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-====== Task list ====== +:!::!::!This page is no longer relevant.  NAV tasks are now registered ​as [[https://​blueprints.launchpad.net/​nav|blueprints ​on Launchpad]]. :!::!::!:
- +
-This document presents a list of new features we are working on from October 2007 and forwards;  +
-i.e. post NAV 3.3. This is a dynamic document - watch out for updates +
- +
-The page is loosely sorted on priority. To see what in fact is committed for new  +
-NAV releases, see the [[:roadmap]]. Also see lower priority tasks i [[TaskListLowPri]]. +
- +
-In time, we are hoping to migrate these tasks into [[https://​blueprints.launchpad.net/​nav|LaunchPad blueprints]]. ​  +
- +
-====== Morten'​s Tasks ====== +
- +
-===== MB2Support auto insertion of types ===== +
- +
-^ Assigned to    | Morten Brekkevold | +
-^ Estimated time | ? hrs     | +
-^ Start date     ​| ​          | +
-^ Status ​        ​| ​          | +
-^ Due for        | ?         | +
- +
-Today when you add a new device of an unknown type you have to manually add the type in +
-edit database. You also have to fill in some less than obvious fields, i.e. frequency. +
- +
-Change the type table: +
-  * delete the CDP and TFTP fields. A device’s CDP ability can been discovered through the device’s OID support classification,​ and the TFTP field is not used by anything in NAV. +
-  * set 3600 as default for frequency, this should also be shown when manually updating the type table in edit database. +
- +
-Make add netbox simpler: +
-  * set the typeid=unclassified,​ leave a more qualified setting to gdd. +
- +
-Improve gDD: +
-  * when gdd sees a netbox with type unclassified,​ set the correct type based on sysobjectid. If the sysobjectid does not exist in the type table add it with a best guess type name and type description. +
-   * the same mechanism should by used for detected type changes (the ip netbox ​is replaced with newer equipment of a different type). +
- +
- +
- +
-===== MB3: Support the ability to except certain prefixes from data collection ===== +
- +
-^ Assigned to    | Morten Brekkevold | +
-^ Estimated time | ? hrs      | +
-^ Start date     ​| ​           | +
-^ Status ​        | Completed ​ +
-^ Due for        | ?          | +
- +
-  * Support the ability to except certain prefixes from data collection. Implement config file support. +
-  * (2007-08-13) Already implemented by Jostein Gogstad on his IPv6 branch. ​ Needs further testing. Seems ok. +
- +
-===== MB4: Collect system.sysname in addition to dns names ===== +
- +
-  * Today the netbox.sysname value is based upon dns. If dns does not resolve the ip address is used as name. We should in addition collect the name that is configured on the device, and perhaps make it configurable in a config file what should be the primary name source used in the front end tools.  +
-  * collect system.sysLocation and sysContact as well. Store it in netboxinfo (perhaps). +
- +
-===== MB5: Make logging from networkDiscovery more available ===== +
- +
-^ Assigned to    | Morten Brekkevold | +
-^ Estimated time | ? hrs      | +
-^ Start date     ​| ​           | +
-^ Status ​        ​| ​           | +
-^ Due for        | ?          | +
- +
-  * Translate networkDiscovery logging to English (bugid 1516904)  +
-  * Make the reports more available (admin tool on web or something). +
- +
- +
-===== MB6: Trigger alarms on certain mac addresses (FR 1556395) ===== +
- +
-^ Assigned to    | Morten Brekkevold | +
-^ Estimated time | ? hrs      | +
-^ Start date     ​| ​           | +
-^ Status ​        | Done - by John Magne - June 2008    | +
-^ Due for        | ?          | +
- +
-When a "​wanted"​ mac address is seen by the camlogger this should trigger an alarm posted on +
-the eventq. This is very useful when a certain machine is "​wanted"​ but currently is off line. +
- +
-===== MB7: Admin can change his/her effective user ID ===== +
- +
-^ Assigned to    | Morten Brekkevold | +
-^ Estimated time | 2 days     | +
-^ Start date     ​| ​           | +
-^ Status ​        ​| ​           | +
-^ Due for        | ?          | +
- +
-This task concerns itself with making somewhat of a "​sudo"​ system for the NAV web UI, enabling the administrator to act as other NAV users.  +
-This idea arises from the oft requested need to edit a mortal user's alert profile. ​ A general "​sudo"​-like mechanism of the web UI should not be too difficult to implement. +
- +
-  * A "​sudo"​ tool will move the session'​s //user// attribute into a //​realUser//​ attribute, and attach the effective account object to the session'​s //user// attribute. ​ This should work for the entire web interface. +
-  * The MainTemplate must be able to differentiate whether a real user is logged in, or if someone is just effectively operating as that user.  MainTemplate must clearly signify this state in the interface, so the administrator knows why his/her effective privileges have been dropped. +
-  * The "​sudo"​ tool must have a "​return to being the administrator"​ function, which should be available from the MainTemplate near the "​logout user" and/or "​currently logged in as user" elements. +
-  * The ability to to "​sudo"​ in the web interface should be a configurable privilege in the user admin panel. +
- +
-===== MB8: Support delayed SMSes ===== +
- +
-Task moved to [[https://​blueprints.launchpad.net/​nav/​+spec/​delayed-sms-messages]]. +
- +
-===== MB9: New logging system for Java based subsystems ===== +
- +
-^ Assigned to    ​Morten Brekkevold | +
-^ Estimated time | 40 hrs     | +
-^ Start date     ​| ​           | +
-^ Status ​        ​| ​           | +
-^ Due for        | ?          | +
- +
-getDeviceData,​ eventEngine and getBoksMacs use a home brew logging system. gDD is a huge, +
-complex system, where this homebrew logging library is not nearly flexible enough for +
-hard core debugging. +
- +
-  * The Java subsystems should be refactored to use Log4j (http://​logging.apache.org/​log4j/​). +
- +
-===== MB10: Implement a cleanup function for the device table ===== +
- +
-^ Assigned to    | Morten Brekkevold | +
-^ Estimated time | ? hrs      | +
-^ Start date     ​| ​           | +
-^ Status ​        ​| ​           | +
-^ Due for        | ?          | +
- +
-===== MB11: Improve HP stack collection / make generic ENTITY-MIB plugin ===== +
- +
-^ Assigned to    | Morten Brekkevold | +
-^ Estimated time | ? hrs      | +
-^ Start date     ​| ​           | +
-^ Status ​        ​| ​           | +
-^ Due for        | ?          | +
- +
-The HP plugin apparently only supports virtual HP stacks and does not understand physical stacks (e.g ProCurve 5308). ​ Physical HP stacks can be understood pretty well by looking at ENTITY-MIB, so it might be a good idea to implement a generic device-plug in for ENTITY-MIB, and make sure the HP plug in does HP specific things afterwards. +
- +
-===== MB12: Rewrite getDeviceData in Python ===== +
- +
-^ Assigned to    | Morten Brekkevold (and others)| +
-^ Estimated time | ? hrs      | +
-^ Start date     ​| ​           | +
-^ Status ​        ​| ​           | +
-^ Due for        | 3.6        | +
- +
-Design- and maintenance problems with the getDeviceData codebase, couple with our long term goal of reducing the number of programming languages in NAV, has prompted us to envision a new getDeviceData based entirely ​on Python code. +
-It is likely that this would be based off the Twisted framework for asynchronous SNMP polling, which will reduce the complexity introduced by threading in the original gDD. +
- +
- +
-====== Stein Magnus'​ Tasks ====== +
- +
-Tasks moved to [[https://​blueprints.launchpad.net/​nav]]. +
- +
-====== John Magne'​s Tasks ====== +
- +
- +
-===== JM2New features in Arnold ===== +
- +
-^ Assigned to    | John Magne Bredal | +
-^ Estimated time | ? hrs     | +
-^ Start date     ​| ​          | +
-^ Status ​        ​| ​          | +
-^ Due for        | NAV 3.4   | +
- +
-  * Switch vlan in addition of shutdown of ports. +
-Arnold in NAV 3.1 supports taking machines off the network by setting the switch port they are connected to in shutdown. +
-We would like to support an alternative;​ instead of shutting down the port, we instead change the vlan value of the port. +
-This will allow for quarantine vlan solutions where the user is given limited network access and typically is redirected +
-to a web page giving information on why he is taken off the network (followed by instructions on how he should proceed). +
- +
-Minor changes: +
-  * Close ports based on mac-addresses +
-  * Open all or one when several ports are closed based on same ip/mac +
-  * A timer for incremental closing of ports to prevent skyhigh numbers +
-  * More information on the webpage. +
- +
- +
-===== JM3Improve Cricket in NAV ===== +
- +
-^ Assigned to    | John Magne Bredal | +
-^ Estimated time | 120 hrs           | +
-^ Start date     ​| ​                  | +
-^ Status ​        ​| ​                  | +
-^ Due for        | NAV 3.4   | +
- +
-  * Collect more counters from the interface mib. Take a look at what UNINETTs genplot collects. For instance input ignores, output discards, interface resets. +
-  +
-  * Re implement makecricketconfig making it more modular and easier to expand with new statistics. It is an overall goal that NAV admins should fairly easily be able to add their own set of statistics. +
- +
-  * Add support for wireless users statistics +
-    * Expand the oidDB with the new OIDs. Wireless base stations should then be classified to answer to the relevant new OIDs.  +
-    * Build cricket config tree foe wireless. Focus on octets, errors and users. +
- +
-  * Add support for UPS traffic statistics collection +
-   * Do expansion in a similar manner as for wireless. +
- +
-  * Add support for weathergoose statistics +
- +
- +
-===== JM4: Strengthen RRDbrowser ===== +
- +
-^ Assigned to    | John Magne Bredal | +
-^ Estimated time | 80 hrs    | +
-^ Start date     ​| ​          | +
-^ Status ​        ​| ​          | +
-^ Due for        | NAV 3.4 or later | +
- +
-  * RRDbrowser is a powerful tool, but suffers from being hidden way down in the user interface. With a better, general interface to RRDbrowser, perhaps combined with sorted statistics (T9) this could be the new NAV statistics tool (which in turn can link to cricket). +
- +
-  * Take a look at the nav-dev posting of Sun, 21 Sep 2003 12:32:48 from faltin with title "​Statistical viewer, herunder multiselect!+
-   * simplify this, focus on implementing the most wanted features. +
- +
-  * It is sometimes interesting to view a sum of underlying RRD data in one graph. An example is the sum of all wireless users in a building or on a campus, etc. +
- +
- +
-====== Andreas'​ Tasks ====== +
- +
- +
-===== AK1Strengthen wireless data collection ===== +
- +
-^ Assigned to    | Andreas Knudsen | +
-^ Estimated time | 80 hrs ? | +
-^ Start date     ​| ​         | +
-^ Status ​        ​| ​         | +
-^ Due for        | NAV 3.4? | +
- +
-  * Make a new device handler to gDD that collect interesting information from wireless base stations. In particular: +
- +
-   * configured channel IEEE 802.11b and 802.11g +
-   * configured channel IEEE 802.11a +
-   * mac address used for IEEE 802.11b and 802.11g +
-   * mac address used for IEEE 802.11a +
- +
-  * Input the selected data as (var,value) in netboxinfo. +
- +
-  * Make reports that can view the collected data.  +
- +
-  * Consider enhancements to IP device center in this respect. +
- +
- +
-====== Kristian Klette'​s Tasks ====== +
- +
- +
-===== SS1: New interactive and dynamic layout engine in Traffic Map ===== +
-^ Assigned to    | Kristian Klette | +
-^ Estimated time | 120 hrs         | +
-^ Start date     ​| ​                | +
-^ Status ​        ​| ​                | +
-^ Due for        | NAV 3.4         | +
- +
-  * Make use of the Prefuse library (http://​prefuse.sf.net/​) to re implement the visualization of the [[:​trafficmap|Traffic Map]] component. ​ Observe the following ideas: +
-    * Implement a DeviceRenderer to render node icons from a scalable SVG source file. +
-    * Implement a new EdgeRenderer class to render edges colored for both uplink and downlink traffic stats (just as the current version displays it). +
- +
-The idea is to create an interactive visualization where node layout is automatic and can be zoomed to any extent. +
- +
-Other traffic map ideas: +
- +
- +
-==== New physical view of the network ==== +
-  * Show a physical view of the network with interconnection of all network devices regardless of layer 3 and layer 2 functionality. If the zoom function is good end user machines can be shown as well. The various links between the nodes in the graph may either be a layer 3 p2p link, a layer two trunk, or a layer two specific vlan connection. ​  Avoid using the layer three cloud that vlanplot uses, assume this always is implemented with underlying switches ​  that NAV should discover. +
-    * This requires that every physical router port is connected either directly to another router (serial etc) or two a switch. If we are missing the gwport.to_netbox info we could use vlanplots layer3 view instead. +
- +
-==== Traffic Map also a status monitor ==== +
- +
-  * Make the Traffic map a status monitor by introducing green and red nodes (containers,​ routers, switches, network clouds). Allowing for intermediate colors to reflect that a given percentage of the nodes contained are down. +
- +
-==== Support geographical layout ==== +
- +
-  * Assuming the room table has utm location information show a correct geographical layout og the map on top of geographical maps (with changing detail depending on zoom level). +
- +
-==== Alternative ideas to improvements of vlanplot ==== +
- +
-Also consider other enhancements to the traffic map: +
- +
-  * container hierarchy / auto generate containers +
-  * support parameters making it possible to link directly to a container ​  +
-  * auto layout algorithm on/off pr container ​  +
-  * consider showing all subnets on the top level. Possibly add a button for this. +
-  * strengthen the admin view when moving routers around.  +
- +
-====== Jørgen Abrahamsen'​s Tasks ====== +
- +
-===== Contact info ===== +
- +
-^ Email | jorgen.abrahamsen@uninett.no |  +
-^ Phone | +47 97 04 49 45 |  +
- +
-===== JA1: Improve the report tool ===== +
- +
-^ Assigned to    | Jørgen Abrahamsen (and Morten) | +
-^ Estimated time | 120 hours         | +
-^ Start date     | 06.02.2008 (dd.mm.yyyy) ​      | +
-^ Status ​        | in progress/​being worked on |      +
-^ Due for        | NAV 3.4 or 3.5 and later | +
- +
-  * Add support for local reports. (DONE) +
- +
-   ​Separate local reports in a local file so that NAV's own reports +
-   are not altered. Local reports with equivalent name as the NAV +
-   ​report takes precedence. The local report does not have to copy all +
-   the original report variables, only the ones that are to be +
-   ​replaced. +
- +
-  * Make an automated report page. (DONE) +
- +
-   This page gives a listing of all reports defined with +
-   their title and a description. $description is not +
-   a variable today - this should be added. +
-   We suggest the report list is linked from the static +
-   ​report main page of today. We suggest an alphabetical +
-   ​listing. +
-  +
-  * Implement a sum function ($sum). (DONE) +
- +
-   This is interesting in some reports, i.e. where we give a machine count on all +
-   ​machines on all prefixes. A total on this report will +
-   give the total number of machines in the network. +
-   This functionality was also present in NAV v2. +
- +
-  * The advanced search form should be dynamically activateable by using Javascript. (DONE) +
- +
-   ​Today,​ the entire report SQL is re-run when the button for the advanced search form is pressed. ​ This is a waste of resources. +
-   The form should always be in the HTML output, and Javascript should be employed to dynamically display and hide the form from the flow of the page. +
- +
-  * Morten: Add a **duplex mismatch** report. +
- +
-   This report should show analyze all interconnection between +
-   ​switches and look at the duplex value on each side of the +
-   link. If there is a mismatch a row in the report should +
-   be produced. Ideally this report should be empty at all times. +
-   The report can be produced using one (rather complex) SQL +
-   ​sentence in report.conf. We have done something similar +
-   in NAV v2 - NTNU has a solution for their v3 +
- +
-  * Morten: Also add a **spanning tree blocked ports** report.  +
- +
-   Once again - steal from the NTNU v3 installation. +
- +
-  * Post NAV 3.4: Enhance/​partially rewrite the report code base.  +
- +
-   The overall goal being to improve performance and code readability. +
-   This task may be dropped if it involves a lot of work. +
- +
- +
-  * Unordered List Item +
- +
-====== Thomas Adamcik'​s Tasks ====== +
- +
-Tasks moved to [[https://​blueprints.launchpad.net/​nav]]. +
- +
- +
-====== Unassigned Tasks ====== +
- +
- +
-===== UT1 (was SS2): Support generic (and HP) syslog messages in the syslog analyzer ===== +
- +
-^ Assigned to    | Unassigned ​  | +
-^ Estimated time | ? hrs        | +
-^ Start date     ​| ​             | +
-^ Status ​        ​| ​             | +
-^ Due for        | Post NAV 3.4 | +
-^ Depends on     ​| ​             | +
- +
-  * HP has syslog messages with four levels. Map these to equivalent cisco levels and support the HP log format so that the messages can be imported in the NAV logger database. +
-  * The syslog parser should be made more generic, so that messages from UPSes and whatnot can be included. +
- +
- +
-===== UT3 (was SMJ11): Improve Switch search in Machine Tracker ===== +
- +
-^ Assigned to    | Unassigned ​  | +
-^ Estimated time | 10 hrs       | +
-^ Start date     ​| ​             | +
-^ Status ​        ​| ​             | +
-^ Due for        | Post NAV 3.4 | +
-^ Depends on     ​| ​             | +
- +
-   * (done 2008-04-20) Move the MAC column to the right. I.e. change column order from (MAC, Switch, Module, Interface, Start time, End time) to (Switch, Module, Interface, Start time, End time, MAC). +
-   * For rows where end time is "Still active"​: +
-     * Add an "Last known IP" column +
-     * Add an optional "Last known hostname"​ that resolves the IP address in "Last known IP"+
  
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