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Release Version 7.6.7

Release Date: 28th April’ 2021

What’s New?​

Performance Improvement​

As a part of continuous improvement in performance, we have reduced the time for Bulk Backup and Bulk Discovery functionality. For this the plugin SSH NCM Collector and Telnet NCM Collector is updated to version 3.9 and 3.0 respectively.

Manage Tags and Multiple Device Selection​

As an improvement, updation of Tags feature is improved same available as in Monitors. Also, the selection of devices supported is made multiple.

Ubuntu Upgrade support added in NMS​

User can now upgrade the NMS platform from existing to Ubuntu 20.04.

Improvement in Rediscover Feature​

Now, if any user uses the re-discovery feature, all the data will be reflected as per new discovery in Interface Summary.

Linux Discovery​

A new parameter is added in Network discovery, which will enable the binding and generating new alerts based on instances. For this the plugin Linux Metric Collector is updated to version 8.7.

Support of Netconf protocol added in NCM​

Support is added in NCM for Netconf protocol which includes Backup, Restore, Configuration and Discovery features. For this the plugin Netconf NCM Collector is updated to version 1.3.

Support to add Third Party Downtime details​

Provision is made to add the unplanned third party downtime details in SLA Calculation report. Also, this is made on an abstract layer design which does not affect the actual SLA calculation. The only impacted fields are Violation Time and Compliance Time.

.txt format added to save backup​

Now, .txt format is added for storing the backup in Local or FTP server for all the NCM devices. For this, various plugins are updated.

Maintenance % added in UP/DOWN time​

Maintenance% is added in UP Time and DOWN time as an improvement, an option is added in Global Settings, where the maintenance time is added in Uptime.

Enhanced Alert Pop-up in NMS​

The watcher job timing is lowered to keep an eye on the Disk Utilization of the Motadata Server. A pop-up is available that notifies about the disk utilization if reaches above 92%.

Improvement in Audit Logs​

Major improvements are done in the description of Audit logs for the USER and NCM module. The audit logs will now show the changes done along with the devices/monitors IP’s.

HTML Format Added​

User will now be able to download the Reports and Dashboards in HTML format also. Also, support of scheduling the reports in HTML is added.

Database Monitor Plugin​

A new plugin database monitoring is developed with different Oracle KPI’s. For which the plugin Oracle is updated to version 3.8 and Oracle Table Space is updated to 3.6.

Update in Graph Information​

As an improvement, the information displayed while showing the graphical representation of data is updated. Now, the displaying units will include kbps for measurement.

Bug Fixes​

  • Powershell Script and its data was not getting reflected in GUI, which is fixed now. For which the plugin Windows Powershell Script is update to version 7.7.

  • The wrong data was showing in interface utilization percentage and graph. For this the plugin SNMP was updated to version 8.4.

  • After daily quota has exceeded, log/flow was not showing correct data of the next day as the times was not reset which is now resolved.

  • Archival Job restoration was failing due to some issue. This is resolved and the utilities are converted from java to python. For this the plugin Motadata–report–db–archival–job is updated to version 1.5.

  • An issue was reported where the Edit and Delete option was not working for report section in Admin module, which is resolved now.

  • Error pop-ups were getting prompted for permission while creating a widget in report for Superadmin users, which is resolved now.

  • Hyper-V Cluster plugin was showing errors during discovery, due to which the network metric details were not getting collected. This is resolved now and the plugin Hyper V-cluster is updated to version 2.3.

  • An issue reported where an error was getting displayed in URL Monitor, which is resolved now. For this the plugin URL is updated to version 4.9.

  • An issue was reported where, the report data was showing 0 KB in the exported file name. For this, the changes are made at coding level.

  • An issue was observed where the backup files were not getting uploaded successfully on Windows FTP Server, which is resolved now.

  • NCM Backup was failing without the rediscovery repetition when user was trying to change the host name, which is resolved now.

  • While creating SLA, the upper limit and lower limit values can now be added upto 4 decimal points. Also, on a later stage, though the action is deleted configuration data will be populated correctly with required details.

  • After the implementation of SSL in Clickhouse, the Report DB Backup was failing due to some error, which is resolved now. For this the plugin Motadata–report–db–backup–job is updated to version 1.4.

  • An issue was observed where the Tejas Switch was not getting discovered in NMS, which is resolved now.