Product Compatibility

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

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NMIS 9.5.0

• Added support for MongoDB 6.0 please see Upgrading to MongoDB 6.0

NMIS 9.4.8

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• Updated services check for web availability in the installer
• Improve installer with timestamps, indented urls, don't install unneeded packages
• Ensure traceroute and mtr are installed by NMIS installer
• Remove end-of-life Debian 8 (Jessie) code
• Keep Inventory configuration/group in sync on update
• Add new action nmis-cli act=inventoryrefresh to refresh inventory

NMIS 9.4.5

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• Admin tools:
  • New admin tool to test email, admin/testemail.pl
  • Improved polling summary output
  • New nmis-cli option to collect performance data. Used by a cron job. 
  • Improved support tool
  • Fixed import bulk for node_admin tool 
• Collect engine: 
  • Check if collect is false before collect interface data
  • Support for variables names in rrd names
  • Update storage when changed the rrd names
  • Fixed manual model selection when collect is false
• Improvements:
  • Improved the default SNMPTrapd options
  • Now it is possible to install nmis in an alternative path
  • Support for different size ICMP packets with FastPing
• Other fixes: 
  • Fixed default table escalations
  • Fix omkd Opmantek.pl service monitor 
  • Fix error in saving windows positions
  • Fix permissions in node dump
  • Fixed issue with ifSpeed in parseString
  • Fixed connection leaks due to the use of ensure_index
  • Fixed GUI Node admin summary
  • Fix in update polling policy from GUI
  • IPv6 fixes
• Model changes: 
  • Added Siklu models 
  • New model for Mikrotik TopN
  • Ported Fortinet models from nmis8
  • Added empty Common-heading for back compat NMIS8 models, removed using this from several ported models
  • Default no collect for veth interfaces in model net snmp

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• Be able to read other configuration files from the Primary server. Requires opHA 3.0.7
• NMIS GUI configuration tables are not editable if other configuration files from the poller are sent.
• Added conf.d configuration files to support zip.
• 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, meaningful when used with 1min polls. 
• Prevent the queue jobs from getting too big when unnecessary:
  • Add default configuration parameter 'abort_plugins_after' => 7200, # seconds
  • Updated nmis9 scheduler to not add a plugin job if already exist another for the same nodes. 
  • Updated the queue information message when truncate output to be more clear. 
• Prevent tests collection events being contaminated by real NMIS9 processes. 

• Added function 'retrieve_section' to lib/NMISNG/Node.pm to retrieve systemHealth sections for QoS for non-Cisco devices.

• Added submodule SQoS (Standardised Quality of Service) to NMISNG as lib/NMISNG/SQoS.pm

• Fix create Outages function used by opCharts (4.0.12) when programming an Outage. 
• Added node group to Events to make the query faster for RBAC queries in opCharts (4.0.12). 

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• NMIS 9 configuration can be now set up using the Primary node. 
• Fixed bug when renaming a node on a specific situation, when the node had track of files that doesn't exist anymore. The message was "Failed to relocate inventory storage XXX: file "/nodes/namenode/interface/inloopback0.rrd" does not exist, cannot relocate!".
• Fixed bug in the NMIS interface that, in some situations, shows the wrong color (green) for unreachable nodes. It happened when the node was unreachable but a node down event does not exist. 

• Fixed cgi-bin/models to handle distinction between config nmis_default_models and nmis_models directories for listing, and to use nmisng::util::getmodelfile to read the appropriate model file (custom or default); any written out data already went to the custom model directory.

• Replace legacy logging code.
• Fixed "Network Tools >> SNMP Tool" that was opening when the node was not active. 

NMIS 9.0.5

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• Smarter non-interactive installation with Preseeding
• Support to See poller nodes from the primary server.
• Fixed visualisation problem with numeric node nodes. Nodes with only numbers on the name, like "12345" were causing problems on the system.
• Show poller_event_log by default if the NMIS9 is a Primary, in case syslog is configured to get network events on Primary.
• mojolicious 8.x is a new dependency that has a totally rotten default format for mojo::log. Fixed log format and set log_level to info which is no longer the default.
• Fixed race condition in the poll process causing the catchall inventory data not being updating properly when the ping operation runs at the same time. 
• Fixed fpingd process on debian 10 was causing heaps of space padding to be added if $0 is changed.
• Fixed NMIS9 runtime graph was not working. 
• Change sysLocation field title to 'SNMP Location' to declash with manually configured location field, which is titled 'Location'.
• Added hr* sections to net-snmp model so opCharts can know what charts to make. 
• Fixed network_summary_group view had empty columns.
• Fixed node response time graphs for nodes (shown NaN on previous):

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• nmisng nodes now handle cluster_id on get_events_node: This is going to allow opHA to remove events from the poller on a peer deletion, so no data from the poller should remain. Also fix node_admin when dumping a node from the poller (Now will be able to get also event_data). 
• Show message on delete node errors. 
• Minor fixes ported from NMIS8:
  • Added support for fping inter packet gap for some firewalls. New configuration options added: fastping_interval and fastping_target_interval. 
  • IPrevent NMIS from failing when an escalation event element is c:\\
  • Adding the new opConfig "Node Configuration Change Detected event"
  • Fixed newlines being included in WMI error messages
  • Calling /proc/cpuinfo in the Support ZIP
  • run-reports.pl makes sure the reports directory exists
  • Optimisation to stop running services if no service polling required on a node
  • work around net-snmp snmpd which reports almost anything as hrfixeddisk
  • fixes for the Cisco Temperature model
• loadServiceStatus: A new parameter is added that allows filter by all clusters. This will allow opCharts to show Monitored Services from the poller. 
• services.nmis: Added Opmantek.pl
• nmis-cli: On job type collect wasn't filter by local nodes.
• purge_op_status: Changed to 7 days by default.
• Display node name in opstatus.pl

NMIS 9.0.2

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• Feature Parity with NMIS 8.6.6G
  NMIS 9.0.0c supports the new  Polling Failover mechanism, and all  recent improvements made in NMIS 8 are present in NMIS 9.0.0c (where applicable).
  This also includes the recent improvements for Single-Sign-On.
• Can run in parallel with NMIS 8
  If your server specs are suitable (min. 4GB of RAM, 6-8GB recommended), then NMIS 8 and NMIS 9 can be installed on the same server without interference.
  NMIS 9 normally installs itself into /usr/local/nmis9, and its web entry point (http://localhost/nmis9/) doesn't interfere with NMIS 8.
  If the installer detects an NMIS 8 instance on your server, then it offers to import the NMIS 8 nodes' configuration: all nodes would then be polled in parallel by both NMIS 8 and NMIS 9.
• Full installer support for platforms Debian 9, Ubuntu 16.04, CentOS 7 and 6.
• Improved installer behaviour for both installations from scratch and upgrades from 9.0.0b.
  Upgrading from earlier releases of NMIS 9 (nightly or 9.0.0b) should now be supported seamlessly, ie. all required structural changes should be taken care of by the installer.
• Automatic priming for monitoring of localhost, ie. the NMIS server itself
• Node administration suite is now feature-complete
  admin/node_admin.pl can now perform all typical node operations, as well as export and import of a node's complete database information for diagnostic purposes.
• Improved and more consistent logging
• Fine-grained Operational Status information
  NMIS 9 now creates operational status overview records for every operation that is performed in the background.
  This operational status is accessible from the GUI (in the menu under System -> Host Diagnostics -> Ops Status).
• Improved robustness and flexibility of the job scheduling logic
  Long-dead nodes are now demoted to fewer connection attempts after 14 days of inaccessibility.
  Job priorities can now be freely configured (see priority_schedule in conf-default/Config.nmis).
  The intial update operation for newly added nodes is now automatically prioritised above all other operations.
• Improved self-test capability and support tool.
• More flexibility for manually scheduled jobs
  bin/nmis-cli can now schedule any job with a specific (higher or lower than default) verbosity, which will affect just that one job.
  See the help text from bin/nmis-cli act=schedule for details.
  Furthermore, all log output for a particular job can be redirected to a separate file as well (using job.output=/some/path/nameprefix).
• NMIS 9 CLI Improvements
  bin/nmis-cli can now show the live NMIS daemon and worker process status (with act=status).
  It is now possible to delete or abort scheduled jobs in bulk, using bin/nmis-cli act=delete-schedule id=ALL job.type=<something> job.uuid=<somenodeuuid>; note that "id=ALL" is required to indicate that all matching jobs are to be removed.
• Various Minor GUI Improvements
  The Node dashboard widget now displays the last time  for ping, collect and update separately, and if there is a job in progress or pending for this node, then that is shown as well.

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