NAV

The third maintenance release of the 4.9 series of NAV is now out!

The source code is available for download at GitHub. New packages for Debian 8/9 (Jessie/Stretch) are published in our APT repository, as usual.

The Debian packages for NAV 4.9 have been rebuilt using dh-virtualenv, which means that most of the Python dependencies are now embedded into the packages themselves. If you have previously added a priority apt pin for packages from apt.uninett.no, you may now remove it, as there are no longer any other packages needed from that repository to run NAV.

Please also 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 has also been updated.

Fixed GitHub issues in this release:

• #757 (devicehistory search by date ignores date)
• #1792 (Precision of several Eaton/MGE UPS sensors are wrong)
• #1812 (Malformed subid on (old) thresholdState events can cause status page and alert API endpoints to crash)
• #1818 (Update ENTITY-MIB definition to RFC 6933)
• #1855 (IPAM subnet suggest function is broken)
• #1856 (Geomap doesn’t work in NAV 4.9)
• #1857 (E-mailing of business report subscriptions doesn’t work)
• #1862 (Please add case-insensitive matching on interface names in ipdevinfo queries for ‘ifname’)
• #1865 (Servicemon resource leak causes all services to be reported as down)
• #1871 (Alert detail headers are not present in e-mail notifications from AlertEngine)

Release notes

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

During a two-week whirlwind, three releases have been made in the new 4.9 series of NAV.

As the primary objective of the 4.9 release series was to move to some newer (non-outdated) versions of NAV’s dependencies, especially Django (with which we still have a way to go), lots of little regressions snuck up on us in the 4.9.0 and 4.9.1 releases. Thankfully, our ever watchful users diligently reported their problems back to us.

Copyright changes

NAV 4.9 introduced a previously announced license change. NAV is now licensed under the GNU General Public License v3. This change was primarily needed in order to be compatible with severale Apache 2.0-licensed libraries that we want to utilize in future NAV versions.

Changes

Let’s look at some of the functional changes introduced by these three releases:

Version 4.9.2

(released 14 Feb 2019)

User-visible features and improvements:

• #1837 (Save config to non volatile memory in portadmin for dell switches)
• #1853 (The navuser command should have an option to verify a user’s passord)

Fixed GitHub issues in this release:

• #1784 (Breadcrumb missing from /useradmin/tokens/)
• #1834 (AlertEngine fails to send email if EMAIL_PORT is present in nav.conf)
• #1839 (The interfaces API endpoint crashes when using the last_used filter)
• #1841 (Useradmin Token listing crashes on NAV 4.9.1 if any tokens are created with no endpoint list)
• #1842 (Netmap layer 3 graph API endpoint crashes on NAV 4.9.1)
• #1844 (PortAdmin crashes with TypeError if an ifaliasformat is configured)
• #1846 (IPAM fails under NAV 4.9.1 if any Organization object has non-ASCII characters in description)
• #1847 (“Rooms with active alerts” widget fails under NAV 4.9.1)
• #1848 (Stateless alerts are shown in status widget even when checkbox is left unchecked)
• #1851 (Fix searching for other things than ip addresses in portadmin)
• #1852 (Empty NAVbar search results in ValueError crash)

Version 4.9.1

(released 07 Feb 2019)

Fixed GitHub issues in this release:

• #1820 (ipdevpoll will not schedule jobs under NAV 4.9.0)
• #1822 (Command line argument support for nav daemon startup config)
• #1823 (Old switch port layout screen is blank in NAV 4.9.0)
• #1824 (navdump crashes when dumping service table)
• #1825 (Alertprofiles crashes when attempting to delete matchfield)
• #1826 (Device history crashes when attempting to browse the history of an IP Device)
• #1827 (Any l2trace search will crash with a Django FieldError)
• #1828 (PDU dashboard widget crashes under NAV 4.9.0)
• #1829 (Any toolbox descriptor file containing superfluous equal signs will be silently ignored by the web interface)
• #1830 (MAC address prefix filters are horribly slow in arp and cam API endpoints)
• #1831 (Threshold monitor crashes if rule returns Graphite error)

Version 4.9.0

(released 31 Jan 2019)

User-visible features and improvements:

• #1423 (Add API endpoint for accounts and account groups)
• #1509 (Add active alerts tab for port details page)
• #1646 (Add event/alert details page)
• #1615 (Room view - want device/interface count)
• #1624 (Add support for Dell DNOS-SWITCHING-MIB)
• #1659 (Add an interface browser tool)
• #1662 (Business reports, device availability - filter for maintenance)
• #1667 (More interface information for linkState alerts in status tool/widget)
• #1705 (Enable use of api endpoint without specifying version)
• #1706 (Audit log when users operates as other user)
• #1739 (PortAdmin - users should not be able to set trunk on port)
• #1758 (Writable vlan and prefix endpoints)
• #1761 (API netbox endpoint: filter on type__name)
• #1791 (Implement IT-WATCHDOGS-V4-MIB and GEIST-V4-MIB)
• #1807 (Implement support for Powertek PDU inlet status)
• #1817 (Add hook to customize tabs in ipdevinfo and info/room)

Fixed GitHub issues in this release:

• #1683 (Avoid “magic” Django bootstrapping in nav.models)
• #1703 (Upgrade Django Rest Framework)
• #1709 (Rename verb for changing interface admin status)
• #1728 (Upgrade python-ldap)
• #1744 (Replace automake toolchain with setuptools)
• #1752 (No warnings for Django 1.8)
• #1786 (Make middlewares work correctly on Django 1.10+)
• #1796 (A crashing search provider will crash the entire search ui)
• #1798 (Environment sensor rack API crashes on missing sensors)
• #1799 (Portadmin errors out if making changes after using browser back button)
• #1800 (Alert profile listing “Remove selected” button needn’t be visible when there are no profiles to select.)
• #1801 (Network Explorer MAC search always crashes)
• #1802 (Saving a threshold rule without a target crashes with a KeyError)
• #1803 (ipdevpoll should be able to perform reverse DNS lookups using /etc/hosts file)
• #1804 (Unrecognized neighbors report crashes with ‘bogus escape (end of line)')
• #1814 (Change the NAV license from GPLv2 to GPLv3)
• #1819 (/prefix/usage API endpoint crashes instead of returning 404 on non-existent prefixes)

Release notes

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

Happy NAVing everyone!

The fifth maintenance release of the 4.8 series of NAV is now out!

The source code is available for download at GitHub. New packages for Debian 8/9 (Jessie/Stretch) are published in our APT repository, as usual.

The virtual appliance will be updated shortly.

Changes

Fixed GitHub issues in this release:

• #1688 (Report crashes when using %, * or non-ASCII characters in filter values)
• #1693 (Changing password from “User and API Administration” leads to KeyError)
• #1702 (Adding log entries with non-ascii characters crashes page)
• #1711 (Regression: Report crashes when attempting to sort a column filtered on a non-ASCII value)
• #1719 (‘navdump -a’ puts status messages into the output files)
• #1721 (Widget spinner visible when opening tool-menu)
• #1729 (Room search “CSV download” CR in “last active” field)
• #1734 (l2trace crashes when searching for invalid IP addresses)
• #1735 (HTTP errors from Graphite shouldn’t crash NAV’s Graphite render proxy)

Copyright changes

Third party copyright owners of NAV code, like The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and the University of Tromsø, have signed over their copyright for their code contributions to Uninett. NAV 4.8 is still licensed under GPLv2-only, but will be relicensed under GPLv3 in the upcoming 4.9 series. This should have no impact on end users; as a company with public ownership, Uninett will always strive to keep NAV under a free and open source license.

Happy NAVing everyone!

The fourth maintenance release of the 4.8 series of NAV is now out!

The source code is available for download at GitHub. New packages for Debian 8/9 (Jessie/Stretch) are published in our APT repository, as usual.

The virtual appliance will be updated shortly.

Changes

Fixed GitHub issues:

• #1638 (‘array index out of range’ when viewing a trunk port in PortAdmin)
• #1643 (Location with active alerts - edit title)
• #1650 (Submitting a threshold rule without a target crashes with a KeyError)
• #1655 (Auditlog only displaying the first 100 entries in the log)
  • #1654 (Fix broken auditlog browsing and auditlog more things)
• #1656 (Sensor widget crashes when sensor is missing)
• #1660 (UninettMailDispatcher does not support non-ASCII characters and requires SMTP server on localhost)
• #1661 (Business reports, link availability - want description)
• #1664 (Remove bracket syntax for url parameters to Graphite)
• #1665 (Interface details tries to get sensor data on empty sensorlist)
• #1669 (Shouldn’t use CAM to select topology for aggregated ports where LLDP is available on the physical ports)
  • #1685 (Do not consider CAM data from aggregator ports when there is LLDP/CDP topology available from its aggregated ports)
• #1670 (Treshold editor doesn’t work for metrics with hash characters in name)
• #1673 (Repeated traceback e-mails for Internal Server Error: /netmap/traffic/layer2/)
• #1676 (Audit log changes to API tokens)
• #1677 (ipdevinfo should link to an IP Device’s audit log)
• #1678 (EventMixIn.get_subject() should never return a string)
• #1680 (SeedDB patch editor only lists switch ports, not physical ports)

Happy NAVing everyone!

The third maintenance release of the 4.8 series of NAV is now out!

The source code is available for download at GitHub. New packages for Debian 8/9 (Jessie/Stretch) are published in our APT repository, as usual.

The virtual appliance will be updated shortly.

Changes

Fixed GitHub issues:

• #1619 (Port-filter in ipdevinfo ports-tab does not remember choice in IE Edge)
• #1640 (snmptrapd documentation is outdated)
• #1641 (Inefficient deletion of obsolete SwPortVlan records)
• #1642 (Port details page crashes with NoReverseMatch exception for ports with slashes in names)
• #1644 (Certain UPS units trigger an AssertionError inside ipdevpoll’s bridge plugin, crashing the inventory job)
• #1645 (navtopology crashes on self-loops)
• #1647 (NAV 4.8.2 LDAP error at first login / user creation)
• #1648 (Several NAV subsystems crash when config files contain non- ASCII comments)
• #1649 (Negative values leads to mangled graphs)

Happy NAVing everyone!

The second maintenance release of the 4.8 series of NAV is now out!

The source code is available for download at GitHub. New packages for Debian 8/9 (Jessie/Stretch) are published in our APT repository, as usual.

The virtual appliance will be updated shortly.

Changes

Fixed GitHub issues:

• #1591 (SeedDB does not warn about too long room ids or location ids when bulk importing, it just crashes)
• #1628 (Room status widget crash with MultipleObjectsReturned in some cases)
• #1629 (Following a link to edit an IP Device that has been deleted crashes SeedDB)
• #1631 (ipdevpoll statuscheck job crashes in poe plugin)
• #1632 (The ipdevpoll 5minstats job crashes with an AttributeError in the statports plugin)
• #1633 (The ipdevpoll 5minstats job crashes in the statsystem plugin on VRF master devices)
• #1634 (The poe plugin still crashes on devices that have no set type)
• #1635 (The statuscheck ipdevpoll job crashes with an AttributeError if device reports inconsistent PoE Group indexes in POWER- ETHERNET-MIB)

Happy NAVing everyone!

The first maintenance release of the 4.8 series of NAV is now out!

The source code is available for download at GitHub. New packages for Debian 8/9 (Jessie/Stretch) is published in our APT repository, as usual.

The virtual appliance will be updated shortly.

Changes

User-visible features and improvements:

• #1618 (ipdevpoll multiprocess mode broken in v4.8.0)
  • #1620 (ipdevpoll multiprocess bug fixes and tests)
• #1621 (refactor cache handling in report to separate concerns)
• #1627 (The navclean command isn’t installed in NAV 4.8.0)

Happy NAVing everyone!

The initial feature release of the 4.8 series of NAV is now out!

The source code is available for download at GitHub.

New packages for Debian 8/9 (Jessie/Stretch) have, unfortunately, NOT been built yet, due to unforeseen difficulties with our new build routine. They will hopefully be published in our APT repositorytomorrow.

The virtual appliance will be updated once the Debian packages are ready.

Changes

User-visible features and improvements:

• #1156 (Detect topology of unrouted VLANs)
• #1225 (Service Http(s)Checker should be ok with 401 status if no user/password is configured)
• #1232 (Collect Digital Optical Monitoring (DOM) data)
  • #1559 (Added support for DOM value for juniper devices using JUNIPER-DOM-MIB)
• #1240 (Add a widget with alerts grouped by location)
  • #1554 (Added a Locations with active alerts widget)
• #1242 (information about power over ethernet (poe) interfaces)
• #1243 (email availability reports)
  • #1570 (E-mail subscription to Business reports)
• #1313 (Deleting a netbox is extremely slow)
  • #1542 (Deleting netbox in background with navclean)
• #1420 (Upload and browse pictures on Locations, just as with rooms)
  • #1555 (Added support for pictures in locations)
• #1503 (Extended Location information)
• #1505 (Better ports overview)
  • #1562 (New and improved, filterable interface listing for devices)
  • #1600 (Portlist improvements)
• #1506 (Add option to show source of ARP records in Machine Tracker, to avoid confusion in HSRP/VRRP lans)
  • #1541 (Added option for showing origin in machinetracker)
• #1513 (Support adding, updating and deleting IP Devices using the API)
  • #1612 (Enable write operations for netbox and room API endpoints)
• #1533 (Feature request: toggle all VLANs in portadmin trunk)
• #1545 (Added auditlog for trunk edit in portadmin)
• #1584 (Cleanup django_sessions periodically)
• #1599 (Option to filter nodes by category in ipdefvinfo neighbor graph)
• #1611 (Display list of allowed VLANs on trunks in port details)

Other fixed GitHub issues in this release:

• #1211 (Optical transmit/receive power sensors should have a relation to an interface)
  • #1558 (Make sensors relatable to interfaces)
• #1345 (Collect bridge addresses for neighbor identification)
  • #1548 (Collect base bridge address from BRIDGE-MIB as part of the bridge plugin)
• #1510 (Create new SQL baseline)
  • #1544 (Updated the SQL Baseline with changes before 4.7)
  • #1614 (SQL baseline cleanup)
• #1523 (Netmap lists interface under wrong netbox)
• #1549 (Topology algorithms partial rewrite)
• #1557 (Power over Ethernet support in ipdevinfo)
• #1564 (snmpcheck: Fix database access from main thread and per process cache)
• #1566 (Remove inline pydns)
• #1585 (Remove support for outdated versions of pysnmp)
• #1602 (Remove django-oauth2-provider library dependency)

Happy NAVing everyone!

The third maintenance release of the 4.7 series of NAV is now out!

The source code is available for download at GitHub. New packages for Debian 8/9 (Jessie/Stretch) is published in our APT repository, as usual.

The virtual appliance will be updated shortly. The appliance is still based on Debian Jessie, but will hopefully migrate to Debian Stretch soon.

Changes

Fixed issues in this release:

• #1402 (Maintenance alerts about non existing devices)
• #1590 (IPAM: Add quickfix, logging for prefixes with no VLAN)
• #1592 (Report crashes when attempting to sort a column filtered on a non-ASCII value)
• #1593 (Logengine inserts quoted log messages into database)
• #1595 (Drawing sensor graphs fail for sensors that have no human readable description)
• #1601 (Updating room id creates a new room)
• #1603 (AlertEngine crashes when processing filters containing “not equals” matches)
• #1604 (Running ipdevpoll in multiprocess mode will delay resolving of snmpAgentDown alerts)
• #1605 (Log output from ipdevpoll multiprocess workers is lost)
• #1606 (linear gauge does not fill with gradient)
• #1610 (Remove stale topology information from ports that are down, where the assumed link partner is still up )

Happy NAVing everyone!

The second maintenance release of the 4.7 series of NAV is now out!

The source code is available for download at GitHub. A new package for Debian Jessie is published in our APT repository, as usual.

Packages for Debian Stretch are now also published, so the install instructions have been updated.

The virtual appliance will be updated shortly.

Changes

Fixed issues in this release:

• #1516 (Default maintenance duration too long)
• #1532 (SeedDB bulk import of organizations and rooms crashes on misformatted attribute lists)
• #1535 (Alert profiles - filtering on location does not include sublocations)
• #1546 (IndexError in portadmin search if ipdevpoll hasn’t run yet)
• #1553 (Status widgets crash if filtering on locations with non-ascii characters in the ID)
• #1560 (portadmin may change vlan for incorrect port on non-cisco devices)
• #1565 (geomap does not render rooms)
• #1567 (Moved searchproviderlist to settings)
• #1568 (Fixed deleting non-required schemas in search_path)
• #1571 (devicehistory - device group history does not work)
• #1583 (Netmap cache crashes on non-ascii strings)

Happy NAVing everyone!