Product Compatibility

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

Download NMIS here - https://firstwave.com/products/network-management-information-system/

NMIS 9.5.2

RELEASED 29 October 2024

Important

import_nodes.pl now assumes less default values, you may need to add new columns to your import csv like threshold and roleType, the script will output which values are missing that must be defined

Highlights

Performance enhancements, NMIS will now do fewer small DB queries
NMIS authorisation using LDAP groups, map LDAP group membership to NMIS privilege and NMIS groups
Huawei NQA models and metric gathering
Host Resource storage stores and displays physical memory available metric
SNMPv3 256bit encryption now enabled by installer
Alert details string can now be customised using the 'calculate_details' property
Limits on interfaces now support limit value of "other" and setlimits_percentage which holds the maximum percent of the ifSpeed allowed, eg setlimits_percentage "120" means 120% of maximum is the highest value allowed

Bugfixes

Group summary node down count for nodes that were unreachable for a long time has been corrected and will now be properly counted down and be included in the total count of the group
Services using NMAP now use --host-timeout argument instead of --host_timeout
Model fix: cpu-cpm to cpu_cpm
OID's in models should not start with ".", they are now automatically stripped out when a model is loaded
issues creating support zips
installer makes sure CPU has avx so that it can run Mongo
Node editor no longer limits characters allowed in community strings
some net-snmp versions do not support all hrSWRun* oids, error not finding value would cause snmp down "error-status at error-index 0", this will no longer cause snmp down and collection will continue
ss-cpu graph showing older data with no ssCpuRawSteal data will now render properly
nmis-cli act=delete-schedule id=ALL fixed
Nodes with model setting of '' could cause errors in some cases, this is resolved (and model value will be changed to automatic on node save if model is empty)
Fixes GUI not loading when cluster_id's not matching (previously NMIS would not allow object to be created, now it prevents it from saving)

NMIS 9.5.0

RELEASED 9 July 2024

Added support for MongoDB 6.0 please see Upgrading to MongoDB 6.0

NMIS 9.4.8

RELEASED 20th May 2024

Important

We have reversed a change made to mark interfaces historic if the index has changed, this has caused a regression.
Interface summary has been turned off by default, this usually updates the Links.nmis configuration file.
- The config "disable_interfaces_summary" item has been removed. If you need this feature, set "enable_interfaces_summary" to true in Config.nmis. With this feature turned off there are significant performance increases when nodes update.

Highlights

New feature to add custom validation logic for node updating and saving.
node_admin.pl can now delete nodes which are currently collecting.
CDP Plugin speed enhancements. We've also improved its ability to search connections between nodes.
Installer support for RHEL9.
Reduced the frequency with updating the expire_at record if there are no data changes to be saved.
New feature to add 95th percentile onto graphs.
New config item "minimum_node_configuration_change_seconds", some devices do not report the node configuration change well so we have allowed a bit of wiggle room - default is 10 seconds.
Efficiently ensuring indexes on timed_data collections.
New index on status collection.

Bugfixes

Fixed issue with interfaces having duplicate ifDescr and NMIS recreating the interface each polling cycle.
Fixed issue with how NMIS9 checks SNMP errors from Windows.
Fixed issue where last update was not being kept updated for inventory, this was caused when we save a record and the detection of data changes between the last update.
Fixed issue with nodes raising "Illegal modulus zero at" in RRDFunc.pm.
Fixed issue with Mojo::File->spurt deprecation warnings.
Fixed bug with the inventory index hint.
Various fixes around error checking.
Fixed regression in the installer from NMIS 9.4.7

NMIS 9.4.7

14th May 2024

This release has been pulled.

NMIS 9.4.6

RELEASED 24 Jan 2024

Highlights

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

RELEASED 19 Dec 2023

Highlights

New action notify in nmis-cli to create an event
NodeHealth sections will continue to next section if error found in previous instead of stopping altogether
Added more Status text for Monitored Services
Improved detection of interfaces being added and removed
Strings now quoted with ' instead of ", so " now allowed in all gathered data
Various performance improvements
Performance optimization for debug print statements
Added support for wmic_server

Models

models now support 'placeholder' section entry
Dell switch model ported to NMIS9
cisco_device_report.pl ported to NMIS9
Ericsson PPX plugin ported to NMIS9
ZyxelInterface.pm plugin ported to NMIS9
Host Resource plugin updates
Fixes to ASAM model and plugins
new model/plugin section to help better report Cisco memory and CPU
Update to Cisco Meraki and Cisco ESA models
Update to ESXI model
Port JuniperCoS model to NMIS9

Bugfixes

Fix bug in node depend functionality
fix display_keys for various plugins (were using wrong format)

Known Limitations

If you have upgraded to Open-AudIT 5, you will need to update the NMIS Modules menu to take you to the new Open-AudIT 5, with the command:
sudo /usr/local/nmis9/admin/patch_config.pl /usr/local/nmis9/conf/Modules.nmis "/Open-AudIT Enterprise/link"=/open-audit/index.php "/Open-AudIT Enterprise/base"=open-audit "/Open-AudIT Enterprise/file"=env

NMIS 9.4.4

RELEASED 27 Apr 2023

Highlights

Add a new 'ping_successful' timestamp whenever ping is successful.
Add support for comments in the Node configuration.
New action unset in node_admin.pl to allow the ability to remove non-essential keys from the Node configuration.
New action remove_duplicate_events in nmis-cli.
New action status in the NMIS Daemon (nmisd) to print the status of the scheduler (i.e. "The Scheduler 29740 is running as user 'root'")
Add support for SNMPv3 256 bit encryption.
Improvements in the NMIS installer to support new Linux Releases. Tested new versions:
- Debian 10
- Debian 11
- Mint 21.01
- RedHat 8.7
- Rocky 8.7
- Ubuntu 22.04
- Ubuntu 23.04
- NOTE: RedHat based systems from version 9 onwards are unsupportable because MongoDB is not supported.

Models

Add support for Power and Temperature sensors in Linux devices.
Add model support for 'Calix E7'.
Add model support for 'VyOS'.
Add model support for 'PulseSecure'.
Fix graphs in 'Adtran' devices. These were added earlier, but got commented out during testing.
Cisco Model enhancements.
Juniper Model enhancements.

Bugfixes

Add support for LLDP for certain vendors that have unique implementations.
Change the handling of events to prevent duplicate events.
Add code to prevent multiple nmis daemons from starting, and add a test to trigger an alert if multiple daemons are found.
Make the NMIS daemon ('nmisd') exit if invalid arguments are passed instead of ignoring them to prevent doing the wrong thing.
Ensuring that 'nodestatus' stays up to date with 'node_down' status. Before certain conditions allowed 'nodestatus' to not reflect a node outage.

NMIS 9.4.3

RELEASED 23 Feb 2023

Highlights

An early release to include a fix for a reported security issue, which includes the following improvements (CVE not currently assigned):
- Prevent reflected cross site scripting in cgi-bin/config.pl
Improvements and bug fixes for node_admin.pl

Models

New and Updated models and graphs for Nokia and Arista devices.
Additional support for UPS Battery monitoring

Bugfixes

Support tool now gathers conf-default as well (in case people are changing things in there)
Handling the use of reserved "." (period) character in Cisco CBQoS class names.
Minor cosmetic fixes

NMIS 9.4.2

RELEASED 23 Jan 2023

Highlights

Config Change: The Event "Node Polling Failover" was not generating notify on upNotify when Closed/Recovery. This was caused by the parameter 'upnotify_stateful_events' in 'Config.nmis'. The parameter should include 'failover' (i.e. 'down|proactive|alert|failover') to get Clear notifications.
It was possible to edit Nodes in the Poller in NMIS in a High Availability environment. This caused the Poller and the Primary system to become out of Sync. This has been fixed. Nodes can no longer be edited in the Poller system in this environment.
When Node configuration changes were made, especially in OMK->Admin, the changes were not immediately reflected in NMIS, as the stored configuration was updated, but the running configuration did not show the changes. This has been fixed.
The 'Contrib' program 'server_perf_report.pl' has been ported to NMIS9.

Models

Ported the NMIS8 Plugin 'combinedCPULoad' to NMIS9.
The 'ZyxelInterface' plugin has been ported to NMIS9.

Bugfixes

NMIS9 was displaying empty groups in the metrics and health panel. This issue is partially fixed. It is caused by Groups with members lacking historical data. A future update will improve the handling further.
Running an update did not always update connection link information. This has been fixed.
In a RedHat 8 System, the 'fping6' command has been removed because 'fping' now properly handles IPV6. NMIS would loop constantly on startup looking for this command. NMIS now checks the version of 'fping', and does not require 'fping6' if 'fping' handles IPV6. Also, if one of the required programs is missing, NMIS will now simply report this as a fatal error in the log and exit, so that the Administrator can know immediately that there is a problem.
A logic error in Interface handling caused the system to occasionally be unable to locate an Interface because the calling routine requested a specific Interface, and the logic attempted to do a global search, which required an extra argument that was not included.
node_admin.pl when using the 'import_bulk ' action was failing failing to import Node Configuration data from NMIS8. This has been fixed.

NMIS 9.4.0

RELEASED 18 Jun 2022

Limited release for compatibility with Commercial Modules.

Added support for MongoDB 4.2

NMIS 9.3.0

RELEASED The release was published on 12 Jan 2022.

Highlights

Upgrade jQuery version to 3.6.0 and jQuery UI 1.13. The libraries versions are specified in Config.nmis, these will be updated by the installer.
Rename model_discovery tool to model_tool
Added quiet mode list nodes in node admin
Improved check_daemons script and added to a cron job
Changed submit button on top of alert list in events list
set default nmisd_worker_max_cycles to a initial value of 100
Change last update for last_update in group view (GUI)
Improved NMIS 9 support bot. Now it is possible to run it from the GUI.
Added support for NTLM Version 2
Added support for the importation of NMIS8 setting into NMIS9.

Models

Added IPSLA models to NMIS9
Fixing F5 Connection graph
Updated the pingonly model to add the health ping graph
Updated Cisco NX/OS Model to match the updates from NMIS8
Node resources not displaying correctly in Model net snmp
Updates to Huawei MA5600
New Cisco ASR 1000 model

Bugfixes

Avoid print Error if graph error in view node
Step not changed in the rrds by default so polling policy different than default was not working properly
Polling policy was corrupted when edited from the GUI.

NMIS 9.2.4

RELEASED The release was published on 1st Dec 2021.

Highlights

Upgrade mojo to 8.11. Logging has been adapted.
Installer improvements.
Table location updates.
Load synchronously some of the GUI widgets in NMIS 9.
Remove sysDescription from validation so no issues when saving model from opAdmin.
Update permissions from file users_login.
Improved audit logs for nodes and tables management. It can be enabled/disabled if the configuration item audit_enabled is set. Defaults is disabled.
Improved polling summary with a more human readable output in timestamps.
Improved performance for network view, important for models with lots of interfaces.
Allow restrict_groups to be passed through to get_nodes_model.
Now it is possible to see events from the pollers.
Now it is possible to see the server tabs to redirect to the pollers.
Improved node admin to load all node events.
Improved nmis9d service by adding wants=mongod.service to ensure the service restarts when Mongod is restarted.
Improved tests.pl to send the key contact as a parameter when testing email.
Update performance data to use ps aux.
New script to monitor nmis 9 and mongo daemons. Should be added to a cron job for regular checkings:

# Check daemons
*/5 * * * * root /usr/local/nmis9/admin/check_daemons.pl act=check-daemons start=1 notify=EMAIL quiet=1 verbose=1

Models

Merge models from NMIS 8:
- Huawei
- BTI-7000
- BTI-7800
- BTI-OPS
- RadwinWireless
- Common Stats
Model updates for Teldati60.
Added model F5 BigIP.
Updated Huawei MA5600, ported plugin from NMIS8.
Improved the model discovery utility. Fixes applied in some of the available options.

Bugfixes

Fix to prevent the GUI from load when there are incorrect models.
Fix to acknowledge an event.

NMIS 9.2.3

RELEASED The release was published on 12th Aug 2021.

Highlights

This is mainly a security release that includes the following improvements (Fixing CVE-2021-38550):

Prevent reflected cross site scripting.
Prevent stored cross site scripting.

As part of these security changes, some special characters no longer be available for node configuration fields like group names, including ;=()<>%'\/

Generate cookie http only

Other improvements:

Fix For NMIS_IS_LOCKED that was not working.
Update logJsonEvent with all the event properties.
Added output options to import_nodes.pl.
Updated models to better support the baseline tool: Common-database, Common-stats and Model-CiscoRouter.
Fixed running Host Resources plugin when SNMP or Node are down.

NMIS 9.2.2

RELEASED The release was published on 29th Jun 2021.

Highlights

Admin tools:
- support bot improvement to accept zip as an input (support_file=) and report directory (report_dir=) to change the output directory.
- support tool: Added the output for a node update/collect when node is sent as a parameter.
- node_admin: New argument to migrate rrd names from nmis8: node_admin.pl act=move-nmis8-rrd-files {node=nodeX|ALL|uuid=nodeUUID} [remove_old=1] [force=1]
- node_admin: Added new options to import_bulk: delay and bulk number, so nodes can be imported in batches waiting delay seconds between them.
- node_admin: Added new options to show node: Showa interface, inventory and catchall data.
- node_admin: Provide feedback with act=import.
- patch_config: Now supports json files. Also, new option added to create an empty array. Also supports -r and -R options to return keys and values.
- model_discovery: Tool ported from nmis8.
Installer Improvements:
- Adds a logged and presented warning message if no known ntp type service is detected during install.
- Updates grep regex in installer that detects Network Time is being synchronised
- Implements correct yum EPEL repository setup for RHEL8
- Add Domain support to WMI.
Other improvements:
- Updates modelling for Huawei AR2240 QoS and Teldat M1 QoS and BRS.
- Records the collect delta (polldelta) in the reach database to track polling performance. This value can be seen in the polling summary.
- Added support for serviceOnly nodes.
- Config.nmis won't be reloaded by the daemon.
- nmis-cli act=daemon-status will show all daemons.
- the status_summary threshold is now configurable using the configuration item "status_summary_threshold". The value was by default set to 99.
- Added new GUI button to test snmp for a node. The configuration item can be show/hidden using the configuration item "view_snmp".
- Clear events when a node is deleted.
Other fixes:
- Fixed end of nmis9 cron.d file, which needed a newline character
- nmis-cli reads performance.nmis default configuration file when no configuration file is set.

NMIS 9.2.1

RELEASED The release was published on 26th Apr 2021.

Highlights

Admin tools:
- The tests tools have been organised in one admin tool, tests.pl.
- Included new test option to test syslog.
- Added a support bot to generate a support_report.html based in the support output:

sudo admin/support.pl action=collect report_dir=/tmp
sudo admin/support.pl action=run-bot dir=/tmp/nmis-collect.2021-04-21-2230

New tool to migrate nmis8 rrd directories: admin/node_admin.pl act=move_nmis8_rrd_files node=ALL
Improvements:
- Added new Authentication configurations.
- Added asynchronous load from widgets to improve the GUI load time.
- Improve dual stack IPv4/v6 handling.
- Improve rrd directories name to replace "/" for "-" and remove blanks.
- Added validation in the GUI to prevent introduce "qr//"
Other fixes:
- Fixed condition where more than nodes with last_wmi_attempt set but disable where sent to the queue, increasing the load and the queued jobs.
- Fixed custom tables when using uppercase names.
Model changes:
- Added Device Modelling for LLDP

NMIS 9.2

RELEASED The release was published on 9 Mar 2021.

This 9.2 version provides IPv6 support.

Highlights

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

NMIS 9.1.2a

RELEASED The release was published on 12 Jan 2021.

This is an early 9.1.2 version provided for those who like to test the new IPv6 support.

Highlights

Support for IPv6
New admin tool to provide nodes polling summary information, admin/polling_summary9.pl
New admin tool testsnmp.pl, to test an access to a node with default snmp credentials provided
New connect wise connector
Improved import_nodes default data
Set default threshold to true if not specified on node import
Interface updates now use ifDescr as description instead of Description in the inventory record
Added -p flag to SNMP trap options
Fix in custom notification methods
Graph and model improvements:
- Fix for graph max bits
- updated net-snmp model
- Migrated host resources plugin from NMIS 8
- Improved LLDP plugin
- Fixed MikroTik model display

NMIS 9.1.1-1

RELEASED The release was published on 30 Sep 2020.

Highlights

Bug fix in Graph-maxbits.nmis not being visualised. The fix consist in modify the simple quotes for double:

NMIS 9.1.1

RELEASED The release was published on 29 Sep 2020.

Highlights

Bug fix in renaming node: new error handle when the rrd graph cannot be resolved. In that case this graph won't me moved, but the renaming won't fail.
Post-install: Update the localhost node with active:1 for self monitor the local server (For new installations).
Bug fix in plugin QualityOfServiceStat.
New modelling for TeldatBRSStat and TeldatQOSStat
Update Modules.nmis
Added missing files entry for rrddraw
Installer improvements
Fixed CBQoS graphs
node_admin improvements:
- New jobs for delete, create, update and set so this operations can run in the background. More information.
- New parameter server="" for delete, create, update and set operations to let opHA manage these nodes as remote in the next release. More information.
- Delete job now creates a backup of the node. New configuration options. More information.
- List action now includes a new parameter remote=1/0 to show the cluster_id or server name.
- Show nodes includes a new option to show node interface (interfaces=true)
- Operations are limited to restore/dump nodes when the server is marked as a poller.
Delete node in the GUI now is performed in the background as a job. The GUI will return the job id.
Added new tool for import nodes from CSV. More information.
Added server_name into inventory data.
Bugfix in the Logout where the cookie was not properly removed.
Bugfix to cleanup modelling oddness. Old concepts will be marked as historic (Not only subconcepts). Catchall records will be removed.
Bugfix to update storage from inventory: This will fix the issue with renamed interfaces. The graph had been generated but was not show in the GUI.
Bugfix that prevented use the debug_auth configuration.
Updated default configuration options:
- nmisd_worker_cycle => 100
- purge_opstatus_after => 3 days

NMIS 9.0.12

RELEASED The release was published on 12 May 2020.

Highlights

Bugfix where not collect or not pingable nodes don't respect the collect period cycle and were polled every time the scheduler runs (10 seconds by default). This situation could affect the server load being increased.
The nmis process was not able to be monitored in centOS servers. The fix was to change the nmis processes names by using a "." instead of blank spaces. Note this change could affect existing Services created by users containing spaces.
Avoid printing passwords in debug logs.

NMIS 9.0.11

RELEASED The release was published on 10 March 2020.

Highlights

Events updated through Events.pm class were not updating lastupdate field, which caused some events not being synchronised in opHA.
Handle undefined $cursor in NMIS9 NMISNG::Node->_load()
Display Node Custom Properties in Node View.
Fix gaps in interface graphs: When snmp collects table index and an error occurs, the table was compared with the inventory interface data, and, as the interface was not in the table, was marked as down and was not being collected. It was not going to be marked as up until the next update (By default, 1 day in the worst scenario). Now, if the interface table is empty is not going to mark an interface down, and it will log snmp errors.
node_admin now supports node_uuid for all the relevant operations.
Alert and Proactive events with custom node roles were not matching the Model Event Policy

NMIS 9.0.10

RELEASED The release was published on 21 February 2020.

Highlights

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).

NMIS 9.0.9

RELEASED NMIS 9.0.9 was published on 2 December 2019.

Highlights

Bugfix to update a node status during the collect. This bug made the node status be refreshed with a delay in opCharts (The delay will usually be as long as the poll time for that node). Now node status is updated in NMIS and opCharts at the same time.
Bugfix for advanced export.

NMIS 9.0.8

RELEASED NMIS 9.0.8 was published on 10 October 2019.