issue with LDAP and MS Active Directory authentication
- Permissions on maps refresh was only accessible to admin
opCharts 2.4.0
Highlights
- Topological Maps
- Add node subnets
- Add node neighbours (via CDP info)
- EXSi servers show hosted VM's as neighbours
- Maps
- All entities now support linking to other maps
- Event Log
- Automatically updates, no refreshing, updates are pushed as soon as they happen
- Node view shows events for node
- Interfaces status table
- Dashboard full screen mode
- RESTful API for nodes (config,info,status)
opCharts 2.2.2
Highlights
- Network Diagrams and Geographical Maps!
- Create them in the GUI
- Add them to custom dashboards
- Watch them refresh with the newest data
- Click on them to see the status of nodes, groups and interfaces
Add background images to Network Diagrams and place network objects over top. If the default installation location has been used background images can be added to the directory, the filenames should not include spaces in the names:
/usr/local/omk/public/omk/maps_background_dir
- TopN charts, showing the biggest users of CPU, Memory, Interface Up/Down Utilisation as well as Errors and Dropped packets.
- Also shows the last 1h of usage inline so you can see how the data is trending
- New node selector that allows you to drill down into lists of nodes very quickly
- Node status summary now in node view, shows you the status of the alerts and thresholds for the node
- Dashboard groups, quickly switch between your favourite dashboards by putting them in the same group
opCharts 2.0.4
Highlights
Grid can now have columns set allowing reproducible grids on screens with varying sizes
Chart creator has some helpful UI tweaks
- Viewing a node now displays the same charts that NMIS displays by default
- More datasets are available for graphing in the chart creator (specifically the server ones, hrsmpcpu, hrdisk, hrmem, hrswapmem, hrvmem, hrbufmem, hrcachemem)
opCharts 2.0.0
Highlights
- New installer
- Chart Creator redesigned. Now much more intuitive to use and supports more data resources.
opCharts 1.3.0
Highlights
- CBQoS graphs now available for nodes that are collecting it
- Indexed datasets now more generally supported (including ipsla/rttMonLatestRtt,storage,cpu,etc)
- Updated GUI
- REST API also supports more indexed datasets, as well as CBQoS datasets
- Node selection GUI element now has more tokens to search by
Fixes
- Node selection GUI element displays properly