Release Date: 11-Jan-2019

Product Changes
  • Added support for multiple ‘admin’ level user accounts
  • Improved the ability to manage polling of custom data types at a per device level from within the Custom Data Details report
  • Added the ability to manage the inclusion of historical data from retired entities when generating custom reports
  • Additional security options for the email server
  • Expanded vendor list and interface types for use with discovery rules
  • More easily manage the polling state of non-licensed entities
  • Can now select the colors used in strip charts
  • Improved efficiency of background processes
  • Cisco Port Based QoS has been deprecated, use Cisco Class Based QoS instead
  • Various visual upgrades to custom reporting defaults
  • Improved performance when loading Device Viewer
  • Improved discovery performance for Custom OIDs
  • Added a range of CDT packages to the default install providing additional reporting options:
    • Application Service reports for Juniper devices
    • Custom Asset Registry reports
    • Device Health Reports including specialized Cisco TCAM reports
    • Environmental Monitoring Equipment reports for APC, Geist and Interseptor
    • Manufacturer-specific firewall reports for Checkpoint, Cisco, F5, Fortinet, Juniper and Palo Alto devices
    • A wide range of custom IP interface statistics reports including specialized reports for Etherlike and Apcon devices
    • Specialized F5 Load Balancer reports
    • A wide range of Cisco Class-Based Quality of Service (QoS) reports
    • Topology reports
    • Custom VPN reports for F5 APM and Cisco VPN, IPSEC and SCV
    • Custom Voice and Call reports
    • Specialized Riverbed WAN, Cisco 3G/4G WAN, and Ubiquiti AirMax, Radio, and Wireless reports
  • Added the ability to manage SSL certificates and cipher lists from the Administration Tool
  • Improved the ability to configure display options for reports being output to PDF
  • Added a user-specific default Top N setting
  • Fresh installs now default to HTTPS for serving the web interface
  • Improved data format checks used prior to restoring installations from backup
  • Implemented Mac/IP change to better support Juniper devices
  • Added user-specific date format configuration options when exporting data
  • Added the ability to redirect HTTP connections to HTTPS
Note:

  • If both HTTP and HTTPS are enabled, upgrading will enable HTTP -> HTTPS redirection
  • If HTTPS is enabled, HTTP requests to the API will be redirected to HTTPS via a 308 response code and some older user agents may not handle this. Update your API scripts to use HTTPS.
Bug Fixes
  • Custom reports with attribute filters now export to *.csv correctly
  • Custom reports will only display in the NIM Console when configured to do so
  • Threshold Events reports no longer display total bytes in scientific notation
  • Sorting custom event reports by ifOperStatus no longer hides rows
  • Removed the duplicate temperature field in Cisco Environment Monitors
  • Resolved an issue preventing multiple entity filters in some Threshold report configurations
  • The threshold configuration ‘Add All’ option now works as intended
  • Addressed a few spelling errors in UI components
  • File System Storage Used was being incorrectly calculated in some instances
  • Resolved an issue with the use of the ‘totals cache’
  • Importing embedded reports via an SCS package now works as intended
  • Resolved a timeseries database locking issue
  • Fixed an issue with upgrading servers where very old CDT packages were present
  • Resolved an issue where renaming devices from the Device Details report wasn’t being passed on to the subsequent configuration build
  • Fixed a bug preventing the display of the groups list when configuring thresholds
  • Fixed an issue which prevented updates to user accounts passwords in a specific instance
  • Resolved an issue where communication timeouts could result in subsequent requests being dropped
  • Fixed an issue preventing Grafana integrations from communicating with Statseeker when LDAP authentication was used
  • Fixed a bug preventing the editing of group-filtered thresholds which don’t have a group set
  • Mounted ISO’s no longer trigger ‘file system full’ warnings
  • Log scaled data graphs now scale axis’ correctly
  • Sorting now works correctly for attribute filtered reports
  • SCS uploads no longer fail for very large packages
  • Resolved an issue preventing SLA data displaying correctly in some dashboard elements
  • Syslog messages containing commas no longer crop the alert email event text
  • Legacy event based reports now handle missing devices correctly
  • Single device discovery now correctly discovers custom data entities
API v2.1 r7: Product Changes
  • Added support for requesting data for multiple instances of the same field in a single call
  • Can now set global field options for all timeseries fields in a request
  • Added support for setting polling interval on a per field basis
  • Can now query data from ancestor objects in a request targeting a descendant object
  • Expanded options for data aggregation
  • Expanded options for data formats to include forecast data and anomaly metrics
  • Object type cdt_virtual_memory has been deprecated, use cdt_memory_virtual instead
  • API v1 has been deprecated, use v2.1 instead
  • A range of performance improvements have been made
  • The ‘describe’ command now outputs enum values where relevant
  • Added a range of event field formats
API v2.1 r7: Bug Fixes
  • Sorting on aggregate values now works as intended
  • A small number of fields were misreporting their field type
  • API now correctly alerts when attempting invalid field updates on the cdt_ranges object
  • Added missing datatype values for a number of fields
  • Updating the discovery configuration now works as intended
  • Fixed an issue where memorySize returned NULL in some instances
  • Addressed an issue preventing configuration builds after deleting user accounts via the API