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- 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 toolbin/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 optionnetwork_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 optionglobal_collect_ifDescr
was added to override the models' interface collection rules, andifDescr
was added as a per-model collection option.
Both of these options support regular expressions. - More Event Details
The new configuration optionglobal_events_bandwidth
controls whether event details should include an interface's bandwidth.
Fixes
- Improved loading of device information for the NMIS dashboard, improving load times for large deployments
- 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.
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