Current VersionArchive

Statseeker Version 5.6.2

Release Date: September 26th, 2024


Major Feature
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.


Note: Impacts the Upgrade process

When upgrading a server to Statseeker v5.6.2, the existing IP Address Scan Ranges file is converted to a new IP Address Ranges configuration. This upgrade process removes all commented entries (lines prefixed with a hash [#] character) in the IP Address Scan Ranges file.

If your IP Address Scan Ranges file contains comment lines, then Statseeker recommends that you backup the file content to an off-server location prior to upgrading.

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.



System and Administration
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




Reporting
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




Dashboards
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




Thresholds & Alerting
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




API v2.1 r16
Product Changes

For details on all API resource level endpoints, see the API Resource Reference.

Modified API Resources: updated fields, permissions and datatypes
  • cdt_device
    • auth_method – removed the ability to add (POST) or update (PUT)
    • auth_pass – removed the ability to add (POST) or update (PUT)
    • auth_user – removed the ability to add (POST) or update (PUT)
    • community – removed the ability to add (POST) or update (PUT)
    • context – removed the ability to add (POST) or update (PUT)
    • ping_outage – removed the ability to update (PUT)
    • ping_state – removed the ability to update (PUT)
    • priv_method – removed the ability to add (POST) or update (PUT)
    • priv_pass – removed the ability to add (POST) or update (PUT)
    • snmpCredentialLink – new Link to snmp_credential
    • snmp_version – removed the ability to add (POST) or update (PUT)
    • snmp_credential – new field
  • cdt_device_oa
    • auth_method – removed the ability to update (PUT)
    • auth_pass – removed the ability to update (PUT)
    • auth_user – removed the ability to update (PUT)
    • community – removed the ability to update (PUT)
    • context – removed the ability to update (PUT)
    • ping_outage – removed the ability to update (PUT)
    • ping_state – removed the ability to update (PUT)
    • priv_method – removed the ability to update (PUT)
    • priv_pass – removed the ability to update (PUT)
    • snmp_version – removed the ability to update (PUT)
    • snmp_credential – new field
  • cdt_filesystem
    • storageFree – added datatype
    • storageFreePercent – added datatype
    • storageUsed – added datatype
    • storageUsedPercent – added datatype
  • cdt_filesystem_freebsd
    • storageFree – added datatype
    • storageFreePercent – added datatype
    • storageUsed – added datatype
    • storageUsedPercent – added datatype
  • cdt_filesystem_hostres
    • storageFree – added datatype
    • storageFreePercent – added datatype
    • storageUsed – added datatype
    • storageUsedPercent – added datatype
  • cdt_filesystem_informant
    • storageFree – added datatype
    • storageFreePercent – added datatype
    • storageUsed – added datatype
    • storageUsedPercent – added datatype
  • discover
    • details – new field
    • duration – new field
    • finish – new field
    • id – new field
    • logfile – new field
    • mode – new field
    • start – new field
    • status – new field
    • user – new field
    • config – new field
    • data – new option
    • datafile – new option
    • devices – new option
    • discover_add_ping_only – new option
    • discover_adminstatus – new option
    • discover_getNext – new option
    • discover_grouping – new option
    • discover_minimal – new option
    • discover_nucast – new option
    • discover_operstatus – new option
    • discover_prune_existing_devices – new option
    • discover_rules – new option
    • groups – new option
    • interface_speed_autogrouping – new option
    • interface_type_autogrouping – new option
    • manual_config – new option
    • manual_force_add – new option
    • rediscover_custom_data_types – new option
    • retest_snmp_credentials – new option
    • snmp_max_files – new option
    • snmp_max_repetitions – new option
    • snmp_retry_count – new option
    • snmp_timeout – new option
    • snmp_versions – new option
    • snmp_walk_timeout – new option
    • snmp_window_size – new option
    • device – removed option
    • getNext – removed option
    • ip – removed option
    • minimal – removed option
    • snmpv1 – removed option
    • snmpv3config – removed option
    • discover_config – updated datatype from string to json object
    • email – updated description and datatype from string to json object
    • mode – updated valid values
  • discover_config
    • snmp_credentials – new field
    • communities – removed field
    • ip_range_configurations – removed the ability to update (PUT)
    • ranges – removed the ability to update (PUT)
  • license
    • limitOACount – updated field title and description
  • object
    • sequence – new field

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




Upgrade Paths

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

Historical Release Notes




Current Service Packs

Service packs are periodically released to address issues encountered post-release. For installation instructions see Statseeker Service Packs.

Statseeker v5.6.2 Service Pack (scs_service_pack_5_6_2-1.0.3.scs)

5.6.2 Service Pack 1.0.3(scs_service_pack_5_6_2-1.0.3.scs)

System & Administration fixes:

  • Fixes sporadic data gaps on very large Statseeker configurations due to slow poller load times after a configuration change
  • Fixes sporadic data gaps on SNMPv3 devices from the first SNMP packet received after a configuration change.
  • Fixes validation on device names with underscores in the manual device add page in the admin tool.
  • Fixes issues when adding/updating/deleting devices which have mappings to IPv6 addresses
  • Fixes issue where existing IPv4 entries in the hosts file could cause discovery of IPv6 entries to fail
  • Fixes an issue where API calls fail when filtering on a linked field
  • Fixes an issue where SNMP credentials fail to upgrade correctly
  • Fixes an issue where Ping discover exits ungracefully when no new devices are found

Dashboard fixes:

  • Addresses a dashboard graph display issue when presenting 'ping lost' data in addition to other data series
Statseeker v5.6.1 Service Pack (scs_service_pack_5_6_1-1.0.5.scs)

Download 5.6.1 Service Pack 1.0.5 (scs_service_pack_5_6_1-1.0.5.scs)

System & Administration fixes:

  • Adds validation if a poller attempts to insert timeseries data using an incorrect time
  • Fixes to OperStatus event insertion for servers upgraded from legacy versions of Statseeker (prior to 2015)
  • Fixes an issue which could prevent RNA\OA services from restarting after upgrade
  • Fixes an issue which slowed the discovery processes in some instances

Reporting fixes:

  • Fixes an issue where drilldowns in some Ping reports would target incorrect data

Threshold & Alerting fixes:

  • Fixes an issue with some mail servers rejecting alerting emails
  • Fixes an issue with emails not being sent when upstream devices are configured
  • Fixes a memory leak in the real-time poller
  • Fixes the Search feature in Add/Edit Users
  • Fixes an issue preventing records being added to the events database when discard filters are enabled
Statseeker v5.6.0 Service Pack (scs_service_pack_5_6_0-1.0.7.scs)

Download 5.6.0 Service Pack 1.0.7 (scs_service_pack_5_6_0-1.0.7.scs)

Dashboard fixes:

  • Fixes dashboards with imagemap panels prompting to save when no changes have been made

Reporting fixes:

  • Fixes the legacy Ping Status report sometimes reporting an incorrect ping state
  • Fixes numeric user IDs breaking functionality in the device viewer
  • Fixes Device Group SLA Availability Report missing entries
  • Fixes scheduled CSV reports not being emailed
  • Fixes the MAC/IP section of the Device Statistics interface drilldown showing details for all interfaces on the device

Threshold & Alerting fixes:

  • Fixes SNMP state, ping, and custom polled event alerts not displaying event delta metrics
  • Fixes SNMP State alerts not handling email 'wait' periods correctly
  • Fixes upstream device alerts not sending events

Administration fixes:

  • Fixes IP address changes on devices causing ping collection to fail
  • Fixes an issue which caused assigning devices to pollers to fail in some instances
  • Fixes an Observability Appliance IP address changing issue
  • Fixes an issue which could cause SNMPv3 polling to fail
  • Fixes SNMP timeout not honoring config file setting
  • Adds validation if a poller attempts to insert timeseries data using an incorrect time

API fixes:

  • Fixes RESTful API link delete endpoint causing invalid links in some reports