NAV

The first maintenance release of the 5.7 series of NAV is now out!

The source code is available for download at GitHub.

New packages for Debian 10 (Buster) and 11 (Bullseye) are available in our APT repository as usual. We haven’t started building packages for Debian 12 (Bookworm) yet, but hope to do so by the end of 2023.

Please be extra aware of config file changes. Look out for *.dpkg-dist files in /etc/nav and make sure to update your running config.

Fixed

• Fixed regression that caused Netmap to be unusable in 5.7.0 (#2681, #2683)

Release notes

We always advise you to have a look at NAV’s accompanying release notes before upgrading.

Happy NAVing everyone!

The first feature release of the 5.7 series of NAV is now out!

The source code is available for download at GitHub.

New packages for Debian 10 (Buster) and 11 (Bullseye) are available in our APT repository as usual. We haven’t started building packages for Debian 12 (Bookworm) yet, but hope to do so by the end of 2023.

Please be extra aware of config file changes. Look out for *.dpkg-dist files in /etc/nav and make sure to update your running config.

Added

• Even more complex and flexible configuration of NAV logging is now supported through logging.yml (#2659)
• Added howto guide for log configuration (#2660)
• Currently non-functional (aka. “blacklisted”) alert sender mechanisms are now flagged in the Alert Profiles tool wherever an affected alert address is displayed (#2653, #2664, #2677, #2678)
• Added support for polling and alerting on Juniper chassis and system alerts (#2358, #2388)
  • Juniper only provides alert counters via SNMP, no alert details, unfortunately.
  • Since NAV doesn’t support alert state updates, a new eventengine plugin handles alert count transitions by resolving old alerts and creating new ones (#2432, #2519)
• Added a new contains_address filter to the prefix API endpoint, to enable lookup of matching prefix/vlan details from a single IP or subnet address (#2577, #2578)
• Defined and added abstract methods for Power-over-Ethernet configuration to PortAdmin management handler classes (#2636)
  • These are needed for the upcoming vendor specific implementations of PoE config in PortAdmin.
• Implemented configuration file parsing for upcoming local JWT token feature (#2568)

Fixed

User-visible fixes

• Properly dispose of outgoing alert notifications to invalid alert addresses (#2661)
• Fixed crash when attempting to log device errors with an empty comment in the Device History tool (#2579, #2580)
• Fixed bad styling and missing linebreaks in traceback section of the 500 error page (#2607, #2628)
• Show help text instead of error when running nav command without arguments (#2601, #2603)
• Prevent users from entering invalid sysObjectID values when editing Netbox types in SeedDB (#2584, #2566)
• Removed upper version bound for Pillow image manipulation library, to fix security warnings (#2567)
• Alerts that cannot be sent due to blacklisted media plugins will no longer fill up alertengine.log every 30 seconds, unless DEBUG level logging is enabled (#1787, #2652)
• DNS lookups in ipdevinfo are now properly case insensitive (#2615, #2650)
• Alert Profiles will now properly require Slack alert addresses to be valid URLs (#2657)
• 5 minute and 15 minute load average values will now be collected correctly for Juniper devices (#2671, #2672)
• Fix cabling API, which broke due to internal refactorings (#2621)
• Only install NAV’s custom epollreactor2 in ipdevpoll if running on Linux (#2503, #2604)
  • Stops ipdevpoll from crashing on BSDs.

Developer-centric fixes

• Moved more of NAV’s packaging definition to pyproject.toml (#2655)
• Pin pip to version 23.1.0 for CI pipelines to continue working (#2647)
• Improve ipdevpoll logging of SQL queries and from Twisted library (#2640)
• Stop making skipped validation tests for non HTML content (#2623)
• Version-locked indirect dependencies of test suites (#2622, #2617)
• Improve SNMP forwarding/proxying container setup, including adding IPv6 support (#2637, #2516)
• Documented a recipe for establishing SNMP tunnels when testing devices on otherwise unreachable networks (#2426, #2435)
• Run Django development web server in “insecure” mode to improve simulation of a production environment when debug flag is turned off (#2625)
• Added a proper docstring to bootstrap_django() function (#2619, #2168)
• Stop restoring stale tox environment caches in GitHub workflows (#2605)
• Added tests for ipdevpoll worker euthanization (#2599, #2548)
• Added tests to ensure snmptrapd can properly look up a NAV router that sends traps from one of its non-management IP addresses (#2500, #2510)
• Avoid redundant graphite time formatting strings by re-using constant (#2588, #2543)
• Make detection of running in a virtualenv more compatible with modern toolchain (#2573)
• Revert to having tox run its own dependency installer (#2572)
• Added explicit back-relation names for several Django ORM models (#2544, #2546, #2547, #2549, #2550, #2551)

Release notes

We always advise you to have a look at NAV’s accompanying release notes before upgrading.

Happy NAVing everyone!

The first maintenance release of the 5.6 series of NAV is now out!

The source code is available for download at GitHub.

New packages for Debian 10 (Buster) and 11 (Bullseye) are available in our APT repository as usual.

Please be extra aware of config file changes. Look out for *.dpkg-dist files in /etc/nav and make sure to update your running config.

Fixed

User-visible fixes

• Ensure event variables are always posted in transactions, so the event engine does not accidentally end up processing incomplete event information (#2594)
• Report broken cache configuration as an error in Ranked Statistics tool, rather than taking down the whole NAV site (#2561, #2563)
• Show error message on invalid ip address in ipdevinfo (#2590, #2589)
• Link to correct room in room report if room has a space in its name (#2593, #2592)
• Work around duplicate internal serial numbers in Juniper equipment by trusting data only from the device with the lowest entity index (#2583, #2493)
• Make save function in AlertHistory, EventHistory and AlertQueue atomic (#2594)
• Ignore LDAP server referral responses, rather then erroring out during the login process (#2576, #1166)
• Include the new_version variable in alert message templates for device hw/fw/sw upgrades (#2565)
• Update NAV blog widget to use the new blog URL (#2585)
• Handle invalid IP address input in ipdevinfo device searches gracefully, rather then crashing with a 500 error (#2589, #2590)
• Fix broken links to room details from room report for rooms with spaces in their names (#2592, #2593)

Release notes

We always advise you to have a look at NAV’s accompanying release notes before upgrading.

Happy NAVing everyone!

The first feature release of the 5.6 series of NAV is now out!

The source code is available for download at GitHub.

New packages for Debian 10 (Buster) and 11 (Bullseye) are available in our APT repository as usual.

Please be extra aware of config file changes. Look out for *.dpkg-dist files in /etc/nav and make sure to update your running config.

Added

User-visible features

• NAPALM/NETCONF management profiles can now be configured with custom timeout values (#2460, #2390)
• Post lifecycle events the first time new chassis/module/PSU/fan devices are seen (#2391, #2414)
• Accept JSON Web Tokens signed by third-parties as valid API authentication/authorization tokens (#2483, #2511)
• Collect “chassis” serial numbers from Aruba wireless controllers (#2514)
• Added an API endpoint for module information (#2517, #2520)
• Result caching added to ranked statistics - including the ability to populate the cache regularly behind-the-scenes in a cronjob ((#1504, #2398)

Developer-centric features

• Added buglog.py option to fetch issue numbers from git reflog (#2474)
• Added tests for get_memory_usage for all memory MIBs (#2376, #2441)
• Added tests to discover invalid MIB dumps from smidump (#2501, (#2521)
• Updated/added explicit relation names to various ORM models (#2539, #2540, #2541, #2542)

Fixed

User-visible fixes

• Empty alert messages are no longer sent when device software upgrades are detected (#2533)
• Merged two fixes from the 5.4.x stable series that never actually made it into the 5.5 series:
  • Metric values of 0.0 are evaluated correctly by threshold rules (#2447)
  • Validate maintenance calendar input form to avoid e-mail spam from bots scanning for vulnerabilities (#2420, #2431)
• Properly log (for posterity) old and new revision numbers with every software/hardware/firmware upgrade event NAV posts (#2515, #2545, #2560)
• snmpwalk routine for synchronous NAV code now correctly handles end-of-mib-view errors (#1925, #2489)
• Removed deprecation warnings from command line programs navsnmp, naventity and navoidverify (#2389, #2429)

Developer-centric fixes

• Use pip-compile’s backtracking dependency resolver to fix failing CI pipelines (#2509)
• Updated libsnmp dependency for newer Ubuntu runners in GitHub pipelines (#2532)
• Use same version of Django for pylint runs as the latest stable release (#2536)
• Fixed a slew of new CI pipeline / test suite problems that appear after new years (#2537)

Release notes

We always advise you to have a look at NAV’s accompanying release notes before upgrading.

Happy NAVing everyone!

The second maintenance release of the 5.5 series of NAV is now out, fixing a couple of serious collection and trap processing issues!

The source code is available for download at GitHub.

New packages for Debian 10 (Buster) and 11 (Bullseye) are available in our APT repository as usual.

Please be extra aware of config file changes. Look out for *.dpkg-dist files in /etc/nav and make sure to update your running config.

The virtual appliance will be updated, but currently, the automated GitHub workflows aren’t working due to changes at GitHub.

Fixed

• Fix serious collection breakdown in ipdevpoll by re-generating a valid Python representation of CISCO-ENHANCED-MEMPOOL-MIB (#2494, #2495)
• Fix broken trap processing in snmptrapd (#2497, #2498)

Release notes

We always advise you to have a look at NAV’s accompanying release notes before upgrading.

Happy NAVing everyone!

The first maintenance release of the 5.5 series of NAV is now out!

The source code is available for download at GitHub.

New packages for Debian 10 (Buster) and 11 (Bullseye) are available in our APT repository as usual.

Please be extra aware of config file changes. Look out for *.dpkg-dist files in /etc/nav and make sure to update your running config.

The virtual appliance will be updated, but currently, the automated GitHub workflows aren’t working due to changes at GitHub.

Fixed

• Delete and ignore module devices with fake serial number BUILTIN, as reported by Juniper equipment, in order to avoid spamming with device[SFH]wUpgrade alerts (#2491, #2492)

Release notes

We always advise you to have a look at NAV’s accompanying release notes before upgrading.

Happy NAVing everyone!

The initial feature release of the 5.5 series of NAV is now out!

The source code is available for download at GitHub.

New packages for Debian 10 (Buster) and 11 (Bullseye) are available in our APT repository as usual.

Please be extra aware of config file changes. Look out for *.dpkg-dist files in /etc/nav and make sure to update your running config.

The virtual appliance will be updated shortly.

Changed

• Bump lxml from 4.6.5 to 4.9.1 in /tests (#2443)
• Links and documented references to the NAV mailing lists have changed to the lister.sikt.no domain.

Added

• Add link to #nav irc channel on Libera.Chat to README file (#2475)
• Add mac_addresses attribute to /netbox/ API endpoint (#2487, #2490)
• Add ability to filter by alert severity in the status tool (#2467)
• Support for fetching ARP cache entries from all Arista VRF instances (#2262, #2454))
• Link aggregation information added to NAV API (#1765, #2440)
• Support fetching memory stats from CISCO-ENHANCED-MEMPOOL-MIB (#2236, #2439)
• Added a flag to navcheckservice that shows all available handler plugins (#2378, #2437)
• Post deviceHwUpgrade/deviceSwUpgrade/deviceFwUpgrade events when changes are detected to devices' hardware, software or firmware revisions (#2393, #2413)
• Call a cleanup() method for individual container objects after ipdevpoll save stage (#2421)
• Added Device methods to resolve and return related objects/entities (chassis, modules, fans, power supplied) and extended device descriptions (#2428)

Fixed

• Avoid potential resource leaks by properly closing configuration files after reading them (#2451)
• Geomap “link to this configuration” now actually opens the correct location at the correct zoom level (#2412, #2488)
• snmptrapd can now identify an SNMP agent from any of its interface addresses (#2387, #2461)
• PortAdmin now ignores incorrectly configured VLAN tags (tagged as NA) on Juniper switches, instead of crashing (#2452, #2453)
• Fix potential ipdevpoll crashes due to database fetches in wrong thread (#2478, #2480)
• Handle Graphite connection issues gracefully in ranked statistics page (#2459)
• Handle Graphite connection issues gracefully in device group detail page (#2345, #2434)
• Removed needless carbon data chunking from activeipcollector (#1696, #2462)
• Evaluate 0.0 as a valid numeric metric value during threshold rule evaluations (#2447
• Updated dead links in Geomap documentation (#2419)
• Link from IPAM to reserve prefixed in SeedDB now works again (#2410, #2422)
• Improved inefficient database queries in Arnold (#2425)
• Updated tox examples in hacking documentation (#2427, #2430)
• Fixed an AttributeError crash bug in the naventity command line program (#2433, #2444)

Release notes

We always advise you to have a look at NAV’s accompanying release notes before upgrading.

Happy NAVing everyone!

The initial feature release of the 5.4 series of NAV is now out!

The source code is available for download at GitHub.

New packages for Debian 10 (Buster) and 11 (Bullseye) are available in our APT repository as usual.

Please be extra aware of config file changes. Look out for *.dpkg-dist files in /etc/nav and make sure to update your running config.

The virtual appliance will be updated shortly.

Changed

• The changelog format has changed from the legacy format into one based on Keep a Changelog.
• Transceivers are no longer classed as modules (#1154)
• Generate more secure API tokens (#2366)
• Remaining instances of “Uninett” in footer FAQ have changed to Sikt (#2367)
• Upgrade to napalm 3.4.1 (#2403)

Added

• Support more recent AKCP environment probes (#2107
• Collect and graph temperature readings from JUNIPER-MIB (#2342)
• Add support for wildcards in report IN operator (a.k.a. (,,)) (#2347)
• Get VLAN tag from Juniper chassis cluster redundant ethernet interface (“RETH”) names (#2357)
• Collect and graph memory usage from JUNIPER-MIB (#2359)
• Document NAV’s various command line utilities (#2368)
• Add a contrib script to ship ISC DHCP server lease stats to NAV’s Graphite instance (#2371)

Fixed

• Don’t display JavaScript alert dialog box when generating links to the current Geomap configuration (#1016)
• Optimize SeedDB prefix listing queries (#2156)
• Fix broken deletion of quick links from “My stuff”-menu (#2334)
• Display friendlier Juniper RPC error reports in Portadmin (#2362)
• Get rid of warning: CacheKeyWarning: Cache key contains characters that will cause errors if used with memcached (#2379)
• Get rid of warning: DeprecationWarning: Using or importing the ABCs from 'collections' instead of from 'collections.abc' is deprecated (#2381)
• Get rid of warning: django.contrib.postgres.fields.JSONField is deprecated. Support for it (except in historical migrations) will be removed in Django 4.0. (#2382)
• Rotate room image thumbnails correctly based on EXIF orientation tag (#2385)
• Fix Django JSONField import deprecation warnings (#2396)
• Fix broken documentation build environment in Read The Docs (#2399)
• Optimize SeedDB room listing queries (#2400)
• Optimize SeedDB netboxtype listing queries (#2401)
• Optimize SeedDB vlan listing queries (#2402)
• Fix broken deserialization of Rack data (#2407)
• Remove unnecessary quotation marks in SeedDB (#2416)
• Fix incorrect handling of stateless event posting in internal APIs (#2417)

Removed

• Remaining Python 2 compatibility code (#2319)
• Dependency on the six Python module

Release notes

We always advise you to have a look at NAV’s accompanying release notes before upgrading.

Happy NAVing everyone!

The initial maintenance release of the 5.3 series of NAV is now out!

The source code is available for download at GitHub.

On January 1st 2022, Uninett, NSD and Unit (all entities owned by the Norwegian government) were merged into the new governmental agency Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. This marks the first release of NAV under the new organization name.

A new package for Debian 10 (Buster) is available in our APT repository as usual. We are currently working on building a package for Debian 11 (Bullseye).

Please be extra aware of config file changes. Look out for *.dpkg-dist files in /etc/nav and make sure to update your running config.

The virtual appliance will be updated shortly.

User-visible features and improvements

The main reason for this new feature release is to ensure NAV is compatible with Python 3.9 (which is the default Python version on the current Debian stable distro, Bullseye). Features that were already lurking in the pipeline are:

• #2245 (Link to room details page from SeedDB room edit page)
• #2274 (Hidden attributes for devices)
  • #2323 (Completely hide all attributes starting with “__")
• #2309 (Support a report.conf.d/ style config directory for reports)
• #2311 (Wishlist: Info about locations visible via /report/location)

Other fixed GitHub issues in this release

• #2280 (Only ethernetCsmacd interfaces are shown in the room viewer)
• #2310 ([BUG] snmptrapd plugins crash when posting events in NAV 5.2)
• #2315 (Properly upgrade to Django 2.2)
• #2316 (Upgrade dependencies that will need a newer version to run on Django 3.2 or later)
• #2317 (Upgrade Django to 3.2)
• #2321 (Also list local conf reports in report widget)
• #2324 ([BUG] Example severity rules distributed with NAV 5.2.1 do not actually work)
• #2328 (Remove “no access” message from login page during normal login)
• #2329 (Upgrade to dnspython 2.1)
• #2341 (Warn when database config isn’t readable)
• #2352 (Fix Python 3.9 compatibility)
• #2353 (Document the name change from Uninett to Sikt)
• #2355 (Add Sikt to About page, copyrights and graphical profile)

Release notes

We always advise you to have a look at NAV’s accompanying release notes before upgrading.

Happy NAVing everyone!

The first maintenance release of the 5.2 series of NAV is now out!

This release fixes a particularly nasty regression bug in pping, which would prevent you from being alerted about boxDown events. If you are already running 5.2.0, we recommend that you upgrade as soon as possible.

The source code is available for download at GitHub.

A new package for Debian 10 (Buster) is available in our APT repository as usual. Packages for Debian 11 (Bullseye) have not been built yet.

Please be extra aware of config file changes. Look out for *.dpkg-dist files in /etc/nav and make sure to update your running config.

The virtual appliance will be updated shortly.

Fixed GitHub issues in this release

• #2304 (Display alert severity values in the event/alert details page)
• #2306 ([BUG] pping is unable to report unreachable devices in NAV 5.2.0)
• #2308 ([BUG] Alert Profile severity filters that ship with NAV are outdated)

Release notes

We always advise you to have a look at NAV’s accompanying release notes when upgrading.

Happy NAVing everyone!