Release notes

Pandora FMS NG 773 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.

Notable improvements

Continuous System Security Monitoring (Hardening)

IT and cybersecurity professionals rely on system hardening to reduce the number of “open” doors that malicious actors can exploit. The Center for Internet Security (CIS) leads the development of international hardening standards and publishes securitization guidelines to improve your cybersecurity controls.

Pandora FMS uses the CIS recommendations to implement a security auditing system, integrated with monitoring to observe the evolution of security hardening throughout your organization, system by system. It supports Linux (different distros) and Windows systems (all versions).

CIS Categories audited by Pandora FMS

  • Hardware Asset Inventory and Control
  • Software Asset Inventory and Control
  • Continuous Vulnerability Management
  • Controlled Use of Administrative Privileges
  • Secure hardware and software configuration on mobile devices, laptops, workstations and servers
  • Maintenance, monitoring and analysis of audit logs
  • Email and web browser protection
  • Malware defenses
  • Port, protocol and network service limitation and control
  • Data recovery capabilities
  • Secure configuration of network devices such as firewalls, routers and switches
  • Boundary defense
  • Data protection
  • Controlled access on a need-to-know basis
  • Wireless access control
  • Account monitoring and control
  • ACL System

These categories add up to more than 1500 individual checks to ensure the security of the systems managed by Pandora FMS. Not all of them are applicable in a system, but there are checks to verify if they apply or not.

Welcome wizard / Configuration wizard

The welcome wizard has been upgraded with rich, effective and fast features to help set up a new environment just right with the most common items to monitor. It also helps you to verify that your Pandora FMs is properly configured and working.
Pandora FMS Welcome wizard
Pandora FMS Welcome wizard
This wizard is accessible through the Configuration → Wizard configuration menu.
Pandora FMS Welcome wizard

NetFlow widget

By choosing a filter and a time interval, it is possible to select one among several representations, as in Live view:

  • Area graph.
  • Circular mesh.
  • Data table.
  • Detailed host graphic.
  • Summary.
  • Top-N connections.

Agent Hives Widget

A grid with items is shown, which contains the agent name, the operating system icon, and the general state of the agent in a colored stripe on the left. Click on any item in the box to go to the agent detail view, or click the wheel to access the editing view.
Pandora FMS Agent hive

Policy management from the agent detail view

Now seeing and managing is possible: adding, deleting and seeing the policies an agent is participating in.
Pandora FMS Agent hive

Sound alerts integrated into the console (and the Metaconsole)

Now the event console can work in two different modes: either embedded into the view or minimized in the event view as a pop-up window. This allows you to work with events while you will keep receiving sound alerts in the background. You may also leave a separate window in the background and work with other sections.
Pandora FMS Agent hive

Discovery 2.0

Although it makes no difference with the previous version visually, it implements a new way to add centralized monitoring wizards with automatic discovery. These wizards can be uploaded/downloaded from our plugin library (and therefore be created by anyone) through .disco files.

In time we will migrate lots of server plugins and specific monitoring like WUX (transactional WEB monitoring) to Discovery 2.0. This is just the first step to a major change.
Pandora FMS Agent hive
In future updates we will allow to migrate current setups to those of the new Discovery in a transparent way and soon there will be new applications in the new Discovery section.

New queued alert detail view

Now it is possible to see the detailed list of alerts yet to be executed, showing the Alert server queue in detail.
Pandora FMS Agent hive

New features and improvements

Case# GitLab# Description

N/A

1495

Added the timestamp by 1-hour blocks to the pandora_server.error file if there are registered errors.

10821

9162

  • Related: 6457.

Added the option to add and remove event columns (fields) to the event widget (List of latest events).

12115

9267

  • Related: 7757.

Added the full path to the service names in the Visual Console if those services depend on other services.

N/A

9301

Added a new token that deletes the agents (together with the appropriate alerts, report items, visual console items, etc.) from the manually disabled agents.

N/A

9478

  • Related: 6429.

Added the feature for alert creation and direct edition directly from the Metaconsole.

N/A

9535

  • Related: 9670 and 10194

Added two new modules to PFMS auto-monitoring (Index Health and Index Status) for Elasticsearch daily indexes, which is necessary to be able to use the Elasticsearch database in the log collecting process.

N/A

9561

Added a hierarchy feature to the list of registered services, both in the Metaconsole and in the nodes, when a service depends on another. This is shown graphically in the tree view and with an information icon in the list view.

N/A

9610

Added a new agent filter option per Operating System to bulk operations.

N/A

9686

  • Related: 11186

Monitoring policieswere designed to contain lots of agents. A new feature was added precisely in the opposite direction: from an agent you now may add several policies and apply them only to that agent, separate from the queue of agents to be applied that said policy manages. Likewise, policies can be deleted from an agent; through the Metaconsole, you may only see the policies added to the agent.

N/A

9735

Added a new plugin inventory for software agents in Solaris operating system.

N/A

9756

  • Related: 7914.

Added the possibility to scale statuses in Bulk operations (from warning to critical) based on a configurable number of intervals in warning state. 

N/A

9771

  • Related: Notable improvements 11843, 11850 and 11033.

Discovery 2.0! The new extension system (.disco) is present in Pandora FMS with all of its common features, rewritten to simplify the future setup of systems, items and applications to be monitored. Throughout the deployment process, the existent features will stay operative.

N/A

9867

Improved Custom IP and Target IP field performance compared to monitoring policy application.

N/A

10011

  • Related: 10012, 10185, 11185 and MR 65.

Added a new report option: Log report by period which is based on the report Log report, to which a time lapse and a period range were added. It has a limit of 12 columns and if it exceeds this value, the range selector will be changed.

N/A

10012

  • Related: 10011 and MR 65.

added a combined graph for Log reports by period along with the options to display the table, the graph or both at once. You may also group the data in a table or divide it by agents.

N/A

10013

  • Related: 11742 and 11752.

By means of a list of allowed events and another list of not allowed events (processed in that chronological order) and by means of each token in PFMS server configuration file (syslog_blacklist and syslog_whitelist), it is now possible to filter events before sending them to the Syslog server.

N/A

10071

  • Related: MR 65

Improved the previous state check up of muted agents before executing a scheduled downtime.

N/A

10144

Improved the agent information used by certain plugins in the centralized mode.

N/A

10147

Fixed and improved database queries when users log in.

14986

10304

In policy settings, the alert action can now be set for several modules at once.

N/A

10598

  • Related: Notable improvements

Modified the welcome wizard, to which new menu sections and quick setup utilities were added in a newly installed environment.

N/A

10691

Improved the Top-N Agent Modules widget with the incorporation of graphs of different types: pie, vertical and horizontal bars. In addition, the legend now has different modes: 

  • Agent & Module.
  • Module.
  • Agent.

N/A

10696

  • Related: Notable improvements

New widget: NetFlow.

N/A

10765

Added a confirmation message when deleting from a network map.

N/A

10937

  • Related: 10937

Added new configuration tokens of software agents (pandora_agent.conf):

  • module_absoluteinterval [s,m,h,d]
  • module_absoluteinterval once

It works similarly to the module_interval token, but it remembers the date of the last execution, when the agent was restarted and with day, hour, minute and second periods.

N/A

11012

Implemented the feature called Show experimental features, which is disabled by default. This will allow beta-type developments to be tested and verified by all customers, as a test, before releasing the final version.

N/A

11066

Fixed pandorawmic execution permissions to 755 in the RPM installer. Likewise it is enabled by default for new Pandora FMS installations.

N/A

11093

Added the option for Visual Consoles to display a grid with a variable size ranging from 10 to 50 pixels. Line and Network linkitems do not include this new feature.

N/A

11199

Added the option to validate only digits by means of the --onlydigits parameter to the Google Sheet plugin.

N/A

11207

  • Related: 9771 and 11847.

Added MySQL® plugin for Discovery 2.0.

N/A

11208

Created a new plugin for MS SQL server® that supports Discovery 2.0 PFMS (.disco format).

N/A

11209

  • Related: 9771.

Created a new plugin for Oracle® that supports Discovery 2.0 PFMS (.disco format).

N/A

11210

Migrated the plugin for DB2 so that it supports the new Discovery 2.0 PFMS.

N/A

11386

  • Related: 10191.

Sound alerts are now integrated into PFMS events, both in the nodes and in the Metaconsole.

N/A

11493

  • Related: Notable improvements

New widget: Agent hive

N/A

11575

Added the feature for editing GIS layers.

N/A

10976

Improved agent search from the Web Console header search bar. Fixed also minor errors found during improvement.

N/A

11163

Improved the way and manner with which graphics for the mailing macro are generated, now they do not depend on the existence and authorization of any user but it is PFMS server itself that implements their authentication mechanism.

Known changes and limitations

Case# GitLab# Description

6602

2892

Deleted the “Created by template” message when creating a module from a module template.

N/A

5344

For the Open version of Average value reports, special options for PDF are no longer shown because they are only used in the Enterprise version.

N/A

7116

  • Related: 6559.

Added the "Use agent IP" option to the SNMP browser, which allows the IP address of the agent that contains the module to be used instead of the IP address used in "Target IP" when scanning.

14477

9781

A token was added to the general configuration of the Metaconsole, Visual performance section, to limit the amount of data received from the nodes when creating a PDF report.

14479

9785

When removing an agent and its modules or just some of its modules, in the Dashboard widgets that contain these deleted elements, they are subjected to a "cleaning" process which prevents the message "Entity not found".

15246

9854

In the redirections when clicking on the View Service elements from any service, instead of redirecting to the events, it was modified as follows:

  • An agent item leads to the agent view.
  • A module item leads to the view of the agent containing that module.
  • A service element leads to that same service.

N/A

9594

Added two instructions (systemctl and chkconfig) to PFMS software agent installer so that the agent loads when booting the Operating System.

N/A

9869

In new installations, if there is no MySQL server specified, the validate_password plugin will not be disabled during its creation process, which helps to improve security in regards to the database. The default password (pandora) was replaced by Pandor4!.

15114

10254

Added the option to register a secondary server for authentication using Active Directory® to the process.

N/A

10265

Fully deleted the xml_matrix function and its corresponding utilities (map management through NTOP) for being an outdated feature.

N/A

10640

Added the Report task option to Custom reports which allows to add only reports (Report pending to be created option) to the different Discovery PFMS tasks. The New console task feature, located at Management → Discovery keeps its options as they were, including reports.

15201

10645

Added agent name field (if the agent exists) in API 1.0 PFMScommand

get events.

N/A

10752

Changed CSV file import in all IPAM views, with an incorporated extension filter and pop-up help menu in the information and help icons.

N/A

10784

Migrated the whole VMware plugin from Perl to Python language.

N/A

11135

Moved ui_print_datatable()feature to a file called datatablesFunction.js to centralize and improve access and performance.

14989

11265

Implemented a token in the Metaconsole that limits the amount of bulk operations and thus prevents execution degradation.

N/A

11266

  • Related: 8517.

Changed the help message on the Enable console log button in the general settings ( Management → Setup → Setup → General menu). This warning reads as follows: “It is recommended for this record to be disabled as it comes by default, due to the large amount of debug data it generates.”

N/A

11314

List of modules, Full list of alerts and Latest events for this agent subsections (agent detail view) now appear collapsed if they have no data to display.

N/A

11335

Limited network map creation or editing so that each network map name and group is unique.

N/A

11360

Changed the interval in the Module histogram graph report item to 1 hour by default.

N/A

11364

For BAD XML events the information displayed was shortened and it is now limited to the file name containing the defective data.

N/A

11377

Added option Show all groups to section Delete profiles in bulk, which disables group selecting for deletion and shows directly all groups, and indirectly all users and their profiles.

N/A

11392

Added 110 new MIBs for SNMP monitoring.

N/A

11418

Modified the agent detail graph:

  • Set up a predefined interval of 2 hours.
  • Modules are filtered and sorted alphabetically, selecting the 12 first by default.
  • Simple graph by default.
  • Flex graphs have a width of 500 pixels; otherwise they will be shown one under the other.
  • By default, it selects the graph option by module instead of combined graphs.

N/A

11419

Added options to select the type of graph (wire/area), and to select the line width if wire was selected, to the simple graph widget.

N/A

11421

Changed remote configuration button performance of PFMS Dataserver and Nerwork server in the list from section Servers → Manage servers: now if there is no Dataserver enabled, the button will appear in the first server from the list.

N/A

11437

  • Related: MR 65.

Added a new token to ignore user activity in the Web Console and log out after a default value of 90 minutes. This token is deactivated and each administrator will be in charge of enabling it if needed, normally the session is automatically renewed for 90 minutes when the user interacts with the console.

N/A

11461

A warning message was added for the support expiring for versions prior to MySQL 8.0.

N/A

11472

Fixed the pre-installation check of an agent before installing Pandora FMS server.

N/A

11480

The widget from group state does not show empty groups if group ALL is selected with the recursion token enabled.

N/A

11539

In the Metaconsole the functions of the main wizard were delegated to other sections and said wizard was deleted.

N/A

11567

The About form has been simplified for standard users, thus providing the minimum information necessary for each case, both for the Open and Enterprise versions.

N/A

11571

Separated and tagged, in the user profile, fields Contac details (QR) and API Token credentials, both for Google chrom and Mozilla Firefox browsers.

N/A

11573

  • Related: MR 65.

Applied the feature to create, edit and load filters for Network explorer, including advanced options. Applied the same feature in Network usage map. Improved the visual interface of the Network explorer too.

N/A

11606

Legacy visual consoles are no longer supported. From this version onwards, only “new” and current visual consoles are displayed

N/A

11616

Legacy HA mode is not supported since version 772 LTS and a notification has been added if there is a version prior to MySQL 8.

N/A

11644

Fixed the Actions selector missing in the centralized node, from Bulk operations. Now it is properly shown.

N/A

11835

  • Relacionado: 11846

Added a message that indicates that the established limit in max_input_vars token was reached in PHP language in section "List of elements" from visual consoles when one thousand items are exceeded.

N/A

11842

Added the "module_absoluteinterval" module to the "data" module validation in agent Data Configuration.

Fixed vulnerabilities

Case# GitLab# Description

Thanks to Oliver Brooks (NCC-Group). CVE-2023-41786

11779

Fixed directories where certain datafiles are stored in the Apache2 server, so that they have their own .htaccess file with strict access control standards (ACL). Likewise, restricted access to directories in PFMS web console just for admin users.

Thanks to Oliver Brooks (NCC Group). CVE-2023-4677

11778

Added extension .gz (zipped files) to the list of files that can only be accessed through prior authorization in the Apache .htaccess file. Affects to file backup permission.

Thanks to Oliver Brooks (NCC Group). CVE-2023-41787

11783

Fixed PFMS API checker 1.0 used in the web console so that it only accepts HTTP or HTTPS requests.

Feature extinction

Case# GitLab# Description

N/A

10231

Deleted once and for all the previous PFMS transactional server.

N/A

11484

  • Related: 11539

Removed options Tree view by tags and Web checks from section Customized sections of General setup in the Metaconsole because the corresponding wizard is also an extinct feature. 

N/A

11606

Deleted the old visual console model after a steady work of more than two years. From this version onwards, the last version that supports it is 772 LTS.

N/A

11539

Deleted the old Metaconsole management wizard, replacing its features with different tools.

Bug fixes

Case# GitLab# Description

N/A

9097

  • Related: 10990

Fixed debug mode for the NetScaler plugin and, in addition, added a special parameter to ignore certificates in curl.

N/A

9203

  • Related: 8812 and 11413.

Fixed plugin wizard_wmi_module to use pandorawmic instead of wmic.

N/A

9975

  • Related: 11408.

Fixed CLI PFMS, command --get_bad_conf_files

so that it lists correctly the agents whose .conf files have some erroneous configuration.

N/A

10006

  • Related: 11731.

Fixed CLI PFMS, command --create_event, to force the event agent to be successfully created by requiring to specify a registered group for the new agent.

15036

10353

  • Related: 772 Release Notes.

Deleted name validation for new components for both remote and local components: they can already be created with the same name with no issues.

N/A

10424

Fixed fields HTTP auth login and HTTP auth password so that they may save their corresponding values used in the web checks of each agent in remote monitoring.

15102

10507

Fixed the dynamic_snmp plugin to receive and work with negative values.

N/A

10625

Fixed the report graphs item to take the time zone configured for the user instead of the server time zone.

N/A

10627

Fixed PFMS notification system to accept the target group All.

15255 and 15647

10729

Fixed the number of Agents reported in Metaconsole Tactical View when Agents have Secondary Groups.

15263

10741

Fixed the filter in Agent setup view (section Management → Resources → Manage agents → Modules) to accept more than five characters.

N/A

10815

Fixed Bulk operations for module selectors to only display modules that were not created using policies. Selecting “Select all modulesexcludes those created with policies. Fixed the same case if in the module selector the option Any is chosen.

N/A

10860

In module creation and editing, non-descendant modules from the same module will no longer appear to avoid circular references.

N/A

10861

Fixed UM profile (Manage users) and they now have permissions for the following API 1.0 PFMS call tasks:


  • user_profiles_info
  • add_user_profile
  • delete_user_profile
  • delete_user_permission

15383

10875

Fixed an issue when validating or setting an event to in progress state. If a comment was added to the event and this comment exceeded three lines, it got modified when reaching the line in the event view. After fixing it, when the text is too long, it is fully shown when hovering over the comment.

15405

10894

Fixed and limited the scope on the group All in monitoring policies: from now on users must explicitly belong to said group, otherwise they can only be displayed.

N/A

10921

Fixed the installed version report by both the form About and the notification system.

N/A

11025

Fixed the Templates section of Alert management from the Metaconsole so that the Search field of the filter accepts and keeps in memory between calls for when the search contains several words.

N/A

11031

  • Related: 11768.

Fixed time period saving and text search (now it accepts spaces) fields in the audit viewer section. The text and control location and size were also visually enhanced.

N/A

11040

Fixed the default installed credential warning notification to work with the new password encryption implemented in version 768 NG. For this message to appear, you must be subscribed to system notifications.

N/A

11071

Fixed Alerts threads token display in PFMS server remote configuration. Checked that it can edit and save its value by means of the web console.

N/A

11121

Fixed several visual and logical errors in Metaconsole agent autoconfiguration, for example that of adding the Update button to modify and save.

N/A

11143

Fixed the pop-up window showing the data of a module in Tree view (Operation → Monitoring → Views) to perform proper pagination of hundreds of results.

N/A

11152

Fixed the Data type field of the filter in the Monitor detail so that it retains its value between different filters.

N/A

11153

Aligned the buttons indicating the steps performed in Alerts > Templates (Management menu) in both nodes and the Metaconsole.

N/A

11162

Added a new icon in Services (section Operation → Topology maps) for these elements and enhanced the list of services.

N/A

11161

Fixed several errors when a superadmin user modified the profile of a standard user.

N/A

11168

Fixed the feature in section Services so that the elements (agents and services) are not repeated in the same service. This fix avoids circular references.

N/A

11174

Fixed Diagnostic info section graphs for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, web browsers both for the default Light mode theme and for the Dark mode theme.

N/A

11191

Fixed the option to add users to PFMS notification system.

N/A

11205

Fixed and updated section Active issue on this agent (menu Operation → Views → Agent detail → Main) according to the style of the new PFMS interface.

N/A

11211

Fixed the editing of a backup task in NCM, specifically the Backup schedule field.

N/A

11218

Fixed, linked and adapted icons in the module and monitoring policy views for each state, as well as their combinations. 

N/A

11219

  • Related: 11836.

Fixed Spanish translation of the left-side menu, as well as several visual bugs.

15600

11231

Fixed group filtering by parent in Remote components (Management→ Configuration → Templates) by adding a token that when activated searches for all "children" groups.

15607

11235

Corrected custom string translation:


Now the search is not case sensitive.

N/A

11251

Fixed the parameters of plugin macros called _ moduletags_ and _policy_ to display the data correctly, label name and policy name.

N/A

11256

Fixed the widgetIcon and Module Value in the Metaconsole to correctly read and display the critical module state with its corresponding representative icon.

N/A

11260

Fixed full transfer of an agent from a node to another, even if it is returned to its original node, in Bulk operations section, in the Metaconsole. Both operations are now executed cleanly and smoothly.

15597

11262

Fixed Dashboard Module Reports widget so that disabled modules no longer appear in the list.

15611

11267

Fixed both network and plugin remote components so that they correctly save the reverse interval token.

N/A

11269

  • Related: 10777.

Fixed Provisioning server feature through the Metaconsole to search for .conf files by MD5 hash instead of its natural name.

N/A

11271

Fixed the Azure feature (menu Management → Discovery → Cloud → Microsoft Azure) to show the new PFMS interface.

N/A

11272

Fixed SNMP trap display (Operation → Monitoring → SNMP → SNMP Console menu), for the Mozilla Firefox web browser, to be visually the same as in the rest of the web browsers.

N/A

11284

Visually fixed the Tentacle options token in section VMware detailed, Discovery feature.

N/A

11293

Fixed the Reports option menu in the Metaconsole to redirect you to the report list where you may edit and create these items.

N/A

11309

  • Related: 11342.

Fixed Custom columns and Event responses menu option in Events section to be selected according to the requested option and shown in the main section.

N/A

11310

Added a new class in CSS called “invisible_important”, for important messages; said new class replaces a class that had deficiencies in its use.

15642

11312

Fixed the use of a public link when creating an item in a visual console, linked to another visual console, is created, to see the second visual console without authentication in the Console.

14544

11327

Fixed the Plugin parameters area to be wider, thus allowing a higher number of parameters.

N/A

11331

Fixed the issue where the configured Google cloud® task led to the root of Discovery Cloud, rather than the task itself. In addition, another error was fixed in the connection of the task itself to Google Cloud.

N/A

11332

  • Related: 11331.

Fixed the Google Cloud Platform Discovery to make it mandatory to enter a name in the task creation.

N/A

11333

Fixed the NCM so that the Device manager no longer has a preset value and the NCM template to be used field becomes a required field.

N/A

11339

Fixed the installation of the Sys::Syslog module in Perl language in the Linux agent installer to make it optional, that way it is installed only if Syslog is present.

N/A

11343

Fixed PFMS API 1.0 so that it does not create any modules in the cases of create_network_module and create_data_module.

N/A

11346

Fixed the informational module messages (unknown status, interval, etc.) as the case may be.

15666

11347

Fixed the API token viewer in Japanese to correctly display those characters in that language.

N/A

11349

Fixed PFMS About window display from Dashboards since its content was not visible previously.

15668

11351

Fixed Enterprise String, Custom Value/OID and SNMP Agent (IP address) fields to prevent errors in SNMP alert creation. Now they are mandatory to create the alert.

15662

11353

Fixed the command

planned_downtimes_add_agents

of PFMS API 1.0 to add each and every agent specified in the corresponding parameter.

N/A

11378

Fixed webserver module editing, now it does not insert two carriage returns at the end of the module.

15676

11379

Fixed filtering by operating system in section Manage agents (menu Management → Resources).

15677

11380

Fixed the up and down arrow icons for the Black theme in the Metaconsole, section Monitor detail.

N/A

11383

Fixed the Autorefresh pages field when creating a user to correctly save the set value or values.

N/A

11398

Fixed the date and time format in the setup section "Setup → Setup → Visual styles" while the web console operates with PHP 8.2.

15690

11404

Fixed the order (now ascending) presented for Interface information (SNMP), when an agent has two or more of them created.

N/A

11410

Fixed auto recovery in the Split Brain of the new PFMS HA due to the incorrect state detection of the secondary server. Fixed also an issue with passwords that contain special characters when connecting.

15670

11413

Fixed the 

wizard_wmi‎_module.pl‎ plugin

to work with disks (data storage drives in MS Windows® ).

15702

11415

Reinstated the HTML editor in the widget Panel with a message as it was missing from the new PFMS interface version 770.

N/A

11420

Fixed Remote configuration and Advanced editor buttons in PFMS remote configuration both in the Metaconsole and in nodes, in terms of name, appearance and destination (Management → Servers → Manage servers).

N/A

11427

Fixed the possibility to enable or disable autoconfiguration tasks on agents from the node without being centralized in a Metaconsole.

N/A

11428

Fixed informative messages about centralized operations in Metaconsole in the nodes, within the Bulk operations section.

N/A

11435

Fixed the width of each field list box in section Events > Custom columns.

15718

11438

Fixed the search when creating a module in a policy, now it is possible to write in the module group and type dropdown to finish the task of creating a Data server module.

N/A

11440

Fixed the names of the actions in Alert details, section Alerts. With this patch now each one of them is shown.

15692

11441

Fixed the warning “agent access statistics” to stop reporting false positives regarding the tokenUse agent access graph.

N/A

11443

Fixed the selection and the possibility to undo said field selection of the fields Inverse interval and Percentage and also the subsequent and correct saving of the chosen values in SNMP wizard and in SNMP interfaces.

15719

11447

Fixed XML file reception and decoding of XML files and their custom fields for Software Agents when they contain any web link.

N/A

11448

  • Related: 9690 and 11577.

Fixed recovery so that the RECOVERED_ALERT variable takes into account whether there is a FIRED_ALERT to reset the counter to zero.

N/A

11451

Fixed widget Network map for the Dashboard section to correctly record the level of zoom used at the time of editing and saving.

N/A

11452

Fixed shared variables in section Dashboard for Network map and Service map widgets so that each widget handles its own unique variables.

N/A

11460

Fixed Top N events by agent and Top N by module in the Metaconsole to take into account the top N of nodes.

N/A

11462

Fixed Custom field alignment in the Metaconsole (section Custom fields view).

N/A

11465

Fixed widget Agent/Module view through the Metaconsole so that modules that have not been initialized may be received.

N/A

11467

Fixed message in the Tree view when there are no history data. Fixed Advanced information so that when there is no information, the section is not shown at all.

N/A

11468

Fixed the sunburst links in services so that by clicking on them they lead to the corresponding main view of each node agent.

N/A

11469

Fixed node module addition in the Metaconsola in the wizard intended for services.

N/A

11474

Fixed the inventory view in the Metaconsole to show all the agents of each of the nodes.

N/A

11487

Fixed the sunburst mode inOperations → Topology maps → → Network map network maps editorso that it correctly searches and displays the map groups, subgroups, agents and modules.

N/A

11492

Added the state icons for the Custom report widget in the Metaconsole.

N/A

11496

Fixed redirection to reports through the widget Custom report, both through the Metaconsole and the nodes.

N/A

11501

Fixed agent auto configuration filter to accept searches for groups whose names have spaces.

N/A

11505

Fixed buttons in Resource exporting and now their style is the same as the new visual interface.

15747

11509

Fixed Real-time SNMP graphs for Remote SNMP network agent, incremental data(remote_snmp_inc) modules that host IP addresses by means of macros.

N/A

11515

Fixed the SLA Limit (%) field in the report section, SLA items, so that it does not accept null values, a numeric value must be placed in order to save the item.

N/A

11517

Fixed Custom field configuration saving (menu Operation → Monitoring) in the Monitor detail view.

N/A

11518

Fixed filtering by module name in section Tree View of Monitoring Policies.

N/A

11529

Fixed the PFMS API 1.0 update_module_in_conf call so that it decodes the texts entered in base64 format properly.

N/A

11530

Fixed favorite service view in the Metaconsole so that they are not displayed to users who do not belong to the service group.

N/A

11548

Fixed separators in the widget Module in a table (Dashboards section) to make the table to be inserted legible.

N/A

11550

Fixed the Tactical view widget to filter correctly by group, both in the Metaconsole and nodes.

N/A

11560

  • Related: 11657 (bug) and 11659 (improvement proposal).

Fixed the general operation of the Inventory item in the Reports section both in the Metaconsole and in nodes. This allowed to add another correction and a proposal for operation improvement.

N/A

11574

Network explorer (NetFlow) graphs now take 100 percent of the screen, thus correcting their visibility.

N/A

11581

Fixed the "Alert Group Alert Report" item in the Reports section to work in the Metaconsole as well.

N/A

11583

Fixed event type icons in reports, within the PDF export action.

N/A

11589

Fixed the histogram item in PDF so that it can connect and receive lots of data in JSON format, and therefore be able to see the export in PDF for its corresponding histogram report.

N/A

11591

Fixed the background color in the labels editor of the Visual Console (from white to grey), this improves the readability of the component.

N/A

11597

Fixed the header selection button in Templates (section ReportingCustom reports) for all lines, which allows erasure operations to be performed more quickly.

N/A

11599

  • Related: 11569.

Fixed item "Grouped group report" in the Metaconsole to show only the information expressly requested (nodes and groups).

N/A

11600

Fixed Templates wizard (section Reporting → Custom reports) so that in the event that there is no match with the requested agents conditions, the report is created "empty".

N/A

11602

Fixed SNMP trap view and now trap width is not modified when opening the details. Now all the details from all the traps you need can stay open.

N/A

11603

Fixed Templates wizard (section Reporting → Custom reports) so that it correctly searches for agents through the Metaconsole (Agent alert report or Agent event report items).

N/A

11611

Fixed the tool written in JavaScript to show a Supernet Treeview in IPAM.

N/A

11612

Fixed Alert templates so that it does not allow to create templates with names only with spaces, likewise it will not allow to advance to the following steps without this requirement. 

N/A

11604

Fixed Templates wizard (section ReportingCustom reports) to add Inventory items if a regex search is performed by both agent name and module name.

N/A

11617

Fixed the option to edit labels in Bulk operations so that it first checks whether the module exists in the policy before inserting it, order to avoid null result errors.

N/A

11618

Fixed the header selector in the List of services (section Services in Operation → Services → Service tree view→Topology maps) to be able to select or not all the listed lines.

N/A

11619

Fixed new user creation (both by Metaconsole and non-centralized environments) to stop using the previous user identifier by default for the new user.

N/A

11629

Fixed Neflow filter to accept and include group All into filter configuration values.

N/A

11637

  • Related: MR 65.

Removed the “refr” token because it was used in PHP 7 and with PHP 8 it causes errors in the auto-refreshing of pages marked for that purpose.

N/A

11640

  • Related: 11298 and 11562.

Fixed error 500 returned in the web browser in section SNMP browser (menu Operation → SNMP), it now performs page check before launching the SNMP browser.

N/A

11648

Fixed email forwarding in case password encryption is enabled.

15824

11649

Fixed the event widget with a filter previously saved by the user (Reporting → Dashboards).

N/A

11651

Fixed left-side menu when using alert details.

N/A

11653

Fixed Cascade protection modules field in aget setup so that it allows saving only if a “parent” agent was chosen. If the parent agent is left empty, the modules selected in the corresponding section are deleted.

N/A

11656

Fixed utility "pandora_encrypt_db" so that if it is executed in an HA environment, it connects directly to it or to the main data servers and encrypts and decrypts the content used by PFMS.

N/A

11660

Fixed changes to apply when selecting Select all modules of the same type in agent Bulk operations, both in Select modules first and Select agents first.

N/A

11662

Fixed filter operation, as well as other minor errors in the SQL query, in sections Remote components and Local components (Management→ Configuration → Templates).

15842

11670

  • Related: 11685.

Fixed the customized home pages that each user can set both in the nodes and in the Metaconsole.

15840

11676

Fixed the error returned by SQL in the Warp online update process because some characters were not escaped from the query in the JSON.

15857

11680

Fixed the visual error presented when two service widgets with radial representation were added in the Metaconsole Dashboard (sunburst).

N/A

11682

  • Related: 7503 and 8234.

Fixed alert template configuration section, so that the days where the configured alerts won’t be activated are correctly checked (according to the template selected in “Use special day list”).

N/A

11683

Fixed additional options in special days through CSS so that they appear again in the alert section.

N/A

11687

  • Related: 8355

Fixed the entire interface in Delete modules and Copy modules actions in section Bulk operations.

N/A

11690

  • Related: 

Fixed four HTTP 500 errors in Policy Alerts, this occurred when a module was not selected for alerts.

N/A

11692

Added the possibility of stopping periodic scheduled downtimes.

15876

11693

Fixed the token "Inverse interval" so that it gets activated in "web server" modules with string data. Verified that this change does not affect the rest of the agent modules.

15885

11694

Fixed an erratum in the formula to calculate the timeticks (Unit field in module advanced operations).

N/A

11695

Fixed the alert actions filter by both Metaconsola and nodes (menu Management → Alerts → Actions).

N/A

11697

Due to the new interface and PFMS style, token Click to display lateral menus (located at Management → Setup → Setup → Visual Styles → Behaviour configuration) stopped working. It was corrected in this ticket.

N/A

11703

Fixed the Custom Reports Wizard in the Metaconsole to add all items from the column "Elements to Apply", whether or not selected.

N/A

11709

Fixed Delete and Edit buttons in the Metaconsole, section Extensions → Cron jobs, from backup tasks in the database so that they correctly perform their corresponding tasks. A verification dialogue was also added for item deletion

N/A

11710

Fixed alert commands in the centralized mode (with the Metaconsole connected to nodes), which were not properly displayed. Now they redirect correctly to the Metaconsole to manage alert commands. In addition, fixed list pagination in the Metaconsole and now there is access to all centralized alert commands.

N/A

11716

Fixed registration of a new plugin if no parameters have spaces so that there is a line break and it is visually shown in Command preview and Plugin parameters.

N/A

11719

Fixed the alerts view of the agents of the nodes that are centralized so that the existing modules are displayed in the dropdown (module selector in the Agent Alerts).

N/A

11720

Fixed the home page in the Metaconsole, which shows the shortcuts to the most used actions.

N/A

11723

Fixed the link that directs to the editing of each agent in the Tree view, in nodes. Maintained the Metaconsole feature that redirects to the corresponding node of each agent shown in the Metaconsole Tree view.

N/A

11724

Fixed icon to show or hide characters in seven different sections if the field is a password field.

N/A

11726

Fixed Agent column (name) in Alert details (Monitoring → Views menu) so that it is correctly displayed in each alert.

N/A

11728

Fixed the error when changing a plugin server module: now plugin server module fields are changed and modified correctly depending on the selected plugin.

N/A

11732

Fixed API-generated graphics for email at key points written in JavaScript.

N/A

11735

Fixed the list of modules in agent detail view (Operation → Monitoring → Views → Agent detail → Agent main view), now it correctly searches for the module identifier, reads them and displays them accordingly.

N/A

11737

Fixed the PHP minimum version detection function (8.0.27) in Ubuntu server 22.04 and Rocky Linux 8 operating systems, for the operation of the Web Console.

15964

11749

Fixed agent counting in section Agent detail and Manage agents. Now the number of agents counted is displayed and correct.

15966

11751

Fixed event export in CSV format in the Metaconsole with fields between quotation marks.

15970

11754

Fixed paging in Custom graphs when there are lost of items and therefore they are divided into several pages.

N/A

11755

Fixed Summary graph generation in section Netflow live view when using the option Aggregated by ports.

N/A

11764

Fixed a JavaScript error in the filter form of the log view that prevented the advanced options and their fields from being shown. In addition, visually refactored the whole section.

N/A

11769

Fixed node view in the Metaconsole so that columns include null values, avoiding the node display error.

N/A

11764

  • Related: 11387.

Fixed the process when the token Keep In process status for new events with extra ID is active and works properly and timestamp values from the Acknowledged by field are maintained by means of the API.

N/A

11767

Fixed item deletion in IPAM, VLAN section. Fixed the size of the deleted icon too.

N/A

11772

Fixed NetFlow server icon color in the server list, using a lighter color.

15990

11771

Fixed plugin module setup in monitoring policies both in the nodes and the Metaconsole.

N/A

11777

  • Relacionado: 11387

Fixed error in ticket11387 that affected all set calls from the PFMS API 1.0.

N/A

11822

  • Relacionado: 11386

Fixed error in ticket11386 that prevented audio files from being played in the sound console in a decoupled way.

N/A

11834

Fixed button Update from agents. Now it is properly shown and allows saving modifications in the database.

N/A

11851

Fixed the time interval editor PFMS web console general configuration.

Known bugs

Case# GitLab# Description

N/A

11121

Several agent auto configuration issues in the Metaconsola

N/A

11459

While merging in the Metaconsole, there is no message in nodes indicating they are not available.

N/A

11595

  • Related: MR 66.

The "Scheduled downtime" welcome tip has a couple of errors.

N/A

11821

  • Related: 11387.

SQL error when adding the Comment field in the event view.

Patches

OUM Version Description Resolution

OUM 773.3

SQL error in Discovery Task List with standard user and profile "Operator (Read)"

18/8/2023

OUM 773.3

Discovery 2.0 permissions on /var/spool/pandora/data_in/discovery folder are not correct

24/8/2023

OUM 773.3

Data tables does not load if console is not on port 80 (discovery and events)

31/8/2023

OUM 773.2

Dashboard items are deleted

23/8/2023

OUM 773.2

Visual consoles lose structure when upgrading to 773

21/8/2023

OUM 773.1

Fix pandoradb.pl autoclean visual console elements

22/8/2023

OUM 773.1

Fix pandora_db dashboard issue

23/8/2023

OUM 773.1

Added proper permission to discovery packages during server installation. Fixed SQL query.

30/8/2023

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