Current VersionArchive
Statseeker Version 5.6.2
Release Date: September 26th, 2024
- Major Features
- System and Administration
- Reporting
- Dashboards
- Thresholds & Alerting
- API
- Upgrade Paths
Discovery Update
The Discovery process has been reworked providing a range of new features and enhancements including:
- SNMPv3 Discovery via IP Address Ranges and Hosts File
- Support for multiple IP Address Range configurations
- Support for multiple SNMP Credential configurations
- A quick and simple process to customize the target and the output of both Discovery and Rewalk
For more information see the Discovery Process.
IP Address Ranges Configurations
Statseeker now supports multiple discrete IP Address Range configurations. These configurations can be selectively applied to both the Discovery and Rewalk processes.
For more information see IP Address Ranges.
SNMP Credentials Configurations
Statseeker now offers a repository for the SNMP Credentials relevant to monitored devices on the network. These configurations can be selectively applied to both the Discovery and Rewalk processes.
For more information see SNMP Credentials.
Dashboard Graphing Performance Improvements
Statseeker v5.6.2 brings a performance boost to dashboard graphs and this is particularly evident when retrieving and rendering very large datasets.
Product Changes
- OS updated to FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE-p5
- Statseeker now requires EFI Boot for fresh installs and server restoration to v5.6.2+ (this does not impact servers upgrading to v5.6.2)
- Updated IP Address Ranges page in the Admin Tool
- Added an SNMP Credentials page to the Admin Tool
- Added the ability to export\import IP Address Range configurations to\from a file
- The creation of default IfSpeed and IfType groups during Discovery is disabled by default
- Modified the range of events which can trigger in-application notifications to prevent notification spam
- Statseeker’s SNMP agent is no longer accessible on external interfaces
- Added a new ‘Restricted’ dashboard user role which prevents access to dashboard content
- Device naming now support underscore (_) characters
- Updated the server’s SSH package
- The Diagnostic report now includes details on monitored Meraki infrastructure
- Disabled the the server’s local SNMP agent (can be re-enabled if required, please contact Statseeker Support for assistance)
Resolved Issues
- Observability Appliance creation no longer fails if the server is currently collecting MAC-IP data
- User accounts can no longer be created without assigning a password
- Addressed an issue that could prevent polling of large devices from completing in some circumstances
- Resolved an issue that could duplicate Admin Tool menu items after server restoration
- Resolved an issues that could result in invalid Admin Tool menu items after upgrade
- Addressed a few minor issues that could lead to unnecessary entries in the Diagnostic Report
- Resolved an issue which prevented successful pruning of event and threshold databases
- Resolved an issue preventing page scrolling in Event Management
- MAC/IP data collection no longer slows down Discovery
- The application of Service Packs no longer interferes with Observability Appliance data collection
- Addressed a memory leak in the real-time poller
- Search now works correctly in ‘Add/Edit Users’
- Links to Statseeker GUI pages are processed correctly on login
- Backup destination paths featuring trailing slash (/) characters no longer cause backups to fail
- Resolved an issue preventing notification messages being displayed in response to Meraki settings updates
Product Changes
- Users can now edit reports for data types not currently monitored by the server
- Added a Meraki Network status to differentiate between when polling a Network fails and when the polling exceeded a defined rate limit
- The Meraki data collector now correctly handles responses which contain no data
New Data Types
- Cisco VPN Profiles – expands Cisco VPN monitoring with VPN profile usage data
- Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) – performance and activity data from both cloud and on-premise WSA deployments
- F5 Memory – adding Host, Swap, and Transparent Memory Management (TMM)
- Huawei-3Com Network Quality Analyzer (HH3C NQA) – network performance monitoring focusing on packet loss and jitter
- Infoblox DHCP and DNS statistics
- Microsoft DHCP
- Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Neighbor Monitoring – OSPF dynamic routing configuration, performance and activity
- Vertiv Environmental Monitoring – hardware status, dew point, humidity, and temperature
Resolved Issues
- Resolved a number of issues which could potentially result in displaying an incorrect Meraki Event state
- Meraki event order is maintained if polling is momentarily unavailable
- Addressed issues affecting the cleanup of Meraki Organizations and Networks
- Addressed a potential data security issue when constructing summary reports
- Resolved an issue preventing custom reports, created by deleted users, from being run
- Resolved an issue preventing MAC/IP data collection in some instances
Product Changes
- Substantially improved the performance of graph rendering for large data sets (no reduction in data granularity or accuracy)
Resolved Issues
- Map panel data now updates correctly on auto-refresh
- Addressed an issue with an event filter in the Meraki Appliance Overview dashboards
- Applied a missing filter in the Meraki Inventory dashboard
- Dashboards with collapsed rows no longer mistakenly display the save confirmation dialog on exit
Resolved Issues
- Resolved an issue where the Events queue could be corrupted during a server restoration process
- HTML alerts can now access the content made available via Statseeker API ‘Custom Links’
- Addressed an issue that could hide the content of saved interface filters in alert configurations
- Device State now updates correctly following a state change during an event discard window
- Resolved an issue which could prevent event processing in some circumstances
- Addressed a few minor formatting issues in HTML alerts
- Addressed an issue with Upstream Device configurations which incorrectly suppressed alerts
- Addressed a memory leak in the alerting processor
Product Changes
- The ‘Current’ format now returns the last non-null value from the 4 most recent polling cycles
- New API Resources:
- cdt_cisco_vpn_profiles (Cisco VPN Profiles)
- cdt_cisco_wsa_cache (Cisco WSA (Web Security Appliance))
- cdt_dhcp_infoblox_scopes (Infoblox – DHCP)
- cdt_dhcp_infoblox_stats (Infoblox – DHCP Stats)
- cdt_dhcp_microsoft_scopes (DHCP Scopes – Microsoft)
- cdt_dhcp_microsoft_stats (DHCP Stats – Microsoft)
- cdt_dns_infoblox_stats (Infoblox – DNS)
- cdt_dns_infoblox_zone (Infoblox – DNS – Zone)
- cdt_env_mon_vertiv (Vertiv Environmental Monitoring)
- cdt_hh3c_nqa (HH3C – NQA)
- cdt_memory_f5_host (Memory – F5 Host)
- cdt_memory_f5_host_other (Memory – F5 Host Other)
- cdt_memory_f5_swap (Memory – F5 Swap)
- cdt_memory_f5_tmm (Memory – F5 TMM)
- cdt_ospf (OSPF Neighbor Monitoring)
- cdt_ospf_if (OSPF Neighbor Interfaces)
- discover_history (Discover History)
- ip_range_config (IP Range Configuration)
- irc_to_sc_map (IP Range Configuration to SNMP Credential Map)
- snmp_credential (SNMP Credential Details)
For details on all API resource level endpoints, see the API Resource Reference.
Note: Statseeker v5.6.2 includes fundamental changes to the Discovery process and to managing IP scan ranges for Discovery. Any scripts that manage Discovery or Discovery related IP Ranges via the API will need to be updated, see Discovery via the API for details and examples.
Resolved Issues
- API requests no longer fail when requesting the device field from Syslog and Trap messages arriving from undiscovered devices
- Queries returning vals, with the same time range length, now consistently return the same number of data points
- Non-admin users are no longer able to create Admin user accounts via the API
- Updating a user record’s Export Date Format via the API no longer also removes Admin permissions for that record
- Resolved an issue causing post formula fields referencing timeseries data to return null
- Post formula fields now correctly translate field names
- Resolved an issue which could reduce performance when working with very large data sets
- Addressed an issue reducing the performance of queries employing global filters
Statseeker supports the following upgrade paths to v5.6.2:
- v5.6.1 -> v5.6.2
- v5.6.0 -> v5.6.2
- v5.6.0 -> v5.6.1 -> v5.6.2
For details and instructions on upgrading your Statseeker server, refer to: Statseeker Upgrade Guides
Current Service Packs
Service packs are periodically released to address issues encountered post-release. For installation instructions see Statseeker Service Packs.