Nagios XI 2014 RC3 Now Available ** BETA **

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Nagios XI 2014 RC3 Now Available ** BETA **

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We at Nagios are happy to announce the third Release Candidate for Nagios XI 2014. While this is a release candidate it should still be considered beta and not moved into production, yet an opportunity to setup your test environments, get a feel for the new XI and get your feet wet with the the TON of new featured and upgrades.

Over the course of the last 19 month we at Nagios have done our best to listen to all of the users of Nagios XI and implement Many of the requested items. Not everything that was requested made the cut, but we believe most will be quite pleased with the feature additions along with the much cleaner user interface, and massive changes to the graphing and integration with other Nagios products.

So without further ado, here is a compact list of changes in 2014 (minor bugfixes are not listed).
2014R1.0RC3 - 04/29/2014
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- Added the ability to send emails to all users not just selected users -JO
- Added service graphs advanced option to availability report -JO
- Added displaying of address for host links when you hover over the hostname -SW
- Upgraded Highcharts to version 4.0.0 -JO
- Fixed bug in CCM that would not show all the available pages in the Jump To Page box -JO
- Fixed some issues with Japanese character corruption -JO
- Fixed alert heatmap to now work when using Japanese as the language -JO
- Fixed bug in scheduled reporting where the custom message per email wasn't being sent with the email -JO
- Fixed the tools section for languages that use characters -JO
- Fixed undefined offsets repopulating 'Services', 'Processes', and 'Event Logs' fields when moving back from previous steps in many wizards. -EM
- Fixed MRTG's cfgmaker to support all priv-protocols -SW
- Fixed bug preventing installation from /root -SW

2012R1.0RC2 - 04/18/2014
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- Added ability to remove Network Analyzer Tab from Host/Service Detail Page -JO
- Added Grid lines on tables -JO
- Added ability to stop reports and metrics from auto-loading with new performance settings tab -JO
- Added new Report tab in Performance Settings to disable automatic loading on report pages -JO
- Added the ability to send emails out to selected users from the user management page -JO
- Fixed bug in local backup downloads which prevented large backups from being downloaded -SW
- Fixed bug that prevented free variables being saved with a value of 0 -SW
- Fixed default to highcharts graphs on host/service detail page -SW
- Fixes to the automatic DB repair script to not be automated, but suggest the recommended fix. -SW

2014R1.0RC1 - 04/15/2014
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CORE COMPONENTS
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- Upgraded Nagios Core to version 4.0.5
- Upgraded NDOutils to version 2
- Upgraded Nagios Plugins to version 2.0.1
- Upgraded MRTG to version 2.17.4

WIZARDS
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- Added MongoDB Server Wizard ( & Database)
- Added MongoDB Database Wizard
- Added Nagios Cross Platform Agent (NCPA) Wizard
- Added Domain Expiration Wizard
- Added Website Defacement Wizard
- Added Nagios Network Analyzer Wizard
- Updated Bulk Host Cloning Wizard to have ability to specify parents and hostgroups

REPORTS
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- Added new Service Level Agreement (SLA) report
- Added Network Report with Integration with Nagios Network Analyzer
- Added Network Query Report with Integration with Nagios Network Analyzer
- Added PDF export for the following reports: SLA, Bandwidth Usage, Capacity Planning, Network Report, Network Query
- Added Scheduled reporting for the following reports: SLA, Bandwidth Usage, Capacity Planning, Network Report, Network Query
- Added ability to set the scheduled report email text on a per-user basis
- Updated Availability Report with options to select specific states, add timeperiod filters, assume states during downtime, etc.
- Updated Capacity Planning Report including addition of dashlets to report
- Updated Bandwidth Usage Report to use Host/Service names and look like the other XI reports

VISUALIZATIONS & FUNCTIONALITY
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- Added New Theme with cleaner look and quick search from any page
- Added Mass Downtime Deletion ability
- Added ability to archive snapshots
- Added Birdseye visualization
- Added Per-User Menu Collapsing Memory
- Added gauges dashlets to service/host detail pages
- Added Deadpool feature to optionally automatically remove hosts/services from being monitored (Enterprise Feature)
- Added Scheduled Backups Component
- Added Easy Upgrade from web UI
- Added ability to view past upgrade logs (if done from web UI) in web UI
- Added ability to set XI server and PHP timezone from web UI
- Added ability to drill-down to specific hosts by clicking Highcharts perf graphs
- Added RDP and VNC Connection component allowing quick connections to host via RDP, VNC, Telnet and SSH
- Added logging of phpmailer failures to /usr/local/nagiosxi/tmp/phpmailer.log
- Added capacity planning graphs to tabs in Status detail pages
- Added the ability to give hosts a parent in bulk modification tool
- Added the ability to give hosts a hostgroup in bulk modification tool
- Added the ability to add a service (from an existing service as a template) to multiple hosts using the bulk modification tool
- Enhanced Graph Explorer (with Stacked Performance Graphs)
- Enhanced Performance Graphs on Status Details Pages
- Enhanced view rotation time slider
- Fixed bug which was preventing back button from remembering selection for notification_targets in step 5 of the wizard.
- Fixed bug that would allow hosts / services Active checkbox to be unchecked even if it had dependencies
- Fixed bug in license activation with lowercase license keys
- Fixed CCM bug where deletion/deactivation was possible with dependent relationships
- Fixed CCM bug so that saving static configurations to no longer add non-readable line breaks into saved files
- Fixed XSS security issues
- Fixed search for users in Manage Config Access of CCM...
- Fixed Network Replay report
- Fixed bug in the CCM where you could activate a service that had parent relationships that were disabled
- Fixed bug in the CCM where you could add a disabled parent to an object that would cause applying the config to fail
- Updated host/service detail pages to have choices of "5","10","15","25","50","100","250","500","1000" per page
- Updated Apply Configuration process to remove old host/service .cfg files before writing the new .cfg files, this will help eliminate the possibility of ghost hosts/services.
- Updated Apply Configuration process to only allow one Apply Configuration process to happen at a time.
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Re: Nagios XI 2014 RC1 Now Available ** BETA **

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Thank you!
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Oh god I cannot wait to get this on our prod server. Our test environment is too small to enjoy all the awesome new stuff! Loving the changes so far.
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How can I test the deadpool feature?
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rentsys wrote:How can I test the deadpool feature?
Wow, I passed right over that and didn't even see that listed as a new feature!
I'm looking through my enterprise licensed server and don't see anything regarding this.
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Found it. When clicking on "Configure" across the top, in the menu on the left under "More Options" is a "deadpool settings" link. Wow, that was hidden!
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My server errors out during the mysql upgrade

Code: Select all

Current database version: 1.5.2
** DB upgrade required for 2.0.0
     Using mysql-upgrade-2.0.0.sql for upgrade...
ERROR 1060 (42S21) at line 8: Duplicate column name 'minimum_importance'
Upgrade from mysql-upgrade-2.0.0.sql failed at ./upgradedb line 106.
I think this problem is similar to this http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtop ... 28&p=75699
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Re: Nagios XI 2014 RC2 Now Available ** BETA **

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[quote="rentsys"]My server errors out during the mysql upgrade

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Current database version: 1.5.2
** DB upgrade required for 2.0.0
     Using mysql-upgrade-2.0.0.sql for upgrade...
ERROR 1060 (42S21) at line 8: Duplicate column name 'minimum_importance'
Upgrade from mysql-upgrade-2.0.0.sql failed at ./upgradedb line 106.
Did you attempt to upgrade more than once? Did you manually try to upgrade Nagios Core 4 or NDOutils in the past?
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I attempted it twice.
The first time it said something was wrong with the config files
So I went and did write, verify, and restart.
I fixed the service that it said had no hosts or contacts by disabling it.
Then I did the upgrade again.
it failed.

This was not the first server for this to happen with.
I did two servers before this and they also said something was wrong with the config files.
I went in and fixed those config files. then did the upgrade again on both servers.
The second time it just went all the way through, and fully upgraded no problems.

Has anybody else had this problem so far?
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Thanks a lot i was looking for get Availability Report with options to select specific states.

Hope the updated product comes to production soon.
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