Current VersionArchive
Version 5.5.5
Release Date
- 13-April-2022
- Major Features
- System and Administration
- Reporting
- Dashboards
- Thresholds & Alerting
- API
- Upgrade Paths
Image Map Panel Update
Statseeker’s Image Map panel now offers the ability to add links and configure those links to report timeseries or event data. This functionality greatly expands the range of use-cases for the Image Map panel, including the creation of interactive network topology maps.
For more details, see Image Map.
Ping RTT Comparison Dashboard
Offers a detailed view into the historical Ping data for a device, or directly compares that data across two devices. The dashboard features:
- Variable driven coloring rules – dynamically assign threshold values to suit the specific devices being reviewed in the dashboard and have the data colored according to those values
- Drilldowns to historical ping-outage data
Product Changes
- OS updated to FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE-p3, for details see the FreeBSD website
- Statseeker deployment options are now available in the Azure Marketplace
- Added support for SNMP v2 and 3 trap messages
- Added the ability to assign groups to users during the user configuration process
- Implemented a range of platform and module security improvements
- Improved the performance of discovery and rewalk processes
- Updated minimum disk size requirement for RNAs
- RNA images now include open-vm-tools
- Updated timezone list content
- Updated a number of services to prevent potential data loss arising from entity remapping in specific circumstances
Resolved Issues
- Resolved an issue that could cause data polling to halt when log files were rotated in extremely large networks
- Resolved an issue that could create dead processes after SNMPwalks
- Addressed an issue which could inadvertently set the device naming scheme to ‘manual’
- Resolved an issue where certain Dashboard Preferences settings could corrupt system configuration entries
- Resolved an issue which could cause groups to be incorrectly populated after entities were deleted from Statseeker
- Resolved an issue where the database pruning process could cause interruptions to timeseries polling
- Addressed an issue where a corrupt timefilter configuration could prevent the reporting Console from loading
- Addressed an issue causing the ‘Retire Device’ process to fail in some instances
- Resolved an issue preventing High-Availability fail-overs on servers using Radius authentication
- Resolved an issue where upgrading a server with corrupt server options entries resulted in Dashboards being unavailable
- Addressed an issue where device state was not correctly recorded if that state changed while restoring a server from backup
- Polling of interfaces that had been disabled due to exceeding license limits is re-enabled once that limit is not longer exceeded
Product Changes
- Added the ability for the Statseeker server to report on it’s own health metrics
Resolved Issues
- Device filters are now correctly applied to default syslog reports
- Resolved an issue where packet counts of “0”‘ were displayed as “-0” in specific instances
- Resolved an issue that caused MAC-IP records for interfaces with stable IP’s to be dropped form MAC-IP reports in some instances
- Resolved an issue causing the default Interface SLA Availability report to fail on some new installs
- The Console “Clear Filters” button now works as intended
- Resolved an issue causing additional email scheduler windows to be launched when adding reports to a schedule
- Resolved an issue causing incorrect data in the Device Viewer’s recent events reports
Product Changes
- Added new default dashboards:
- Ping RTT Comparison
- Statseeker Server Overview
- Statseeker Process Details
- Added the ability to create configurable links within Image Map panels
- Added the ability to reference variable values in coloring rule configurations
- Expanded the timefilter options for panel specific timefilter overrides
- Improved the geolocation data precision within Worldmap panels
- Dashboard favorites are now available from the Dashboards item in the main navigator
- Minor updates to some default dashboards
- Expanded the range of data format presentation options in panel configurations
- Legacy dashboards are unavailable on new installs and read-only on upgraded servers
Resolved Issues
- Imagemap icons are now available on High Availability deployments
- Addressed an issue with some drilldown link configurations in the default Asset Overview dashboard
Product Changes
- Improved the load time for both the Threshold and Alert configuration screens
Resolved Issues
- Alert email previews now display correctly formatted output
- Excessive SNMPTrap message length no longer causes associated alerts to fail
Product Changes
- Improved the performance of the API on servers with extremely high entity counts
- New API Resources:
- cdt_cpu_freebsd (CPU – FreeBSD)
- cdt_cpu_ucd (CPU – UCD)
- cdt_device_freebsd (Device – FreeBSD)
- cdt_diskio (Disk IO – FreeBSD)
- cdt_filesystem_freebsd (File System – FreeBSD)
- cdt_ip_addr_freebsd (IP Address Table – FreeBSD)
- cdt_memory_checkpoint (Memory – Checkpoint)
- cdt_memory_checkpoint_virtual (Memory – Checkpoint Swap)
- cdt_memory_freebsd (Memory – FreeBSD)
- cdt_memory_virtual_freebsd (Memory – Virtual – FreeBSD)
- cdt_ping_data (Ping Data)
- cdt_port_freebsd (Interface – FreeBSD)
- cdt_process_table (Process Details)
- cdt_t128_peer (128T Router Peers)
For details on all API resource level endpoints, see Resource Reference.
- removed API Resources:
- cdt_cisco_port_qos_cos_stats (Deprecated Cisco Port QoS COS Stats)
- cdt_cisco_port_qos_dscp_stats (Deprecated Cisco Port QoS DSCP Stats)
- cdt_cisco_port_qos_egress_queue_stats (Deprecated Cisco Port QoS Egress Queue Stats)
- cdt_cisco_port_qos_stats (Deprecated Cisco Port QoS Stats)
- cdt_f5_loadbalance (Deprecated F5 LoadBalance Pool Connections)
- cdt_f5_loadbalance_member (Deprecated F5 LoadBalance Pool Member Connections)
- cdt_f5_loadbalance_virtual (Deprecated F5 LoadBalance Virtual Server)
- cdt_virtual_memory (Deprecated Virtual Memory)
Statseeker supports the following upgrade paths to v5.5.5:
- v5.5.4 -> v5.5.5
For details and instructions on upgrading your Statseeker server, refer to: Statseeker Upgrade Guides
Version 5.5.4
Release Date
- 28-July-2021
Baseline Data and Anomaly Detection
By providing historical baseline data (raw data, calculated metrics and graphical overlays) you are able to compare current network behavior to historical norms, quickly and simply identifying unusual/anomalous behavior. For more information, see Baselining.
Authentication Update
Statseeker now offers configurable token-based authentication for file, LDAP and RADIUS authentication methods. In addition, Statseeker offers authentication through 3rd party SAML-based authentication services, see User Authentication for details.
Syslog and Server-Health Dashboards
New Syslog and Server Health dashboards are available from the Default Dashboards folder. Copy and customize these dashboards to satisfy your Syslog and Server Health monitoring needs.
Trendline Analytics Update
Additional trendline analytic options allow for quick and simple configurations of reports, dashboards and thresholds to highlight both large changes in any metric as well as gradual changes in highly variable data. For more information, see Trendline Analytics.
Product Changes
- Added bulk device geolocation update function to the Admin Tool
- Updated the MAC-IP-Switchport package adding control over data retention
- Updated support for running statseeker in Microsoft Azure
- Updated support for running statseeker in VMware
- Added the ability to download log files from the Admin Tool
- Accessibility improvements for the Console
- Accessibility improvements for the user configuration page in the Admin Tool
- Added a history of discover logs
- Updated the content of the Statseeker Diagnostic report
- Added ability to prune device event data
- Added port option to the SNMP walk tool
- Added the SNMP walk tool to the Device Viewer
- Improved detection of the upgrade process completing
- Improved handling of exceeded devices/interfaces on rewalk
- Improved memory usage of ACI collection process
- Improved performance of the Console device filter for servers with large numbers of devices
- Improved performance of the rewalk process
- Improved support for APC UPS devices using SNMPv3
- Improved support in Network Discovery for paired ASA devices
- Improved the performance of the device delete/retire action
- Network Discovery performance improvements for existing devices by reusing known credentials and added an ‘Ignore saved details’ option to perform a full discovery
- Removed support for weak SSH ciphers
- Replaced old login popup with a new login page
- User Interface improvements for the Users, Timefilters, SLA, Device Retire/Delete, Alerting, Threshold and Grouping pages in the Admin Tool
Resolved Issues
- Fixed issue where NTP and PDF export settings weren’t restored from backup
- Fixed issues with renaming ACI devices
- Resolved duplication issue with NBAR data that had changed SNMP indexes
- Resolved issue with retired devices being included in duplicate snmpengineid checks during discovery
- Resolved issues with devices added by hostfile not having geolocation data set
- Restrict changing system passwords to the original ‘admin’ user
- Resolved an issue preventing configuration files from syncing on HA installations in some instances
Product Changes
- Updated the MAC-IP-Switchport package including the addition of new MAC-IP reports and drilldowns
- Added new trendline change and baseline analytics for timeseries data
- Updated the default Memory, CPU, and Temperature graph reports
- Added custom (non-95th) percentiles to custom reporting
- Added ability to customize the timeframe to use for analytics data
- Cleanup and reordered the report list in the Console
- Improved display of custom graph reports with missing data
- Improved performance of the Reporting page for systems with lots of users
- Improved performance of the custom report device filter for servers with large numbers of devices
- Improved scaling of graphs in custom reports
- Report text filter now applies to columns with dates
- The following custom monitoring packages have been rolled into the base Statseeker installation:
- Checkpoint VPN Sessions
- Cisco EIGRP
- Cisco EIGRP Peer
- Cisco IF Extension
- Citrix Netscaler AAA Stats
- CPU – Alteon
- Enviromux Environmental Monitoring – External – DewPoint
- Enviromux Environmental Monitoring – External – Humidity
- Enviromux Environmental Monitoring – External – Temperature
- Enviromux Environmental Monitoring – Internal – DewPoint
- Enviromux Environmental Monitoring – Internal – Humidity
- Enviromux Environmental Monitoring – Internal – Temperature
- Fortinet Fortigate VPN Stats
- Memory – Alcatel – AOS7
- Memory – Alteon
- Temperature – Alcatel – AOS7
- Temperature – APC Internal
- Power Systems – Battery
- Power Systems Battery – Alpha Power
- Power Systems Battery – APC Schneider Electric UPS
- Power Systems Battery – Generic UPS
- Power Systems – Input
- Power Systems Input – Alpha Power
- Power Systems Input – APC Schneider Electric UPS
- Power Systems Input – Generic UPS
- Power Systems – Output
- Power Systems Output – Argus/Alpha
- Power Systems Output – APC Schneider Electric UPS
- Power Systems Output – Generic UPS
- Power Systems – Status
- Power Systems Status – Alpha Power
- Power Systems Status – APC Schneider Electric UPS
- Power Systems Status – Generic UPS
Resolved Issues
- Fixed issue where the current timeseries format could sometimes be blank for temperature data
- Fixed issue with device filter on syslog and SNMP trap reports
- Fixed issue with drilldown links in custom graph reports
- Fixed issue with using ifOperStatus and ifAdminStatus in autogrouping rules
- Resolved incorrect application of timefilter in the ping current unreachable report
- Resolved issue with ping-only devices not appearing in some reports
- Resolved reporting issues for devices that had IP addresses as their name
Product Changes
- The dashboards worldmap panel now supports specifying a custom map provider, which can be set globally or per-panel
- Reworked the Image Map panel providing a wide range of changes including uploaded image management, icon libraries for nodes and expanded background\image presentation
- User Interface improvements throughout dashboard panel configuration
- Added custom (non-95th) percentiles to custom dashboards
- Minor improvements to both configuration and content for all default dashboards
Resolved Issues
- Fixed timing issue with concurrent dashboard loads
- Resolved dashboards issue on first-time HA failover
- Resolved issue where panels with timefilter overrides could lose their override
- Resolved issue where the timefilter in the dashboards would reset on certain interactions
- Resolved issue with Cisco CB QoS data not appearing in dashboards
Product Changes
- Added ability to copy existing alerts, thresholds, and autogrouping rules
- Added ability to threshold on the number of values in a timefilter
API v2.1 r12: Product Changes
- Added support for token-based authentication and the ability to set the authentication method accepted by the API
- Improved performance for concurrent RESTful API requests
- New API Resources (For details on all API resource level endpoints, see Resource Reference)
- Checkpoint VPN Sessions (cdt_checkpoint_vpn_sessions)
- Cisco EIGRP (cdt_cisco_eigrp)
- Cisco EIGRP Peer (cdt_cisco_eigrp_peer)
- Cisco IF Extension (cdt_cisco_if_extension)
- Citrix Netscaler AAA Stats (cdt_citrix_netscaler_vpn_stats)
- CPU – Alteon (cdt_cpu_alteon)
- Enviromux Environmental Monitoring – External – DewPoint (cdt_env_mon_enviromux_external_dewpoint)
- Enviromux Environmental Monitoring – External – Humidity (cdt_env_mon_enviromux_external_humidity)
- Enviromux Environmental Monitoring – External – Temperature (cdt_env_mon_enviromux_external_temperature)
- Enviromux Environmental Monitoring – Internal – DewPoint (cdt_env_mon_enviromux_internal_dewpoint)
- Enviromux Environmental Monitoring – Internal – Humidity (cdt_env_mon_enviromux_internal_humidity)
- Enviromux Environmental Monitoring – Internal – Temperature (cdt_env_mon_enviromux_internal_temperature)
- Fortinet Fortigate VPN Stats (cdt_fortigate_vpn_stats)
- Memory – Alcatel – AOS7 (cdt_memory_alcatel_aos7)
- Memory – Alteon (cdt_memory_alteon)
- Temperature – Alcatel – AOS7 (cdt_temperature_alcatel_aos7)
- Temperature – APC Internal (cdt_temperature_apc_int)
- Field (field)
- Power Systems – Battery (cdt_power_system_battery)
- Power Systems Battery – Alpha Power (cdt_power_system_battery_alpha)
- Power Systems Battery – APC Schneider Electric UPS (cdt_power_system_battery_apcups)
- Power Systems Battery – Generic UPS (cdt_power_system_battery_generic_ups)
- Power Systems – Input (cdt_power_system_input)
- Power Systems Input – Alpha Power (cdt_power_system_input_alpha)
- Power Systems Input – APC Schneider Electric UPS (cdt_power_system_input_apcups)
- Power Systems Input – Generic UPS (cdt_power_system_input_generic_ups)
- Power Systems – Output (cdt_power_system_output)
- Power Systems Output – Argus/Alpha (cdt_power_system_output_alpha)
- Power Systems Output – APC Schneider Electric UPS (cdt_power_system_output_apcups)
- Power Systems Output – Generic UPS (cdt_power_system_output_generic_ups)
- Power Systems – Status (cdt_power_system_status)
- Power Systems Status – Alpha Power (cdt_power_system_status_alpha)
- Power Systems Status – APC Schneider Electric UPS (cdt_power_system_status_apcups)
- Power Systems Status – Generic UPS (cdt_power_system_status_generic_ups)
- MAC Records (mac)
- MAC/IP/Switch Port Records (mis_record)
Version 5.5.3
Release Date
- 15-September-2020
New MAC – IP Default Dashboard
We have added a new MAC-IP dashboard to the Default Dashboards folder. This dashboard offers an overview of the network’s MAC/IP/Switchport configuration with breakdowns by VLAN, device, interface, and ARP Router.
Image Map Dashboard Panel
Added a new Image Map dashboard panel type, this panel allows you to place nodes over a custom background image, and have those nodes display configuration, state or timeseries data. See Dashboard Image Map Panel for details and example configurations.
Report Replacement
The following reports have been replaced with new versions. Any existing custom links from dashboards/custom reports will still access the old report but should be updated to point to the new report.
- Ping Current Status
- Ping Current Unavailable
- Ping Top Delay (ms) Graphs
- Ping Statistics
- Interface Current Unavailable
The following reports have been replaced with new versions. Any existing custom links from dashboards/custom reports will no longer work and should be updated to point to the new report.
- Syslog Report
- SNMP Traps Report
In-Report Filtering Options
Custom reports now feature in-report Group, Device and Text/RegEx filtering options, see In-Report Filters for details.
Product Changes
- OS updated to FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE-p3, for details see the FreeBSD website
- Added support for configuring local server for IPv6
- Added support for monitoring devices over IPv6 network
- Added SFTP support for backup and restoration processes
- Added CDT packages to the default install providing additional reporting options for:
- VPN session and connection details for Cisco, F5, Juniper, Palo Alto and SonicWall
- WAN details for Cisco WAAS, Cisco AppNav, and Riverbed
- Added an option to the Admin Tool to purge existing MAC-IP data
- ‘Statseeker Classic’ license tier renamed to ‘Statseeker Core’
- FTP and Telnet connection to the Statseeker server are disabled by default
- Added options when uninstalling SCS packages to also remove associated reports and entity records
- Removed the ‘Standard Console’ display option
- Added the ability to override the default port used for SNMP polling of an entity
- Statseeker Classic/Core tier licenses now allow custom data polling
Resolved Issues
- Resolved an issue where very large event databases can cause the diagnostic report to fail
- Resolved an issue allowing the TRACE command to be run on Statseeker’s Apache server
- Resolved an issue that could prevent device deletion from completing cleanly
- Fixed an issue preventing the collection of timeseries data due to the ID of the parent entity being lost
- Database pruning processes no longer lock the Events database
- Resolved an issue that could prevent clean database deletion during the upgrade process
- Resolved an issue which could produce excessively large Write-Ahead-Logging files on very large networks
- Clicking a link in the Admin Tool menu no longer clears the content of the search field
- Fixed an issue causing requests to the timeseries cache to load the incorrect range in specific circumstances
- Retired devices are now excluded from processes updating IP addresses
- Resolved an issue that could cause the incorrect License expiry to be displayed after upgrade
- Stale MAC/IP entries are now cleaned up correctly regardless of the cleanup process interval
- Fixed an issue that could cause High-Availability failovers on very large networks to trigger device down events
- Resolved a dashboard issue preventing the title of the first repeated row from updating correctly
Product Changes
- Custom graph reports can now display a custom sub-title for each graph presented in the report, see Custom Reports > Graph Section > Graph Title for details
- Added a ‘search’ feature to the report list in the Reporting editor
- Added the ‘current’ data format for use within reporting
- Added an option to repair custom report lists to the Admin Tool
- Added an alternate, user-specific, row spacing option offering a more compact view for tabular reports, see Editing Users and Updating Preferences
- Improved the performance when exporting reports to pdf
Resolved Issues
- Fixed a memory leak when editing custom graph reports
- Fixed an issue preventing Threshold report drilldowns from returning data
- Resolved an issue preventing Scheduled reports from running after first run
- Scheduled reports now use report specific page size/orientation settings where provided
- Resolved an issue preventing the correct interval being used when returning to the ‘Original Query’ option in the report filters
- Fixed an issue preventing exported reports from using the timefilter in use at the time of export
- Fixed an issue with sorting by column header on the Device Details report
- Fixed an issue that could result in incorrect ping states being displayed after upgrade
- Resolved an issue preventing scheduled reports, that include Custom reports, from being sent
Product Changes
- World Map dashboard panels now offer expanded node-coloring options for maps featuring multiple queries, see Multi-Query Map for an example configuration
- Added the ‘current’ data format for use within dashboards
- Updated the Default Dashboards to utilize new product capabilities and add contextual information
- Added ‘weekday’ and ‘time of day’ filters to Dashboard timefilter options, see Dashboard Time Filters for details
- Added the ability to specify the date format displayed on dashboard graphs, see Graph Panel: Axes for more information
Resolved Issues
- Updated incorrect filters in some Default Dashboard panels
- Filtering dashboard content by a nonexistent event state no longer returns all event records
- Fixed an issue that prevented dashboard histograms from interpreting ‘interval’ correctly
- Singlestat panels no longer present ‘0’ as ‘N/A’ by default
- Dashboard panels now use the correct default aggregation format for time fields
Product Changes
- Threshold configurations can now be disabled but retained
Resolved Issues
- Repeatedly clicking the Alert configuration Save button no longer creates multiple alerts
- Fixed a bug preventing thresholds featuring group filters from triggering in some instances
- Fixed a bug preventing some thresholds from upgrading correctly
API v2.1 r11: Product Changes
- Added the ability to create custom links between resources – see Linked Resources: Custom Links for details
- The ‘/describe’ endpoint response now includes details on all known links
- Added the ability to specify a custom field and have it populated with the result of formulae applied to other fields within the query – see Field Formulas for details
- New API Resources:
Details on all API resource level endpoints can be found in the Resource Reference.
- cdt_cpu_juniper_pulse
- cdt_dell_inventory
- cdt_fan_sensor
- cdt_fan_sensor_cisco
- cdt_fan_sensor_entity
- cdt_ip_address
- cdt_juniper_pulse_vpn_users
- cdt_optical_sensor_cisco
- cdt_other_sensor
- cdt_other_sensor_cisco
- cdt_other_sensor_entity
- cdt_palo_alto_vpn
- cdt_poe_main
- cdt_poe_main_cisco
- cdt_poe_port
- cdt_poe_port_cisco
- cdt_power_amps_sensor
- cdt_power_amps_sensor_cisco
- cdt_power_amps_sensor_entity
- cdt_power_volts_sensor
- cdt_power_volts_sensor_cisco
- cdt_power_volts_sensor_entity
- cdt_power_watts_sensor
- cdt_power_watts_sensor_cisco
- cdt_power_watts_sensor_entity
- cdt_sonicwall_vpn_users
- cdt_temperature_sensor
- cdt_temperature_sensor_cisco
- link
Resolved Issues
- API now uses RxBytes to calculate if90days
- cdt_port – packet fields now specify the correct unit
- Resolved an issue that would apply query response limits prior to global filters in some instances
- When sending multi-object requests, the API now returns an error if one object fails validation while others pass
Current Service Packs
Service packs are periodically released to address issues encountered post-release. For access to these service packs, and assistance with applying them to your Statseeker server, please contact Customer Support.