Release Date: November 30th, 2023
Alerting Updates
- Improved alert configuration workflow
- Better control over alerting in response to threshold breaches
- HTML support added to alerting emails, including:
- WYSIWYG editor
- HTML content formatting
- Inserting links, tables, and images
- Expanded variable shortcode lists for access to additional data relating to the entity (device, interface, etc.) and event triggering the alert
For more information, see Alerting.
New MAC-IP Reporting
MAC-IP monitoring and tracking have been updated improving how your MAC-IP data is presented in reports and dashboards, and simplifying the process of tracking MACs as they move through your network.
- Stock MAC-IP reports have been replaced
- Updated MAC-IP dashboard
- Changes to how MAC-IP data is stored
Note:
- Existing MAC-IP data is not compatible with the new system and will be deleted during the upgrade process
- Please allow up to 60 minutes from completion of the upgrade process for fresh MAC-IP data to be available in Statseeker
For more information, see MAC-IP Tracking.
Product Changes
- OS updated to FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p5
- Added ability to create new user accounts during system installation
- Moved “Statseeker Server Overview” and “Process Details” dashboards to the Admin Tool
- Filtered data type lists across the Admin Tool to only list data types currently monitored by Statseeker
- Updated Cisco ACI module to add compatibility with newer APIC versions
Resolved Issues
- Resolved an issue with python log file rotation using disk nodes
- Fixed a rare condition where some entities were missing from reports
- Fixed the group filter not applying to select-all operation when assigning ping devices to OAs
- Resolved SNMPv3 polling failures when using multiple authentication types
- Removed limit from the number of groups available in the OA – Ping Assign Devices page
- Preventing debug python log from growing too large
- Resolved an issue with IP address changes on Observability Appliances not applying correctly
- Resolved an issue with device IP address changes not being applied for servers without the 5.6.0 service pack
- Fixed an issue using autogrouping to assign ‘vendor’ to some ping-only devices
- Resolved various cross-site scripting vulnerabilities
Product Changes
- Replaced MAC-IP reports, see MAC-IP Tracking
Resolved Issues
- Resolved an issue with the SNMP Availability drilldown report not loading
- Resolved Interface Availability drilldown report not applying filters correctly
- Resolved an issue with historical ping SLA calculations using an incorrect date
- Resolves an issue where extra MAC-IP results were appearing in interface report drilldown views
- Resolved an issue with broken CSV email attachments in some reports
- Resolved an issue with certain groups not always appearing in SLA reports
- Reduced Meraki process memory usage when module not enabled
- Fixed the case where ping unreachable devices weren’t being ignored in a rewalk
- Fixed the Device Viewer report not loading for users with numeric-only usernames
- Resolved an issue with incorrect ping status being reported in certain situations for long-running servers
- Resolved Device Viewer report not loading on systems with a non-default ‘Today’ timefilter
Product Changes
- Updated MAC-IP dashboard, see MAC-IP Tracking
- Added alternative zoom mode to imagemap panels, nodes and links can be set to scale\not-scale with the zoom setting
- Minor layout improvements
- Tightened constraints around dashboard Imagemap panel image uploads
Resolved Issues
- Fixed an issue with accessing dashboard field sub-menus in Firefox
- Resolved missing fields when editing the Interface Traffic World Map dashboard template
- Fixed certain time filters causing reports not to load when opened as a drilldown from a dashboard
- Fixed not escaping content in Pie-chart Panel drilldowns
- Fix auto-fit to nodes behavior in dashboard’s Image Map panel
- Resolved issues with advanced variable usage in Worldmap Panel drilldown links
- Imagemap panels no longer prompt to “save changes” when the panel has not been modified
- Resolved an issue with a Network Summary dashboard unreachable device counts mismatch
Product Changes
- Improved alerting interface, see Alerting for details
- Expanded the list of fields and metrics available for use in alerting emails
- Improved regex support in alerts
Resolved Issues
- Resolved an issue with upstream device up alerts not sending
- Resolved an issue with custom SNMP timeout values not applying
- Alerts on SNMP state now correctly follow waiting options and include missing duration values
- Fixed Ping alerts not being sent when entities are down\breached at the start of a specified alerting period
- Resolved missing duration in Ping alerts
- Addressed a situation where alerts could be sent when disabling SNMP polling
- Resolved an issue with thresholds on interface errors or discards not triggering
- Modifying an existing threshold no longer triggers alerts
- Resolved threshold alerts triggering for similarly named thresholds
Product Changes
- Improved optimization when applying limits in linked API queries
- New API Resources:
- cdt_cpu_viptela (CPU – Viptela)
- cdt_memory_viptela (Memory – Viptela)
- cdt_wlc_cisco_ap (WLC – Cisco AP)
- cdt_wlc_cisco_ap_cdp (WLC – Cisco AP CDP)
- cdt_wlc_cisco_ap_if (WLC – Cisco AP Interfaces)
- Deprecated API Resources:
- cdt_mis (MAC/IP/Switch Port) – replaced with mis_record (MAC-IP Records)
For details on all API resource level endpoints, see the API Resource Reference.
Resolved Issues
- Fixed polling issue with ping-only devices added via the API
- API now hides unavailable commands from API descriptions for read-only users
- The API now correctly applies timefmt to the start_time field format
- The ’95th percentile’ aggregation format is now calculated correctly