NMIS8 Release Notes

NMIS 8.3.1G

Thursday 1 December 2011

The focus of this release has been to continue with the stabilisation from the previous NMIS8 releases to bring NMIS8 to a production quality release. In addition there are significant functional and usability enhancements.

New in 8.2.1 General Release

  • Hierarchical QoS supported
  • IPSLA Support
  • NMIS Authentication and Authorisation fully functioning with "Apache" method
  • Added many new Authorisation classes and updated default policy
  • Added Network Metrics Graph
  • Added NMIS Collection Graph
  • Many UI enhancements and refinements
  • Kai-Uwe Poenisch's updates for AKCP sensor, Cisco CSS and Nortel/Bay networks gear
  • Till Dierkesmann updates, including some fixes and mods for Authentication and Authorisation

Changes in 8.3.1G General Release

  • User Interface updates
    • updated Widget styles to be more refined
    • updated colorPercent to be better and more different between colors
    • updated dash tables to expand with widget
  • Menu has been re-structured to be more operationally functional, the major headings are now (this is easily customisable):
    • Network Status
    • Network Performance
    • Network Tools
    • Reports
    • Service Desk
    • System
    • Quick Select
    • Help

Fixes in 8.3.1G General Release

  • Moved many elements from code to the Configuration (Config.nmis)
  • Many many many to be listed.

Caveats for 8.3.1G General Release

  • Authentication (Auth.pm) working well with Apache Method, but issues with Cookie handling on internal methods.  Current Apache method usable and functional, and LDAP, Radius, etc, can be implemented with Apache.
  • IPSLA module currently requires SNMP_Session, which is included with the release

NMIS 8.2.1

Thursday 22 September 2011

The focus of this release has been to stabilise NMIS8 from the Beta release to something which we feel a candidate for general release, this goal has been largely achieved with feedback from the community and a huge effort by the development team.  In addition there are significant functional and usability enhancements.

Fixes in 8.2.1 Candidate Release

  • User Interface (UI) refresh bug fixed
  • Integrated SNMPv3 patch from Mark Nagel, SNMPv3 tested and working
  • Cleaned up source directory tree of redunant files
  • Corrected links to menu icons in many files.
  • Search should be case insensitive, based on request from Jose
  • Update documentation URL's to opmantek.com/Docs

New in 8.2.1 Candidate Release

  • Improved usability.
  • Improved look and feel.
  • Improved operational usability, more current and historical status in one place.
  • Updated UI with improved widget engine, as drilling into more detailed information, each level is presented as a widget
  • UI based on jQuery and JD Menu, leveraging full CSS for styling and "skin"
  • Each widget is draggable, resizable, closable, independantly of the web page.
  • Independant widget refresh cycles, based on URL widget is created with (status widgets refresh, config widgets do not)
  • Customisable UI elements all controlled through dash8.css, making the UI highly skinnable.
  • All dash generation code bought back to commonv8.js to centralise dash generation.
  • Tested and updated many widgets and screens with new colour scheme
  • Added Network Events widget based on the NMIS event.log, showing recent operational status.

NMIS 8.1.1

NMIS 8 is the culmination of years of thought and work, the thought went into, how to improve on NMIS 4, which was a challenge, as many people loved the way NMIS worked.  NMIS 8 focused on core engine improvements and an improved user experience.

19 April 2011

New in 8.1.1 Beta

  • NMIS8 Changes are significant from NMIS4
  • Highly modular code base
  • Increased levels of Object Oriented Code use
  • Device support based on an Object Oriented hierarchical model, which is coded outside the core system, creating separation from the engine code and device support code.  Also meaning that most device support issues can be resolved without editing the NMIS source code.
  • Updated UI, information opens as a widget when drilling down