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Announcement: NAV 3.8.5 released
by Morten Brekkevold 14 Apr '11

14 Apr '11

NAV 3.8.5 is now available for download at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nav/3.8/3.8.5 This is a maintenance release which fixes the following reported issues: * LP#745616 (edit vlan in seeddb needs improvement) * LP#745620 (change text descriptions in seeddb) * LP#746381 (Add a report to display all collected interfaces, regardless of type) * LP#747104 (Missing interfaces are left lingering in the database) * LP#748852 (Avoid using the word "handler" in SeedDB/Service) * LP#749502 (Seed DB: Indicate required fields with an asterisk) * LP#751310 (Not possible to add a function when adding a new ip device) Please report other bugs at https://launchpad.net/nav/+filebug :-) A binary package for Debian 5 (Lenny) will be made available as soon as possible. The Debian package is maintained by Morten Werner Forsbring, on commission From UNINETT. Happy NAVing everyone! -- Morten Brekkevold UNINETT

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Announcement: NAV 3.8.4 released
by Morten Brekkevold 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

NAV 3.8.4 is now available for download at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nav/3.8/3.8.4 This is a maintenance release which fixes the following reported issues: * LP#415376 (Log more info about cause of blacklisting alertengine plugins) * LP#723362 (Edit IP Device - feature request for delete button) * LP#726545 (SeedDB should verify SNMP write community) * LP#735513 (seeddb room main view missing position column) * LP#735514 (Configuring VLAN on a Cisco switch gives SNMP error) * LP#735516 (parentheses shouldn't be required for geo coordinates in SeedDB) * LP#735519 (Modulecount link from type report fails) * LP#735935 (Missing columns and wrong column titles in SeedDB's IP Device list) * LP#735958 (Arnold crashes when deleting a quarantine vlan) * LP#736899 (PortAdmin cannot find VLANs on Cisco switches if vendor id has changed to anything but lowercase 'cisco') * LP#738609 (Intermittent EOFError in web pages) * LP#740017 (crash when attempting to create alert profile from template) * LP#740849 (inventory job keeps going on after device removal from seeddb) * LP#741573 (t1000.py KeyError crash when following up detentions) * LP#744839 (Login page crash when LDAP manager_password contains % chars) Please report other bugs at https://launchpad.net/nav/+filebug :-) A binary package for Debian 5 (Lenny) will be made available as soon as possible. The Debian package is maintained by Morten Werner Forsbring, on commission From UNINETT. Happy NAVing everyone! -- Morten Brekkevold UNINETT

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NAV starting
by volker 30 Mar '11

30 Mar '11

Hello, i am install on: Description: Ubuntu 10.10 Release: 10.10 Codename: maverick but it don't work. I start: # /etc/init.d/nav start Starting Network Administration Visualized: Starting: alertengine cricket eventengine ipdevpoll logengine mactrace maintengine networkDiscovery pping servicemon smsd snmptrapd thresholdMon . I try http://localhost/nav What is the right URL to start ?? In the whole docu's say's "start the web interface" but what ist the web interface URL ?? Sorry reg volker

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How to connect devices in Netmap view
by Royke 30 Mar '11

30 Mar '11

Hi, I try to connect between routers and switches within our network so I can view it in Netmap view on the toolbox. I've read the guides in http://metanav.uninett.no/subnetsandvlans#guide_lines_for_configuring_route…. I've create the vlan and change the description on the routers and switches to match the requirement based on the guidelines. However, I'm unable to connect the routers and switches on the netmap. The devices on the netmap are not connected and seems like "flying" on it's own and hard to capture to view all devices at the same time. Could you give me a hint, for example how to connect between two devices and view it correctly on the netmap view. Thanks. Regards Royke

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Rename interfaces?
by Joachim Tingvold 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Hi, Is there a way to rename the 'interface'-fields on a switch? We have some (really) old switches (Netgear FSM726) that has really long interface-names; "FSM726 Management Switch 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Network Interface 1", which kinda breaks the "Switch port status"- and "Switch port activity"-tabs on the "IP Device Info"-page of the devices in question. Could I change this in the DB in some way? Or will it just be overwritten next time navcron runs? -- Joachim

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Error Login
by rk4k 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Hi, I'm installed nav 3.8.1 on Ubuntu 9.10. Reading and followed all instructed on INSTALL.rst. I think I've configure all the dependencies correctly. Starting nav without error. I can see the frontpage Welcome Page. But when I click on login link , it generated error like this : Exception Type: ImportError Exception Value: No module named oid Exception Location: /usr/local/nav/lib/python/nav/Snmp/pysnmp_se.py in <module>, line 22 Python Executable: /usr/bin/python another lines that contain about the same error : /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/core/handlers/base.py in get_response 85. # Apply view middleware 86. for middleware_method in self._view_middleware: 87. response = middleware_method(request, callback, callback_args, callback_kwargs) 88. if response: 89. return response 90. 91. try: 92. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) ... 93. except Exception, e: 94. # If the view raised an exception, run it through exception 95. # middleware, and if the exception middleware returns a 96. # response, use that. Otherwise, reraise the exception. 97. for middleware_method in self._exception_middleware: 98. response = middleware_method(request, e) ▼ Local vars Variable Value callback <function login at 0xba588e9c> callback_args () callback_kwargs {} e ImportError('No module named oid',) exc_info (<type 'exceptions.ImportError'>, ImportError('No module named oid',), <traceback object at 0xbaabb84c>) exceptions <module 'django.core.exceptions' from '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/core/exceptions.pyc'> Maybe I missed something here about OID, but can't figure it out where ... Any help/hint is much appreciated. Thks.

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Adding organization; "This field is required"
by Joachim Tingvold 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Hi, I have a weird problem, I think. I'm trying to add a new organization, but it keeps telling me that "this field is required" beneath the "Parent" dropdown-list. However, the only choice in that list, is "--------". This might be a really stupid question, but I can't seem to get it to work... I'm running NAV 3.8.2 on Debian Squeeze. -- Joachim

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Announcement: NAV 3.8.3 released
by Morten Brekkevold 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

NAV 3.8.3 is now available for download at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nav/3.8/3.8.3 This is a maintenance release which fixes the following reported issues: * LP#730524 (ipdevpoll oidprofiler says all OIDs are a match) * LP#731252 (ipdevpoll leaks memory on database exceptions) * LP#731318 (radius accounting page crashes when user has non-ASCII chars in username) * LP#733115 (pping crashes when re-creating RRD files) * LP#733152 (inventory job fails on IntegrityError on internal module swap) * LP#735365 (Cannot add top-level organizations) This release was originally scheduled for Thursday, but since we're doing a NAV workshop in Trondheim that day we thought we'd get it out a a few days early. Please report other bugs at https://launchpad.net/nav/+filebug :-) A binary package for Debian 5 (Lenny) will be made available as soon as possible. The Debian package is maintained by Morten Werner Forsbring, on commission From UNINETT. Happy NAVing everyone! -- Morten Brekkevold UNINETT

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Announcement: NAV 3.8.2 released
by Morten Brekkevold 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

NAV 3.8.2 is now available for download at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nav/3.8/3.8.2 This is a maintenance release - here is an excerpt from the changelog: - This maintenance release fixes compatibility with newer versions of Django and Cheetah. - Changelog for 3.8.1 forgot to mention the addition of a new "offline devices" report. The report lists serial numbers of devices known to NAV, but now appear to have been shelved. - NOTE: Users on upgraded installations should update their status preferences. A missing setting in the default preferences assigned to all new users would cause the status system to not display devices on maintenance in the "maintenance" section unless they were actually down or in shadow (as described in LP#723688). After the upgrade, go to `Status` -> `Preferences` -> `IP Devices on Maintenance` and add `Up` to the list of states to display. This choice was previously not enabled. Bugfixes: * LP#591602 (Endtime in maintenance period overwritten by a shorter maintenance period) * LP#720669 (can't add components to maintenance task when existing components have been deleted) * LP#721270 (CSRF Verification Fails on Django 1.2) * LP#721273 (Multiple NAV pages crash on non-ASCII chars under Cheetah 2.4) * LP#723619 (Maintenance crashes when adding multiple netboxes to a task) * LP#723688 (Status doesn't show devices on maintenance) * LP#724266 (MachineTracker inactive search says all IPs are inactive) * LP#724322 (netbox.uptodate is not altered when saving in seeddb) * LP#726402 (Rooms should be listed alphabetically when editing IP devices) * LP#726472 (portadmin should report error when snmp write is not available) * LP#726524 (prefix net type classification may be wrong on first discovery) * LP#728336 (`nav version` cannot find version information in NAV 3.8) Please report bugs at https://launchpad.net/nav/+filebug :-) A binary package for Debian 5 (Lenny) will be made available as soon as possible. The Debian package is maintained by Morten Werner Forsbring, on commission From UNINETT. Happy NAVing everyone! -- Morten Brekkevold UNINETT

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Announcement: NAV 3.8.1 released
by Morten Brekkevold 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

NAV 3.8.1 is now available for download at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nav/3.8/3.8.1 This is a maintenance release, which includes fixes for the following issues: * Various problems with the 3.8 build/install system, discovered during Debian packaging. * LP#618555 (alert addresses are not validated by alert profiles ui) * LP#646708 (ipdevpoll fails to shutdown) * LP#667771 (LDAP fallback to local password authentication regression) * LP#715801 (Wrong gwcount in prefix report) * LP#715807 (Prefix net types are wrongly classified when single router has multiple addresses) * LP#715851 (Missing config files during 3.8.0 install) * LP#717144 (problem adding position cords on room) * LP#719232 (AlertEngine crash error: filter() argument after ** must be a dictionary) * LP#720024 (logengine crashes when message contains : characters) Please report bugs at https://launchpad.net/nav/+filebug :-) A binary package for Debian 5 (Lenny) will be made available as soon as possible. The Debian package is maintained by Morten Werner Forsbring, on commission From UNINETT. Happy NAVing everyone! -- Morten Brekkevold UNINETT

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Relations between netbox, user and vlan to make vlans show in PortAdmin?
by Stokkenes Vidar 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Hello there, After reading the release notes of NAV 3.8.0 I was thrilled to see that PortAdmin/vlanAdmin had finally been merged with NAV in this release, and swiftly upgraded our production NAV server to the 3.8.0. Now what I don't get, is the relation required between the netbox you want to "operate" with PortAdmin/vlanAdmin, the user and the VLAN. I have already tested with several switches with the same organization membership as my own account (who also is a NAV administrator) but no matter what I do, I never get any available VLANs on my PortAdmin tab on any switch or port (as you can see here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9962750/portadmin.png) Am I missing something fundamental in terms of relations required between the netbox, user and vlans? Best regards, Vidar Stokkenes

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Announcement: NAV 3.8.0 released
by Morten Brekkevold 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

NAV 3.8.0 is now available for download at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nav/3.8/3.8.0 This is a feature release, which includes the following changes: User-visible features and improvements: * The database schema can now be kept updated automatically using the new `syncdb.py` program. Please see the `NOTES` file, and run the program as soon as you've upgraded. * NAV can now configure descriptions and access VLANs on your switch ports when an SNMP write community is set for a switch. This functionality is accessible through the IP Device Info tool. * SeedDB has been rewritten to use the Django framework (and has subsequently been reduced from nearly 5000 lines of spaghetti code to just below 2000 maintainable lines). * The number of concurrent ipdevpoll jobs can now be limited on a per-job basis, to ease the load on your system if so desired. See the annotated `ipdevpoll.conf` file. Bugfixes: * LP#643550 (Include ipdevinfo links in switch search in machine tracker) * LP#545029 (SmbChecker runs out of available file descriptors) Please report bugs at https://launchpad.net/nav/+filebug :-) A binary package for Debian 5 (Lenny) will be made available as soon as possible. The Debian package is maintained by Morten Werner Forsbring, on commission From UNINETT. Happy NAVing everyone! -- Morten Brekkevold UNINETT

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Announcement: NAV 3.7.4 released
by Morten Brekkevold 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

NAV 3.7.4 is now available for download at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nav/3.7/3.7.4 This is a maintenance release, which includes fixes for the following issues: * LP#645892 (report: csv export does not export full report) This wasn't properly fixed in 3.6.0. * LP#702796 (Syntax error in HttpChecker.py) Please report bugs at https://launchpad.net/nav/+filebug :-) A binary package for Debian 5 (Lenny) will be made available as soon as possible. The Debian package is maintained by Morten Werner Forsbring, on commission From UNINETT. Happy NAVing everyone! -- Morten Brekkevold UNINETT

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Announcement: NAV 3.7.3 released
by Morten Brekkevold 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

NAV 3.7.3 is now available for download at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nav/3.7/3.7.3 This bugfix release includes fixes for the following issues: * LP#537220 (logengine ignores seconds from timestamps) * LP#562242 (Prefix matrix crashes when viewing IPv6 scope) * LP#689629 (ipdevinfo crashes on IP addresses on VLANs that have no VLAN ID) * LP#691571 (old serial no association should be cleared when ip device is replaced with new hardware) * LP#692580 (delete location crashes) * LP#692997 (Machine tracker crashes due to limitations in allowed interface names) * LP#701451 (snmptrapd fails to decode certain SNMPv1 traps) * LP#701453 (snmptrapd fails to parse SNMPv2 traps from WeatherGoose) * LP#702257 (alertengine crashes after alert profile is deleted) Please report bugs at https://launchpad.net/nav/+filebug :-) A binary package for Debian 5 (Lenny) will be made available as soon as possible. The Debian package is maintained by Morten Werner Forsbring, on commission From UNINETT. Happy NAVing everyone! -- Morten Brekkevold UNINETT

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What does "Traffic in on switchports" show?
by Lars Kulseng 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Hi I use NAV to, among other things, produce a monthly report about the usage statistics in our network. For this I use Statistics -> "Traffic in on switchports" + "Last Month". What does the resulting view show? Is it the average amount of traffic over the last month, or is it the total, or something else? I can't quite make the numbers add up on the different switch ports. Lars Kulseng

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Missing cricket graph for some switch ?
by Tor Pretorius 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Hi.. Missing cricket graph for one type of switch ? Installed nav 3.7.1 on Debian (5.0.7) machine. On some switch, the files "navTargets" is empty /etc/nav/cricket-config/switch-ports/10.70.11.17/navTargets When I add data in then file manually, then graphs are presented but the graph disappears again after a while... file is overwritten and empty again. -Tor

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Announcement: NAV 3.7.2 released
by Morten Brekkevold 23 Des '10

23 Des '10

NAV 3.7.2 is now available for download at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nav/3.7/3.7.2 This bugfix release includes fixes for the following issues: * LP#586334 (HTTPS service checker doesn't work with Python 2.6) * LP#649761 (ipdevinfo does not show router port IPs/prefixes) * LP#649767 (ipdevpoll should be able to exclude prefixes via configuration) * LP#692959 (ipdevpoll doesn't delete extinct router addresses) Please report bugs at https://bugs.launchpad.net/nav :-) A binary package for Debian 5 (Lenny) will be made available as soon as possible. The Debian package is maintained by Morten Werner Forsbring, on commission From UNINETT. Happy NAVing and a merry x-mas, everyone! -- Morten Brekkevold UNINETT

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Link surveillance with NAV
by Sigurd Mytting 17 Des '10

17 Des '10

Hi! Wondering how other NAV'ers are doing link surveillance? I'm mostly interested in downed routing-ports, but also normal switch-ports, both host-access and switch-trunks, could of interest. Any input is appreciated! Cheers, -Sigurd

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Cricket trouble/optimizing
by Sigurd Mytting 17 Des '10

17 Des '10

Hi! Running NAV 3.7.0 on Debian 5-64-bit, about 700 switches and routers currently in NAV. There has been a lot of weird stuff (trouble) happening with Cricket after going from the latest in the 3.5-series up to 3.7, some things got better from 3.6 to 3.7, but not all is perfect. Not complaining, just a summary from my point of view over the last months of releases. About a week ago my Cricket graphs just stopped and after some debugging I found the Cricket-cronjob run as navcron dies after a while and leaves a lock-file, cleaning it up and doing some optimizing (separating switch and router interfaces, and system values into separate cronjobs) I found the cronjobs still dies and leaves lock-files. First of all; anyone else seeing the Cricket collector dying? (In my case just about on every run.) Second; Anyone have a good tip on how to tune Cricket to run a sensible number of jobs to get thru it all in a sensible amount of time? Currently, if the largest job (switch interfaces) don't die after only a few minutes it usually runs for 25-30 minutes. NAV in my environment isn't really a production system, but my pet-project provides more accurate and sensible information than any system we have in production so I'll hang on to it as long as I can. Any input appreciated! Cheers, -Sigurd

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Trouble with NAV 3.70 ,NFSEN on Debian 5
by Tore Willmar Jakobsen 17 Des '10

17 Des '10

Hi, I have installed Debian 5-64 bit on a virtual machine. On top of that NAV 3.7.0 is installed , also NFSEN 1.3-5 and NFDUMP 1.6.1p1 Everything work as expected , but not graphs is generated through Cricket 1.0.5-9 The logs show errors from NfSenRRD.pm : Unable to create graph, no such file or directory. The graph windows in Nav is displayed , but no data is available visually. After googling a lot of users see the same problems as I have experienced. They all have downgraded lots of libraries in Perl and Cricket. Anyone done this setup with success on Debian 5. Solution is highly appreciated [cid:image001.jpg@01CB96B8.C14ED8F0] Tore Willmar Jakobsen Chief Consultant / Sjefskonsulent - Datarom Wintel Mobile: +47 99 27 98 81 tore.willmar.jakobsen(a)atea.no<mailto:marit.garvik@atea.no> Atea AS, Jåttåvågveien 7 4020 Stavanger Switchboard: +47 22 09 50 00 www.atea.no<http://www.atea.no/> P Before printing, think about the environment

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Announcement: NAV 3.7.1 released
by Morten Brekkevold 13 Des '10

13 Des '10

NAV 3.7.1 is now available for download at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nav/3.7/3.7.1 This bugfix release includes fixes for the following issues: * LP#674433 (ipdevpoll: local variable 'obj_model' referenced before assignment) * LP#674466 (Room coordinates can't be edited in NAV 3.7.0) * LP#675532 (ipdevinfo crash on Nortel interfaces) * LP#675543 (ipdevinfo crash: could not identify an ordering operator for type point) * LP#678436 (SeedDB crashes on unknown IntegrityErrors during delete) * LP#686435 (Queued alerts prevent IP devices from being deleted) * The installation documentation had grown stale and has now been revised. The LP#686435 issue requires a schema change, so don't forget to run the doc/sql/upgrades/3.7.1.sql script. Please report bugs at https://bugs.launchpad.net/nav :-) A binary package for Debian 5 (Lenny) will be made available as soon as possible. The Debian package is maintained by Morten Werner Forsbring, on commission From UNINETT. Happy NAVing everyone! -- Morten Brekkevold UNINETT

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How does geomap work ?
by Tor Pretorius 06 Des '10

06 Des '10

How does geomap work ? Have a new/fresh installation of NAV 3.7 and everything works fine but no devices appear in geomap, and no network information is on the map ? questions ? Use geomap devices "Location Id" from nav seed database ? to find device position ? Med vennlig hilsen / Best Regards Tor Pretorius

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Announcement: NAV 3.7.0 released
by Morten Brekkevold 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

NAV 3.7.0 is now available for download at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nav/3.7/3.7.0 This feature release includes: * Geomap - an OpenStreetMap-based geographical network traffic map. * Active Directory LDAP authentication (see http://metanav.uninett.no/ldapauthentication for updated docs) * sudo-like ability for administrators in the web interface. While editing users in the useradmin tool, an administrator can opt to effectively become that user. This is useful for helping with alert profile setup and privilege problems. Some bugfixes from the 3.6.x branch have also been included, please refer to the changelog. Note that this release bumps the version requirements of Python to 2.5.0 and PostgreSQL to 8.3. Please report bugs at https://bugs.launchpad.net/nav :-) A binary package for Debian 5 (Lenny) will be made available as soon as possible. The Debian package is maintained by Morten Werner Forsbring, on commission From UNINETT. Happy NAVing everyone! -- Morten Brekkevold UNINETT

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Seed-DB not working
by Rudolph Bott 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Hey List, I upgraded to 3.6.0 and now to 3.6.3 but still no luck - the seed-db page is not working :( I always end up with this error: MOD_PYTHON ERROR ProcessId: 13793 Interpreter: '<server-name>' ServerName: '<server-name>' DocumentRoot: '/usr/local/nav/apache/webroot' URI: '/seeddb/' Location: None Directory: '/usr/local/nav/apache/webroot/seeddb/' Filename: '/usr/local/nav/apache/webroot/seeddb/' PathInfo: '' Phase: 'PythonHandler' Handler: 'seeddb' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mod_python/importer.py", line 1537, in HandlerDispatch default=default_handler, arg=req, silent=hlist.silent) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mod_python/importer.py", line 1202, in _process_target module = import_module(module_name, path=path) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mod_python/importer.py", line 296, in import_module log, import_path) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mod_python/importer.py", line 680, in import_module execfile(file, module.__dict__) File "/usr/local/nav/apache/webroot/seeddb/seeddb.py", line 25, in <module> import nav.Snmp File "/usr/local/nav/lib/python/nav/Snmp/__init__.py", line 27, in <module> import pysnmp File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/pysnmp/__init__.py", line 23, in <module> switchApiVersion(v) # do not load any API File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/pysnmp/__init__.py", line 8, in switchApiVersion newMod = __import__(subPkg, globals(), locals()) ImportError: No module named v3 MODULE CACHE DETAILS Accessed: Fri Nov 5 16:49:26 2010 Generation: 0 _mp_862e26f832bb2b4505445d3c09f3d1be { FileName: '/usr/local/nav/apache/webroot/seeddb/seeddb.py' Instance: 1 [IMPORT] Generation: 0 [ERROR] Modified: Fri Nov 5 16:32:33 2010 } ==== Any hints? I executed all the database update scripts, restarted apache etc. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen/With Kind Regards Rudolph Bott

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Announcement: NAV 3.6.2 released
by Morten Brekkevold 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

NAV 3.6.2 is now available for download at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nav/3.6/3.6.2 This release fixes the following bugs: * LP#609105 (Alertengine mailbombs error with insufficient info) * LP#638745 (logengine: TypeError: int argument required) * LP#666761 (ipdevpoll integrity error on serial number conflicts) * LP#667182 (MachineTracker details link leads to 404 Page Not Found) * LP#670817 (SeedDB crash when editing services) * LP#670832 (dump.py crashes when attempting to dump obsolete product table) * LP#670833 (dump.py produces invalid prefix dump) Please report more bugs at https://bugs.launchpad.net/nav :-) A binary package for Debian 5 (Lenny) will be made available as soon as possible. The Debian package is maintained by Morten Werner Forsbring, on commission From UNINETT. Happy NAVing everyone! -- Morten Brekkevold UNINETT

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