ey, ey, ey . snmpv3 in NAV! After 24 years of development :) Great work, Team Morten! Pretty sure this will interest quite a few...

- Vidar

On 24.11.2023 15:47, Morten Brekkevold wrote:

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

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