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Release Version 7.7.8

Release Date: 7th November’ 2023

What’s New?​

Improvements in Topology​

  • The topology data refresh process now takes place in the background.

  • A new “First Triggered Time” column is added to the Monitor Alerts section of the Topology page. You can also sort its data in ascending and descending order.

  • A new “First Triggered Time” column is added to the Alert Stream page. Also, you can sort the data based on the “First Trigger Time” option using the Sort by filter.

  • Topology mapping has been enhanced by using the interface name(oid) for LLDP topology building. For this, the topology builder plugin is updated to 8.

NMS Enhancements for Mobile App​

  • Users can now visualize the Monitor Summary by Tags, providing a more organized and insightful view of their network infrastructure.

  • Added a feature that allows users to easily identify the Top 10 Monitors based on bandwidth utilization.

Support for Audit of Actions update on UI​

The audit entry for Create, Update, and Delete of any actions from the “Actions” page is now available on the “Audits” page.

Report Improvements​

The “IP/Host” column is added to the Export Monitor Inventory report. The column is available in both PDF and CSV formats of the report.

NMS-ServiceOps Integration Enhancement​

Enhanced the ticket generation flow to file-based processing. In case of the ServiceOps upgrade (For example, 15-20 min) or downtime, all the requests are now stored in cache files at the “/motadata/motadata/service-ops-request-cache/” path, and the cache will be triggered to ServiceOps instantly once it is reachable.

Added Unplanned Activity Export option in the Global Settings​

A new “Unplanned Activity Export” option is added to the Global Settings page. It is used to show or hide the unplanned activity details in the exported report. By default, it is enabled. If disabled, the unplanned activity details will not be available in the report.

Low Disk I/O Alerts​

To reduce the number of Disk I/O alerts, a new flow is added to the LowDiskWatchScheduler. It collects the average queue length information of all disks contained in the server every 5 minutes. If the scheduler detects the queue to be >=2 consecutively 3 times, the following actions will take place:

  • Global notification is displayed on the screen

  • The entry is added to the Audit logs

  • Email is sent to the registered email-id

For this, the Linux plugin is updated to version 9.1.

Enhanced Alert Correlation for Ping devices​

Enhanced the alert correlation for ping devices. It can be done in the below three ways:

  • Ping to Ping

  • Ping to SNMP

  • SNMP to Ping

Added a Log Parser for Load Balancer Fortiwan200B device​

Support for parsing the load balancer Fortiwan200B logs is added. For this, the plugin universal-log-parser is updated to v9.1.

Report DB Upgrade​

The Report Database (ClickHouse)is upgraded to v19.17.6.36.

Removed Extra Custom Fields from Download Report​

The unnecessary custom fields are removed from the Download Report.

NMS Upgrade Process is Stabilized​

The following improvements are made to enhance the stability of the upgrade process:

  • Secured the config upgrade utility.

  • The config upgrade utility will be spawned only when necessary. For example, the utility file will be spawned if the H2 version is older and an upgrade is performed.

  • While upgrading H2, the queries will be created only for those tables and columns present in the H2 for a flawless upgrade.

Security Fixes​

No.Vulnerability NameCVE-ID
1Java Management Extensions (JMX/RMI) service detected and resolve-
2jmx agent insecure configuration remote call executive resolve-

Bug Fixes​

  • There was an issue where the UI Action was not working for the RPE devices, which is resolved now. For this, the UI Alert plugin is updated to 1.

  • There was an issue where the Widgets in the Dashboard and Report modules could not be cloned, which is resolved now.

  • There was an issue in upgrading NMS because of some manual alterations and changes in H2, which is resolved now.

  • There was an issue where the RPE got disconnected from the master due to web socket overloading, which is resolved now.

  • There was an issue where, though a ticket already existed in ServiceOps, a new ticket was created for the same monitor and also closed, which is resolved now.

  • There was an issue where polling for all the monitors of the RPE devices was stopped, which is resolved now.

  • There was an issue where the unwanted interface links were created without running the topology builder. Also, the manual unlink functionality was not working, which is resolved now.

  • There was an issue in the Fortinet Firewall plugin where data of only 4 tunnels was displayed, which is resolved now. For this, the Fortinet firewall plugin is updated to 1.

  • There was an issue where the AD users were deleted and recreated on LDAP sync, making the AD server unreachable from NMS, which is resolved now.

  • There was an issue where the schedulers were not visible to the users having Super Admin roles, which is resolved now.

  • There was an issue where the AD server logs were not displayed in the Motadata NMS Dashboard. For this, the universal-log-parser plugin is updated to 2.

  • There was an issue where the “Unknown Error” message appeared while discovering the MySQL Database, which is resolved now. For this, the MySQL Database plugin is updated to 6.

  • The polling queue is enhanced for high performance, and separated go and python queue lanes for both polling engines.