Nav-users January 2021

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Announcement: NAV 5.1 released
by Morten Brekkevold 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

The initial feature release of the 5.1 series of NAV is now out! The source code is available for download at GitHub [1]. A new package for Debian 10 (Buster) is available in our APT repository [2] as usual. Packages for Debian 9 (Stretch) have been discontinued. Please be extra aware of config file changes. Look out for `*.dpkg-dist` files in /etc/nav and make sure to update your running config. The virtual appliance will be updated shortly. Changes ======= User-visible features and improvements: * #2021 (Add SeedDB action to clone netboxes and rooms) * #2051 (Link to affected devices in Management profile) * #2128 (Add device filtering options to ipdevpoll and pping, to enable support for horizontal scaling and distributed monitoring) * #2175 (Implement NAPALM management profiles and connectivity) * #2185 (Modernize the type dumping script and make it available as an installable script for end user use) * #2204 (Add support for configuring Juniper switch ports in PortAdmin) - #2173 (Clean up PortAdmin ManagementHandler interface) - #2112 (Refactor PortAdmin's SNMP back-end classes and factories) - #2115 (Refactor portadmin configuration parsing bits) - #2121 (Use nav.config.NAVConfigParser for PortAdmin configuration) - #2205 (Adapt Portadmin UI workflow to meet needs of multiple backend protocols) Fixed GitHub issues in this release: * #2078 ([BUG] NAV daemons are unnecessarily run as root) * #2103 (Support Django 2.2) * #2139 ([BUG] fanState and psuState e-mail alerts say "no message template is defined") * #2141 (Work around lack of entity names when collecting sensors from Arista devices) * #2174 ([BUG] PortAdmin never issues a "write mem" operation when editing trunks) * #2190 ([BUG] Regression - mysql service check does not work) * #2197 ([BUG] Bottom part of room images are obscured by image caption) * #2198 ([BUG] CSV export from Netbox interfaces in Room view produce wrong filename and content.) * #2199 (Make servicemon HttpChecker use the port number from the URL, if present) * #2207 (Netbox reference is not passed to customization template for the ipdevinfo "What if" tab) * #2213 ([BUG] NAV does not import room position) Please see the release notes [3] for more details. Happy NAVing everyone! Links ===== [1] https://github.com/UNINETT/nav/releases [2] https://nav.uninett.no/install-instructions/#debian [3] https://nav.uninett.no/doc/latest/release-notes.html#nav-5.1 -- Sincerely, Morten Brekkevold Uninett

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Announcement: NAV 5.1.2 released
by Morten Brekkevold 15 Jan '21

15 Jan '21

The second maintenance release of the 5.1 series of NAV is now out! The source code is available for download at GitHub [1]. A new package for Debian 10 (Buster) is available in our APT repository [2] as usual. Packages for Debian 9 (Stretch) have been discontinued. Please be extra aware of config file changes. Look out for `*.dpkg-dist` files in /etc/nav and make sure to update your running config. The virtual appliance will be updated shortly. Changes ======= Fixed GitHub issues in this release: * #2210 ([BUG] Traffic graphs use the SI unit system rather than binary prefixes) * #2215 ([BUG] NAV will refuse to identify LLDP remote port names that contain trailing NUL bytes) * #2235 ([BUG] TypeError at /alertprofiles/filters/add-expression/ _init__() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given) * #2238 ([BUG] Geomap doesn't work if DOMAIN_SUFFIX is not set in nav.conf) * #2239 ([BUG] using DOMAIN_SUFFIX breaks netbox links in Geomap) * #2241 (Allow custom tabs for port details view) * #2250 (Fix formatting of small and negative numbers in Rickshaw graphs) * #2252 (Fix broken serial numbers for Juniper, APC PowerNet and old HP devices) Please see the release notes [3] for more details. Happy NAVing everyone! Links ===== [1] https://github.com/UNINETT/nav/releases [2] https://nav.uninett.no/install-instructions/#debian [3] https://nav.uninett.no/doc/latest/release-notes.html#nav-5.1 -- Sincerely, Morten Brekkevold Uninett

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