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

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

opCharts 4.6.4

Status
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  5th March 2024

Improvements

Nodes API from opCore has improved performance.

Bug Fixes

Fixed issue where opCharts-4.6.3 is installed with a version of NMIS older that 9.4.6. This would cause random lookup failures of nodes in opCharts.

opCharts 4.6.3

Status
subtle true colour Green title Released

 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

Status
subtle true colour Green title Released

 30 Nov 2023

Bug Fixes 

1. Fix pagination in the opCharts Nodes page

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Status
subtle true colour Green title Released

 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.

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Status
subtle true colour Green title Released

 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

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Status
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04 Aug 2023

Improvements

1. opCharts now support enhanced Network Visualization with Metric Links.
   • Added support for customising the links displayed in the maps.
   • You can now use any resource with a threshold to calculate the metric, instead of only the interface data.
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 -
   
   • If the node is local and NMIS is enabled for the node, the Collect and Update options on the node edit screen are enabled.
   • If the node is local and NMIS is disabled for the node, the Collect and Update options on the node edit screen are disabled.
   • If the node is not local, the Collect and Update options on the node edit screen are disabled.
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.

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Status
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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  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

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Status
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21 June 2023

Improvements

1. Scheduled Outages can be defined for interface elements as well as nodes, from opCharts and from Public API.
   
   • opCharts GUI see opCharts - Scheduled outages

   • Public API see Admin Outages API V2

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

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Status
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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.

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Status
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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.

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Status
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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,.

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Status
subtle true colour Green title Released

15 March 2023

Improvements

Verified support for Customisation of Enterprise Services View

Bug Fixes

Minor bug fix for restart daemon functionality.

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Status
subtle true colour Green title Released

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

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Status
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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.

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The Release also features new OMK landing page .

Improvements

• The opCharts installer now handles polling definition in a better way, which reduces the installation time by 6 minutes.
• Fixed issue with certain node resources having a broken link.
• Dark mode enhancements for welcome wizard 
• Element Lists now include an ordering option for creating better operator forms for data entry and maintenance
• Enterprise Services in an opHA Cluster now updates the poller inventory.  Enterprise Services tags were being overwritten by inventory updates in a poller.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed naming of form schema folder to be form_schemas, currently used by Element Lists

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

Improvements

• This release includes improved Accessibility options, including support for Dark Mode. We have taken the opportunity while we tidied up the screens to change Opmantek to FirstWave. These are new features that are backward compatible with earlier releases.

• In Administration, editing NMIS configuration files such as Contacts and Locations will now support  (#, -, /, (, ) ) characters in the name.

Bug Fixes

• Enterprise Services are now referenced by ID instead of name, this is to fix the issue with some characters breaking Enterprise Services.
• Fixed issue when adding tags to null elements in Enterprise Services
• Fixed issue when running cache-resources and not overwriting previous cached results.

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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

• New inventory cache, this will speed up loading of the Inventory View.
  • This is controlled by opcharts_use_cache and defaults to "true"
  • opcharts_inventory_display_cache_expire_time will control how long the cached documents are held in MongoDB before they expire
    
• New cli option to run the cache as a cron job or to clear the cache
  • opcharts-cli.exe act=cache-resources
  • opcharts-cli.exe act=clear-cache-resources
• New config option to control same site cookies, auth_samesite_cookie in opCommon.json
  • Supports:
    • Strict (Default)
    • Lax
    • None
  • Note if you are set auth_samesite_cookie to anything Lax or None you will need to set auth_secure_cookie to "true" or newer browsers will reject the cookie.
• Node view will limit rendering longs lists of Node Resources and will instead showing a link to take you through to inventory, use opcharts_gui_node_max_display_resources to control the display length.
• Improved inventory display query.
• Improved Node Resources query.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with the opCore nodes route not redacting node data.
• Fixed issue with Enterprise Services and the RBAC permissions modal not showing the current permissions.

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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

• Enterprise Services Beta updates
  • You can now add an Enterprise Service to a map
  • Nodes, Interfaces and Services will raise a proactive event on a degraded state and will put the Enterprise Service into degraded
  • Nodes, Interfaces and Services being down will raise an overall Enterprise Service Down Event and put the Enterprise Services into a down state, we are working on the full documentation for this feature.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a regression from 4.4.1 with editing nodes and redactions.
  
• Fixed issue in Business Services where the node name was clickable for a node you had no access to
• Removed editing of RBAC for Element Lists

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Status
subtle true colour Green title Released

9th June 2022

Improvements

• Support for MongoDB 4.2, see Upgrading to MongoDB 4.2
• Metadata for Elements list, see opCharts Form Schema
• Added a shortcut button for "Node Tools" on Node page in opCharts 
• When viewing node in Administration, show toolbar  displays Node and Event Context buttons.
• When changing a password for a local password you will need to provide your previous password
• When an enterprise service creates a service only node it will not be activated in NMIS or opConfig
• Node configuration can be redacted from users using the Access_Redacted_Values Access Policy (Requires MongoDB 4.2) please see opCharts redacting content
• Note if you do not have Mongodb 4.2 and you have the access policy for "Access_Redacted_Values" set to 0 for any user level then the nodes will not show, set back to 1 to restore.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Planned outages created in NMIS have bad format when viewed in opCharts GUI
• Fixed issue with the alert rendering content in unexpected ways
• Fixed issue when creating local users in the gui and inputting unsupported characters
• Fixed issue in opAdmin with users file being corrupted

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Status
subtle true colour Green title Released

9th June 2022

Improvements

• New list manager feature opCharts Element Lists
• Users can upload logos and set them via the user preferences, see opCharts MSP Configuration Options to enable.
• Users can create sub folders under conf/table_schemas/ with the role name of an rbac user, this allows you to set custom table schemas for a users RBAC role.

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Status
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30th May 2022

Improvements

• Fix issue with certain inventory queries timing out with users in large node count environments.

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Status
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4th August 2022

Improvements

• New Locations view to see all your configured locations with a map to show the nodes associated with that location
• Improved CSS for node panels in dashboards
• Enterprise Services now raise events for a service-only node instead of the first node in the Enterprise Service
• Enterprise Services now show the status on maps
• When adding an Enterprise Service to a map it now gives you a list of Enterprise Services to select from
• When viewing a topology map in the Node view you can select between the nodes location view or the node topology
• Edit node button added to the nodes view.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where a map containing a node which does not exist anymore would show a 404 popup

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Status
subtle true colour Green title Released

7th April 2022

Improvements

• Editing node configuration is possible via the 'Node' page in admin
• The user groups when adding a user shows all the possible groups in the dropdown and is multi-select

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the incorrect node count on opCharts filters
• Removed the fields not shown in table from the search list in opEvents
• Fixed the misaligned long names in table in opcharts
• Fixed issue with SSL

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Status
subtle true colour Green title Released

17th Feb 2022

Improvements

• Admin can now set passwords for users, requires auth_method_1 to be htpasswd

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue when exporting inventory to CSV would result in blank fields
• Fixed case sensitive search in admin
• Fixed issue with auto refresh not refreshing all items

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Status
subtle true colour Green title Released

9 Nov 2021

Improvements

• Spanish Language translation  improvements
• Inventory chart icon will only display if we have graph data for the inventory dateset.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue in Node Admin where Classic Auth was not restricting group level access.
• Fixed issue where the user role "Operator" could system the system menu.
• Fixed issue where Rbac users with no groups assigned could see menu options for items which displayed no data.
• Fixed issue with template rendering and undefined inputs.
• Fixed issue with service graphs not loading correctly.
• Fixed issue where a corrupted Locations.nmis file would stop map subnets from loading.
• Fixed issue where inventory node links did not contain the group context for RBAC.
• Upgraded JQuery to 3.6.0.

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We recommend NMIS9.2 and greater for this release.

Improvements

• Improved query performance for nodes panels when showed as a resource.
• New action in opcharts-cli setup-db, this updates opCharts indexes in MongoDB on install and can be manually run from the cli.
• Node topology now supports ipv6
• opcharts-cli act=import-subnets has improved debug logging, set debug=1 to see how its calculating subnets
• opcharts-cli act=clear-subnets removes all cached subnets in the database.
• Two new configuration items items to help change sizing of components

  • "opcharts_gui_default_component_size" this sets the components sizes across the application, excludes node detail view

    • Default is 210

  • Before this release the component size was hard coded as 280 and would cause certain components to render larger than desired
    
    • "opcharts_gui_nodes_detail_component_size" this changes the size of the components in the node detail view.
    • Default is 280
• Inventory view for concept interfaces shows enabled and disabled interfaces for collect.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue in opCharts where a large amount MongoDB connections were created and retained.
• Fixed issue with node resources not displaying correctly.
• Fixed issue in node resources title bar where the resource would show interface or no resource name at all.
• Fixed issue where imported network maps were not auto fitting to the current screen size on load.
• Fixed issue where resizing the screen would cause the inventory view buttons to disappear.
• Fixed issue when editing dashboards and "Dashboard Component Height" input would not represent the true value.
• Fixed issue where the inventory view "enabled" and "historic" buttons would have not honor show and hide both being un-selected.

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Status
subtle true colour Green title Released

 29th Jan 2021

Improvements

• Business Services Interfaces table can now be configured by the schema file "opCharts_business_services_interfaces.json"
• Inventory search improvements
  • inventory.data.Description is now searchable in the GUI with iregex
  • inventory.data.ifSpeed is now searchable as a string match
• LLDP Improvements
  • If NMIS9 has LLDP neighbor in its inventory opCharts will use its currently polled neighbors interface to show utilization and metadata
• CDP Improvements
  • If NMIS9 has CDP neighbor in its inventory opCharts will use its currently polled neighbors interface to show utilization and metadata
• Improved the panels in Business Services including a new Monitored Services Panel
• If the Interface or Node Panel cannot find any performance or utilization data it will show "No Data" instead of rendering nothing
• Business Services have improved rendering of panels into rows.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed update-subnet-dependancy throwing an error about not finding subnets.json, we have migrated this feature to use the internal cache database.

• Fixed issue where the subnets cache would not expire old inventory.
• Fixed issue with LLDP and CDP neighbors adding duplicates or not adding a neighbors at all.
• Fixed a silent error in opCore with logging.
• Various template enhancements.
• Maps
  • Fixed issue in Maps when trying to use Cola Layout
  • Fixed issue with Maps not always obeying Zoom Lock.
  • Fixed issue when creating a map and it throwing an error about its preset layout.
  • Fixed issue with maps when the view would not center correctly once loaded.
  • Fixed issue with maps and the loading spinner not hiding.
  • Fixed issue with maps and the background image not stacking correctly.
  • Fixed issue with older imported maps from opCharts3 throwing warnings in the browsers console.
• Panels
  • Node panels would not honor configuration item "opcharts_gui_display_node_ssh" on all views.
  • Fixed issue where node panels would not honor "opcharts_gui_node_panel_display".
  • Fixed issue with not panels when set as KPI and not using NMIS9 weights, this will fix the issue with colored by levels.
    
  • Fixed issue where the string would not be shortened on interface panels.
    
• Fixed Potential DB connection leak.
• Fixed issue with node resource api not using the UUID correctly.
• Fixed issue with our api controller not honoring fields_hash when pagination params are not passed.
• Fixed issue with stacking and the CBQOS chart

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Status
subtle true colour Green title Released

8 Dec 2020.

Improvements

• opCharts installer has automation to help upgrade from opCharts-3.x to opCharts-4.2.1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where updating the nodes will have inconsistent NMIS activation with nodes imported from nmis8 and having the property configuration.active
• Fixed issue introduced from opCharts-4.1.3 where bulk updating multiple nodes would try and fail to create new nodes instead of updating the selected nodes
• Patched external lib which caused opCharts_a_external_packed.js to throw errors on a small subset of browsers.

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• Metrics and Health Component now works for RBAC users.
• You can now create custom charts on the Primary with poller datasets
• You can now search by regex in the node edit screen

Bug Fixes

• Node resources now references the model as a source of truth in what to show, if you remove an item from the model it will not display in opCharts.
  • Removed the requirement with not using _raw in the model
• Chart editor now supports negative number in the multiply field
• SSH link in the nodes list view now correctly create the URI
• Removed Topn link from the menu for RBAC users as this did not work

opCharts 4.1.1

Released 3rd July 2020

Bug Fixes

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

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Released 25th June 2020 as General Release

 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..

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• The Metrics and Health component has been extended to group by any node configuration property.
  • This is set in opCommon.nmis opcharts_metric_summarise_by, you need to define an array of hashes, with key and name

  •     {
          'key' => 'group',
          'name' => 'Group'
        },

  • If more than one selector is defined on the top left of the Metrics and Health component a dropdown is shown to change which confiuration item the nodes are grouped by.
  • Metrics and Health gauges are now rendered in one row which are scroll-able to the right.
  • Metrics and Health links now correctly affect the nodes filter when clicked.
  • Metrics and Health is now searchable on the currently selected column.
• New Event History component which utilizes the NMIS9 events DB
  • For this to work in opCharts you need to set keep_event_history => 'true' in NMIS9 Config.nmis
  • Consideration should be given to the volume of data on the pollers and Primary and how much event history will be kept, by default NMIS9 will keep 7 days of event history which is configured in Config.nmis/purge_event_after (7*86400), if having problems viewing event history, reduce the number of days and purge the data.
  • This component replaces the old tail log event viewer but if you want to use the old component change opcharts_db_event_history to 0 in opCommon.nmis
  • Currently websockets are not enabled, this component is set to refresh period
• Revised Events screen to utilize the new Event History component
• Fixed issue where adding a group to a map would cause the node selection modal to appear
• Fixed issue where the nodes interfaces panel which shows interfaces with oper status down would fail to render
• Fixed issue where the nodes interface component would incorrectly show certain interfaces
• Fixed issue where the node selector on the nodes screen will fail to render if a group name is numeric
• Fixed issue where the TopN table text would not correctly space the table contents
• Fixed issue where a node info panel would cause a 500 if the node does not exist

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Released August 22th, 2019
opCharts 4.0.7 requires NMIS 9.0.6

• Fix TopN query error in Primary servers with lots of data from the poller servers. The error was a MongoDB::DatabaseError: operation exceeded time limit.
• New Admin function to set many user's default dashboard:

  • ./opcharts-cli.pl act=import-user-dashboard name=dashboard-name users='user1, user2, ...'

• Fixed changing the default dashboard for a user in the GUI. 
• NMIS button works for non local servers now: Redirects to the NMIS node poller view. 
• GUI improvements:
  • Fixed size in NMIS button (Nodes View) and set visible as default.
  • Improve view for long group names in Metrics and Health view, not overflowing.
  • Improve the view for long names in TopN table.
• Support for watching monitored services graphs from the poller servers in the Primary. 
• Fixed bug that prevented hiding ssh button in node info panel where it was disabled using opcharts_gui_display_node_ssh.
• Fixed bug that was failing to check permissions for a subnet.

opCharts 4.0.6 Beta

Released July 19th, 2019
opCharts 4.0.6 requires NMIS 9.0.4

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