This is a brief overview of the major changes between opCharts releases.

Note: as of opCharts 3.0.0, MongoDB is required, the installer will help you install this.

opCharts 3.0.10

Released Feb 28, 2017

Highlights

Node info panel (found on most node pages) now allows for more complex formatting, eg. displaying a unix timestamp as human readable, see documentation for more
Delegated Authentication
Dataset charts now show Min/Max/Avg
Custom JS
Link to opFlowSP Agents/Interface from Node Interface view

Fixes

Master redirect to slave with RBAC user now keeps context_list so user can see URL
Users/Roles with "." (period) in the name can now be edited/deleted
NMIS Group search function now functional

opCharts 3.0.8

Released Dec 9, 2016

Highlights

Node list table columns are now configurable, see the opCharts 3 Administration Guide for more
Portal Users who have been granted access to NMIS groups can now see and click on node links in Node panels on maps and business services
Several new dataset options added to the chart creator: suffix in tooltip, decimal places in tooltip and dataset multiplier which allows adjusting the base of the value
Automatic detection of different RRD resolution/step, lowest value now used as default and displayed when viewing a period that is small enough (< 17h by default)

Fixes

Precision of NMIS graphs now restored to 2 decimal places by default
Chart creator now restores last color index used, create -> add dataset -> save -> edit -> add dataset no longer re-uses first color
Customer filter in advanced menu removed
Permissions button no longer shown on auto-generated resources which have not been saved (and therefor cannot have permissions set on them)

opCharts 3.0.7

Highlights

Portal Users/Roles can now be granted access to list and view nodes based on the nodes group
Portal Users/Roles can now have arbitrary properties assigned to them which can be used in SQL queries
Interface speed easier to read

Fixes

Timezone changes will now be picked up by running omkd
Interface list view now enforces group membership on list of node/interfaces displayed

opCharts 3.0.6

Highlights

Individual CBQoS classes can now be added to charts using the chart creator
Individual CBQoS class can be chosen when viewing node cbqos-in/out page
Chart creator now allows setting dataset color and stacking (when using area mode)
Breadcrumb and Node Resource selector now show friendlier names for indexed resources
omkd secrets are now automatically changed on install

Fixes

SSO Authentication backwards compatibility fix, will now work with all apps except the ones that contain the breakage (opCharts 3.0.5 and opEvents-2.0.6)

opCharts 3.0.4 / opCharts 3.0.5

Highlights

New interfaces page allows searching all known interfaces
Connectwise authentication added
Node filter always shows all possible node status values: reachable, degraded and unreachable
Node info table shows SNMP status and WMI status
opCharts-cli import function now accepts force option
Export to CSV for charts
Interface page shows more charts
Default Polling Definitions imported by installer

Fixes

Authorisation fixes for dashboards/business services
Group links in maps fixed
Charts once again honour line type setting
Chart creator no longer displays first dataset twice in chart
Node list table mode now links to slaves properly
Node list sorting error fixed
KPI coloring now more consistent between table and panel
Dashboards with external pie’s and charts now load properly
Table/page size node list page size should now be consistent
Attempting to access slave node detail on master now automatically redirects to slave
SSO cookies with domain that is too specific (sometimes)

opCharts 3.0.2

Highlights

Resource (Maps/Charts/Business Services/Dashboard) index pages now load faster
Automatically adjusts config for new TopN configuration settings
Loading icon on Resource index tables

Fixes

Monitored services display in GUI
Deleting dashboards from GUI and command-line
Exporting maps from CLI
Editing placeholders on maps
Forces new TopN configuration values

opCharts 3.0.0

Highlights

Business Services, view status information for related nodes and interfaces in a single page
Fine-grained role-based authorization system for Business Services, Maps and Charts
Resource data now stored in DB, all data can be exported/imported via CLI tool, existing file-based data is automatically imported

Fixes

Map icons in IE 10/11 (use PNG icons instead of SVG just for these browsers)
Map custom link text being lost on edit

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