Nagios XI 5 Open Beta - Download Available

[benhank]

I would like to order one beta and a side of fries please

[eloyd]

I'd like to make mine a Juicy Lucy please. Skip the fries. Add onion rings.

[WillemDH]

Will the beta be released within the next 3 hours? It would be very convenient to know, so I don't stay up late for nothing...

[scottwilkerson]

Will the beta be released within the next 3 hours? It would be very convenient to know, so I don't stay up late for nothing...

Should be about 2 hours from now

[BanditBBS]

Will the beta be released within the next 3 hours? It would be very convenient to know, so I don't stay up late for nothing...

Should be about 2 hours from now

You just made Willem stay up late now, you meanie! LOL I'm truly excited though, can't wait to read the changelog!

[eloyd]

I still need to finish my #NagiosCon2015 presentation. But I'll still make time for a CHANGELOG.

[WillemDH]

I really hope they implemented http://tracker.nagios.com/view.php?id=716 and fixed http://tracker.nagios.com/view.php?id=494

[scottwilkerson]

While you are waiting for the beta....

Here's the changelog...

5R1.0 - XX/XX/2015
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- Upgraded Nagios Core 4.1.1 -SW
- Upgraded Bulk Modifications component to 2.0.0 which includes numerous new modifications to be performed (listed below) -JO
- Upgraded CCM to 2.4.0 which adds multiple features (listed below) -JO
- Upgraded Alert Stream to 2.0.0 which removes all Java apps from XI and instead uses D3.js -JO
- Upgraded LDAP and AD components with a single component which allows importing LDAP/AD users and easier LDAP/AD user management in users section -JO
- Upgraded to latest version of nmap in Auto-Discovery component -JO
- Updated Host/Service Detail pages to just show icon for tabs that have them specified to provide more real estate -SW
- Updated detail page so most tab content on detail pages doesn't load until selected improving performance -SW
- Updated perfdataproc.php cron job to utilize a better mechanism to move large amounts of files avoiding "Argument list too long" errors -SW
- Updated search functionality on users list in admin section to do mid-text searching on email, username, and full name -JO
- Updated deploy notification component to be more user-friendly -JO
- Updated the Metrics Component to display a wider range of agent data, optionally utilize the highcharts graphs, allow graph timeperiods to be selected, added advanced options and increased tab and display performance -LG
- Updated Bandwidth report to optionally use highcharts graphs -LG
- Updated the Windows WMI, Windows SNMP and Linux SNMP wizards to run a smart scan and prepopulate disks, processes and services -LG
- Updated all reports to now use asynchronous loading of report information -JO
- Updated all reports to have a new layout -JO
- Updated loading icons throughout XI -JO
- Updated configuration main page and configuration wizards page layout -JO
- Updated available dashlets page layout -JO
- Updated notification management section to be more intuitive when saving/applying templates to users -JO
- Updated full search box in XI 5 to a search icon in the main header nav bar -JO
- Updated host/service detail actions/advanced actions to use popups instead of old command pages -JO
- Updated homepage splash screen -JO
- Added manage dashboards page -JO
- Added manage views page -JO
- Added button 'Install Updates' to auto-upgrade components either per component or for all components with updates -JO
- Added button 'Install Updates' to auto-upgrade config wizards either per config wizard or for all config wizards with updates -JO
- Added a new scheduled downtime page with ajax popups for scheduling downtime -JO
- Added configuration wizard 'advanced settings' (step 3-5) templates (global/user) and a template manager -JO
- Added default template for configuration wizards which will set config wizard step3-5 fields with the proper variables -JO
- Added "API Key" to users section (instead of using username+ticket for API calls - backwards compatible though) -JO
- Added a fusion API Key for later fusion integration -JO
- Added integrated Help section for API Documentation -JO
- Added new REST API with objects, config, and system sections which allows adding host/services -JO
- Added a new theme for XI 5 release (Modern) -JO
- Added tabs to global configuration settings in admin area -JO
- Added numbers of saved reports and scheduled reports to left hand menu section -JO
- Added icons to a number of commonly used links -JO
- Added ability to filter config wizards on main config wizard page -JO
- Added ability to import users from AD/LDAP locations -JO
- Added ability to manage server certificates for AD/LDAP connections -JO
- Added links to deadpool from admin section -JO
- Added ability to customize email notification priority of notification per-user and per notification type, editable in Notification Preferences -SW
- Added ability to use custom host/service variables in actions component -SW
- Added ability to bulk rename config files for services in bulk rename component -SW
- Added ability for users to enable/disable Host and Service Acknowledgments in Notification Preferences -SW
- Added ability to toggle displaying of aliases in host/service detail pages. This is adjustable per user under Account Information -SW
- Added NavBar Search to search for host, hostgroup, and servicegroup and take user directly to results page -SW
- Added pagination additionally to top of host/service status tables -SW
- Added ability for users with "Can (re)configure hosts and services" perms to add/remove contactgroups they are members of when running wizards and reconfiguring objects -SW
- Added ability for users to just save config to database without Applying Configuration when running wizards -SW
- Added Auto-discovery option to use system DNS -SW
- Added ability to use logarithmic scaling with highchart perfdata charts -SW
- Added embeddable highcharts performance graphs that can be placed in an iframe passing host/service/width/height/username/token -SW
- Added Auto-discovery option to specify scan delay to throttle activity -SW
- Added %hostgroupnames% and %servicegroupnames% macros to actions component -SW
- Added ability to filter Capacity Planning report by Host/Hostgroup/Servicegroup with additional search -SW
- Added numerous performance enhancements to Auto-discovery to improve scan performance -SW
- Added URL target specification to actions component -SW
- Added searching capabilities to Acknowledgments page -SW
- Added ability to filter WARNING/UNKNOWN/UNREACHABLE states in Availability and SLA reports -SW
- Added auto updating of Tools on tool creation -JO
- Added auto updating of My Scheduled Reports when adding new scheduled report -JO
- Added number of reports to My Reports and My Scheduled Reports menu headers -JO
- Added auto updating of My Reports when saving new Report -SW
- Added dashlet functionality to SLA and Availability Report -LG
- Added language support for CCM help popups -SW
- Added JPG export option to all reports -SW
- Added option in State History Report to show only hosts or only services -SW
- Added in ability to filter by Host, Hostgroup, Servicegroup in Notification Report -SW
- Added sorting of Contacts and Contact groups in Wizard and object configuration pages -SW
- Added "Schedule a forced check for host and all services" to host detail advanced tab -SW
- Added ability to toggle Handled Problems in Birdseye Component -SW
- Added a user specified refresh rate to the configuration options in Custom URL Dashlet -SW
- Added hostgroups and service groups to host/service detail pages -SW
- Added advanced option to Executive Summary Report giving ability to hide scheduled downtime, etc. -SW
- Added ability to specify months in recurring downtime. -SW
- Added additional details column to auditlog -SW
- Added additional services to nagios config for localhost on a new install, checking crond, httpd, mysqld, ndo2db, npcd, ntpd -SW
- Added ability to filter Operations Center by host/hostgroup/servicegroup -SW
- Added to all reports a service drop down list that will display/update based on host selection -LG
- Added ability to filter Operations Center by service state -SW
- Added option to nagiosmobile to have page auto-refresh -SW
- Added sortable and searchable dropdown filtering by Host/Service/Hostgroup/Servicegroup to latest alerts component -SW
- Added remembering sort order (per-user) of items in CCM when returning to table of objects -SW
- Added showing the most recent comment in the status list comment tooltips -SW
- Added per-user theme settings -JO
- Added setting to global config to uncheck Sticky Acknowledgement box by default -SW
- Added nagios reactor component as a standard pre-installed nagios xi component -JO
- Added login failures to Audit Log -SW
- Added features to the Audit Log report including scheduled report, pdf version, and filters by log type and source -JO
- Added cfg variable error_level and removed php notice errors from the error_log in production -JO
- Added the Warning/Critical lines to all XI graphs (toggle default active/inactive) -LG
- Added backing up of Nagvis to XI backup/restore scripts -JO
- Added log type and log source filter dropdowns to auditlog -JO
- Added config information to the downloadable system profile -JO
- Added the ability in Admin > System Settings > General to write Nagios XI auditlog to a file -LG
- Remove displaying of service detail links for hosts without services -SW
- Remove nmap from being fully wildcard sudo'd, preventing hijacking from other system users -SW
- Fixed hypermap to be full size of page -JO
- Fixed deletion of local backup files in scheduled backup component. -SW
- Fixed bug causing nrdp.conf apache config to not work on CentOS/RHEL 7 -SW
- Fixed Common Tools from improperly encoding URL's -SW
- Fixed bug in CCM causing Execution failure criteria to not populate correctly for 'd' -SW
- Fixed bug causing NRDS Windows clients to not have correct permissions to build executable -SW
- Fixed bug where clicking on icons in sort columns on host/service status tables would not sort -SW
- Fixed bug in Event Log Report to allow searching for ; and : chars -SW
- Fixed bug causing Unified Hostgroup views to not refresh -SW
- Fixed bug causing search buttons on CCM import page to import files -SW
- Fixed URL redirection when following permalink and user isn't logged-in -SW
- Fixed bug in the Scheduled Backups using FTP to use the indicated port (Previously default port 21) -LG
- Fixed XSS vulnerability in nagiosbpi component -SW
- Fixed check_rrdtraf from mislabeling UOM if Bytes was selected -SW
- Fixed many generic bugs with the deploy notification component and saving templates -JO
- Fixed bug causing + symbol in host, service, hostgroup and servicegroups making links in UI not work correctly -SW
- Fixed restore_xi.sh script to account for differences when moving from OS 6 to OS 7 -SW
- Fixed bug causing CCM to not work properly if specifying non-default MySQL port -SW
- Fixed bug where the Alias was not displaying for the Availability Report -LG
- Fixed bug in Switch wizard where the Warning/Critical percentages were not calculating using decimal places -LG
- Fixed bug causing passwords with special chars such as $ or & to not write .htpasswd file correctly -SW
- Fixed bug in Hostgroup Overview to display the correct service list when selecting a service instead of all hosts in the group -LG
- Fixed bug where setting new UI theme would not actually change theme until next page load -JO
- Fixed bug in ndoutils which could cause message queue to not empty -SW
- Fixed bug where deleting backup would not remove the local backup -JO

Core Config Manager (CCM) - 2.4.0
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- Added Core Config Manager landing page -LG
- Fixed 'Manage Parents' to now show child relationships while making them non-selectable -JO
- Fixed bug where changing a parent host's host name would cause config not to apply until doing a full delete/rewrite of configs -JO

Bulk Modifications - 2.0.0
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- Changed bulk mod procedure to be a step by step process -JO
- Added ability to change ARG variables on hosts/services -JO
- Added ability to add/remove multiple contacts/contact groups from hosts/services and host groups/service groups -JO
- Added ability to select multiple host groups to add -JO
- Added ability to remove host groups, services, and parents (hosts and services) -JO
- Added ability to select hosts/services via selecting hostgroups or service groups -JO
- Added ability to set templates (and template order) on hosts/services -JO
- Added select boxes for config options that are selectable -JO
- Added inheritance options for contacts/contact groups -JO
- Added ability to update config name for services -JO
- Updated change single config option to change more options -JO
- Updated change single config option time period autocomplete functionality -JO

[jomann]

I really hope they implemented http://tracker.nagios.com/view.php?id=716 and fixed http://tracker.nagios.com/view.php?id=494

These have not yet been implemented. I haven't seen the stacked graph one in a while (it's not in our internal tracker for some reason) so wasn't on my list of things to get in. I think we would like to get that in a release soon though since that would be genuinely helpful in stacked graphs. I've noticed they are extremely hard to read when you have a few stacks overlaying on one another and I don't think it would be a major change.

I spoke too soon. Looking into the stacked graph problem I have updated the multi-stacked graph in graph explorer to no longer "overlay" the graphs.

[BanditBBS]

- Updated homepage splash screen -JO

is it still Ludmil's smiling face though?

Some of those changes excite me! The new API for one, new report layouts, so many others.

Edit: I love you Scott!

- Added ability for users to just save config to database without Applying Configuration when running wizards -SW