What’s new in Pandora FMS 7.0 NG 707

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Pandora FMS 7.0 NG, package 707, contains numerous functional improvements and visual upgrades. Here’s a selection of some of the most important changes on the latest version:

Visual improvements

• Better group display options on different console views.
• Better visuals on Netflow display and Metaconsole.

• The visual design of the new events sound console has been cleaned up and also now includes features the agent that generated the event.
• The service view design has been overhauled, and made easier to use.
• The value of the “unit” field now updates correctly when policies are modified and/or the data on said module changes.
• Text backgrounds have been shaded in to provide a better viewing experience.

Other improvements

• Now incorporates previous 24 hour events history on agents’ detailed view:

• Better authentication protocols to avoid XSS vulnerabilities.
• Historical database can now perform custom SQL queries for producing reports.
• Update agent cache to Metaconsole process now optimized.
• Improvements to log file size limit, when displayed on the console.
• “Header” parameter option added when creating a webserver-type module.
• Trap search results on the SNMP console are now more informative when no existing traps coincide with the search.
• Agent fields can now be customized, adding and modifying fields such as encriptions, and displaying the data on screen with hidden characters.
• The events creation and validation plugin now includes the following upgrades:

• • URLS included when adding critical/warning/unknown-type actions.
  • Data sending and Ison custom fields improved.
  • A new event can validate previous ones with the same ID Extra.
  • Agents associated with an event can now be selected by name, without using the numeric ID.
  • Automatic agent creation, if not specified otherwise on the event.
• View modules with no assigned alerts and create alerts from the same display.

Problems solved

• “servername” now allows upper case characters.
• A problem with Generating Network Maps on Windows servers running Pandora FMS now debugged.
• SNMP traps alerts macros debugged.
• Problems with agent plugin “pandora_df_used” when detecting network volume debugged.
• The “pandora_db” plugin displayed a warning when the server name was not defined on the server’s config file. Now it takes the machine’s default hostname to avoid displaying the warning.
• Data graphics over six months old were buggy, due to a modification on the X axis. Debugged.

• Synchronization on the data server module status when modified through the console now debugged.
• Plugin server modules related to the macro that assigns the agent its alias now debugged.
• Agent config files plugins suffered write errors after applying an agent plugins policy. Now corrected.
• Search filters and page changes bugs now fixed.
• System time modules generated by the SNMP wizard now displays correctly.

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