NOC

0.3.1 (02-OCT-2009)

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 * main

   * Better socket and resolver error handling in Non-Blocking Socket Library

   * Daemon Heartbeats (noc-activator, noc-probe)

   * CSV export in reports and change lists

   * noc-launcher fixes crashinfo's permissions when necessary

 * sa

   * New profiles: HP.GbE2, Sun.iLOM3

   * Configuration modification ability for scripts

   * New scripts: Cisco.IOS.add_vlan, Cisco.IOS.remove_vlan, Generic.sync_vlans, Cisco.NXOS.get_vlans

   * New interfaces: IAddVlan, IRemoveVlan, ISyncVlans

   * max_pull_config now behaves properly

   * Script.snmp.getnext() method for SNMP GETNEXT support

   * Cisco.NXOS.get_version script uses SNMP when available

   * Search filter in "Task Schedule" form

   * Activator's built-in HTTP Server

 * fm

   * New classification rules for Cisco.ASA and Force10.FTOS

   * Archivation Rules can close events

 * ip

   * Check for duplicated IPv4 addresses and blocks

   * IPv4 Address Ranges

   * Suggest free blocks in "Allocate Block" form

 * dns

   * New reports: "Missed Reverse Zones"

   * DNS Zone Profile "description" field

 * vc

   * VC Provisioning (including vc.vc_provisioning periodic task)

   * VC.name field for VC names

   * VC.type field moved into VCDomain.type

 * pm

   * fping probe

   * snmp probe: ifindex resolution process optimized

 * peer

   * Peer.masklen is deprecated and removed

0.3 (02-SEP-2009)

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 * main

   * System Notifications

   * etc/noc.conf: new configuration options: month_day_format and year_month_format

   * Basic GnuPG support

 * sa

   * New profiles: Zyxel.ZyNOSv2, HP.iLO2, Cisco.NXOS, Cisco.AireOS, Raisecom.ROS

   * Cisco.IOS.get_version uses SNMP when available

   * Cisco.IOS.get_mac_address_table: improved compatibility with IOS GS (Catalyst 4500 series)

   * SAE creates missed task schedules

   * SAE generates events of periodic task completion

   * "Run Now" link in Task Schedules form

   * New interfaces: IGetDHCPBinding, IGetLocalUsers, IHasLocalUser

   * New scripts: Cisco.IOS.get_dhcp_binding, Cisco.IOS.get_local_users, Force10.FTOS.get_local_users, Generic.has_local_user

                  Cisco.NXOS.get_local_users

   * New interface parameter availeble: DateTimeParameter

   * Memory and thread leaking in noc-activator fixed

 * fm

   * New event classes, classification and correlation rules rules for Performance Management, Periodic tasks and Cisco.IOS

   * Activator places "collector" signature into the events

   * Event preview form shows descriptions from MIB

   * New MIBs: AIRESPACE-REF-MIB, AIRESPACE-WIRELESS-MIB, CISCO-LWAPP-AAA-MIB, CISCO-LWAPP-TC-MIB, CISCO-LWAPP-WLAN-MIB

 * ip

   * Display a list of block maintainers in block info

   * VRF and VRF Groups description fields

   * Show breadcrumbs in IP Address Assignment form

 * dns

   * Domain expiration checking (DNSZone.paid_till field and dns.check_domain_expiration periodic task)

   * Registrar database synchronization (dns.update_domain_expiration periodic task)

   * Import zones from text file

   * Nested zones handling improved

   * Missed A records for zone nameservers are auto-created

 * kb

   * Show article categories at the bottom of article

   * "Categories" page

   * "label" attribute of "rackset" tag in "rack" macro

   * Sortable CSV tables

 * pm

   * New performance management framework

   * Basic set of probes: tcp, http, smtp, ssh, snmp, snmp-interface, popen, process

   * manage.py ts-list, ts-rm, ts-export commands

0.2.7 (05-AUG-2009)

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 * main

   * Flexible notification mechanism with Time Patterns and Notification Groups and noc-notifier daemon

   * User Profiles

   * noc-launcher can set up daemons user and group ids

   * DeprecationWarnings on python 2.6 are removed

   * Record preview in Reference Books

   * Old backup removal

   * All daemons silently exit on SIGINT signal

   * All daemons accept --version key

   * manage.py "build-manifest" command

 * sa

   * Optional SSL encryption of SAE-Activator stream

   * DLink.DGS3xxx profile now supports DGS3100

 * fm

   * Ping only active managed objects

   * Managed Object lookup is case insensitive now

   * Case-insensitive search over Managed Objects in event filter

   * New event classes: "Config Synced", "Bad DNS Query"

   * New classification rules for Cisco.IOS

   * Repeat protection for "Invalid Event Source" event

 * cm

   * Do not raise exception on yet-not-read config previewing

 * peer

   * Configurable RPSL's pref= symantics (localpref or 65535-localpref)

 * kb

   * "reserved" attribute of "allocation" tag in "rack" macro

0.2.6 (21-JUN-2009)

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 * main

   * noc-launcher daemon

   * New project logo

   * Editable Reference Books

   * Search on Reference Book

   * Audit Trail

   * Local modifications of config syntax highlighting

   * Rotating log files

   * main.database_summary report

   * Column totals in reports

 * sa

   * New profiles: EdgeCore.ES4xxx, Linksys.SPS2xx

   * Multiple instances of SNMP Trap/SYSLOG collectors on different addresses/ports

   * Filter by activator in Managed Object Selectors

   * sa.activator_status report

 * fm

   * New classification rules for Linksys.SPS2xx

   * Open/Close/Reclassification requests no longer reset event filter

   * Post-Processing Rules cloning

0.2.5 (22-JUN-2009)

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 * main

   * Local modifications

   * Database user credentials now are passed to the pg_dump

 * sa

   * Managed Object Selectors

   * Map/Reduce scripts

   * New interface: ICommands

   * New generic script: commands

   * Speed optimization for row-level access

 * cm

   * Two-column diff preview mode

0.2.4 (10-JUN-2009)

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MIGRATION:

Enable main.update_refbooks periodic task for reference books auto-update

CHANGES:

 * main

   * update.nocproject.org online service

   * Reference Books (IEEE OUI, Q.931 Call clearings)

   * main.update_refbooks periodic task

   * Data Browser

 * sa

   * Improved control-sequences handling

   * Activator access can be restricted by IP address range

   * New profile: VoiceFinder.AddPack

 * kb

   * Article templates

 * vc

   * Custom VC types

0.2.3 (01-JUN-2009)

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 * sa

   * Memory leak in SAE daemon eliminated

   * Improved ESC control-sequences handling

   * Improved complex pagers handling

 * fm

   * noc-correlator daemon is completely rewritten

   * fm.archive periodic task to delete deprecated events

   * New MIBs: F5-BIGIP-COMMON-MIB

   * New event classes for dot11 and load balancers

   * New classification rules for Cisco IOS, Cisco CSM module and f5 LTM

   * "Active Problems Summary" dashboard

 * cm

   * Config file syntax highlighting

   * Improved navigation

 * ip

   * Show/Hide free IP addresses in the block

   * "Download IP addresses" tool returns full list of IP addresses, including nested blocks

 * kb

   * New "format" macro for syntax highlighting

 * dns

   * New zone provisioning scripts for BIND

   * DNSServer.autozones_path attribute

   * Updated module documentation

0.2.2 (17-MAY-2009)

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 * main

   * Configuration editor

   * All configuration options are documented

   * All filters in change lists can be toggled up/down

 * sa

   * New profiles: Cisco.FWSM and Ubiquiti.AirOS

   * Improved compatibility with Cisco IOS 12.2SXF and 12.2GS

   * Improved web-interface navigation

   * "Path" field in Managed Object's form

   * New interface: IGetARP

   * New scripts: Cisco.IOS.get_arp, Juniper.JUNOS.get_arp, Force10.FTOS.get_arp

 * fm

   * Additional classification rules for Audiocodes.Mediant2000, Force10.FTOS

   * New built-in event classes: security-related event classes (3 new classes)

   * New built-in classification rules: 7 new rules for Cisco IOS, Force10 FTOS and Audiocodes Mediant2000

 * ip

   * common look-and-feel of the web interface

0.2.1 (12-MAY-2009)

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 * main

   * Auto-updated list of supported equipment (from profile's supported.csv)

   * Daemons can dump memory object statistics into log on SIGPROF signal

   * main.system report shows PostgreSQL version too

   * Customizable logo

   * etc/noc.conf:[customization]/logo_url,logo_width and logo_height options

 * sa

   * New profile: InfiNet.WANFlexX (Revolution 5000)

   * New scripts: DLink.DES3xxx.get_vlans, DLink.DGS3xxx.get_vlans

   * Bugfixes in scripts: DLink.DES3xxx.get_version, DLink.DGS3xxx.get_version

 * kb

   * Pluggable Macros

   * Macros: "now", "rack", "search"

   * Global and User bookmarks

   * MoinMoin converter

 * ip

   * Search by allocated IPv4 Blocks

   * Search by IP address description

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