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The first maintenance release of the NAV 4.4 series is now out.

The source code is available for download at Launchpad. New packages for Debian Wheezy and Jessie have been published in our APT repository as usual (and the virtual appliance is being updated).

CHANGES

The following reported bugs have been fixed:

• LP#1535647 (Broken graph widgets after upgrade to 4.4.0)
• LP#1535688 (ipdevpoll multiprocess mode broken in NAV 4.4.0)
• LP#1535701 (subnet matrix has no visible feedback to user if prefix utilization API call fails)
• LP#1535723 (Room page’s interface tab is blank in NAV 4.4.0)
• LP#1536031 (Unable to create a new user)
• LP#1536060 (Unable to get switch port activity for anything but the default interval value)

Happy NAVing everyone!

The initial 4.4 series release of NAV is now out.

The source code is available for download at Launchpad. New packages for Debian Wheezy and Jessie is published in our APT repository as usual.

The virtual appliance will be updated shortly.

Changes

NAV 4.4 now requires Django 1.7. Unfortunately, Django 1.7 was obsoleted in December, but since we mainly target Debian stable (Jessie), security fixes will be backported by Debian to Django 1.7 for a long time to come. (If you are still running Debian Wheezy, you can obtain python-django 1.7 from the official wheezy-backports repository).

NAV 4.4 introduces the following user-visible features and improvements:

• LP#1350815 (Add zooming in graphs, like Cacti)
• LP#1465571 (PortAdmin should log to separate log file)
• LP#1466373 (seeddb confirm navigation when form is not saved)
• LP#1466440 (Device groups should be searchable from the navbar)
• LP#1466462 (Report pagination is nearly invisible)
• LP#1483578 (request: enable-button in /arnold/details/)
• LP#1511363 (Organize scope-list in Subnet Matrix-frontend)
• LP#1526789 (Support sensor discovery on Geist-branded WeatherGoose products)
• LP#1528124 (Autocreate new types with sensible vendor id’s)
• LP#1531159 (portadmin: support for Cisco voice vlans)

These reported bugs have been fixed:

• LP#1248205 (403 Forbidden on front page with apache 2.4)
• LP#1518246 (subnet matrix - first subnet is not shown)
• LP#1518251 (subnet matrix - /23 prefixes are displayed incorrectly)
• LP#1518254 (subnet matrix - link to prefix is suddenly a scope)
• LP#1521107 (Messages widget does not refresh)
• LP#1521124 (Django security fix in Debian makes time periods display as blank)
• LP#1526282 (Module replacements will sometimes crash ipdevpoll inventory job with IntegrityError)
• LP#1532701 (Snmptrapd fails to post link events if module name is unknown)

Happy NAVing everyone!

This is posted a while after the actual release

Due to a critical bugfix in the NAV service monitor, we are releasing the third maintenance release of the NAV 4.3 series now. We urge anyone using NAV’s buil-in service monitor to upgrade as soon as possible.

The source code is available for download at Launchpad. New packages for Debian Wheezy and Jessie have been published in our APT repository as usual (and the virtual appliance has been updated).

Changes

The following reported bugs have been fixed:

• LP#1518950 (machine tracker - form should reflect link parameters)
• LP#1519362 (Forgetting to add a name to an alert profile causes template selection to be cleared in form)
• LP#1520119 (Servicemon silently stops checking services after running for a while)

Happy NAVing everyone!

The second maintenance release of the NAV 4.3 series is now out.

The source code is available for download at Launchpad. New packages for Debian Wheezy and Jessie have been published in our APT repository as usual (and the virtual appliance has been updated).

Changes

The following reported bugs have been fixed:

• LP#1487436 (arnold rejects ip-addresses that ends with the number 0)
• LP#1488003 (Alert Profiles UI does not enable multi-value select for the “IN” filter operator)
• LP#1488010 (link to ipdevinfo if applicable for subjects without absolute url)
• LP#1488441 (room map widget does not load map)
• LP#1488774 (Arnold documentation should be updated and moved from wiki to Sphinx)
• LP#1489843 (javascript require-libs timeout)
• LP#1492246 (Topology of disabled interfaces may linger in some cases)
• LP#1494190 (clicking on a shared time period in alert profiles selects all)
• LP#1494232 (hovering a shared time period in alert profiles highlights all)
• LP#1494233 (When exporting switch port information from a room view as CSV, the output contains extra spaces and newlines in the first column)
• LP#1494279 (Inconsistent Servicemon checker names)
• LP#1496396 (Service checker descriptions and service checker argument descriptions are not displayed to the user in SeedDB)
• LP#1496780 (Threshold alerts are not very descriptive on the status page)
• LP#1497970 (Add SEMI-MIB to retrieve serial number for HP 1810 switch)
• LP#1498323 (Traps from WeatherGoose devices no longer work after rebranding from IT Watchdogs to Geist)
• LP#1499343 (The wiki page describing background processes in NAV should be moved to Sphinx docs)
• LP#1500423 (ipdevpoll: Transaction managed block ended with pending COMMIT/ROLLBACK)
• LP#1500425 (Inventory and statuscheck jobs of ipdevpoll still can fail after an OS upgrade)
• LP#1505524 (Retrieve software version for HP 1810 switch)
• LP#1505945 (Add API endpoint for VLAN information)
• LP#1507467 (Temperature sensor gauges as widgets)
• LP#1513046 (LLDP neighbors with “funny” names may cause ipdevinfo NoReverseMatch crash)
• LP#1516956 (Services should be considered on maintenance when their parent IP Device is on maintenance)
• LP#1516972 (Maintenance status is not visible in service matrix and service lists)

Happy NAVing everyone!

The first maintenance release of the NAV 4.3 series is now out.

The source code is available for download at Launchpad. New packages for Debian Wheezy and Jessie have been published in our APT repository as usual.

Changes

The following reported bugs have been fixed:

• LP#1464660 (macwatch AttributeError when attempting to post events under NAV 4.3.0)
• LP#1466734 (Portadmin should link back to ipdevinfo)
• LP#1467508 (report export csv not working)
• LP#1469620 (Ipdevinfo: switchport activity only show activity for last 30 days)
• LP#1469988 (arnold does not reset autoenable date on manual detentions)
• LP#1478827 (Include vendor and description in the netbox API endpoint)
• LP#1478835 (portadmin snmp timeout while saving)
• LP#1480262 (Rendering a port traffic graph results in a UnicodeEncodeError)
• LP#1480814 (Non-ASCII characters in username will crash login page if authenticating against a Microsoft AD server)
• LP#1483145 (seeddb invalid ip crashes check connectivity)
• LP#1484386 (Floating graph control panel intermittently appears at top of page when selecting Port Metrics tab in ipdevinfo)
• LP#1484423 (ipdevpoll inventory job fails with AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘strip’)
• LP#1484427 (ipdevpoll 5minstats job fails on some Cisco WLCs)
• LP#1486415 (IntegrityError when posting chassis events from ipdevpoll)
• LP#1486430 (Jobs “inventory” and “statuscheck” fails after switch OS upgrade)

Happy NAVing everyone!

The initial 4.3 series release of NAV is now out, with only minor changes and some bugfixes since the release candidate. A big thanks to those who helped test the release candidate!

The source code is available for download at Launchpad. A new package for Debian Wheezy has been published in our APT repository as usual (We have no packages for Debian Jessie yet, due to dependency problems and our own resource constraints).

The virtual appliance download has also been updated.

Changes

This release makes some fundamental changes to NAV’s data model to improve support for non-physical devices (like Cisco VSS and Cisco VDC). Please read the release notes for further information.

User-visible features and improvements:

• LP#744943 (Add switch to toggle display of traffic lines in Geomap)
• LP#961212 (Show planned/active maintenance tasks for device in IP Device Info)
• LP#1149160 (Auto-recognize HTTP URLs in reports and hyperlink them)
• LP#1166695 (PortAdmin available from the toolbox)
• LP#1169550 (NAV’s data model should reflect modern reality, with virtual device support)
• LP#1242872 (Option to turn off traffic stats in Geomap)
• LP#1248081 (New interface/tool to browse unrecognized neighbors)
• LP#1366895 (Report widget)
• LP#1421644 (Support Weathergoose traps from external temperature sensors)

Bugfixes:

• LP#1233093 (Report pages crash under psycopg2 >= 2.5)
• LP#1397257 (Port Admin may not work properly for any non-HP and non-Cisco device)
• LP#1447973 (CDP/LLDP neighbor matching fails when multiple ports match the identification)
• LP#1447999 (Existing adjacency candidate data in db is not deleted if a device’s CDP cache or LLDP remote table becomes empty)
• LP#1448086 (Unable to identify LLDP neighbor’s port in some instances)
• LP#1458826 (1minstats job crashes on invalid ENTITY-MIB references from CISCO-PROCESS-MIB)
• LP#1459138 (Ignore Cisco reserved VLANs when collecting BRIDGE-MIB data)
• LP#1463724 (Increase frequency of module status verification)

Happy NAVing everyone!

Some of you may not know that NAV has an API, but it has!

The reason for adding an API to NAV was to enable local developers to use the considerable knowledge NAV has about your network to make useful tools - first of all for local use, but also for sharing.

To get started with the API we have provided some information in our official documentation. As of NAV 4.3 we also document our endpoints a bit more.

As with everything NAV related we are dependent on feedback and patches from our users to make things better. The API is no exception, and we have already gotten pointers about things that can be improved. Take a look at the community channels for how to contact us and contribute.

We have a release candidate for NAV 4.3.0 ready to download for those who want an early peek.

The source code is available for download at Launchpad. A new package for Debian Wheezy has been published in our APT repository, but in the “navbeta” archive instead of the regular “nav” archive - modify the instructions accordingly (We have no packages for Debian Jessie yet, due to dependency problems and our own resource constraints).

We have also published a “beta” Virtual Appliance on our homepage, if you want to test the release candidate separately from your production install (remember, there is no downgrade path!)

Changes

This release makes some fundamental changes to NAV’s data model to improve support for non-physical devices (like Cisco VSS and Cisco VDC). Please read the release notes for further information.

User-visible features and improvements:

• LP#744943 (Add switch to toggle display of traffic lines in Geomap)
• LP#961212 (Show planned/active maintenance tasks for device in IP Device Info)
• LP#1149160 (Auto-recognize HTTP URLs in reports and hyperlink them)
• LP#1166695 (PortAdmin available from the toolbox)
• LP#1169550 (NAV’s data model should reflect modern reality, with virtual device support)
• LP#1242872 (Option to turn off traffic stats in Geomap)
• LP#1248081 (New interface/tool to browse unrecognized neighbors)
• LP#1366895 (Report widget)
• LP#1421644 (Support Weathergoose traps from external temperature sensors)

Bugfixes:

• LP#1397257 (Port Admin may not work properly for any non-HP and non-Cisco device)
• LP#1447973 (CDP/LLDP neighbor matching fails when multiple ports match the identification)
• LP#1447999 (Existing adjacency candidate data in db is not deleted if a device’s CDP cache or LLDP remote table becomes empty)
• LP#1448086 (Unable to identify LLDP neighbor’s port in some instances)

Happy NAVing everyone!

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