NMIS 8.4.8G

Tuesday 28 January 2014

Highlights for the 8.4.8G General Release

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

• 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.

NMIS 8.4.6G

Monday 14 October 2013

Highlights for the 8.4.6G General Release

• Added config options for threshold_falling_reset_dampening and threshold_rising_reset_dampening
• Changed how runEscalate uses interface info, not working well for 500000 interfaces 
• Added new method to Sys.pm for per node interface index by ifDescr on demand.
• Fixed bug in dashboard where SNMP polled nodes not showing node down properly.
• Fixed nodeConf which was using Lower Case node names and not matching.
• New device support: 
  • PaloAlto devices
  • ServersCheck devices
  • Emmerson Energy Systems
  • Alcatel ASAM's
  • Mikrotik
  • more
• Additional mibs added for traps
• Fixed problems with JavaScript Dashboard, including upgrade of JQuery
• Added interface links to email notifications.

NMIS 8.4.1G

Monday 29 April 2013

This release incorporates feature requests from the community and Opmantek commercial customers.  There is so much going on in this new release writing the release notes has delayed the release, so we have decided to release now and keep expanding and improving the release notes.

Highlights for the 8.4.1G General Release

• New device models for Cisco AP, currently 1200 and 1240, but should work for others, ZyXEL Switches, Cisco Nexus, Cisco ASR9000 (IOS-XR) and Cisco ASR1000 (IOS-XE)
• Fixed NMIS AAA for internal application authentication and authorisation, this includes Single Sign-on Support.
• NMIS AUTH working with LDAP including MS AD LDAP
• Added ability to notify using syslog (requires Net::Syslog)
• Improved server support, Windows, Linux, Solaris, VMware ESXi, Apple MAC OSX
• Custom Alerts, so cool, Alerts - Using models to generate custom events
• Custom Tables, so extensible, Custom Tables in NMIS
• System Health modelling for modelling just about anything without writing code.
• Saveable NMIS widgets, layout your widgets and save the settings and NMIS will start with the same ones.
• Fixed problems with webpage and posting, including improved support for Internet Explorer (Firefox and Chrome work great).
• Added interface descriptions to interface threshold events and emails
• Node configuration change tracking & notification (Cisco devices)
• Added a customer table and customer grouping options to the status dashboard, NMIS Dashboards with Alternate Groupings

New in the 8.4.1G General Release

• Added support for Cisco AP, currently 1200 and 1240, but should work for others
• Added collections for Spanning Tree Topology Changes on a switch and the Number of Routes in a router.
• Added ZyXEL Switch support for MGS-3712F and GS2200-24
• Added temperature support for ZyXEL and Cisco Nexus (under environment)
• Added temperature thresholding
• Fixed PKTS_HC graphs to include better colours (so they can be seen)
• Display the PKTS_HC graph if available.
• Added interface descriptions to Interface up/down events and emails
• General model enhancements
• Added support for Cisco ASR9000 (IOS-XR) and Cisco ASR1000 (IOS-XE)
• Added run-reports.pl which was missing from NMIS8
• Added server health calculations to reflect CPU, Memory and Disk usage
• Service polling for servers now polls CPU and Memory for those services.
• Added full support for Cisco Nexus Devices
• Improved Support for Sun Solaris 5.10
• Converted to HTML5
• NMIS AUTH working with LDAP including MS AD LDAP
• Added a configuration option for setting the protocol in the emails which go out, nmis_host_protocol
• Added ability to notify using syslog requires Net::Syslog (add to install guide)
• NMIS can use snmpEngineTIme in the model instead of sysUpTime and this prevents bad Node Reset events.
• added logOrder field so Logs.nmis can be edited from GUI
• Fixed NMIS Auth splash screen
• Fixed bug with handling of event clearing, in particular stateful proactive events were not getting UP notifications.
• default authorisation privileges with configuration options for group as well
• added faster escalation for Level0, and optional skip escalation for syslog notifications.
• Added Locations, BusinessServices and Status to NMIS Nodes table.
• Add JSON Logging for escalations.
• added default values for Monkey business
• syslog_use_escalation
• disable thresholding globally with global_threshold, and on poll cycle with threshold_poll_cycle
• added custom alerts for creating alerts from SNMP results on the fly.
• fixed problem with SNMP Services being checked when node was down.
• Global model over-rides, added global overrides for the models, so models don't have to be edited individually.
• created models for TCP information, including graphs for tcp-conn and tcp-segs, added to Windows2008 and net-snmp for now.
• Created a config audit, mainly for checking file permissions
• Table configuration moved from tables.pl to configuration files, it is now possible to add new tables to NMIS dynamically.
• Fixed up file permissions in setFileProt, so now non root users can set group permissions.
• Added an NMIS Audit type=audit function and improved type=config to fix all file permissions
• Fixed the ip graph to better represent local and forwarded packets.
• Improved the CBQoS graphs.
• Improved LOTS of graphs.
• Asymmetric (e.g. ADSL) interface support in Node Configuration and throughout NMIS, including thresholding.
• Added many modelling enhancements to the net-snmp model, to assist with NMIS performance monitoring
• Consolidated models with pkts and pkts_hc graphs to save on disk space, this included updates to use pkts_hc data for thresholding.
• Enhanced custom alerts to cover all objects in the modelled node.
• Finalised custom interface modelling for the manual interface table collection for Alcatel.
• added a default Model with HC counters and ifHighSpeed support, must be manually selected.
• improved the look of graphs and made graph fonts configurable.
• new multi-tenant setup
• Updated NMIS OID file with new products from Cisco Product MIB, now scripted for future updates.
• Improved support for Cisco Catalyst IOS Devices
• Changed Catalyst 4000/5000/6000 running CatOS to NOT collect when no interface description.
• Added support for Cisco CSR IOSXR, should support other IOSXR devices.
• Added support for Cisco 1240 Access Points, should support other device types.
• Added testing mode for model verification, debug lite (mode=true)
• Updated login splash screen, included configurable MOTD and Custom Logo
• Contact level event level filter, define the event criticality which a contact is interested in.

Enhancements and Changes in 8.4.1G General Release

NMIS Auth, Single Sign On (SSO) Configuration

• If using SSO, you must be using FQDN's for servers.
• Each NMIS server must be configured with the same auth_sso_domain and auth_web_key, and the auth_sso_domain must contain at least two "." (periods), so the correct auth_sso_domain value for nmis8.opmantek.com would be ".opmantek.com"

Syslog Notification

It is now possible to define a syslog server you want NMIS to send events to, there can be one or more syslog servers defined.

Global Model Overrides

Added global overrides for the models, so models don't have to be edited individually.

• 'global_collect_Description' => '(CNOC|Collection)',
• 'global_nocollect_ifOperStatus' => 'null',
• 'global_nocollect_ifDescr' => 'sublayer|null|controller',
• 'global_nocollect_Description' => '^#',
• 'global_nocollect_noDescription' => 'true',
• 'global_nocollect_ifType' => 'other|softwareloopback|propVirtual|slip',
• 'global_noevent_ifDescr' => 'null',
• 'global_noevent_Description' => '^!|^0',
• 'global_noevent_ifType' => 'other'

Fixes in 8.4.1G General Release

• fixed Windows2008 model for mib2ip being wrong type, created rrd_tune_mib2ip.pl to fix any bad mib2ip RRD's
• added mib2ip to net-snmp
• Removed deprecated MIB object ipOutNoRoutes
• Fixed an Internet Explorer Problem with popup graphs.
• fixed large post edit's in nodeconf
• found wrong datatype on TopChanges (STP Changes), admin/rrd_tune_topo.pl run=true change=true

NMIS 8.3.9G

Thursday 11 October 2012

New in 8.3.9G General Release

• New device support, including Cisco Nexus and VMware ESXi 
• Improved High Capacity Counter support
• Support for SMTP over SSL and SMTP authorisation
• New logs.pl for improved Log viewing (faster, better, stronger)
• Improved IPSLA options for bucket management to improve scalability
• Tool for comparing and automatically updating existing NMIS configurations to the new templates
• Improved threshold controls, so policies can be different for core, distribution and access devices.

'collect' => {
    'Description' => '(CNOC|Collection)',
},

# collect interval time in seconds
my $collect_time = $C->{ipsla_collect_time} ? $C->{ipsla_collect_time} : 60;
# collect interval of buckets in seconds
my $bucket_interval = $C->{ipsla_bucket_interval} ? $C->{ipsla_bucket_interval} : 180;
# extra collect buckets for polling cycle
my $extra_buckets = $C->{ipsla_extra_buckets} ? $C->{ipsla_extra_buckets} : 5; 

chown root /usr/sbin/mtr
chmod u+s /usr/sbin/mtr

NMIS 8.3.1G

Thursday 1 December 2011

New in 8.3.1G General Release

• Hierarchical QoS supported
• IPSLA Support
• NMIS Authentication and Authorisation fully functioning with "Apache" method
• Added many new Authorisation classes and updated default policy
• Added Network Metrics Graph
• Added NMIS Collection Graph
• Many UI enhancements and refinements
• Kai-Uwe Poenisch's updates for AKCP sensor, Cisco CSS and Nortel/Bay networks gear
• Till Dierkesmann updates, including some fixes and mods for Authentication and Authorisation

Fixes in 8.3.1G General Release

• Moved many elements from code to the Configuration (Config.nmis)
• Many many many to be listed.

Caveats for 8.3.1G General Release

• Authentication (Auth.pm) working well with Apache Method, but issues with Cookie handling on internal methods.  Current Apache method usable and functional, and LDAP, Radius, etc, can be implemented with Apache.
• IPSLA module currently requires SNMP_Session, which is included with the release

NMIS 8.2.1

Thursday 22 September 2011

The focus of this release has been to stabilise NMIS8 from the Beta release to something which we feel a candidate for general release, this goal has been largely achieved with feedback from the community and a huge effort by the development team.  In addition there are significant functional and usability enhancements.

Fixes in 8.2.1 Candidate Release

• User Interface (UI) refresh bug fixed
• Integrated SNMPv3 patch from Mark Nagel, SNMPv3 tested and working
• Cleaned up source directory tree of redunant files
• Corrected links to menu icons in many files.
• Search should be case insensitive, based on request from Jose
• Update documentation URL's to opmantek.com/Docs

New in 8.2.1 Candidate Release

• Improved usability.
• Improved look and feel.
• Improved operational usability, more current and historical status in one place.
• Updated UI with improved widget engine, as drilling into more detailed information, each level is presented as a widget
• UI based on jQuery and JD Menu, leveraging full CSS for styling and "skin"
• Each widget is draggable, resizable, closable, independantly of the web page.
• Independant widget refresh cycles, based on URL widget is created with (status widgets refresh, config widgets do not)
• Customisable UI elements all controlled through dash8.css, making the UI highly skinnable.
• All dash generation code bought back to commonv8.js to centralise dash generation.
• Tested and updated many widgets and screens with new colour scheme
• Added Network Events widget based on the NMIS event.log, showing recent operational status.

NMIS 8.1.1

NMIS 8 is the culmination of years of thought and work, the thought went into, how to improve on NMIS 4, which was a challenge, as many people loved the way NMIS worked.  NMIS 8 focused on core engine improvements and an improved user experience.

19 April 2011

New in 8.1.1 Beta

• NMIS8 Changes are significant from NMIS4
• Highly modular code base
• Increased levels of Object Oriented Code use
• Device support based on an Object Oriented hierarchical model, which is coded outside the core system, creating separation from the engine code and device support code.  Also meaning that most device support issues can be resolved without editing the NMIS source code.
• Updated UI, information opens as a widget when drilling down