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

Please see opCharts Product Compatibility to see which Linux Distributions and MongoDB we support.

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Product Compatibility

Refer to product compatibility to determine supported Operating Systems and Database Versions.

opCharts 4.6.4

  5th March 2024

Improvements

opCharts opCore Nodes API has improved performance.

Bug Fixes

Fixed issue when opCharts-4.6.3 was installed with a version of NMIS older than 9.4.6. This would cause random lookup failures of nodes in opCharts.

opCharts 4.6.3

 22 Jan 2024

Improvements

  1. New features for TopN
    1. The TopN dashboard is now called TopN Favorites.
    2. TopN Favorites allows you to select the N in TopN.
    3. You can change the sort order in theTopN table.
    4. There is a new TopN Tables view in the Views menu to allow you to manage TopN Tables, you can add, update and delete your own TopN tables.
  2. Added support for Debian 11 to the opCharts installer

opCharts 4.6.2

 30 Nov 2023

Bug Fixes 

  1. Fix pagination in the opCharts Nodes page

opCharts 4.6.1

 22 Nov 2023

Improvements

  1. Addition of Ports view in opCharts Inventory view. To display a graph for each interface in a node, press the Node Interface Summary link on the Node page to display the Interface Inventory, then press the Ports button.
  2. Addition of Quick Add Node feature. From the Administration Nodes page, press the Quick Add Node link, fill in the Host Name/IP Address, node Name, Group and SNMP Community and press the Add button.
  3. Improved Enterprise Services view with less clicks for adding and deleting Nodes, Interfaces and Services.
  4. Enterprise Services view can now be sorted up or down by clicking on all column headings.
  5. Nodes are now created with NMIS and opEvents activated by default. See Common Node Properties

Bug Fixes

  1. Fixed some Custom and Group panel views link to another map.
  2. Fixed the issues of adding Monitored Services to Enterprise Services.

opCharts 4.6.0

 19 Sep 2023

Improvements

  1. A new map type called Dynamic Maps, this feature allows you to set a filter/search which defines which nodes and sub-nets appear on the map. Each time the map is refreshed new nodes in the filter are automatically added and removed nodes are taken off.  Learn more here: Dynamic Topological Maps
  2. Addition of multiple search filter in Monitored Services.

Bug Fixes

  1. Fixed the bug that was causing the Enterprise Service to have leading and trailing spaces.
  2. Fixed the multiple bugs with the Monitored Services dashboard.
  3. Fixed the search issues with Enterprise Services.
  4. Fixed the display of number of devices in Node-Model
  5. Fixed some map icons not loading popup when clicked


opCharts 4.5.10

04 Aug 2023

Improvements

  1. opCharts now support enhanced Network Visualization with Metric Links.
  2. Scheduled Outages now support Element outages for Other elements as well as Nodes and Interfaces. See opCharts - Scheduled outages

Bug Fixes

  1. Fixed the bug that was causing the Edit Node configuration function to fail if the node had NMIS activated for it.
  2. Fixed the bug that was causing errors when the map links were being added to a Custom Group.
  3. Fixed the issues with Update and Collect functions in Node Administration. Now -
  4. Fixed the bug that was causing the Service search functionality to fail while adding a new Monitored Service.
  5. Other minor bug fixes for opCharts.

opCharts 4.5.9

17 July 2023

Improvements

  1. We've added a new Maps feature called Metric Links. This feature enhances the visualization capabilities in topological, geographical, or network maps. This feature enables you to establish links between nodes, utilising thresholds to display line weight and colour. Additionally, you can customise the panels that appear for the resource. See Metric Links
  2. On the Node page, we have added a Node Inventory dropdown on the left panel within the Node view, which allows the selection and viewing of the inventory for that node.
  3. On the Node page, we have added a Node Details button with the (info) symbol. With this, you can view all the details of a node. This page is akin to the NMIS view.
  4. Scheduled Outages can be defined for other Elements such as vlans, as well as Nodes and interface Elements. See opCharts - Scheduled outages

opCharts 4.5.8

21 June 2023

Improvements

  1. Scheduled Outages can be defined for interface elements as well as nodes, from opCharts and from Public API.
  2. Addition or deletion of Monitored Services on nodes from opCharts ( opCharts => Views => Monitored Services => (+/-) )
  3. Administration Nodes screen updated to support more node fields. Node fields also updated to more logical tabs of the screen.

  4. Administration Nodes screen includes support for custom node fields from NMIS, these are called Extra Fields and can be administered in the opAdmin GUI, see Extra Fields

opCharts 4.5.7

2 June 2023

Bug Fixes

  1. Fix rare issue where the Inventory view would cause an internal service error.
  2. Fix where autogenerated dashboards would fail to render, this would also cause issues for opConfig.

opCharts 4.5.6

18 May 2023

Improvements

  1. Editing Node Configuration is now available via the Edit Node screen in opCharts and Administration.

Bug Fixes

  1. Error while adding neighbours in opCharts maps has been fixed.
  2. Fixed dropdowns that didn't allow selection in some modals.

opCharts 4.5.5

19 April 2023

Improvements

  1. Enhanced Node Administration: We've added links in the node administration interface to opEvents and opConfig, making it easier to navigate between these tools and manage your nodes more effectively.

  2. Improved Data Display: We've removed unnecessary "</br>" tags when displaying certain data sourced from NMIS.

  3. Updated Inventory View: The inventory view now utilizes the NMIS modeling system to accurately order and display names in the grid, providing a more organized and efficient way to view your network inventory.

  4. LDAP Authentication: We now check local users before checking LDAP when auth_ldap_privs is enabled in opCommon.json

Bug Fixes

  1. Auto Refresh Issue: We've fixed an issue where the nodes list and node details were not automatically refreshing, ensuring that you always see the most up-to-date information.

  2. Subnet Device Issue: We've resolved a problem where subnets were not adding certain devices.

  3. Email Test Issue: We've fixed an issue in the Administration panel that affected test sending of emails, ensuring that you can now properly test email functionality.

  4. Node Count Issue: We've resolved an issue with node counts in the Nodes view.

  5. GeoCoding Issue: We've fixed a problem with GeoCoding in Administration , ensuring that your location-based data is correctly displayed and processed.

  6. Escalation Policy Issue: We've resolved an issue with escalation policies in Administration.

  7. Node Editing Issue: We've fixed an issue when editing a node name with period '.' character in Administration.

  8. Map Linking Issue: We've resolved an issue with map linking not working,.


opCharts 4.5.4

15 March 2023

Improvements

Verified support for Customisation of Enterprise Services View

Bug Fixes

Minor bug fix for restart daemon functionality.

Fixes an issue if a RBAC record is corrupt for enterprise services

opCharts 4.5.3

08 March 2023

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 component

Bug Fixes

Various minor bugs with the Administration tool

Various minor bugs in Enterprise Services

opCharts 4.5.2

20 January 2023

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

Bug Fixes

Fixes an issue with storage icons not displaying in Inventory if the last inventory item in the sorted list had no storage.

Fixed issue where no group names would show under NMIS Groups Authorization for portal roles

opCharts 4.5.1

13 January 2023

New release with Welcome wizard, A simple and easy way to setup/license FirstWave monitoring applications.

The new opCharts 4.5.1 features welcome wizard  which provides a seamless experience for new users to integrate FirstWave monitoring applications in their system.

This includes a straightforward way to setup/license NMIS products.

The Release also features new OMK landing page .

Improvements

Bug Fixes


opCharts 4.5.0

 23 November 2022

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

Improvements

Bug Fixes


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

Bug Fixes

opCharts 4.4.2

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

Bug Fixes

opCharts 4.4.1

9th June 2022

Improvements

Bug Fixes


opCharts 4.4.0

Internal release

opCharts 4.3.8

9th June 2022

Improvements

opCharts 4.3.7

30th May 2022

Improvements


opCharts-4.3.6 was an internal release

opCharts 4.3.5

4th August 2022

Improvements

Bug Fixes

opCharts 4.3.4

7th April 2022

Improvements

Bug Fixes

opCharts 4.3.3

17th Feb 2022

Improvements

Bug Fixes

opCharts 4.3.2

 12 Jan 2022 

opCharts 4.3.1

  16 Dec 2021

opCharts 4.3.0

1 Dec 2021

opCharts 4.2.7

9 Nov 2021

Improvements

Bug Fixes


opCharts 4.2.6

29 Sep 2021

This release includes:

This release includes the following bug fixes:

opCharts 4.2.5

 29 Jul 2021

This release includes:

opCharts 4.2.4

 10 Jun 2021

This release includes an important new feature:

opCharts 4.2.3

9th March 2021

We recommend NMIS9.2 and greater for this release.

Improvements

Bug Fixes

opCharts 4.2.2

 29th Jan 2021

Improvements

Bug Fixes

Changes with Configuration Defaults

opCharts 4.2.1

8 Dec 2020.

Improvements

Bug Fixes

opCharts 4.2.0

 30 Sept 2020.

Upgrade Notes

The new upcoming release of opCharts 4 will work on Opmantek's latest and fastest platform, however, the currently installed products are incompatible with this upgrade. 
To find out more about this upgrade please read: Upgrading Opmantek Applications

opCharts 4.1.3

Released 4th August

opCharts 4.1.2

Released 27th July 2020

Highlights

Bug Fixes

opCharts 4.1.1

Released 3rd July 2020

Bug Fixes

Fixed issue with inventory where the toolbar to change inventory never appeared.

opCharts 4.1.0


Released 25th June 2020 as General Release

(warning) This release requires updated licenses, please contact Opmantek Support to organise new licenses

Highlights

All OMK configuration are now JSON, the processes to convert from NMIS configuration files to JSON is performed by the installer, click here for more details about JSON Configuration..


opCharts 4.0.14

Released 19th May 2020

opCharts 4.0.14 Release Notes

opCharts 4.0.13

March 19th, 2020

opCharts 4.0.13 Release Notes

opCharts 4.0.12

February 20th, 2020

opCharts 4.0.12 Release Notes

opCharts 4.0.10

Released 10th December 2019

opCharts 4.0.10 release notes

opCharts 4.0.9

Released October 31st, 2019

opCharts 4.0.8 Beta

Released October 10th, 2019
opCharts 4.0.8 requires NMIS 9.0.8

opCharts 4.0.7A Beta

Released August 29th, 2019
opCharts 4.0.7A requires NMIS 9.0.6

opCharts 4.0.7 Beta

Released August 22th, 2019
opCharts 4.0.7 requires NMIS 9.0.6

opCharts 4.0.6 Beta

Released July 19th, 2019
opCharts 4.0.6 requires NMIS 9.0.4

opCharts 4.0.5 Beta

Released July 5th, 2019
opCharts 4.0.5 requires NMIS 9.0.3

opCharts 4.0.4 Beta

Released June 25th, 2019
opCharts 4.0.4 requires NMIS 9.0.2


opCharts 4.0.3 Beta

Released June 7th, 2019
opCharts 4.0.3 requires NMIS 9.0.1

opCharts 4.0.3 Beta

Released June 7th, 2019
opCharts 4.0.3 requires NMIS 9.0.1

opCharts 4.0.2 Beta

Released May 23, 2019
opCharts 4.0.2 requires NMIS 9.0.1