Network Vision Support - IntraVUE Release Notes
IntraVUE 2.1.0d - November 17, 2011
- Peak Values are now the initial, default values for the line and multiple thresholds dialogs.
- Default scan range now goes from 1 to 254 instead of 0 to 255 in the scanner tab's network setup dialog. This is because we are finding more devices that actually and mistakenly respond to the broadcast address.
- Added a 'depth=N' parameter to the Intravue URL to cause all nodes beyond that depth to be initially displayed collapsed.
- Fixed bug where ARP data from virtual router was ignored because the upstream MAC was not recognized.
- Changes to mysql settings to increase memory. Note: when upgrading we suggest always reinstalling mysql.
- Changes in IntraVUE Plug software to improve memory use and minimize disk writes.
- Changed IntraVUE Supervisor to show current state of Admin Verified devices only. Previously any device could effect the state and the state only changed after acknowledgement.
- Change device names to favor Netbios names over snmp names to avoid repeated 'name changed' events.
- Change bandwidth data to favor a managed switch as the source over the device, for more reliable data.
- Made improvements to decrease the time it takes to get snmp data from a managed switch by more than an order of magnitude.
- The IntraVUE installer no longer requires the dongle during installation.
- Minor fixes to dongle discovery mechanism.
- Minor changes to Supervisor event collecting.
- Minor improvements in scanner.
- IntraVUE Plug - most changes in the c release relate to the introduction of this new Linux based product.
- Supervisor module - Fixed memory leak and event handling when a satellite IntraVUE's database is restored.
- Added logic to purge even some non-repetitive events from the event log.
- Installer uses admin mode in all cases.
- Fixed bug (starting at 2.1.0b) where a pingable IP is not discovered when the scanner could not find a mac, e.g. remote devices without a router's snmp.
- Added tools/util.jsp to allow remote switchprobe, ping, and tracert from IntraVUE host via a web page.
- All devices in an IntraVUE network are deleted with the network is deleted in the System Config dialog's Scanner tab. (The events remain)
- AutoIp ignores IntraVUE settings for autoip in offline databases.
- Made sorting of the icons and thumbnail image names case insensitive when browsing for images.
- Added change of name to event log, and also to event purging list.
- Refined and improved handling of 'generate support archive' to avoid security issues in the browser.
- Fixed bug which could cause continuous automatic backups for monthly backups.
- Improved merging of top parent's auxillary ip addresses.
- Command line tool to perform "Generate Support Archive" made accessable at http://127.0.0.1:8765/tools/archiveclient.jar. This program can be saved to or copied to and used from a remote computer and only requires the ip address of the IntraVUE host. See the User Forum for more details.
- Support Added for the newly released "IntraVUE Plug - Network Scanner/Recorder". See IntraVUE Plug Introduction.
- Added more logic to handle extremely unusual RSTP ring reversal use cases.
- Fixed bug which occurred when a device was in more than one IntraVUE network and it was deleted in one, it would reincarnate itself even it it was no longer in that network's scan range.
- Ensure the scanner clears its memory of the bridge mib for a disconnected switch.
- Fixed SQL exception on optimized threshold logic.
- Fixed use of forward slash and backslash characters in support property files.
- Implemented a new feature for netbooks and technican laptops that automatically configures a new top parent and starts scanning a new network every time the host computer get's a new IP address. Any previous, meaningful data is automatically saved using logical file names before the new scan starts.
- Adjust scheduling of statistics to minimize mysql innodb writes and wear on flash memory.
- Fix problem where an internal Interface could have a mac address but no ip address.
- Fixed bug where email authentication was being lost because a wrong index had been used in database.
- Fixed bug causing erroneous IP address changes when the MAC address was not known.
- Adjusted size of dialogs for netbook screens.
- Removed momentary 'license exceeded' message when restoring a database.
- Fixed checking for Admin privileges on Windows 7 type machines.
- Added new USB dongle drivers to handle Windows 7.
- Avoid problems when there are multiple versions of the Java Runtime Environment
- Fixed bug where peak values where not correctly calculated for the 15 to 30 hour data.
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New features
- Support 'intravue agent' which allows remote scanning of networks.
- Introduce 'network group' concept to handle case where multiple private networks have the same IP ranges.
- Record both peak and average values of ping and bandwidth to make it more convenient to troubleshoot issues older than 6 hours.
- Network selection URL now explicitly 'shows' networks as well as 'hiding' them.
- Add 'link comment' facility which allows users to document wiring, unusual port numbering, ports of unmanaged switches, or any other text to appear as part of a connecting line's hover text.
- Arrange that the event log is systematically 'trimmed' to remove repetitive messages for a single device, resulting in much smaller database files.
- Trapmailer and ivserver are now combined so that traps can be configured to update modbus/tcp registers.
- Add 'user archive' facility, where an enhanced system snapshot is taken and may be automatically transferred to an FTP server or user's browser.
- Add French language help.
- Implement facility to allow agents on a network to be discovered regardless of IP address and have IP settings reconfigured.
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Minor improvements and bug fixes
- Allow ghost node (red boxes) to be found in 'search by IP'.
- Installation defaults to c:\intravue, not c:\program files\intravue but will re-use existing installation directory if found.
- Correct bug which caused incorrect behavior when adding more than one network at once.
- Arrange that the list of networks and scanranges entered is kept in order of insertion.
- Save all important user files and restore as part of upgrade. Uses series of backup folders, 'prev0000' etc.
- Allow merging of user-entered changes to a new ivserver.properties when upgrading version. Also retains site license header.
- Warn user to make a backup before performing upgrade.
- Correct focus issues on entering password (cursor already in correct field).
- Improve default settings for trapmailer.xml so they are benign.
- Avoid SQL exceptions when recording thresholds after a host computer system time change.
- Tune innodb parameters to avoid performance problems with larger databases and limited memory.
- Avoid change of MAC messages when using virtual router.
- Correct bug which occasionsally failed to detect missing devices.
- Fix Pelco DVR bug which was adding IP cameras to wrong network.
- Arrange for Pelco and Supervisor software to be delivered on standard CD.
- Improve export/import to break out columns, suppress update if column empty.
- Arrange that mysql, ivserver, tomcat services auto-restart after any failure.
- Block attempts to perform manual move from one IntraVUE network to another.
- Remove arbitrary 100% limit on bandwidth thresholds.
- Support user-modifiable system default settings for thereshold values.
- Avoid spikes in multiple threshold graphs after 'apply/close' by using interpolation.
- Handle situation better where a link on display has threshold data from both parent and child. Adjust both, suppress one.
- Support multiple email addresses on device disconnect.
- Arrange that 'backup' can be done without requiring admin privilege.
- Avoid permanent ghost nodes on ring reversal by clearing 'admin verified' marker if a device is detached to avoid circular structure.
- Ensure large trap messages are truncated appropriately to store in event log.
- Ensure displayed thresholds have consistent time ranges.
- Allow direct upgrade of systems from previous full release only (2.0.5). Otherwise prompt for explicit uninstall first.
- Enhance 'data not current' warning on graphic display to indicate probable reason, specifically loss of dongle.
- Improve license count detection and display.
- Arrange to pre-purge very large databases at time of restore to avoid excessive memory use at startup.
- Change applet jar filenames on each release to avoid Java cache issues on client browsers.
- Improve timeout mechanism for JAVA detection to allow for slow startups.
- Make oidval table purge timing adjustable, not fixed 60 secs.
- Upgrade dongle driver to work with Windows 7.
- Switchprobe.jar given a main-class attribute to allow double-clicking.
- Change name of UD3 from 'Diagnostics'.
- Only use 'wasPinged' interface when sending SNMP requests.
- Install should block if old version of mysql is present and require a manual removal.
- Microsoft deliverable file msvcr71.dll is placed in the launch directories autoip and autoip/tomcat6/bin to withstand frequent JRE updates.
- The Top Parent IP address is automatically added to the scan range of a network if not already added.
- Fixed 'Enable AutoIP' checkbox on the Device Configuration dialog so the device gets correctly added to Auto-IP.
- Fixed problem where 'public' was configured as the SNMP community for all devices without a community when Apply and CLose is executed.
- Added ghost nodes (Red boxes with dashes in the IP) to the Search results so you can easily find the current and previous location of a device.
- Minor bug fixes.
- Handle Cisco Virtual routers having MAC addresses which are not in the routers list of interfaces.
- Allow installation by Domain adminstrators.
- Avoid exception if a device and its parent are manually deleted within the same scan cycle.
- Prevent screen update before a restored database is fully restored.
- Removed some mysql operations which caused some dialogs to take a very long time to display.
- Ensure consistent SNMP, bandwidth, and ping data for devices, such a switches, that appear in more than one IntraVUE network.
- Avoid a problem which could cause the threshold data to grow without being averaged, resulting in huge database files.
- Revised import/export function to include all the checkboxes on the Device Configure dialog.
- Implemented feature to disable SNMP data for name and location of a device. Added ignoring the bridge mib and all snmp.
- Provide the ability to learn MACs from switches, avoiding the need to access a router if only switch macs are needed.
- Avoid spurious event log entries if a device is disconnected and then the database is restored and the device is still disconnected.
- Ensure consistent reported of interfaces for routers that appear in more than one IntraVUE network.
- Allow a device to be designated a 'managed hub' in which case all its peers will become children. Intended primarily for Wireless Access Points, but also useful for web-managed switches, Virtual Machines, and other situations.
- Handle the case where a Layer 3 switch is a top parent and it is also switching.
- Allow supression of snmp name and location data.
- Do not record SNMP community for a device until a successful snmp operation.
- All devices under a Wireless Access Point will have dashed lines.
- Allow for more control of email alarm messages in the subject line and the body.
- Automatic detection of Wireless Access Points (WAP) that support the 'wireless mib'.
- Automatically check a device under a WAP as having 'auto connect' properties.
- Import function updates all instances of an IP address instead of just the first.
- Added new event log entries for trunkingdefs.txt file and scanner version.
- Fixed a problem where an import or an apply operation close to a one minute boundary caused all the threshold data to have a 'dip to zero'.
- Provide a scanner speed control in the System Configuration's Scanner tab.
- Prevent ghost nudes (red boxes) from being improperly promoted up the topology.
IntraVUE 2.0.4 - Sept 23, 2008
- Device no longer remains in unresolved if its mac was provided by an external network before its real subnet parent.
- Handle devices with multiple IP address using any of them, remembering the canonical one as the one in the scanrange, but allowing placement if any interface known by subnetparent.
- Ignore phantom 0.0.0.0 ip addresses.
- Avoid multiple snmp scans using different IPs of the same device, ensure mib consistent.
- allow scanner arp data to be unconditionally used even if scanner is not top parent.
- Improve handling of V2 TOOBIG response, retrying at V2 with reduced OID count, not allowing drop to V1 (HP switches)
- Speed up database restore using alter-db-fast.sql.
- New, html based help system
- Fixed too many devices being displayed in Multiple Thresholds dialog.
- Allow top parent to be deleted
- Clean up delete node events
- Log changes of uplink port
- Report port changes for top parent mac in event log.
- Correct networkstatus mechanism in ivserver.xml for changed case of network join message.
- Ensure ping threshold events are reported correctly.
- Suppress ping fail % events.
- Arrange to log threshold events.
- Fix bad jre message if install dir not writable.
- Add event log msgs for manual add/remove.
- Allow both :i and :w in ivserver.xml.
- Avoid noroutetohost if no default gateway.
- Merge device and transfer properties and names if IP change detected.
- Avoid duplicating adjustAutoInsertedNodes when multiple networks.
- Avoid change of SNMP state while device disconnected
- Suppress threshold reports where device is disconnected
- Ensure import changes to device name and location are not overridden by scanner
- Changed database MySql structure from isam to innodb and implemented protection for the mysql tables from sudden power loss.
- Added trunkingdefs.txt to handle trunked switches and relabeling of switch ports if needed.
- Provide the ability to hide selected Intravue networks in the browser display.
IntraVUE 2.0.3 - May 10, 2008
- Support for Java 1.6
- USB Dongle support for 64-bit Windows
- Red SNMP lost outlines are not created due to incorrect responses, only no response
- Suppress moves on false reports (when detected) from some switches
- Prevent promotion of disconnected devices is rare cases
- Node selected color changed from Red to Blue to avoid confusion with red SNMP lost outline
- Fixed linkage between IntraVUE and AutoIP regarding the Auto-IP checkbox in Device Configuration
- Default view to display, icon state, and thumbnail state can be set in ivserver.properties file
- URL query string can center a device, email alarm centers the device in the alarm state
- Email alarm data now includes device name and alarm cause
- Fixed minor installation bugs
- URL added to allow reading of detailed log file from remote PC
- Fixed problem where some applet windows 'hung' and the user only saw a white filled dialog
- Resizing of child windows improved
- Added site license support
- Added new icon images
- Don't report switch from SNMP V2 to V1 as a loss of SNMP
- ivserver.properties file added scanner.switch.move.deferral.count to overcome bad switch issues
- Event Log - disable options that have not been implemented
- Device Configure Image Tab's browse button will find image files regardless of case
- Multiple Threshold Graph improved to display many devices at 100% ping failure
- Multiple Threshold Graph time scale display made the same as the Connecting Line Threshold Graphs
- Multiple Threshold Graph added '0' data points for missing times
- Check for disk drive based key codes removed from installer
- Search now supports the * and ? wild cards
- Improved methods of getting SNMP data from switches and routers to reduce traffic and improve scan times
- A warning message displays on the browser if the threshold data is older than 3 minutes
- New Search dialog searches all view names and MAC addresses
- Improved display of devices under auto-inserted nodes
- User information and number of discovered devices display in the General Tab of System Configuration
- Device names are displayed in addition to IP address in the Event Log and the Multiple Devices Thresholds
- Multiple Threshold Line Dialog can be configured for the number of devices to display
- Multiple Threshold Line Dialog additionally converts bandwidth data into transmitted and received bytes
- Backup location can not be changed.
- Site licensing implemented which does not require use of a USB dongle
- Cisco VLANs can optionally be constrained to a list of VLAN numbers
- Installer improvements
- NetBios names discovered
- Improved handling of Wireless Access Points
- Scanner log files made configurable for location and size
- Test Email button added
- Settings in ivserver.properties file allows configuration of scanner ping and snmp queries
- Major decrease in use of host computer resources
- Major decrease in SNMP queries to devices
- Automatic handling of Cisco VLANs
- Integrated into Apache Tomcat eTomcat web server
- All admin functions can be performed remotely including restore and network configuration
- Threshold graphing for multiple devices at the same time
- Vastly improved Event log functionality
- The old 'Show Status' as a web link in User Defined 3 mode is now a regular menu item in all views called 'SNMP Data...'
- System Configuration
- Better top parent selection
- Easy display of registration information
- Easy display of registration information
- Documentation implemented using WIKI technology so users can edit and add information
- New method of selecting devices
- System Configuration
- Automatic backups
- Email - send test email button
- Device Configuration
- Single Tab to edit all thumbnail and icons
- Single Tab to edit all weblinks
- Single Tab to edit all view names
- Device Properties will have all the weblinks for all views
- License node count will be based on discovered nodes with IP addresses, not all nodes