Release notes

Pandora FMS NG 766 RRR

This is a minor update with new functionality and features. The latest version with maximum stability is Pandora FMS 777 Andromeda LTS (Long Term Support).

Regular releases (RRR) are monthly releases that bring together many changes and new functionalities. They are ideal for those users who need to be up to date and are not afraid of finding unpolished details. The LTS versions are oriented to consolidate all the changes of the RRR versions and offer maximum stability.

LTS versions are released once a year. Regular releases (RRR) are released approximately every 2 months.

This is a minor update with new functionalities and features. The latest version with maximum stability is Pandora FMS 762 AKIRA LTS (Long Term Support).

Regular releases (RRR) are monthly releases that bring together many changes and new functionalities. They are ideal for those users who need to be up to date and are not afraid of finding some unpolished detail. The LTS versions are oriented to consolidate all the changes of the RRR versions and offer maximum stability.

New features and improvements

New visual console status: Maintenance

The new visual console status Maintenance has been added. Thanks to this new status, changes can be made to a visual console, and if someone has a link to it, they will not see how changes are being made until they are fully made.

Maintenance Pandora FMS

Trap history

The possibility to generate a trap history in the history database has been added to improve the performance of this feature in the console and improve the performance of the main database.

Collections on the Satellite server

The possibility of adding collections to the Satellite server has been added to be able to deploy plugins with it.

Scaling states based on time

It has incorporated a scaling of states that can be modified depending on the time they have been in the same state. An option is incorporated for how many consecutive states must be met in the “Warning” status to switch to “Critical” status without the data being so.

Credential store: WMI and SNMP

Although the credential store already existed in Pandora FMS, the possibility of saving them to be used in WMI and SNMP modules has been incorporated.

Exclusion word list for passwords

An excluded-password list has been added so that the system does not let users enter certain weak passwords, reinforcing system security.

SNMP wizard improvements

The possibility of managing the SNMP modules that will come by default in the SNMP interfaces wizard has been added. With this new development you can see performance improved when managing large network interfaces.

New dashboard widget: Grouped Meter graphs

A new widget has been added to dashboards, “Grouped Meter graphs”. Through this widget you may select several modules with their warning and critical states to be displayed in a bar graph, which can be selected manually or will come with the default configuration of each module.

Grouped Meter graphs
Kafka

Kafka

PLUGIN – ENTERPRISE

The plugin displays the performance metrics of producers and consumers of the Apache Kafka distributed stream processing system.

See in library →

Pushover

Pushover

PLUGIN – ENTERPRISE

Through this plugin you may interact with all the options of the Pushover messaging API to send messages to devices. These options are the following: toker, user, message, attachment, device, html, priority, sound, timestamp, title, url and url_title.

See in library →

Aruba inventory

Aruba inventory

PLUGIN – ENTERPRISE

With this inventory plugin you may monitor Aruba devices, with the possibility of using the show running-config, show enviroment and show version commands.

See in library →

Synology

Synology

PLUGIN – OPEN SOURCE

With this plugin, you may monitor a Synology device using SNMP checks.

See in library →

Google sheets

Google Sheets

PLUGIN – OPEN SOURCE

This plugin gives you the possibility to obtain data from your Google Sheet documents, being able to search for the data of a specific cell, a column or a row.

See in library →

Known changes and limitations

Due to the arrival of EOL from versions PHP 7.4, 7.3 and 7.2, version LTS 767 “Hope” will be the last one that will support said versions, PHP being Pandora FMS official version for the coming ones.

Fixed vulnerabilities

Thanks to information provided by Rworks, Simon (@esj4y) and Argon21

Case# GitLab# Description

14398

9687

Execution of certain codes in the search bar

N/A

9592

User session management.

N/A

9593

ajax.php file

N/A

9717

Network maps

N/A

9729

Module free search

Changes and improvements

Case# GitLab# Description

N/A

9184

Included notification and an event when trap processing malfunctions.

N/A

9376

Added the possibility to skip testing and creating non-operational interfaces on an SNMP device.

N/A

8733

Created the possibility to add external alerts in policies without them replacing each other.

N/A

4822

Added new visual console status: Maintenance.

N/A

9659

Optimized pandora_db on certain database maintenance blocks.

N/A

9233

Created the possibility of incorporating trap history.

13682

9153

Added agent status in "Quiet" mode in Command center agent view.

N/A

9105

Created the possibility to add collections to the Satellite server.

N/A

7914

Included status scaling based on time.

9778

5584

Added bulk user editing for both the Command Center and nodes.

N/A

4043

Created credential store for modules. In this first stage they are used for WMI and SNMP modules.

N/A

9506

Enhancements in user display for better view performance.

N/A

9648

Modified default notifications when creating new users depending on the type of user created.

N/A

9641

Improved HeatMap display in agent view.

N/A

95914

Improved satellite agent management view.

N/A

9547

Add node ID macro to be used in event responses.

14121

9460

Modified the necessary permissions to be able to use the module_data API call.

N/A

9425

Added the possibility to group events by the id_extra element.

N/A

9391

Changes have been made to the remote inventory, adding new dependencies to include new ones and the option to include the path where the script or plugin is located to be able to launch them from alternative paths.

N/A

9306

Modified event comment sorting to see last comment first.

N/A

9300

Replaced the label “Inable Sunburst” by “Show sunburst by default”.

13891

9254

Improved password replication in databases so that they are not shown in the navigator search engine.

13815

9178

Modified management of access by LDAP to improve performance when the secondary LDAP is not available.

N/A

9087

Included a warning with the corresponding failure when using the online software agent installer.

13156

8597

Added new options for event filtering in the Command Center.

14061

2133

Included recursivity in event filtering by group.

13503

9098

Created the insert_gis_data call for CLI.

N/A

8725

Added a list of exclusion of passwords so that the system does not let users enter certain passwords.

N/A

8646

Improved SNMP management to be able to include different modules by default in SNMP module generation through the SNMP wizard.

N/A

8620

Including new widget in “Grouped to put graphs” dashboards.

N/A

2190

Added the possibility of filtering agents in the agent migration option in the Command Center.

N/A

9722

The expired license notification will only be shown for Super Admin users.

Bug fixes

Support# GitLab# Description

N/A

9691

Fixed Command Center slow down in any view when the node does not have access to the database.

N/A

9647

Fixed syslog server issue by which it did not take all the log lines as it should.

N/A

9630

Fixed some API calls that use the module ID.

N/A

9606

Fixed the lock that pandoradb generated when connection with the data base was lost while running.

N/A

9538

Fixed resync for pandora HA in EL8.

N/A

9536

Fixed index desynchronization between the Command Center and its nodes.

N/A

9526

Improved SQL report performance when edited.

N/A

9500

Fixed user synchronization between the Command Center and its nodes when the user is created or modified through a CLI call.

N/A

9470

Fixed error when trying to use timeouts in Omnishell.

N/A

9430

Fixed the double authentication request once this option has been disabled.

N/A

9406

Fixed the desynchronization of certain user tokens between the Command Center and its nodes.

N/A

9394

Fixed policy ID synchronization failure when using the autoconfiguration of agents pointing to the Command Center.

N/A

9390

Fixed translation failure on some database maintenance elements.

14016

9377

Fixed erasure of old Netflow elements by means of pandoradb.

14036

9339

Fixed SQL error when editing trap that contains simple quotation marks.

N/A

9521

Fixed MySQL SSL connection issues with Azure.

14411

9702

Fixed errors in LDAP connections in the Command Center when symbols are used in the password.

N/A

9695, 9667, 9611

Fixed errors in Pandora FMS console when using PHP 7.2.

N/A

9671

Fixed failure by which not all possible mass operations appeared in the event view.

N/A

9665

Fixed permission failure on users with “Pandora Administrator” profile.

N/A

9642

Fixed SQL error when ordering the events by timestamp.

14356

9632, 9631

Fixed failure when trying to modify certain details in the database maintenance.

N/A

9626

Fixed display of all visual consoles as favorites in the Command Center and nodes.

N/A

9613

Fixed inventory report exporting to CSV by which it added characters with nonexistent symbols.

N/A

9612

Fixed inventory report exporting to PDF by which it was illegible by not adapting the text correctly.

N/A

9579

Deleted the option to activate the event history in the Command Center setup since it is no longer managed from there.

14208

9578

Fixed the ACK date of an event when this one is not validated.

14226

9541

Fixed event display when a comment is added through an API call.

N/A

9527

Fixed API call when creating a user. A user can no longer be created without parameters.

N/A

9525

Fixed alert sending error when modifying only the starting time but not the ending time in the template.

14213

9522

Fixed add_event_comment API call in the Command Center.

N/A

9519

Fixed “Agent/Module View” widget in a dashboard when several modules from the agent were attempted to be added.

14190

9511

Fixed the module_data API call that always modified the module interval.

14170

9493

Solved the lack of critical element service display in the service tree view.

14173

9492

Fixed “Password Policy” option saving where it appeared always disabled although it was correctly enabled.

14127

9490

Fixed agent auto configuration error where it was not possible to type in when choosing the group or server name rule options.

14165

9485

Fixed alert filtering in the Command Center.

N/A

9468

Fixed visual errors in the Omnishell view.

N/A

9467

Fixed threshold modification in certain specific boolean module cases.

14121

9457

Fixed API calls on users that have the “Login Error” token enabled.

14108

9434

Fixed agent insertion or deletion in scheduled downtimes through the CLI call.

14085

9431

Fixed the error when trying to add a webserver module to an Active-Passive cluster.

N/A

9424

Fixed overlapping between certain visual console elements.

N/A

9423

Fixed event response executions in the Command Center.

N/A

9422

Fixed the success view when configuring the double authentication factor by which it was not possible to exit the modal window.

14084

9405

Fixed agent duplicity in the Command Center by being changed in the node before passing the agent_caché of the Command Center.

14085

9402

Fixed the Active-Passive cluster status by which it always stayed in normal status.

N/A

9396

Fixed the aid of the CLI for certain calls.

N/A

9392

Fixed duplicate agent insertion in scheduled downtimes.

14068/14114

9365

Fixed icon sampling on agent plugins when these come from policies.

13968

9364

Fixed the icon for reapplying collections in the Command Center although it is not necessary.

13917

9332

Fixed LDAP authentication when passwords are encrypted.

N/A

9324

Fixed the Command Center agent Wizard by which deletion was not possible.

N/A

9322

Fixed parameter modifying error when the "Unique IP" token was enabled.

N/A

9316

Modified tentacle error when the error is by lack of permissions in its configuration file.

N/A

9303

Fixed the “Show extended Info” icon in the log audit system.

N/A

9302

Modified label to Warp Update Online in the Command Center.

N/A

9297

Fixed false error of ACL violation when erasing a favorite visual console.

N/A

9289

Improved certain Pandora FMS console messages of success and error that could be misleading.

13916

9266

Improved user management after making a mistake in its creation, not having to enter again all data from the beginning.

N/A

9259

Fixed error by which when using the icon to clean agents from a policy, the groups assigned to that policy were not deleted, returning therefore a deletion error.

N/A

9252

Fixed the absence of certain images for different dashboard widgets.

13760

9166

Fixed the NCM view by which standard users with their corresponding permissions could not see this view.

N/A

9117

Fixed the differences of styles in mouseovers in the service tree view.

N/A

8956

Fixed the HTML character insertion in user creation by means of CLI.

Documentation update

Caso# GitLab# Descripción

N/A

9703

Updated syncserver documentation.

N/A

9697

Added the subsections of the file collection section.

N/A

9692

Added new documentation for custom parameters in the installation on Ubuntu 22.

N/A

9688

Added new external alert documentation from multiple policies.

N/A

9685

Included documentation of new parameters for WUX module creation.

N/A

9658

Added documentation of new event filtering options in the Command Center.

N/A

9655

Added documentation about user editing through mass operations.

N/A

9653

Added documentation on the new status of visual consoles, Maintenance.

N/A

9639

Updated certain erroneous translations on Pandora FMS Wiki.

N/A

9637

Removed references to the old ISO tool installation on Pandora FMS Wiki.

N/A

9629

Updated information about the API.

N/A

9628

Added new information about the "Grouped meter graphs" widget.

N/A

9616

Added automatic installation for Ubuntu 22.

N/A

9615

Fixed dependency documentation for the tool installation in Ubuntu 22.

N/A

9609

Updated password policy documentation.

N/A

9608

Updated Pandora FMS version table.

N/A

9602

Added the new default options of SNMP modules through the SNMP interface wizard.

N/A

9588

Added group recursion option in event filtering.

N/A

9582

Added get_gis_agent and insert_gis_data CLI call documentation.

N/A

9580

Updated update documentation using tarball files.

N/A

9577

Updated information on network scanning.

N/A

9573

Entered information of new macros _node_id_ and _node_name_.

N/A

9571

Added warnings about the widget to list the latest events since it could generate performance problems depending on the filters used.

N/A

9569

Added documentation on the new option to group events by id_extra.

N/A

9562

Updated information on advanced module options.

N/A

9551

Added information about time parameters in SQL reports.

N/A

9546

Added documentation on recursion in the groups status widget.

N/A

9284

Updated information about the create_event API call.

N/A

9249

Updated event view customization information.

These release notes describe new features, enhancements and fixed issues as well as some workarounds for known problems. For more information about previous versions, visit the release notes section of our website.

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