NOC

0.2 (21-APR-2009)

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MIGRATION:

 Install python-creole package (easy-install python-creole)

CHANGES:

 * main

   * Pluggable search engine (Search over IPv4 Addresses, VCs, CM Objects, Managed Objects, Knowledge Base)

   * Database of natural languages

   * Database of MIME Types

   * Virtual database storage

   * etc/noc.conf:[main]/date_format,time_format and datetime_format settings

 * fm

   * Event Classification Variable Expressions

 * sa

   * New scripts: Cisco.ASA.get_version

   * Managed Objects have new "description" field

 * kb

   * New application: KB (Knowledge Base)

   * Creole, Plain text and CSV parsers

   * Attachments handling

0.1.9 (30-MAR-2009)

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CHANGES:

 * main

   * Ubuntu init files in share/linux/ubuntu/init.d

   * FastCGI socket permissions problem on Linux fixed

 * sa

   * Force10 FTOS support

   * Activator does not try to execute script on unreachable managed objects

   * New set of useful parsers in noc.lib.text available for scripts

   * ManagedObject and Config are fully syncronized now

 * fm

   * Event Post-Processing Rules

 * cm

   * Check repo_path is inside repo

 * ip

   * ip.summary and ip.free reports no longer hang on 0.0.0.0/prefix

0.1.8 (19-MAR-2009)

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MIGRATION:

 * set up etc/noc.conf:[customization]/installation_name

CHANGES:

 * main

   * Site customization via etc/noc.conf:[customization]/installation_name setting

 * sa

   * Managed Objects can be uploaded from CSV file

 * ip

   * Offer first free IP in "Assign IP Address" form

 * cm

   * cm.ip_addresses_in_config report fixed

 * fm

   * Event search fixed

0.1.7 (16-MAR-2009)

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MIGRATION:

 * Set up 'dig' path in [path]/dig option in etc/noc.conf

 * Migration process is simplified. Just after update perform

   * su - noc

   * cd /opt/noc

   * ./scripts/post-install

CHANGES:

 * main

   * [path]/dig option in etc/noc.conf

   * Autodetection of paths in etc/*.conf files in post-install script

   * Integrated online documentation (Administrator's and User's Guides)

 * sa

   * f5 BIG-IP basic support

   * Improved handling of pagers

   * Juniper.JUNOS.get_version SRX platform support

   * Serialization error when non-empty ManagedObject.port is fixed

   * Better handling of XML-RPC failures in web interface

 * fm

   * "Clone Rule" button in Event Classification Rule form

0.1.6 (07-MAR-2009)

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MIGRATION

 * /opt/noc is default installation place now

CHANGES:

 * main

   * Improved navigation interface

   * Standard distutils setup.py

 * sa

   * Cisco.IOS.ping script bugfixes

 * pm

   * New "Performance Management" module skeleton

   * Experimental SLA monitor

   * http probe for SLA monitor

0.1.5 (01-MAR-2009)

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MIGRATION:

 * Install PyKE if you wish to use event correlator (See http://trac.nocproject.org/trac/wiki/Install/Pyke)

 * Follow common update procedure (http://trac.nocproject.org/trac/wiki/NocUpdate)

CHANGES:

 * main

   * Various templates cleanup

 * fm

   * Expiremental event correlator daemon (noc-correlator)

   * New built-in event classes: EIGRP, RADIUS, VTP, DHCP and Memory-related event classes (9 new classes)

   * New built-in classification rules: 13 new rules mostly for Cisco IOS

   * Event life cycle: Events now have unclassified/active/closed states.

   * Event history log

   * noc-classifier crashes on some kinds of binary data fixed

   * "Refresh Rules" button in Event Classification Rule admin list window

   * manage.py sync-rules loads correlation rules too

0.1.4 (22-FEB-2009)

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 * fm

   * New AJAX event list with search capability

   * noc-classifier performance increased up to 300%

   * New built-in event classes: BGP, LDP, ISDN (7 new classes).

   * New built-in classification rules: 12 new rules for Cisco IOS and Juniper JUNOS

   * fm.profile_events, fm.classification_quality report

 * main

   * main.apps_loc report counts MIB lines instead of RST

0.1.3 (18-FEB-2009)

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 * fm

   * New built-in event classes: Link, Authentication, dot11, IPsec, STP, PoE event classes (13 new classes)

   * New built-in classification rules: 25 new rules, mostly for Cisco IOS

   * Skip duplicated OIDs when load MIB

   * MIB loader uploads notifications correctly

   * New built-in MIBS

   * Better handling of binary data from SNMP Traps

   * Binary datatype decoders (IPv4 and MAC)

0.1.2 (16-FEB-2009)

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MIGRATION:

 * Create local/ directory in NOC root owned by NOC daemons user

 * Set up tar, gzip, smidump and smilint paths in etc/noc.conf

 * Follow http://trac.nocproject.org/trac/wiki/NocUpdate procedure

CHANGES:

 * fm

   * Built-in event classes and rules are provided with system (15 classes and 13 rules)

   * manage.py sync-rules command to import built-in classes, rules and MIBs

   * Link to preview Event Classification Rules

   * Link to convert Event Class/Classification rule to python representation

   * New reports: fm.event_priority_events, fm.unclassified_trap_oids

   * MIB dependency checking

   * MIB uploading via web-interface

   * Local MIB cache

   * smidump and smilint paths can be set via etc/conf.conf

 * main

   * main.system report shows NOC version

   * tar and gzip paths can be set via etc/noc.conf

 * sa

   * SAE no longer crashes when fails to read/deserialize crashinfo

 * vc

   * Import VLANs directly from switches

0.1.1 (11-FEB-2009)

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 * general

   * Various bugfixes

   * Documentation improvements

 * vc

   * New module: vc. Database of 802.1Q VLANs, 802.1ad Q-in-Q VLAN stacks,

     FR DLCI, ATM VPI/VCI, MPLS labels, X.25 logical group/channels

 * ip

   * IP addresses export/import to/from CSV file

   * IP addresses can be imported directly via zone transfer

 * fm

   * Activator can check managed objects availability via fping and raise FM events

   * All unhandled exceptions in daemons passed as events to FM

 * sa

   * New script interface - IGetDot11Associations

   * Cisco.IOS.get_dot11_associations, ZTE.ZXDSL531.get_dot11_associations scripts

   * Not registered activator no longer breaks config pulling process

0.1 (03-FEB-2009)

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 * fm

   * Optional repeated events suppression

   * New Reports: fm.event_class_events

0.1RC2 (29-JAN-2009)

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 * general

   * site_settings.py replaced with etc/noc.ini configuration file

   * daemons reload config on SIGHUP

 * main

   * main.backup periodic back ups repo too

   * New reports: main.system report, main.backups report

   * New periodicts: main.cleanup_sessions

 * peer

   * Maintainer object

 * sa

   * New service activation framework with scripting support

   * script interfaces

   * generic scripts

   * gzip message compression between SAE and activators

   * Activator tries to reconnect to SAE on connection lost

   * Activator digest authentication

   * manage.py debug-profile replaced with manage.py debug-script

 * cm

   * Configuration management uses service activation now

   * New reports: cm.stale_configs

 * fm

   * Initial Fault Management implementation

   * noc-classifier daemon

   * SNMP Trap and Syslog collector

   * MIB compilation and uploading

0.1RC1 (19-DEC-2008)

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 * First open-source publication