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CloudViewNMS Changelog

What's new in CloudViewNMS 2.38a

Oct 14, 2022
  • Implemented 2-factors authentication (via email) for remote users login:
  • It can be configured via Menu->Options->Users->User Details dialog. Correspondingly we added 'user email' field to the above dialog.
  • Latest GUI for updates for specific Optical Zonu devices:
  • As of Oct 14,2022. The most important is "Interslot Links Monitoring"

New in CloudViewNMS 2.37d (Sep 29, 2021)

  • Fixed issue with PING results for CloudViewJ Enterprise MS Windows Italian version.
  • All Alarm Log dialogs now allow to filter just for "BAD" events only, meaning events with the severities CRITICAL, MAJOR and WARNING.
  • TCP/IP Services Dialog (Configuration of Monitored TCP/IP Services for a device) now has a convinience button "Delete ALL Services" from the monitored services list
  • Latest GUI for updates for specific Optical Zonu devices.

New in CloudViewNMS 2.36a (Jun 18, 2021)

  • Latest GUI updates for specific Optical Zonu devices.
  • Fixed display issues when moving "link lines" in local server GUI. (CloudViewJ/Enterpise Windows/Linux/MacOS);
  • Added some improvements in the "Autodiscovery" feature.
  • User now can adjust font size in the "Login" window (first window shown). Additionaly Fixed some issues connected with adjusting font size. (CloudViewJ/Enterpise Windows/Linux/MacOS).

New in CloudViewNMS 2.35c (Dec 29, 2020)

  • The reccommended MS Windows CloudView NMS version is now "CloudView NMS Enterprise" (CloudViewJ). The "legacy" MS Windows version is still supported and updated with latest features, so the customers with existing license can upgrade.
  • However from now on we reccommend "CloudView NMS Enterprise" version as a solution for MS Windows. Please see our "Download" page.
  • Fixed bug: submap icon color in the tree (and parent map) did not change according to the connection status of the links defined for this submap.
  • By default, starting from this version , old events from the "History Events" DB are cleaned automatically after 5 days. The number of days can be changed via the "History Events" window.
  • Various minor bugs and display issues fixed for various platforms.
  • Updated featured support for some 3-rd part devices.

New in CloudViewNMS 2.34a (Jul 23, 2019)

  • Performance and reliability of Web Console significantly improved. Upgrade is recommended to most customers using this GUI mode.
  • "Interfaces Table"->"Interface/Port Details" window now allows setting 24x7
  • "link status" monitoring. Alert events (Event Log messages, e-mail, etc...) are
  • issued when port link status changes. Previous versions allowed only monitoring
  • for error activity and traphics thresholds. See the bottom right part of the
  • "Interface/Port Details" window. Yes, we know that you could achieve the same
  • effect using SNMP "Interface Link Up/Down" traps. However in some cases 24x7
  • monitoring/alertsis better than SNMP Trap.
  • Full featured support for Optical ZONU's ZONUConnect products (Universal
  • Base Station to DAS Fiber Transport)

New in CloudViewNMS 2.33a (Jun 25, 2019)

  • Added RESTful API to let other software automatically interact with CloudView NMS (retrieve info about devices up/down status, events...). The responses are in XML format. Details are in the restfulapi.pdf file found in the CloudView NMS/Trial root directory after installation.
  • Added support for Optical ZONU's ZONUConnect products (Universal Base Station to DAS Fiber
  • Transport). Multiple pairs of BASE-REMOTE devices can be placed on CloudView NMS Maps and monitored 24x7 and providing specific GUI via double-click on the device's specific icon. This feature has not been finished yet (under development)
  • "Device/NMS Scheduled Actions" feature improved. It now allows adding "independent" actions to be performed any time via main menu or device right-mouse click specific menu (not just when scheduled). This is mostly needed for integration with multiple 3rd party executables/scripts to be invoked for a specific devices per user request.
  • "Compile MIB" feature is now also supported in Linux and MacOS versions of CloudView NMS.
  • In previous versions, user had to utilize MS Windows CloudView NMS (or it`s Trial) to produce MIO-files (*.mio) from MIB-files (*.mib)
  • Popup right-mouse (per icon) click menus layout improved.
  • General performace of polling engine improved for all supported platforms.
  • CloudView NMS Indepenndent GUI client updated to version 2.33 to support new featuers.

New in CloudViewNMS 2.32a (Oct 5, 2018)

  • Added MTConnect support per standard (https://www.mtconnect.org), for factory/shop floor
  • devices monitoring. The features includes periodic polling of multiple MTConnect Agents.
  • Thousands of agents can be supported. User can add MTConnect device to the CloudView NMS map
  • via MainMenu->Edit->Add dialog (Generic Devices->MTConnect). User will be requested to enter
  • URL of a MTConnect agent (like http://myagent.mycompany.com or https://192.168.1.15 ). Since
  • one MTConnect agent usually supports several shop floor devices, it is recommended to have a
  • separate CloudView icon for each of them. In such cases per MTConnect protocol the URL will
  • look like https://192.168.1.15/DEVICENAME . CloudView NMS periodically (like every 10 sec)
  • issues MTConnect 'CURRENT' request and analyzes the response for predefined patterns to
  • issue events (e-mail/SMS alerts) when the response pattern corresponds to an abnormal device
  • operation. Our plans for future CloudView NMS releases is to keep the responses in SQL DB
  • for a predefined period of time for future analysis.
  • For WEBSITE (webpage) type of devices added ability to search http/https response for certain
  • text and issue events (e-mail/SMS alerts) when the text is found or (not found)

New in CloudViewNMS 2.31a (Sep 3, 2018)

  • "Proxy-SSH" dialog improved. This is the one which provides SSH-shell imitation for scripting purposes. It also provides master GUI SSH access to slave SSH devices and access to the server SSH devices via CloudView GUI client or web browser.
  • "Add Raw SNMP OID" feature (available from "Build Custom MIB App") improved. User can now use not only "SNMP-GET", but also "SNMP-NEXT" which allows to determine the SNMP OID indices in tables.

New in CloudViewNMS 2.30a (Aug 20, 2018)

  • Added the following two buttons to the "SSH-proxy" dialog:
  • "Poll via CLI Config" - monitoring via predefined CLI commands
  • "Device Actions Scheduler" - scheduling actions per device including periodic
  • execution of predefined SSH-scripts.
  • Correspondingly the above two functions are now available not only for SSHDEV and LINUXSSH type of devices, but for any type device. For example, if you know that some"Generic SNMP device" also supports SSH, you can configure the credentials via the SSH-proxy dialog. The above two functions are available via the buttons located at the bottom part of the SSH-Proxy-CLI dialog.
  • "Poll via CLI Config" dialog improved. It now allows to copy/paste previous "CLI commands"from the list when adding new commands. The fields are automatically filled when user selects some command in the list. Additionally there is capability to set polling interval for the command (previously 'device polling interval') was always used by default).
  • "Devices List/Network Inventory" window/tab now allows filtering by device group."Device Groups" feature was introduced in 2.29c). This window/tab has been redesigned so it updates automatically when device's status changes. This tab/window has currently evolved into network "logical view" by devices groups vs. geographic view providedby CloudView NMS maps.
  • "Device/NMS Actions Scheduler" screen now allows to simply repeat an action every "N seconds" option (in addition to already existed "calendar values" option).
  • Starting from this version all the security sensitive information (snmp security
  • parameters, ssh accounts, etc...) is double encrypted when/if kept in CloudView NMS directory.
  • Starting from this version there is a possibility to decrease fonts (in addition to
  • always existed "increase fonts" option). The option was added to both Local Server GUI and CloudView Client GUI for all the platforms.

New in CloudViewNMS 2.29a (Jun 23, 2018)

  • Added ability to use DNS name (host-name) versus static IP Address when communicating with devices for polling and other functions. The corresponding field added in the "Describe IP/SNMP Parameters" window which is available via right mouse click menu item. When DNS host-name resolves to another/new IP Address, the system automatically changes the device's IP Address. To set/unset this feature for a group of devices use "Set Map Devices Polling" (Main Menu->Map->"Set Map Devices Polling")
  • Added ability to run predefined SSH-scripts for multiple devices located on CloudView NMS maps. You can also schedule the action. This can be used, for example, for bulk firmware upgrades and/or pushing predefined configuration to multiple devices. The corresponding menu items are: 2.1 MainMenu->Options->NMS Actions Scheduler 2.2 MainMenu->Options->Run SSH Script on multiple devices
  • Describe IP/SNMP Parameters" window look and feel improved. Some minor bugs fixed when adding devices via web browser client.
  • Fixed bug, which did not allow showing "Event Details" Window when user double-clicks on an event line in the "Current Events Log" window. This bug appeared in local server GUI only after v2.28a

New in CloudViewNMS 2.28a (May 28, 2018)

  • For CloudViewNMS Android Agents added support for monitoring Battery Level, Storage Usage and WiFi Level.
  • The correponding new CloudViewNMS Agent version 1.15 uploaded to Google Play,
  • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cloudviewagent.server&hl=en_US
  • Allows monitoring thousands of Android devices (e.g. Android-based sales PDAs) for battery power left,
  • WiFi level, storage left, Geo-location, ... etc.

New in CloudViewNMS 2.27a (Jan 6, 2018)

  • Fixed some bug in "Interface Details” window. For some SNMP devices, even when
  • 64-bit counters from IF-MIB were supported the window still displayed 32-bit
  • counters only. The problem did not happen for all the SNMP devices, only for
  • devices of certain manufacturers.
  • Additional performance improvements for monitoring CloudView Agents over
  • HTTPS (MS Windows version only)
  • For SNMP devices, including MS Windows SNMP Agent, "Maximum CPU Load %"
  • (among all the CPUs) was reported instead of calculated "Average CPU Load %"
  • for all the CPUs. The problem is fixed in this version. We realize that
  • some customers possibly wanted "Maximum CPU Load %" to be reported. So
  • please contact our Customer Support to get the solution.
  • CloudView NMS Linux, Mac OS versions only: added ability to use SQL DB located
  • on another computer. See "Main Menu->Options->SQL Connection Params" window.
  • This window used to be called "SQL DB password". Starting from 2.27 added additional
  • fields: "SQL User", "SQL Server IP/FQDN", "SQL Server Port";
  • CloudView NMS Linux, Mac OS versions only: fixed seldom situation when connection to
  • SQL DB can timeout without being reconnected. As a result there were multiple
  • "insert SQL error" yellow messages in the Current Events Log.
  • For SNMP devices (including MS Windows SNMP Agent) and "CloudView Agent" devices
  • added ability to replicate the same set of thresholds for all other devices
  • located on CloudView NMS maps. There is a corresponding button in the
  • "Main Device Window" (the one that pops up by double-click).

New in CloudViewNMS 2.26f (Nov 30, 2017)

  • Added support for Tait Communications "TB9100" device.
  • Fixed bug in CloudView NMS Linux/MacOS server, running in service mode
  • ("headless", no local server GUI). The bug used to prevent showing little
  • "red bells" in top left corners of icons, indicating new alerts. The bug affected
  • both remote Web GUI HTML-5 App and CloudView NMS GUI Client (no update of the
  • GUI client required, the bug was in on the server's side)
  • A new window added when acknowledging device's icon events via right mouse-click
  • menu item. The window allows entering some comment to be seen by a CloudView NMS
  • user entering this window later. To keep backward compatibility, the window also allows
  • to disable the feature. Note that the new feature was added to
  • "local server GUI", "Advanced HTML-5 App" Web GUI and CloudView NMS GUI Client.
  • The feature was NOT added to our "basic Web GUI".
  • Fixed some bugs with maps/devices status colors. The colors were wrong when some
  • device was set to be in "maintenance" mode vi "Describe" window
  • Fixed some typo in the "MainMenu->Network->"Background Ping App" Dialog. The
  • "Threshold" combo box should say "ms" (millisecond), not "sec".
  • "Poll via CLI Config" feature (which is available for "AGENT”, "LINUXSSH" and
  • "SSHDEV" devices) improved. It now contains special GUI to automatically compose a
  • CLI command for periodic checking whether some process is running or not.
  • Fixed sime bugs in "Poll via CLI Config" feature for "AGENT" devices. The bug was
  • that when "Poll via CLI" commands were configured, the "AGENT" device could periodically
  • loose communication (become "red")
  • 2.26f, Windows version only: fixed some important bug in performance and scalability
  • when communicating with CloudView Agents. Upgrade to 2.26f is REALLY recommended if
  • you use large number of CloudView agents connected to CloudView NMS Server MS Windows,
  • which is configured to use HTTPS. The bug manifistated itself as a sudden increase in
  • CPU usage (up to 90-100%) after some time of CloudView NMS Server running. As a result
  • GUI used to become slow and some metrics could be reported wrong.

New in CloudViewNMS 2.26e (Nov 20, 2017)

  • Added support for Tait Communications "TB9100" device.
  • Fixed bug in CloudView NMS Linux/MacOS server, running in service mode
  • ("headless", no local server GUI). The bug used to prevent showing little
  • "red bells" in top left corners of icons, indicating new alerts. The bug affected
  • both remote Web GUI HTML-5 App and CloudView NMS GUI Client (no update of the
  • GUI client required, the bug was in on the server's side)
  • A new window added when acknowledging device's icon events via right mouse-click
  • menu item. The window allows entering some comment to be seen by a CloudView NMS
  • user entering this window later. To keep backward compatibility, the window also allows
  • to disable the feature. Note that the new feature was added to
  • "local server GUI", "Advanced HTML-5 App" Web GUI and CloudView NMS GUI Client.
  • The feature was NOT added to our "basic Web GUI".
  • Fixed some bugs with maps/devices status colors. The colors were wrong when some
  • device was set to be in "maintenance" mode vi "Describe" window
  • Fixed some typo in the "MainMenu->Network->"Background Ping App" Dialog. The
  • "Threshold" combo box should say "ms" (millisecond), not "sec".
  • "Poll via CLI Config" feature (which is available for "AGENT”, "LINUXSSH" and
  • "SSHDEV" devices) improved. It now contains special GUI to automatically compose a
  • CLI command for periodic checking whether some process is running or not.
  • Fixed sime bugs in "Poll via CLI Config" feature for "AGENT" devices. The bug was
  • that when "Poll via CLI" commands were configured, the "AGENT" device could periodically
  • loose communication (become "red")

New in CloudViewNMS 2.25b (Aug 21, 2017)

  • Fixed some bug in CPD Cache table: Device Address is now shown
  • correctly. There are some additional CDP issues fixed.
  • CDP table window now allows enable/disable CDP on the device.
  • "Interface Details" Window also allows to enable/disable CDP per port.
  • "Interface Alias" (ifAlias from if.mib) is now included in many windows showing
  • device interfaces/ports. It is also included in the "event string" in e-mails/sms
  • messages which are sent in connection with the specific interface/port. The examples
  • are "interface link up/down" events and "interface thresholds" events.
  • User can now add "cloud" image to CloudView NMS maps. The image can have optional link
  • lines representing connections with other devices on the map. User can add some
  • multi-line text to be displayed inside the image. The text is defined by the "Notepad"
  • field (see the "Describe" dialog). In order to add a "cloud" image, use MainMenu->Add
  • item. In the "Add Device" dialog choose "Generic->UNKNOWN" device type. In the "Describe"
  • window check the "Cloud icon" check-box.
  • User can now define additional polling for any device/icon. The possible types of polling
  • include "Ping", "SSH" and "HTTP/HTTPS". Use right-mouse-click-menu "Additional Polling" item
  • to configure polling entries for selected device. The same window can be used to monitor
  • current results of the polling. Up to 50 different polling entries can be configured for
  • a device. Example of usage: SNMP device (which is already being polled via SNMP) can be
  • additionally configured for SSH and HTTP polling. When polling status goes up/down,
  • corresponding events are placed in CloudView Current and History Events Logs,
  • To configure the events for email...etc, use "Polling Status..." events in the
  • "Events Config->Generic" Window.
  • Note that any CloudView device/icon additional polling entry may contain not only the
  • IP Address of the device, but any other IP Address/FQDN name. It may be useful to
  • configure monitoring of a service as whole (which may also depend on another IP Address(es).
  • You can define "additional polling" even for the "cloud" symbol (see 4. above)
  • Starting from 2.25b, an "SSH script" configured to run on the device when some event occurs,
  • can run also be configured to run on any OTHER device located on CloudView Maps. See
  • "Events Actions/Sounds..." dialog, which is available via right mouse-click-on-desired-device
  • Starting from 2.25b, an "SNMP-SET" to predefined SNMP OID can be configured to run on the
  • device when some event occurs. It also be configured to run on any OTHER SNMP device located on
  • CloudView Maps. See "Events Actions/Sounds..." dialog, which is available via right
  • mouse-click-on-desired-device

New in CloudViewNMS 2.25a (Aug 14, 2017)

  • Fixed some bug in CPD Cache table: Device Address is now shown
  • correctly. There are some additional CDP issues fixed
  • CDP table window now allows enable/disable CDP on the device.
  • "Interface Details" Window also allows to enable/disable CDP per port.
  • "Interface Alias" (ifAlias from if.mib) is now included in many windows showing
  • device interfaces/ports. It is also included in the "event string" in e-mails/sms
  • messages which are sent in connection with the specific interface/port. The examples
  • are "interface link up/down" events and "interface thresholds" events.
  • User can now add "cloud" image to the map. The image can have optional link lines
  • representing connection with other devices on the map. User can add some multi-line
  • text displayed inside the image. The text defined by the "Notepad" field (see the
  • "Describe" dialog). In order to add a "cloud", use MainMenu->Add item.
  • In the "Add Device" dialog choose "Generic->UNKNOWN" device type. In the "Describe"
  • window check the "Cloud icon" check-box.
  • User can now define additional polling for any device/icon. The possible types of polling
  • include "Ping","SSH" and "HTTP/HTTPS". User right-mouse click menu item "Additional Polling"
  • to configure polling entries for selected device. The same window can be used to monitor
  • current results of the polling. Up to 50 different polling entries can be configured for
  • a device. Example of usage: SNMP device (which is already being polled via SNMP) can be
  • additionally configured for SSH and HTTP polling. When pollind status goes up/down
  • corresponding events are placed in CloudView Current and History Events Logs,
  • To configure the events for email...etc, find "Polling Status..." events in the
  • "Events Config->Generic" Window.

New in CloudViewNMS 2.03 (Dec 29, 2014)

  • Starting from this version, "CloudView NMS Linux" can operate in fully "headless" mode (i.e command line). There is no more requiremnt to have X11/GUI on the server. You can start CloudView NMS server either from command line or as Linux bootup daemon. After that all required configuration is done via remote GUI: either via HTML-5 web browser-based interface or independent GUI client.
  • Improved performance of the remote based GUI client (both web browser based client and independent GUI client)

New in CloudViewNMS 2.02a (Dec 29, 2014)

  • Fixed some bugs connected to scrolling in the Main Window (CloudView NMS Server, local GUI Windows version only). The bug manifested itself only when "map" quadrant was in "scrolled state". User would scroll large maps to see the "hidden" parts. The scrolling was OK, but after that some clicks on links/menu-buttons did not work.
  • Added some basic support for Android CloudView Agents "paired" with "SensorTag TI". (Texas Instruments SimpleLink Bluetooth Smart SensorTag). The support added by a customer request. The updated CloudViewNMS Agent app is on Google Play. The agent can also work with "CloudWeb File&Web Server" app. CloudWeb app is also updated on Google Play.
  • Fixed some minor bugs in HTML-5 web interface.

New in CloudViewNMS 2.01a (Dec 29, 2014)

  • Recent Google Android update introduced some bugs. As a result CloudView HTML5 GUI was broken when working via HTTPS from Android. The issue happened ONLY when CloudView NMS server was running on MS Windows and ONLY when the server was configured for HTTPS. The problem has been fixed in this release (we had to workaround Android bugs).
  • Added option to monitor contents of websites for changes. To use the feature add "WEBSITE" type device to CloudView map. After the desired URL is set and the icon becomes green double click on the icon and see the option. To monitor multiple pages add additional "WEBSITE" devices to the map. The "Website changed" event will be placed in the Events log, when a change is discovered after some poll. You can configure this event to generate e-mail in "Events Config" Window which is accessible via right-mouse click menu on any "WEBSITE" device icon.

New in CloudViewNMS 2.00b (Sep 12, 2014)

  • New independent GUI client is available for download from our download page. The dialogs are almost the same as they are in the local server GUI. The client aimed for customers who prefer full-blown remote windows interface vs. Web Browser Interface.
  • For Web Browser Interface, added new alternative HTML-5 based GUI. You can enter it either via hyperlink on the first (login) page, or directly like: http:///application
  • This GUI is aimed for customers who prefer full-blown "windows"-like interface inside web Browser window. The dialogs are almost the same as they are in the local server GUI. This interface is good to use when working from desktop and/or tablet Web Browsers since it requires some reasonable screen size. If you work from phone browsers (iPhone/Android/Win8Phone), it is better to use our "old" HTML-5 based interface.
  • Fixed some bugs connected to enforcing user access limitations in remote screens. Remote user is allowed to watch or modify only those maps/devices/interfaces/events/services which are configured for him by "Admin" via local server GUI. (See MainMenu->Options->Add/Delete Users dialog). "Admin" configures these limitations by associating some maps with a particular user. If these associations are not configured for a user, he is allowed to watch all the maps/devices/interfaces/events/services. If the user has "SUPERVISOR" access, he is also allowed to make modifications.
  • In the "Events Configuration" Window, added option to delay "bad event"-associated e-mail. The delay interval can be set for 1-10 min. For example, if a device goes "DOWN" (CRITICAL event), but after delay it is already "UP" the e-mail will not be set (though still both events are kept in the Events Log). This option will allow not to bother responsible person with temporary problems. This setting is currently available only for "CRITICAL" events. Such events are
  • For example:
  • For SNMP devices "SNMP Communication Down" (Generic Event for any SNMP Device)
  • For TCPIP devices "TCP/IP Down" (Specific Event for TCP/IP devices)
  • "Website Down" (Specific Event for "WEBSITE" devices)
  • "Remote Agent Down" (Specific Event for "Agent" devices).
  • Please note that you change "email delay" interval for some "CRITICAL" event, the corresponding "NORMAL" event will be adjusted automatically for proper functionality of the algorithm.

New in CloudViewNMS 1.12a (Aug 8, 2014)

  • New "Current Events Summary" Window is available. It shows colored "Pie Chart" representing percentage of event severities in the Current Events Log. It is available in both "local server GUI" (from the "Current Events Log" Tab/Window and web browser remote client GUI (from the "Network..." combo-box).
  • "Top 10 interfaces" Tab/Window now shows "Pie Chart" reflecting percentage of traffic/utilization/errors for every interface in the list. The total is a sum of all interfaces in the list. This Window is now also available in web browser remote client GUI (from the "Network..." combo-box). It was previously "hidden" deep under "Global Operations Tree".
  • Fixed bug in "History for Interface XXX" traffic chart. This bug existed in the remote HTML-5 based GUI only.

New in CloudViewNMS 1.11 (Jun 30, 2014)

  • Network traffic and ports utilization graphs (speedometer, lines and bars) are now available in remote HTML-5 web browser GUI

New in CloudViewNMS 1.09 (Apr 15, 2014)

  • Web interface login page now allows choosing between HTM-5 based GUI and Java based GUI. The default is HTML-5 GUI, which is supported by most modern web browsers.
  • Windows Spy-Agent is now available for download. In addition to all the agent functions it also allows to watch (like a movie) everything shown on the screen of the computer the agent is running on. Once installed, spy-agent keeps low profile an starts as soon as user logs in the computer. Remember it is your responsibility not to use this feature for illegal spying. We assume legal goals, e.g. an employer monitoring company owned computers or a parent monitoring his kids. Full file system of the computer is available remotely (to upload and download/delete files), even if the agent-computer is behind a corporate/home firewall and have NAT/DHCP IP Address.

New in CloudViewNMS 1.08 (Jan 3, 2014)

  • View current geo-location of your team/family members phones/tablets on a map.
  • Receive alarms/e-mail alerts when a team/family member moves beyond some predefined area (geo-fencing).

New in CloudViewNMS 1.06 (Oct 11, 2013)

  • Multiple GUI and polling engine improvements for more convenient managing 1000+ nodes networks.
  • Some bugs fixes and improvements requested by our customers

New in CloudViewNMS 1.04b (Aug 23, 2013)

  • Autodiscovery via SNMPv3 added
  • Important bug fixes

New in CloudViewNMS 1.04 (Aug 17, 2013)

  • Fixed critical bug in "Options->Use Selected Device to Define a new Device Type" screen /add custom SNMP devices types and compile corresponding 3-rd party MIBs/