What’s new in Pandora FMS 7.0 NG 715

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The latest Pandora FMS 7.0 NG update package contains numerous improvements and visual changes as well as some problem-solving. Here we have a list of the most important changes.

Visual improvements

• The Metaconsole now allows displaying the description in HTML view just like it appears in PDF view.
• New options in the Visual Console label editor have been included.
• Customization of icons to identify agents on GIS maps has been included.

• The inclusion of HTML images in visual consoles has been improved.
• Loading of the metaconsole tree view and nodes has been optimized.
• Alphabetical sorting of modules when creating a new element in the Visual Console included.
• PDF reports present a visual improvement in the labels of the graphics.
• Visual appearance of histograms on the dashboard has been improved.
• Dynamic radial maps usability increased.

• The dashboard has been optimized with the creation of a single initial widget and improved full-screen mode. .
• Improvements in the combined graphs view within agent.
• Visual consoles incorporate new types of graphics:”Serialized foot graphs”, “serialized bar charts” and “Circular progress bar”.

• Visualization of serialized pie charts with different backgrounds has been improved.

• Improved visualization of gauge graphs with thresholds lower than 1.

Other improvements

• In environments with many elements, the agent/module view and dashboard have been improved.
• Incorporated a new macro for alerts that the server returns to which an agent is associated.
• Security enhancements to prevent potential vulnerabilities.
• We have included the possibility to make recursive enumeration of groups in the agent/module view.
• Improvements on Network maps linked to dummy nodes.

• SNMPv3 modules can now include special characters in passwords.
• The module_logevent monitoring of Windows has been improved thanks to new features.
• Improvements to circular-type maps from a recon task.
• Multiple agent and module selection improved.
• Optimized report creation and export in CSV format.
• Network server performance increased through a series of configuration improvements..
• Changes made to the reports, including new maximum, minimum and average options that allow you to define time periods within a period to display the information more accurately.

• Included new field to set the auto-refresh time of the elements.
• It is now possible to edit the OID in SNMP modules from mass operations.
• We have created a new type of report to show the total increase/decrease of a numerical module over a period of time.
• Optimized agent data queries.
• Improvements in sending reports by email.
• Massive report deletions are now possible .

• Improvements in the operation of scheduled tasks.

Problems solved

• Fixed bug in the inventory tables.
• Fixed error with the names of SNMP interfaces in policies.
• Fixed visual bug in dashboards with widgets containing a visual console with “AutoSLAGraph” elements.
• Fixed the erroneous recognition of OS X operating system in Pandora FMS agents.
• Fixed bugs in Windows process watchdogs.
• Fixed inconsistency in ACL parameters.
• Fixed bug with advanced cron-type options in synthetic modules.
• Fixed error in the search and sorting of agents in agent management.
• Fixed bug of event storm protection when there are more than two servers in the same instance (master/slave).

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