The initial release of the new NAV 3.15 series is now available for download at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/nav/3.15/3.15.0
This feature release brings many changes to NAV, including, but not limited to:
* mod_python is no longer required; mod_wsgi is the new recommended way to deploy the NAV web interface.
* Devices' conceptual layering of interfaces is now collected and presented in ipdevinfo. This enables you to, among other things, see which physical ports comprise a port- or etherchannel. Some vendors also use this to show which physical switch-ports are forwarding packets to/from a given VLAN interface.
* The Netmap tool has been redesigned and re-engineered. Multiple improvements have been made based on user feedback.
* The Netmap contents can now be exported/downloaded as an SVG file, but this feature is currently only supported by the Google Chrome browser.
* Multiple parallel links are now indicated by the Netmap by two parallel black markers drawn across the link in question. Details of the underlying links are are now properly displayed when clicking on the link line.
* Interactive next-hop neighbor map in new ipdevinfo tab.
* "What-if" analysis in new ipdevinfo tab displays devices and organizations that may be affected if the selected device goes down. Based on NAV's topology information.
* Images with descriptions can be uploaded and attached to rooms. Useful for, among other things, photo-documenting the contents of wiring closets.
* Subcategories have been replaced by cross-category device groups. Arbitrary selections of IP devices can be organized into device groups.
* Potentially out-of-date CAM and ARP records are highlighted in Machine Tracker search results.
* Community strings are censored in SeedDB IP Device listing.
* New program enables streamlined dumping and reloading, with optional filtering, of the NAV PostgreSQL database. This simplifies beta testing of new NAV versions by copying the production database to a test server.
* 26 more metrics from APC UPS devices are now collected and graphed.
Fixes for various reported bugs:
* LP#1055383 (netmap saves a new view when it should update view) * LP#1057423 (netmap algorithm indicator turns red when clicking on something in left bar) * LP#1062203 (ipdevpoll job configuration description) * LP#1165039 (Selecting a datasource for bulk threshold config intermittently fails with "internal server error") * LP#1169926 (Replace mod_python with Django/WSGI) * LP#1213818 (LDAP authentication crashes on non-ASCII usernames and/or passwords) * LP#1222666 ("Uptime" in ipdevinfo never resets)
There are also various dependency changes, documented in the release notes.
Please report bugs at https://launchpad.net/nav/+filebug
Binary packages for Debian will be made available as soon as possible. The Debian package is maintained by Morten Werner Forsbring, on commission from UNINETT.
Happy NAVing everyone!