Nav-users April 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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Install Error
by Colton Conor 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

I am trying to test NAV using the virtual machine. However when I import into EXSI V7, I get the following error message in EXSI: Line 16: Missing child element 'VirtualHardwareSection'.

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Analyze gaps in Port metrics
by René Romijn 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

Hi, What is the best way to analyze gaps in the graphs in the port metrics? Since a couple of weeks we have at random some gaps in the graphs. It doesn't look like network errors, because it also happens on some core routers where we have no problems with it at all. Kind regards, René.

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Announcement: NAV 5.1.3 released
by Morten Brekkevold 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

The third 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 has been updated. Changes ======= Fixed GitHub issues in this release: * #2159 ([BUG] UPS widget is inconsistent between showing minutes and seconds remaining time) * #2240 ([BUG] Workaround for wrong interface speed SNMP implementations) * #2253 (Drastically improve page load times on maintenance edit form) * #2254 ([BUG] Search after partial IP-address crashes) * #2255 (ipdevinfo maintenance task link should be to task details view, not the task editor) * #2257 (Exclude Coriant Groove port sensors from collection based on portAdminStatus) * #2260 (IP Device custom data should be "urlized") * #2263 ([BUG] Job 'inventory' for xxx aborted: Job aborted due to save failure (cause=ValueError('A string literal cannot contain NUL (0x00) characters.'))) * #2264 (Hardcoded vendor name) * #2267 (Link to filtered report must be urlencoded) * #2269 ([BUG] ipdevinfo shows empty Function-field for some hosts) * #2270 ([BUG] Documentation search does not work) * #2275 (SshChecker not handling connections properly) 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.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release-notes.html#nav-5-1 -- Sincerely, Morten Brekkevold Uninett

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