Network Administration Visualized 4.5.0

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Project:
Network Administration Visualized
Series:
4.5
Version:
4.5.0
Released:
 
Registrant:
Morten Brekkevold
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7 John-Magne Bredal, 2 Morten Brekkevold
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Release notes 

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 Network Administration Visualized release notes
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Please report bugs at https://bugs.launchpad.net/nav/+filebug . To browse
existing bug reports, go to https://bugs.launchpad.net/nav .

Known problems
==============

The recommended SNMP library for use with ipdevpoll is `pynetsnmp`. If you
choose to go with the original TwistedSNMP, the latest version (0.3.13)
contains a bug that manifests in table retrieval operations. Timeouts and
retries aren't handled properly, and this may cause slow or otherwise busy
devices to be bombarded with requests from NAV. The `contrib/patches`
directory contains a patch for TwistedSNMP that solves this problem. The
patch has been submitted upstream, but not yet accepted into a new release.

NAV 4.5
========

To see the overview of scheduled features and reported bugs on the 4.5 series
of NAV, please go to https://launchpad.net/nav/4.5 .

Dependency changes
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There are none :-)

Cabling and patches
-------------------

The cabling and patch registry was introduced originally with NAV 3.0, but
never gained widespread usage, and had therefore fallen behind the rest of
NAV.

The University of Linköping has graciously sponsored a reworking of the SeedDB
cabling and patch forms, so that these are now actually usable in a NAV
installation with more than a handful of switches, cables and patches.
Information about patch points is now also displayed on each port's ipdevinfo
page.

navstats
--------

NAV 4.5 adds a simple program, `navstats`, that can be used to periodically
extract stats from the NAV database and store those stats as Graphite metrics.
To configure your own stats, however, you need to know your way around SQL and
the NAV DB schema.

For more information, see the `navstats` reference documentation.

API changes
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API tokens can now be managed more flexibly via the User Admin tool. Multiple
tokens can be issued and revoked separately. Each token has its own expiry
time and list of authorized API endpoints.

Changelog 

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Version 4.5.0
(released 09 Jun 2016)

 User-visible features and improvements:

  * LP#1321249 (A new tool for generating Graphite metrics from PostgreSQL
                queries)
  * LP#1531851 (Trend comparison in graphs)
  * LP#1531853 (API: more flexible authorization and administration)
  * LP#1534481 (Maintenance task selection based on device group)
  * LP#1546434 (Add bulk upload of images in room view)
  * LP#1577318 (Add timestamp filtering to cam and arp API)
  * LP#1588187 (Cabling/patch registration and presentation in need of serious
                usability improvements)

 Bugfixes:

  * LP#1551217 (Alert from 3rd party - maintenance mode not respected) [the
               4.4.4 release did not fix the eventengine part of this issue,
               this release does]
  * LP#1590654 (Lost ipdevpoll database connections aren't properly reset under
                Django 1.7)

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Bug report Importance Assignee Status
1590654 #1590654 Lost ipdevpoll database connections aren't properly reset under Django 1.7 3 High Morten Brekkevold  10 Fix Released
1551217 #1551217 Alert from 3rd party - maintenance mode not respected 4 Medium Morten Brekkevold  10 Fix Released
1321249 #1321249 A new tool for generating Graphite metrics from PostgreSQL queries 6 Wishlist John-Magne Bredal  10 Fix Released
1531851 #1531851 Trend comparison in graphs 6 Wishlist John-Magne Bredal  10 Fix Released
1531853 #1531853 API: more flexible authorization and administration 6 Wishlist John-Magne Bredal  10 Fix Released
1534481 #1534481 Maintenance task selection based on device group 6 Wishlist John-Magne Bredal  10 Fix Released
1546434 #1546434 Add bulk upload of images in room view 6 Wishlist John-Magne Bredal  10 Fix Released
1577318 #1577318 Add timestamp filtering to cam and arp API 6 Wishlist John-Magne Bredal  10 Fix Released
1588187 #1588187 Cabling/patch registration and presentation in need of serious usability improvements 6 Wishlist John-Magne Bredal  10 Fix Released
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