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| ====== The history of NAV ====== | ====== The history of NAV ====== | ||
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| tested on an increasingly set of Norwegian universities and colleges. | tested on an increasingly set of Norwegian universities and colleges. | ||
| - | Documentation was improved and translated to English, and a new [[http://metanav.ntnu.no|wiki web site]] | + | Documentation was improved and translated to English, and a new wiki web site |
| (based on MoinMoin) was established, also allowing for a more distributed contribution | (based on MoinMoin) was established, also allowing for a more distributed contribution | ||
| of documentation. | of documentation. | ||
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| - | ===== 2006 - NAV v3.1 ===== | + | ===== 2006 - NAV v3.1 ===== |
| 2006 has been a definite upswing for NAV. Project development is now | 2006 has been a definite upswing for NAV. Project development is now | ||
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| - | ===== 2007 ===== | + | ===== 2007 - NAV 3.2/3.3 ===== |
| The NAV year of 2007 opened with the belated 3.2 release in February. | The NAV year of 2007 opened with the belated 3.2 release in February. | ||
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| Project participants in 2007: John Magne Bredal, Vidar Faltinsen, | Project participants in 2007: John Magne Bredal, Vidar Faltinsen, | ||
| - | Stein Magnus Jodal, Kristian Klette, Morten Brekkevold (project | + | Stein Magnus Jodal, Kristian Klette, Jostein Gogstad, Morten Brekkevold (project |
| leader). | leader). | ||
| - | ===== 2008 ===== | + | ===== 2008 - NAV 3.4 ===== |
| In May 2008 NAV 3.4 was released. IPv6 support was added for the machine | In May 2008 NAV 3.4 was released. IPv6 support was added for the machine | ||
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| In the summer and autumn there was ongoing development for v3.5. | In the summer and autumn there was ongoing development for v3.5. | ||
| - | ===== 2009 ===== | + | ===== 2009 - NAV 3.5 ===== |
| In January NAV 3.5 was released: | In January NAV 3.5 was released: | ||
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| * HP switch switch stack support was report do to many problems | * HP switch switch stack support was report do to many problems | ||
| + | ===== 2010 - NAV 3.6/3.7 ===== | ||
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| + | NAV 3.6 was a major release for NAV as it introduced the forth generation SNMP collection system - ipdevpoll. | ||
| + | ipdevpoll would thus replace getDeviceData. The firs beta version of 3.6 came in May and the final release (after 6 beta version) | ||
| + | was launched in October. NAV 3.6 included: | ||
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| + | * New SNMP collector: ipdevpoll | ||
| + | * Major changes to the dataves with a new common interface table (leaving the separate router interface and switxh port tables behind) | ||
| + | * New backend daemon mailin: For receiving external alarms as email, parsing them and posting events on the event queue | ||
| + | * Enhancements to report system: CSV export, monthly availability report and more | ||
| + | * Several subsystems rewritten: machine tracker, dev history, makecricketconfig (from perl to python) | ||
| + | * Support “ignore resolved alerts” in Alert Profiles | ||
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| + | NAV 3.7 came just a month after 3.6, in November, introducing more results from summer students: | ||
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| + | * Geomap - a geographical map using OpenStreetMap data. | ||
| + | * A sudo (mechaism allowing NAV administrators to manage user’s alert profiles and other setup | ||
| + | * Introducing AD LDAP support | ||
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| + | ===== 2011 - NAV 3.8/3.9/3.10 ===== | ||
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| + | In February NAV 3.8 was out with: | ||
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| + | * New tool portAdmin that allows for configuring vlan value and port descriptions for switch ports. | ||
| + | * The seedDB tool was rewritten | ||
| + | * A report for inactive devices was included | ||
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| + | In May 3.9 came with: | ||
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| + | * Threshold manager: New GUI to set threshold alarms - finally in place | ||
| + | * New tool Mac Watch: Generate alarm when a mac address appears on the network | ||
| + | * Improved the physical topology detection ("topology" replaces "networkdiscovery topology") | ||
| + | * Support for Extreme Switches | ||
| + | * pynetsmp/NetSNMP support for ipdevpoll - significant performance impact | ||
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| + | In December 3.10 came with: | ||
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| + | * Port link status monitoring with ipdevpoll - limit to topology ports if you like | ||
| + | * Cricket statistics for environmental sensors in network equipment and Weathergoose | ||
| + | * Generate alarm when a redundant power or fan in a switch fails (Cisco and HP) | ||
| + | * Manage alarms from UPS: supports UPS-MIB (RFC 1628), APC, Eaton and MGE | ||
| + | * Improved vlan topology detection ("topology" now entirely replaces "networkdiscovery") | ||
| + | * Parallel DNS lookups increases performance | ||
| + | * The status monitor (pping) now supports IPv6 | ||
| + | * Alerts when SNMP agent stops responding | ||
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| + | In November 2011 a NAV reference committee was established. The reference committee consists | ||
| + | of NAV power users from dominant Norwegian universities and university colleges. The reference | ||
| + | committee will give advice to future developments in NAV and help UNINETT in making our priorities. | ||
| + | The committee has members from these institutions: NTNU, UiT, UiO, UiA, HiVolda. | ||
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| + | ===== 2012 - NAV 3.12 ===== | ||
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| + | In March NAV 3.11 was released with the following improvements: | ||
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| + | * LLDP support for improved topology detection. | ||
| + | * getBoksMacs replaced by ipdevpoll plugins in `topo` job. | ||
| + | * Q-BRIDGE-MIB now also used when collecting switch forwarding tables, | ||
| + | meaning improved machine tracking data for switch vendors like HP, Juniper | ||
| + | and Alcatel. | ||
| + | * The Machine Tracker's IP search form has consolidated the `To` and `From` | ||
| + | IP address search fields into a single `IP Range` search field with | ||
| + | extended search syntax for ranges of IP addresses. See LP#643544 for | ||
| + | details. | ||
| + | * ipdevpoll can now be made to run single job configurations from | ||
| + | ipdevpoll.conf, to run in the foreground, and to log to stderr instead of | ||
| + | its log file. | ||
| + | * ipdevpoll will reset its log levels from logging.conf upon receiving a | ||
| + | SIGHUP signal. | ||
| + | * ipdevpoll will log the currently active polling jobs upon receiving a | ||
| + | SIGUSR1 signal. | ||
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| + | In September NAV 3.12 was out with: | ||
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| + | * Rewrite of new Netmap using open standards as HTML5, Javascript (D3JS) and SVG (Scalable vector graphics) | ||
| + | * A cleaner and more responsive Ip Device Info | ||
| + | * An improved navbar search | ||
| + | * Room information including devices and a powerful netbox interface overview | ||
| + | * IPv6 traffic counters | ||
| + | * An improved device poller | ||
| + | * Greater use of django in favor of mod_python | ||
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