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--- historyofnav [2012/01/29 19:55] – [2003 - NAV v3.0] faltin
+++ historyofnav [2012/09/18 07:48] (current) – [2012 - NAV 3.11, 3.12] bredal
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 ====== The history of NAV ======
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 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
 of documentation.
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 Stian Søiland, Gro-Anita Vindheim, Morten Vold (project leader), Arne Øslebø.
-===== 2005 =====
+===== 2005 - NAV v3.0 =====
 was a relatively slow year for NAV. NTNU and UNINETT did not have so much resources to put into the
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 In June we finally announced our first release candidate (rc1), followed by a second in July.
-NAV 3.0.0 was finally released on September 16 2005.
+NAV 3.0.0 was finally released on September 16 2005 with the following highlights:
-For details on the improvements made in the 2005 releases, we refer to the
+  * Completely new web interface - new look
+  * New authentication and authorization system
+  * New Java based snmp collector: getDeviceData
+  * New database design
+  * New event- and alarm system (event engine, alert engine, alert profiles)
+  * Module monitor
+  * New message system
+  * New tool Network discovery, improved vlanplot (the network map)
+For further details on the improvements made in the 2005 releases, we refer to the
 [[http://svn.itea.ntnu.no/repos/nav/navme/tags/3.0.0/CHANGES|3.0 change log with its history]].
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-===== 2006 =====
+===== 2006 - NAV v3.1 =====
 has been a definite upswing for NAV. Project development is now
 supported by the UNINETT
-[[http://www.gigacampus.no/om.en.html|GigaCampus programme]] with an
+[[https://openwiki.uninett.no/gigacampus:about|GigaCampus programme]] with an
 overall goal of getting NAV up and running at most major universities
 and university colleges in Norway within 2008. Morten Brekkevold
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 reduce the Cricket collector frequency for gigabit switch ports from
 every 1 minute to every 5 minutes, thus removing the need to have a
-separate configuration tree for gigabit ports.
+separate configuration tree for gigabit ports. The IP Device Center (later renamed to IP Device Info) was introduced.
 We established a project page for NAV at SourceForge.  This was used
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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.
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 and message systems, rewritten from scratch, after many usability
 complaints from users.  The Perl SMS daemon was rewritten in Python,
-adding support for SMS dispatcher plugins.  Much of the
+adding support for SMS dispatcher plugins.  The Ranked Statisdtics feature
+was introduced. Much of the
 behind-the-scenes HTML and CSS was cleaned up and restructured. The
 release also brought numerous small improvements to NAV overall.
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 device history was greatly improved.  The web interface received a
 major facelift.  Switch/router interface names replaced port numbers
-as identifiers in most parts of the web interface.
+as identifiers in most parts of the web interface. A router port
+view was added to IP Device Center (Info).
 The 2007 development project saw Morten Brekkevold take over as the
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 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).
+===== 2008 - NAV 3.4 =====
+In May 2008 NAV 3.4 was released. IPv6 support was added for the machine
+tracker, subnet collection and subnet matrix. The LDAP authentication
+was improved.
+In the summer and autumn there was ongoing development for v3.5.
+===== 2009 - NAV 3.5 =====
+In January NAV 3.5 was released:
+  * A new and improved IP Device Info now replaced IP Device Center.
+  * Alert Profiles and Alert Engine were rewritten in Python.
+  * vlanplot was replaced by netmap.
+  * Network explorer was rewritten in Python.
+  * A new Radius tool was introduced that was able to track 802.1X authenticated users on the network
+  * Report was improved and local reports were allowed
+  * HP switch switch stack support was report do to many problems
+===== 2010 - NAV 3.6/3.7 =====
+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:
+  * 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
+NAV 3.7 came just a month after 3.6, in November, introducing more results from summer students:
+  * 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
+===== 2011 - NAV 3.8/3.9/3.10 =====
+In February NAV 3.8 was out with:
+  * 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
+In May 3.9 came with:
+  * 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
+In December 3.10 came with:
+  * 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
+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.
+ ===== 2012 - NAV 3.11/3.12 =====
+In March NAV 3.11 was released with the following improvements:
+  * 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.
+In June 2012 the number of full time NAV-developers doubled!
+In September NAV 3.12 was out with:
+  * 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