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Announcement: NAV 5.8.3 released
by Morten Brekkevold 01 Des '23

01 Des '23

The third maintenance release of the 5.8 series of NAV is now out! The source code is available for download at GitHub [1]. New packages for Debian 10 (Buster) and 11 (Bullseye) are available in our APT repository [2] as usual. We haven't started building packages for Debian 12 (Bookworm) yet, but hope to do so by the end of 2023. 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. Fixed ===== - Fix non-working SNMPv1 communication (#2772, #2779, #2780) Release notes ============= We always advise you to have a look at NAV's accompanying release notes [3] before upgrading. 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-5-8 -- Sincerely, Morten Brekkevold Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research

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Announcement: NAV 5.8.2 released
by Morten Brekkevold 30 Nov '23

30 Nov '23

The second maintenance release of the 5.8 series of NAV is now out! The source code is available for download at GitHub [1]. New packages for Debian 10 (Buster) and 11 (Bullseye) are available in our APT repository [2] as usual. We haven't started building packages for Debian 12 (Bookworm) yet, but hope to do so by the end of 2023. 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. Fixed ===== - Fix broken “operate as user” function in User and API Administration tool (#2766, #2777) - Fix crashing PDU widget (#2776) - Fix bug that caused PortAdmin to stop working for Cisco switches (#2773, (#2774) Release notes ============= We always advise you to have a look at NAV's accompanying release notes [3] before upgrading. 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-5-8 -- Sincerely, Morten Brekkevold Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research

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Announcement: NAV 5.8.1 released
by Morten Brekkevold 30 Nov '23

30 Nov '23

The first maintenance release of the 5.8 series of NAV is now out! The source code is available for download at GitHub [1]. New packages for Debian 10 (Buster) and 11 (Bullseye) are available in our APT repository [2] as usual. We haven't started building packages for Debian 12 (Bookworm) yet, but hope to do so by the end of 2023. 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. Fixed ===== - Constrain version of 3rd party module ciscoconfparse, in order to avoid NAV not working under Python 3.7 (#2770, #2771) - Fix ipdevpoll crash error from using SNMP v2c profile example that came with NAV (#2767, #2768) - Gracefully handle encoding errors in invalid sysname/IP input in SeedDB IP Device form (#2764) - Gracefully handle errors from invalid profiles list input in SeedDB IP Device form (#2765) Release notes ============= We always advise you to have a look at NAV's accompanying release notes [3] before upgrading. 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-5-8 -- Sincerely, Morten Brekkevold Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research

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Announcement: NAV 5.8.0 released
by Morten Brekkevold 27 Nov '23

27 Nov '23

The first feature release of the 5.8 series of NAV is now out! The source code is available for download at GitHub [1]. New packages for Debian 10 (Buster) and 11 (Bullseye) are available in our APT repository [2] as usual. We haven't started building packages for Debian 12 (Bookworm) yet, but hope to do so by the end of 2023. 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. Added ===== - Initial SNMPv3 support added to most parts of NAV - Add an SNMPv3 management profile type (#2693, #2699) - Add SNMPv3 session support to the synchronous SNMP libraries used by most parts of NAV except ipdevpoll (#2700, #2710) - Add SNMPv3 reachability tests in SeedDB IP Device registration forms (#2704, #2734, #2727, #2730) - Add SNMPv3 support to Portadmin (#2712, #2731) - Add SNMPv3 support to navsnmp command line program (#2724, #2725) - Add SNMPv3 support to Arnold (#2726, #2733) - Add SNMPv3 session support to ipdevpoll’s asynchronous SNMP libraries (#2736, #2743) - Add SNMPv3 support tonavoidverify and naventity command line programs (#2747, #2748) - Power-over-Ethernet configuration support for Cisco and Juniper equipment in PortAdmin (#2632, #2633, #2666, #2635, #2759) - Extract VLAN association from router port names on Checkpoint firewalls (#2684, #2701) - Add link to our GitHub discussion forums in “Getting help” documentation (#2746) - Add subcommand to navuser command line program for deleting users (#2705) - Add toggle in webfront.conf for automatic creation of remote users (#2698, #2707) - Add proper documentation index page for all howto guides (#2716) Developer-centric additions --------------------------- - Add tests for overview of alert profiles page (#2741) - Add make rule for cleaning doc directory (#2717) - Add an snmpd service container for SNMPv3 comms testing (#2697) Fixed ===== - Improve validation of maintenance form input in order to avoid unintentional crash reports (#2757) - Handle invalid alert profile ID form input without crashing (#2756) - Prevent crash errors in esoteric situations where multiple dashboards have been erroneously marked as a user’s default dashboard (#2680) - Fix broken navoidverify command on Linux (#2737) - Several regressions related to input validation in Alert Profiles were fixed: - Fix regression that prevented filter groups from being deleted from an alert profile (#2729) - Fix regression that prevented activation/deactivation of alert profiles (#2732) - Fix form validation with “equal” and “in” operators for adding expression with group to filter (#2750) - Add more expression operator tests for alert profiles and fix cleaning in ExpressionForm (#2752) Developer-centric fixes ----------------------- - Restructure alert profile tests (#2739) Changed ======= - Allow write-enabled SNMP profiles to be used for reading when device has no read-only SNMP profiles (#2735, #2751) - Improved howto guide for setting up remote user authentication using mod_auth_oidc (#2708) Developer-centric changes ------------------------- - Refactored web authentication code in preparation for future changes to authentication flow (#2706) Removed ======= Developer-centric removals -------------------------- - Remove remaining uses of Netbox.snmp_version (#2522) - Remove unused function snmp_parameter_factory (#2753) - Remove deprecated Netbox SNMP properties (#2754, #2761) Release notes ============= We always advise you to have a look at NAV's accompanying release notes [3] before upgrading. 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-5-8 -- Sincerely, Morten Brekkevold Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research

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Unable to deactivate alert profile
by Ingeborg Hellemo 13 Nov '23

13 Nov '23

NAV 5.7.1 FreeBSD 12.4 Python 3.9 When visiting /alertprofiles/profile/ and choosing "Deactivate" on a profile we get an error. Since this is not something we do every day I'm not sure if this began after upgrading to 5.7.1 or if it has been broken for a while. During last upgrade I also upgraded python from 3.8 to 3.9 which could have introduced the error. Internal Server Error: /alertprofiles/profile/remove/ RuntimeError at /alertprofiles/profile/remove/ dictionary keys changed during iteration Request Method: POST Request URL: https://nav.uit.no/alertprofiles/profile/remove/ Django Version: 3.2.23 Python Executable: Python Version: 3.9.18 Python Path: ['/usr/local/lib/python39.zip', '/usr/local/lib/python3.9', '/usr/local/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages ', '/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages', '/etc/nav/python'] Server time: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 09:25:39 +0100 Installed Applications: ('nav.models', 'nav.web', 'nav.django', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.humanize', 'django_filters', 'crispy_forms', 'crispy_forms_foundation', 'rest_framework', 'nav.auditlog', 'nav.web.macwatch', 'nav.web.geomap', 'nav.portadmin.napalm', 'nav.web.portadmin', 'django.contrib.postgres') Installed Middleware: ('django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'nav.web.auth.AuthenticationMiddleware', 'nav.web.auth.AuthorizationMiddleware', 'nav.django.legacy.LegacyCleanupMiddleware', 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware') Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.p y", line 47, in inner response = get_response(request) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 181, in _get_response response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nav/web/alertprofiles/decorators .py", line 47, in _handler return func(request, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nav/web/alertprofiles/views.py", line 316, in profile_remove for data in post: Exception Type: RuntimeError at /alertprofiles/profile/remove/ Exception Value: dictionary keys changed during iteration Request information: USER: [unable to retrieve the current user] GET: No GET data POST: deactivate=1004 = 'Deactivate' FILES: No FILES data More logs avaliable. --Ingeborg -- Ingeborg Østrem Hellemo -- ingeborg.hellemo(a)uit.no Dep. of Information Technology --- Univ. of Tromsø

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nav installation
by Kejvan Redjamand 13 Okt '23

13 Okt '23

Hi, I have had problems installing nav 57.1-2 on a Debian 11 from NAV repository with 'apt install nav'. The installation give the following warning, you have the choice to click OK. Database initialization failed │ │ Script output: │ │ Traceback (most recent call last): │ File "/usr/sbin/navsyncdb", line 2, in <module> │ from nav.pgsync import main │ ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'nav' <Ok> It is not possible to run "sudo -u postgres navsyncdb" after the installation either, same error message, for the same reason as above. I found that the symlinks are setup somehow wrong for nav binaries installed. I'm not a good python programmer but probably the virtual env is not setup or configured as it should. /opt/venvs/nav/bin# ls -l python* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Sep 18 14:09 python -> /usr/bin/python3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Sep 18 14:09 python3 -> python lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Sep 18 14:09 python3.9 -> python because in my case: /usr/bin/python3 -> python3.11 And ### /opt/venvs/nav/pyvenv.cfg home = /usr implementation = CPython version_info = 3.9.2.final.0 virtualenv = 20.4.0+ds include-system-site-packages = false base-prefix = /usr base-exec-prefix = /usr base-executable = /usr/bin/python3 So I chnged base-executable to /usr/bin/python3.9 And the links to /opt/venvs/nav/bin# rm python /opt/venvs/nav/bin# ln -s /usr/bin/python3.9 python So everything points to Python 3.9.2. Now with every attempt for installation of any package I get: Configuring nav │ │ Attempt to modify config file /etc/nav/db.conf failed │ │ │ Script output: │ │ <Ok> It seems that dpkg wants to run post installations and something goes wrong. And this output: Configuring nav │ │ Database initialization failed │ │ Script output: │ │ connection to server at "localhost" (::1), port 5432 failed: FATAL: │ password authentication failed for user "nav" │ connection to server at "localhost" (::1), port 5432 failed: FATAL: │ password authentication failed for user "nav" │ │ Creating database nav owned by nav │ │ <Ok> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I have tried to drop the database, creating new database, changing the password, set the password other ways, uninstall nav and reinstall but without any results. I am out of ideas and any help is appreciated. Fixing the instalation scripts or Python venvs is it possible to do? Kind Regards, Kejvan

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Announcement: NAV 5.7.1 released
by Morten Brekkevold 18 Sep '23

18 Sep '23

The first maintenance release of the 5.7 series of NAV is now out! The source code is available for download at GitHub [1]. New packages for Debian 10 (Buster) and 11 (Bullseye) are available in our APT repository [2] as usual. We haven't started building packages for Debian 12 (Bookworm) yet, but hope to do so by the end of 2023. 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. Fixed ===== - Fixed regression that caused Netmap to be unusable in 5.7.0 (#2681, #2683) Release notes ============= We always advise you to have a look at NAV's accompanying release notes [3] before upgrading. 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-5-7 -- Sincerely, Morten Brekkevold Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research

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Setting device group for a device through API
by Håvard Ose Nordstrand 15 Sep '23

15 Sep '23

Hi! We're using a Python script to import devices from a Cisco DNA inventory, but I can't seem to find a way to set a device group for the devices through the API. I'm using PATCH with the "/api/1/netbox/{netbox_id}/" endpoint, but as far as I can understand from the source code, it only supports certain special attributes like "organizationid", "roomid" etc. and not arbitrary device attributes. Is this implemented? If not, would it be easy for me to implement a new API endpoint attribute for this or would this tie into a lot of other things? -- Med vennlig hilsen Håvard Ose Nordstrand Overingeniør – Faggruppe Nett NTNU IT, Drift [cid:8e2b2110-e280-4f3f-8c21-434fb33f3b8b]

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NAV with Cisco 3850
by Mischa Diehm 15 Sep '23

15 Sep '23

Hi, we have a 3850 Stack with 3x ES-C3850-48T-S and 5x WS-C3850-12X48U. When we try to PortAdmin and edit a Port we get (see also attached Jpg): „IP device found but has no type“ Any ideas? Cheers, Mischa -- Mischa Diehm | Network Team (NINS) UniBasel | IT-Services (ITS) Klingebergstr. 70 | CH-4056 Basel Tel. +41 61 267 1574 | https://its.unibas.ch

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Alert profiles : how to read/check filters values ? set schedules ?
by FOUR Ludovic (EXT) 15 Sep '23

15 Sep '23

Hello, With the last version NAV 5.7, we can now create filters and raise alarms from Juniper chassis led (red or yellow) in the alert profiles. Thank you :) I'm trying to create new filters, but I can't check if it works really Can we list the values of all filters somewhere, for each device ? (Psql request ?) I trying to create an alert profile to send specific alarms at specific time for a specific group of users In my test profile, I can add a time period and choose start time (with valid format HH:MM or HH), and add subscriptions. In profile details the time periods valid during is 07:30 - 07:30 I don't know how to set a schedule from my subscriptions, for example from 7:30am (7h30) to 9pm (21h00) in weekdays. Regards, Ludovic FOUR CNRS / Faculté de Pharmacie Strasbourg France

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