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NMIS 8.7.0G
This maintenance release of NMIS was published on 22 May 2020.
Highlights for the 8.7.0G release
8.7.0G is a major release with lots of new features, improvements and bug fixes.
Installer fixes
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- Get PAM module from repositories
- Now installer uses cpanm for cpan installs as it is more flexible and does not need initial configuration as cpan doesModelling enhancements:
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Model Enhancements
- support for new models:
- Viptella models
- Ericsson Router
- Vyatta VYOS devices
- Cisco BGP MIB
- Huawei HQOS graphs
- Stats metrics to the Cisco routing model
- Bluecoat Model
- f5 model
- Model Improvements:
- Cisco Meraki and Meraki Cloud
- Improved models for Juniper IVE devices
- Improved Fortinet FG model
- Improved Microtik model
- Improved Cisco Nexus model
- Display temperature of the sensors in AristaSwitch model
- Fixes for the Cisco Temperature model. Updates to the Cisco models to include temperature values
- Work around net-snmp snmpd which reports almost anything as hrfixeddisk
- Removing the degrees symbol from Units in Alerts
- Added 'option' => 'small' to generate small graph when small graph requested in maxbits
- Some graphs updated to show Max values, not only averages
- Enhancing the Host Resource Model with thresholding
- Added Opengear to Model.nmis to use Default-HC
- Added lldpLocal to Model-Policy
- Adding the missing ADSL graph to the NMIS source and fix ADSL model files
- Added new RouteNumber section so variable accessible through stats
- Common-database.nmis updated to include 'TeldatQoSStat' and 'TeldatBTSStat' entries
Plugin Improvements
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- Cisco Meraki Cloud
- Viptella models
- Added the OSS banner to the plugin code
- Improvement in NMIS having a plugin include reach data
- Enhancements to NMIS for health metrics for plugins and implementing ifNodeCollectable
Collect
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Improvements
- Only run services polling on nodes which have service polling defined
- Improvement to ifAdminStatus change detection to handle ifIndex changes. New event (Interface IfAdminStatus Changed)
- Adding 300 seconds to node reset detection for odd Linux SNMP sysUpTime
- Added collect_wmi/snmp properties to allow disabling either protocol (snmp_enabled, wmi_enabled). Also, added the migration script migrate_collectpatch to support this properties, added support for SNMPv3. Added an script test in admin/upgrade_node_collect
- Optimisation to stop running services if no service polling required on a node
- Improved debugging for a single node, runEscalate is skipped for a single node collect
- Add a new configuration option sort_due_nodes, to order nodes based on last_time_poll
- Improving the polling so that nodes do not get polled too frequently
- Added escalate_poll_cycle to control when the escalate cycle is run
Admin
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Tools
- Added new utility script admin/import_zenoss_backup to import devices from Zenoss device dump file (Example in admin/samples/zenbatchdump_sample.txt )
- model_discovery to automatically determine which existing modelling exists
- alcatel_interface_discovery admin tool has been deprecated
Other
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Fixes and Improvements
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- Updated printCrontab to split the running of collect and services to separate cycles. Also include additional info for run=escalate
- fix in node.pl to show type=metrics, group=network graphs
- Added support to preserve -- when lowercase names are wanted
- Improve the debug output. Remove passwords from logs
- Added support for Common-event.nmis event model policy handling for custom node roles
- Added Node Count per poll cycle count
- Added handling for new types of loopback interfaces called lo0
- The minimum length of time that a graph can show has been reduced from 30 min to 10 min, this allows to see shorter periods with better details
- Updated polling summary to include demoted nodes and pingonly nodes, show stats for demoted and non snmp polled nodes
- CVAR support for threshold controls
- Add interface description in custom test alerts
- Fix issue with notifications for elements with /
- Update the installed modules detection
- Added support for Crowd Auth
- Add support for env_temp with the new configuration item env_temp_legacy_support
NMIS8 installer may stop at CPAN attempt to install WWW::Mechanize on Redhat6 or Centos6
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