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Verax NMS & APM (formerly Verax NMS Express) Changelog

What's new in Verax NMS & APM (formerly Verax NMS Express) 2.7.0

Apr 11, 2015
  • New features (as compared to the prior 2.6.0 release):
  • Linked asset information displayed in details view (requires Service Desk and Asset Management).
  • Support for moving/roaming objects on on-line maps.
  • Added availability information for managed objects under devices (e.g. individual network cards)
  • and aspects.
  • Added access rights for worker management and network adapters scanning.
  • Added support for new Ekinops cards: PM10010MR, PM10010MP, PMDGE, PMDGE2100G, PMOSC-ETR.
  • Other minor fixes and enhancements.

New in Verax NMS & APM (formerly Verax NMS Express) 2.6.0 (Nov 6, 2014)

  • New features (as compared to the prior 2.5.4 release):
  • Support for TMS (Tile Map Service), WMS (Web Map Service) and OSM (OpenStreetMap) on-line maps
  • with predefined settings for OpenStreetMap and MapQuest.
  • RMON plugin enabling visualization of interface and packet statistics for RMON-enabled
  • switches/devices.
  • Linear (regression) and non-linear (Support Vector Machine) forecasting of counter values
  • with user-configurable look ahead periods, checkpoints and valid forecast ranges.
  • Alcatel-Lucent plugin for monitoring and management of 7210 Service Access Switch (SAS),
  • 7705 Service Aggregation Router (SAR), 7750 Service Router (SR),
  • 7450 Ethernet Service Switch (ESS) and 7710 Service Router (SR) devices.
  • Accedian plugin for monitoring and management of EtherNID, MetroNID TE,
  • MetroNID GT and MetroNODE devices.
  • Improved WMI support and Windows Host plugins enabling easier discovery and monitoring
  • of Windows Hosts.
  • Event processing performance optimizations and a new 'Event flood' processing rule
  • for detecting and handling of event floods.
  • Improved UNIX/Linux installer.
  • Other minor fixes and enhancements.

New in Verax NMS & APM (formerly Verax NMS Express) 2.5.4 (Jun 14, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Optimized event processing (pair-wise and de-duplication rules).
  • Fixes in managing of variable binding filters in event processing.
  • Fixed interpreting physical addresses by discovery engine.
  • Improved password reset.
  • Added filter for device types in Events and Alarms views.
  • Provided user-guidance messages per each main view for easier navigation.
  • Added searching by IP in the Aspects tree, Alarms, and Events views.
  • Improved, rearranged settings view with GUI-configurable alarm and event retention times.
  • Support for SSH and Telnet actions in plugins (e.g. telnet to device).
  • Added URL navigation for direct access via URL to NMS & APM views.
  • Added HTML dashlet for HTML content presentation in dashboards.
  • Added SQL Query dashlet for SQL query result presentation in dashboards.
  • Fixed memory leak in ActiveMQ.
  • Improved refreshing of Event and Alarm views on high load conditions.
  • Added MBean to Event Dispatcher for JMX-based performance monitoring.
  • Optimized backend-frontend asynchronous notifications.
  • Other minor fixes and enhancements.
  • Sensors & counters:
  • Support for differential counters (returning differences of consecutive sample values rather than direct values).
  • Added LDAP counter and LDAP counter templates. Allows LDAP monitoring through LDAP protocol (cn=Monitor).
  • Added counter templates for Glassfish, Liferay and Cassandra.
  • Added support for arithmetic operations for some counters.
  • Added attributes support for JMX operation for sensor and counter.
  • Xymon sensor for collecting data from Xymon Monitor.
  • Plugins:
  • Microsoft IIS plugin: added support for IIS version 7.4 (higher versions were already supported).
  • Apache HTTP plugin: added support for Apache version 2.4, added SSL support.
  • WebSphere plugin: added support for WebSphere version 8.5.
  • Microsoft SharePoint plugin added.
  • PostgreSQL plugin: Enabling accessing PostgreSQL by non-admin user.
  • Ekinops transport platform plugin with support for C600HC/C200 chassis and RM10010/PMOAIL-HC/PMOABP-HC/PMOABPLC-OA/PMC1008MP-HC cards.
  • DB2 plugin: more counter templates added.
  • Improved performance counters removal strategy for Verax Management Agent sensors.

New in Verax NMS & APM (formerly Verax NMS Express) 2.4.0 (Oct 5, 2013)

  • Completely reworked "My Infrastructure" dashboards for easier use and problem tracking
  • Shorter NMS & APM start-up time
  • Improved notification e-mail templates with links to the NMS & APM elements
  • Amazon Web Services plugin (supports Amazon EC2 and Amazon CloudWatch services)
  • "Applications" aspect changed to "All applications" (contains now standalone applications as well as those running on particular hosts
  • Added Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CallManager) counter templates
  • Human readable report names, improved report layouts, etc
  • New "Storage Capacity" report
  • Improved report GUI
  • Other minor fixes

New in Verax NMS & APM (formerly Verax NMS Express) 2.3.1 (Jul 24, 2013)

  • Maintenance release with Verax Core Services upgraded to version 1.6.1
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed encrypting password in Core Services database connection details. Some reports were affected by this bug.
  • Fixed updating report templates and definitions (might produce category duplicates).
  • Other minor fixes.

New in Verax NMS & APM (formerly Verax NMS Express) 2.3.0 (Jul 19, 2013)

  • New features (as compared to prior 2.2.1 release):
  • Reports available directly in the NMS & APM (no need to switch to the
  • Administrator Console).
  • Support for notification server profiles.
  • Configuration of notification servers available in the NMS & APM (no need to
  • switch to the Administrator Console).
  • Support for manual creation and resolving incidents in Verax Service Desk.
  • Simplified e-mail notification configuration after installation.
  • Improved pre-configured dashboard.
  • Support for managing dynamic counters (for variable objects such as interfaces,
  • CPUs or disks) for multiple devices.
  • Minor improvements in Nera Evolution, Exalt ExploreAir and MRV plugins
  • default alarms, threshold levels and others).
  • Fixed handling OEM specific IPMI sensors in IPMI plugin.
  • Core services and Administrator Console updated to version 1.6 (required to
  • support some of the new features)
  • Other fixes and enhancements.
  • Windows installer:
  • Simplified installation process and default passwords.
  • Automatic configuration of Windows Firewall exceptions.

New in Verax NMS & APM (formerly Verax NMS Express) 2.2.1 (May 10, 2013)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed bug with empty notifications
  • Fixed controlling worker processes under Windows

New in Verax NMS & APM (formerly Verax NMS Express) 2.2.0 (May 1, 2013)

  • Discovery:
  • Automatic discovering of applications (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server) and services (e.g. FTP on a host).
  • Redesigned network discovery: more intuitive process and improved, easier to use UI.
  • Support for partially discovered elements (e.g. a detected Oracle database that requires additional credentials to be fully discovered and managed).
  • Background discovery.
  • Event processing:
  • User-defined and built-in, system event processing rules are distinguished now for easier management and seamless system upgrades.
  • Complementary rules in event processing can be combined into pairs (e.g. raise and clear alarm) for more user-friendly management.
  • Default device- and application- specific event processing rules automatically configured after discovery.
  • Plugins:
  • New MRV Pro-Vision plugin (provides Y.1731 reporting).
  • Added more information on advanced views and new sensors and counters for network device plugins: Nera Evolution, MRV, Exalt ExploreAir.
  • Improved VMware plugin.
  • Additional default sensors and counters.
  • Software inventory:
  • Exports, printing and other usability improvements.
  • Software inventory enhanced with license information (some plugins support license verification and generate alarms on invalid licenses).
  • Installed software sensor enabled not only in UNIX and Windows but also in some networking gear plugins such as MRV, Exalt or Nera.
  • Miscellaneous:
  • New dashlet type for presenting current monitor's value and status.
  • Enhancements for MIB Manager: proper OIDs handling when corresponding MIB file is missing, download for selected MIB files.
  • Improved SNMP performance (SNMP table paging).
  • Other fixes and enhancements.

New in Verax NMS & APM (formerly Verax NMS Express) 2.0.0 (Jan 16, 2013)

  • New Microsoft Hyper-V plugin.
  • New Citrix XenServer plugin.
  • Redesigned WMware plugin (more data displayed in the advanced view, optimized
  • data loading via VMware API).
  • Added support for version 2.4 of the Apache HTTP Server.
  • Optimized database maintenance tasks for Oracle (improved performance and error
  • logging, controlled by a stored procedure).
  • Added Variable Bindings filter to "Clear incident" event processing rule.
  • Assign severity rule merged with Modify event properties rule.
  • NOTE: In case of the "Assign severity" rule, if enabled, manual modifications
  • in event processing configuration may be required.
  • Added OID index to de-duplication event rule to enable separating
  • de-duplication streams in case when further processing of de-duplicated event is needed.
  • Optimized user data retrieval from Administrative Console
  • speeds up user logging in process as well as loading user data for the "Raise incident" rule).
  • Unified mechanism of assigning interface names (concatenation of ifAlias and
  • ifDescr OIDs) in the discovery engine and the Iface Monitor.
  • Fixed SNMPv3 support in discovery engine (could not successfully discover SNMPv3 devices).
  • Added function to move business aspects.
  • Support for IP multinetting (i.e. multiple IP addresses configured on a single interface).
  • Other fixes and minor enhancements.