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NMIS 8.6.3G
This is a maintenance release of NMIS, which does nevertheless introduce a number of new features. This release was published on 25 Jan 2018.
Highlights for the 8.6.3G release
- NMIS now supports Single Sign On with other Opmantek Applications, both for applications on a single system as well as across a whole organisation.
The SSO section of the User Management page describes the relevant configuration options and adjustments. - Various robustness and scalability improvements for
fpingd
andsummary
operations.
A dead or faulty fpingd no longer causes internal pinging for all nodes, only for the ones where no or only stale fpingd data is available; fpingd is now also restarted in such cases.
Fortype=summary
operations NMIS now ensures that at most one such operation is running at any time. - Robustness improvements in dealing with nodes with long-standing problems
Nodes that have never been polled successfully are now automatically demoted to a reduced polling frequency:
polling is attempted only once per day, and a log message about this demotion is logged (once per hour).
Once such a node becomes pollable, polling resumes at normal frequencies. - Polling for multiple selected groups and nodes is now possible.
You may passnmis.pl type=collect
any number of group and node arguments, all of which will be handled inclusively;
For example,nmis.pl type=collect group=groupA group=Bgroup node=nodeC node=nodeD
will try to poll all members of the two given groups and the two given nodes (subject to polling frequency policies, of course). - Usability improvements for the input data validation system, which now support the validation criteria 'int-or-empty' and 'float-or-empty' which accept empty inputs.
Weird node names (ie. containing spaces or various special characters) are now also handled more consistenly and robustly. - Various installer improvements and updates
If SE Linux is active, the installer now requires an explicit confirmation input to continue.
The availability of certain packages on Debian 8, 9 and Ubuntu 16.04 is now handled more consistenly.
The optional pre-upgrade backup now includes more relevant files, ie. cron, log rotation and apache configs.
The permissions for log rotation files are now adjusted to appease recent versions oflogrotate
. - SNMP-sourced service tests are now displayed with the time of last check.
- The NMIS GUI now masks SNMP v3 passwords and similar credentials.
The node exception display now works better for SNMP v3 nodes. - Improved robustness for NMIS runtime exceedence tests.
NMIS now depends on a newer version of theProc::ProcessTable
module, which does never produce undesirable extra outputs that could create events with very weirdly named nodes (ie. lots of numbers after the node name). - Purging of old data now optionally includes old HTML reports and JSON config log entries
- Some modelling improvements for Huawei devices
- and, as always, various minor bug fixes and improvements.
NMIS 8.6.2G
This is a major new release of NMIS which introduces a number of new features, most notably variable frequency polling, schedulable outage windows and data validation for tables.
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