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Announcement: NAV 4.0.0 released
by Morten Brekkevold 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

We are proud to present the final NAV 4.0.0 release, now available for download at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nav/4.0/4.0.0 Changes ======= As announced when we released the first beta version, NAV 4.0 introduces two major changes. The two big changes are: 1. The complete replacement of Cricket as a 3rd party tool for statistics collection and graphing. NAV 4 collects the statistics using the already existing ipdevpoll SNMP collector, and uses Graphite as a 3rd party service for storing and graphing this data. This also means NAV no longer uses RRDtool for storing time-series data. 2. A full design overhaul of the web interface, using the Foundation CSS framework. The full release notes for this release can be read at [1]. You are also advised to read the updated installation docs at [2]. If you are upgrading from an existing 3.15 installation, you should avoid starting the new NAV version before migrating your old Cricket/RRD-based statistics to Graphite/Whisper. Instructions for this can found at [3]. If you want to upgrade from a 4.0 beta version, be advised that the polling interval for sensor statistics has been changed from 5 minutes to 1 minute. The updated example storage-schemas.conf reflects this. The whisper files under nav/devices/*/sensors/*.wsp must either be resized to include a new 1 minute resolution archive, or be deleted so that Carbon will re-create empty files from the new config. Debian packages =============== Debian packages have been uploaded to our repository, instructions for using the repository are still found at [4]. NAV's documentation does not cover installation of Graphite's Carbon daemon and the Graphite web interface, which are necessary dependencies in NAV 4.0; it only mentions configuration measures. We have backported a graphite-web package, as it is not provided by the Debian Wheezy distribution. This package does not automatically set up a Graphite web instance for you. We will write a guide suggesting how to do so, but it will be largely based on the shell script we use to automatically build our published virtual appliance. This shell script can be viewed at [5] (ca. lines 35-80). NAV 3.15 support ================ We will continue to support the 3.15 series at least until NAV 4.1 is released, but we recommend all new users to start with NAV 4. Happy NAVing everyone! Links ===== [1] https://nav.uninett.no/doc/4.0/release-notes.html [2] https://nav.uninett.no/doc/4.0/intro/install.html [3] https://nav.uninett.no/doc/4.0/howto/migrate-rrd-to-graphite.html [4] https://nav.uninett.no/nav_on_debian [5] http://bit.ly/1rFgrzz -- Morten Brekkevold UNINETT AS

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Announcement: NAV 3.15.7 released
by Morten Brekkevold 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

For those of you who wish to continue running NAV 3.15 for while, the seventh maintenance release of this series is now available for download at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nav/3.15/3.15.7 This release fixes 12 reported issues: * LP#1251211 (portadmin wishlist: option to reset active interface whene changing vlan) * LP#1285601 (Switch ports on non-existant VLANs on Cisco switches don't appear as switch ports in NAV) * LP#1287700 (SeedDB will readily accept serial numbers with trailing spaces) * LP#1289219 (affected displays no information on nodes not in topology) * LP#1289320 (Submitting invalid alert subscription forms cause crash instead of error message) * LP#1291956 (LDAP auth against MS AD broken since NAV 3.14.1592653) * LP#1291978 (User supplied login name is not escaped in LDAP search filters, causing possible injection vulnerabilities) * LP#1292513 (sysname/reverse dns lookups are inconsistent or lacking after a bulk import) * LP#1293621 (missing cascade in table accounttool) * LP#1295092 (Only modules and power supplies on first member are collected from stacked HP 2920) * LP#1297200 (powersupplywatch crashes when there are more than ~1024 devices to poll) * LP#1297767 (Django exposes sensitive data like: username/password) Please report further bugs at https://launchpad.net/nav/+filebug A binary package for Debian Wheezy has been made available in our APT repository, as usual. Happy NAVing everyone! -- Morten Brekkevold UNINETT AS

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pynetsnmp exception (too many values to unpack)
by Martin.Jaburek＠cah.cz 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Hi, I just checked my ipdevpoll.log and found exception listed bellow. It is a Cisco 3750 two members stack. This error was reported only two times today. I checked job statuses (all green) and ipdevpoll failure graphs and there are just a few of them. Is it normal? 2014-03-26 08:34:26,933 [ERROR jobs.jobhandler] [1minstats IP] Plugin nav.ipdevpoll.plugins.statsystem.StatSystem(IP') reported an unhandled failure Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 391, in errback self._startRunCallbacks(fail) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 458, in _startRunCallbacks self._runCallbacks() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 545, in _runCallbacks current.result = callback(current.result, *args, **kw) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 1095, in gotResult _inlineCallbacks(r, g, deferred) --- <exception caught here> --- File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 1037, in _inlineCallbacks result = result.throwExceptionIntoGenerator(g) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/python/failure.py", line 382, in throwExceptionIntoGenerator return g.throw(self.type, self.value, self.tb) File "/usr/local/nav/lib/python/nav/ipdevpoll/plugins/statsystem.py", line 69, in handle cpu = yield self._collect_cpu() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 1037, in _inlineCallbacks result = result.throwExceptionIntoGenerator(g) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/python/failure.py", line 382, in throwExceptionIntoGenerator return g.throw(self.type, self.value, self.tb) File "/usr/local/nav/lib/python/nav/ipdevpoll/plugins/statsystem.py", line 118, in _collect_cpu load = yield self._get_cpu_loadavg(mib) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 1037, in _inlineCallbacks result = result.throwExceptionIntoGenerator(g) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/python/failure.py", line 382, in throwExceptionIntoGenerator return g.throw(self.type, self.value, self.tb) File "/usr/local/nav/lib/python/nav/ipdevpoll/plugins/statsystem.py", line 129, in _get_cpu_loadavg load = yield mib.get_cpu_loadavg() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 1037, in _inlineCallbacks result = result.throwExceptionIntoGenerator(g) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/python/failure.py", line 382, in throwExceptionIntoGenerator return g.throw(self.type, self.value, self.tb) File "/usr/local/nav/lib/python/nav/mibs/cisco_process_mib.py", line 34, in get_cpu_loadavg TOTAL_1_MIN_REV, File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/internet/defer.py", line 545, in _runCallbacks current.result = callback(current.result, *args, **kw) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/pynetsnmp/tableretriever.py", line 59, in saveResults for oid, value in values: exceptions.ValueError: too many values to unpack 2014-03-26 08:34:26,950 [ERROR jobs.jobhandler] [1minstats IP] Job '1minstats' for IP aborted: Job aborted due to plugin failure (cause=ValueError('too many values to unpack',))

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Nav Django exposing Username/Password in error case
by Mischa Diehm 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Hi, I was playing around with ldap/AD integration and got this errorreport mailed to our NOC-Group (see below) - this mail leaks my username/password in cleartext. I think this should really be avoided for any case happening! I don't have a clue about django but a quick search showed me this: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/error-reporting/ Especially interesting might be this part: ... Filtering sensitive information <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/error-reporting/#filtering-sens itive-information> Error reports are really helpful for debugging errors, so it is generally useful to record as much relevant information about those errors as possible. For example, by default Django records the full traceback <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_trace> for the exception raised, each traceback frame <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_frame> ¹s local variables, and the HttpRequest <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#django.http.Htt pRequest> ¹s attributes <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#httprequest-att ributes> . However, sometimes certain types of information may be too sensitive and thus may not be appropriate to be kept track of, for example a user¹s password or credit card number. So Django offers a set of function decorators to help you control which information should be filtered out of error reports in a production environment (that is, where DEBUG <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#std:setting-DEBUG> is set to False): sensitive_variables() <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/error-reporting/#django.views.d ecorators.debug.sensitive_variables> and sensitive_post_parameters() <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/error-reporting/#django.views.d ecorators.debug.sensitive_post_parameters> . ... I wonder if than can be integrated for NAV or if there is another way to get around exposure like that? Mischa Original mail we became for django error: ---- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 111, in get_response response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/nav/web/webfront/views.py", line 89, in login return do_login(request) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/nav/web/webfront/views.py", line 122, in do_login account = auth.authenticate(username, password) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/nav/web/auth.py", line 95, in authenticate auth = ldapauth.authenticate(username, password) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/nav/web/ldapauth.py", line 120, in authenticate lconn = open_ldap() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/nav/web/ldapauth.py", line 76, in open_ldap server = _config.get('ldap', 'server') File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 618, in get raise NoOptionError(option, section) NoOptionError: No option 'server' in section: 'ldap' <WSGIRequest path:/index/login/, GET:<QueryDict: {}>, POST:<QueryDict: {u'origin': [u''], u'username': [u'diehm-adm'], u'password': [u'godDamnitDjango']}>, COOKIES:{'sessionid': 'd660941ae6b821799dbb47ed41d47009'}, META:{'CONTENT_LENGTH': '52', 'CONTENT_TYPE': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'DOCUMENT_ROOT': '/usr/share/nav/htdocs', 'GATEWAY_INTERFACE': 'CGI/1.1', 'HTTPS': '1', 'HTTP_ACCEPT': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, deflate', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE': 'de,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3', 'HTTP_CONNECTION': 'keep-alive', 'HTTP_COOKIE': 'sessionid=d660941ae6b821799dbb47ed41d47009', 'HTTP_DNT': '1', 'HTTP_HOST': 'urz-nav-pet.urz.unibas.ch', 'HTTP_REFERER': 'https://urz-nav-pet.urz.unibas.ch/index/login/', 'HTTP_USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0', 'PATH_INFO': u'/index/login/', 'PATH_TRANSLATED': '/usr/share/pyshared/nav/wsgi.py/index/login/', 'QUERY_STRING': '', 'REMOTE_ADDR': '131.152.2.16', 'REMOTE_PORT': '59503', 'REQUEST_METHOD': 'POST', 'REQUEST_URI': '/index/login/', 'SCRIPT_FILENAME': '/usr/share/pyshared/nav/wsgi.py', 'SCRIPT_NAME': u'', 'SERVER_ADDR': '131.152.2.216', 'SERVER_ADMIN': 'webmaster@localhost', 'SERVER_NAME': 'urz-nav-pet.urz.unibas.ch', 'SERVER_PORT': '443', 'SERVER_PROTOCOL': 'HTTP/1.1', 'SERVER_SIGNATURE': '<address>Apache/2.2.22 (Debian) Server at urz-nav-pet.urz.unibas.ch Port 443</address>\n', 'SERVER_SOFTWARE': 'Apache/2.2.22 (Debian)', 'SSL_TLS_SNI': 'urz-nav-pet.urz.unibas.ch', 'mod_wsgi.application_group': 'urz-nav-pet.urz.unibas.ch|', 'mod_wsgi.callable_object': 'application', 'mod_wsgi.handler_script': '', 'mod_wsgi.input_chunked': '0', 'mod_wsgi.listener_host': '', 'mod_wsgi.listener_port': '443', 'mod_wsgi.process_group': 'NAV', 'mod_wsgi.request_handler': 'wsgi-script', 'mod_wsgi.script_reloading': '1', 'mod_wsgi.version': (3, 3), 'wsgi.errors': <mod_wsgi.Log object at 0x7fa322859430>, 'wsgi.file_wrapper': <built-in method file_wrapper of mod_wsgi.Adapter object at 0x7fa3228655d0>, 'wsgi.input': <mod_wsgi.Input object at 0x7fa3210d6eb0>, 'wsgi.multiprocess': True, 'wsgi.multithread': True, 'wsgi.run_once': False, 'wsgi.url_scheme': 'https', 'wsgi.version': (1, 1)}> -- Mischa Diehm | Network Operations Center (NOC) UniBasel | UniRechenZentrum (URZ) Klingebergstr. 70 | CH-4056 Basel Tel. +41 61 267 1574 | http://urz.unibas.ch

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New to nav system
by martin.jaburek＠cah.cz 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Hello, I just installed nav system from source, so I have 4.0b5 up and running. I tried so far only few Cisco boxes of these two types - Catalyst 6504 - Catalyst 4506 Even on these I'm unable to obtain software version, modules etc. It shows serial numbers and ports (but not switch ports or router ports) I tried to find out, how to troubhleshoot the proces, but nothing was usefull. Can you please advise me, what can I do to make it work? brgds Mat

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navcron powersupplywatch.py
by Mischa Diehm 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Hi, I have a problem with /usr/lib/nav/powersupplywatch.py: I get the following error runninng this script as user navcron: [2014-03-24 18:11:51,243] [DEBUG] Allocate SNMP-handle for cat-XXX-vl-742.pz.p.unibas.ch [2014-03-24 18:11:51,244] [DEBUG] Polling cat-XXX-vl-742.pz.p.unibas.ch: WS-C2960G-8TC-L - Power Supply 0 [2014-03-24 18:11:51,244] [DEBUG] Stored state = Unknown; polled state = Unknown [2014-03-24 18:11:51,247] [DEBUG] Allocate SNMP-handle for cat-XXX-vl-742.pz.p.unibas.ch snmp_open: Unknown host (10.XX.XX.186:161) [2014-03-24 18:11:51,247] [ERROR] snmp_open: Unknown host (10.XX.XX.186:161) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/nav/powersupplywatch.py", line 390, in <module> File "/usr/lib/nav/powersupplywatch.py", line 174, in main File "/usr/lib/nav/powersupplywatch.py", line 244, in check_psus_and_fans File "/usr/lib/nav/powersupplywatch.py", line 275, in get_snmp_handle File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/nav/Snmp/pynetsnmp.py", line 66, in __init__ File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/pynetsnmp/netsnmp.py", line 421, in open pynetsnmp.netsnmp.SnmpError: snmp_open NAV can actually poll the device with snmp. When I delete the device, the next device in the list will fail. It's always device No. 1020 (see below) root@urz-nav-pet:~# sudo -u navcron /usr/lib/nav/powersupplywatch.py -v -d 2>&1| grep Alloc | wc -l 1020 We run Debian 7.4 with root@urz-nav-pet:~# dpkg -l | grep nav ii nav 2+3.15.6-2 all Network Administration Visualized any ideas? -- Mischa Diehm | Network Operations Center (NOC) UniBasel | UniRechenZentrum (URZ) Klingebergstr. 70 | CH-4056 Basel Tel. +41 61 267 1574 | http://urz.unibas.ch

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Migration to new NAV version
by Mischa Diehm 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Hi, we migrated our installation to a new HW and Debian stable (3.14.15-1 -> 3.15.5-1). I got all dump.py data migrated without problems. Now we got a lot of User Accounts and Groups with a lot of different Privilidges attached to them. Is there also a (painless) way of transforming this data into the new installation? Thanks in advance! Mischa -- Mischa Diehm | Network Operations Center (NOC) UniBasel | UniRechenZentrum (URZ) Klingebergstr. 70 | CH-4056 Basel Tel. +41 61 267 1574 | http://urz.unibas.ch

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Hardware recommendation
by Mischa Diehm 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Hi, first of all welcome to the list! we (UniBasel) use NAV for quite some while now and are very pleased with the possibilities NAV gives us. We use Debian as OS with the following Setup: root@urz-nav:~# uname -a Linux urz-nav 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Fri May 10 09:44:53 UTC 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux root@urz-nav:~# cat /etc/debian_version 6.0.7 root@urz-nav:~# dpkg -l | grep nav ii nav 2+3.14.15-1 Network Administration Visualized A problem we have since a while is that our system is permanently under a lot of load (mostly CPU bound) and we haven't really found a way to reduce the pressure. The hardware we use is a hp blade (ProLiant BL460c G6) with: Intel(r) Xeon(r) Processor X5550 (4 Cores/ 8 Threats) (8M Cache, 2.66 GHz, 6.40 GT/s Intel(r) QPI) and: root@urz-nav:~# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 12321700 11673596 648104 0 387768 9123748 At the moment we have 1460 active Devices (mainly Cisco Switches). Around 30 or 40 are OVERDUE in: https://urz-nav/report/lastupdated So my question is, do you have any good experience with HW-systems that are actually dealing with this amount of devices or is there any tuning possibility (without losing functionality) we could try to reduce the pressure on the system? Thanks in advance, Mischa Diehm -- Mischa Diehm | Network Operation Center (NOC) Universitaet Basel | Universitaetsrechenzentrum Klingelbergstr. 70 | CH-4056 Basel | Switzerland Tel. +41 61 267 15 74 | Fax +41 61 267 22 82 | http://urz.unibas.ch

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Announcement: NAV 4.0 beta 5 released
by Morten Brekkevold 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

The fifth beta release of the NAV 4.0 series is now available for download at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nav/4.0/4.0b5 Here's the changelog summary of today's release: Bugfixes: * Fixed various bugs around the web interface, introduced in previous releases. User-visible features and improvements: * Graph widget now has editable title. Default value is taken from from the displayed graph. * Make global graph controls float on top of viewport when scrolling on a page with heaps of port metrics. * Added the much sought-after button to clear link alerts from the status page. * Front page widgets can now be re-ordered by dragging their anchor icon; the re-order mode button has been removed. * "Add widget" button on the front page was moved to a sliding menu, accessible from the plus icon on the right hand side of the screen. A Debian package has been uploaded to our APT repository. We will likely build and upload a new version of the virtual appliance later today. Please note that there was a problem with the previous version of the appliance, which was reported to us and fixed today. As usual, please report bugs at https://launchpad.net/nav/+filebug . Happy beta-NAVing everyone! -- Morten Brekkevold UNINETT AS

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NAV 4.0 Improved graph presentation
by John-Magne Bredal 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

Hi, we have written about how NAV 4.0 will improve the graph presentation. Read more about this and other NAV things on our blog - blog.nav.uninett.no Also - if you want to test the beta version of NAV 4 feel free to download the virtual applicance. It can be downloaded at https://nav.uninett.no/navappliance -- John-Magne Bredal UNINETT AS

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