CloudView NMS Release v2.38s, Nov 19, 2023 1. Additional performance improvements. 2. Bug fix: background map assigned via Google Maps was “forgotten" after restart sometimes. The reason was in mixed case map name. Linux/MacOS CloudView NMS version only. 2. Latest GUI updates for specific Optical Zonu devices as of May 16,2023 3. v2.38p added support for Optical ZONU ZC3-DIT 4. v2.38s added/modified Discovery/Gains feature for Optical ZONU ZC3-DIT devices. and support for ZC Pairs with single BASE site and multiple DAS sites. 5. "Google-Maps background image" feature has been significantly improved. Users can now control the type of the map image (roadmap,satellite,hybrid,terrain), image dimensions and it's "lightness". 6. "Links" feature has been signitificantly improved. Users can now create links with more than one "break" point in the "broken line" depicting the link. The "break" points can be dragged to desired locations on the map image. This allows creating more realistic network maps. 7. Bug fix: frozen map setting was "forgotten" after restart (Windows service or Linuz daemon mode only) CloudView NMS Release v2.38m4 Mar 23, 2023 1. Implemented 2-factors authentication (via email) for remote users login It can be configured via Menu->Options->Users->User Details dialog. Correspondingly we added 'user email' field to the above dialog. 2. Latest GUI for updates for specific Optical Zonu devices as of Oct 14,2022. The most important is "Interslot Links Monitoring" 3. v2.38d added ability to save remote login credentials in web browser cookies. Notice, that credentials are not really saved there. What is saved is actually a generated token which allows to encode the credentials. 4. Fixed seldom issue which can happen with some character sequences in passwords. 5. Fixed occasional issue in the initial start IP Address value for the Autodiscovery feature. It is supposed to correspond to the IP subnet CloudView NMS Windows server is located. 6. v2.38i Fixed some dispaly issues when increasing fonts (via Login Dialog, CloudViewJ, local GUI mode) 7. v2.38k added support for Optical ZONU GPS Redundant Receiver 8. v2.38m2,v2.38m3 and bug fixes and improvements for Optical ZONU GPS Redundant Receiver 9. v2.38m4 added features for Optical ZONU GPS Redundant Receiver: Anntenna user-defined comments and "status" LED real life color support. CloudView NMS Release v2.37g Jan 10, 2022 1. Fixed issue with PING results for CloudViewJ Enterprise MS Windows Italian version. 2. All Alarm Log dialogs now allow to filter just for "BAD" events only, meaning events with the severities CRITICAL, MAJOR and WARNING. 3. TCP/IP Services Dialog (Configuration of Monitored TCP/IP Services for a device) now has a convinience button "Delete ALL Services" from the monitored services list 4. Latest GUI for updates for specific Optical Zonu devices. 5. v2.37e: Fixed some issues with Spanish and Portuguese version for CloudViewJ Enterprise MS Windows version. 6. v2.37e: Fixed some memory issues with TCP/IP Services polling for large networks. CloudViewJ Enterprise (Windows/Linux/MacOS only) 7. v2.37f: Fixed DNS Resolving (Hostname resolving( issue during autodiscovery. CloudViewJ Enterprise (Windows/Linux/MacOS only) 8. v2.37f: Added the option NOT to resolve hostname for discovered IP Addresses. See the "Autodiscovery" feature (Main Menu->Network->Autodiscovery) 9. v2.37g Latest GUI for updates for specific Optical Zonu devices as of Jan 10,2022 CloudView NMS Release v2.36b June 20, 2021 1. Latest GUI for updates for specific Optical Zonu devices. 2. Fixed display issues when moving "link lines" in local server GUI. (CloudViewJ/Enterpise Windows/Linux/MacOS); 3. Added some improvements in the "Autodiscovery" feature. 4. User now can adjust font size in the "Login" window (first window shown). Additionally fixed some issues connected with adjusting font size. (CloudViewJ/Enterpise Windows/Linux/MacOS). 5. 2.36b. User can now move Link "lines" via right mouse-click menu item in remote client GUI. This works in both in web client and in independent GUI client. It is more convenient sometimes, especially when working with mobile web browsers. CloudView NMS Release v2.35c Jan 4, 2021 1. The recommended MS Windows CloudView NMS version is now "CloudView NMS Enterprise" (CloudViewJ). The "legacy" MS Windows version is still supported and updated with latest features, so the customers with existing license can upgrade. However from now on, we recommend "CloudView NMS Enterprise" version as a solution for MS Windows. Please see our "Download" page. 2. Fixed bug: submap icon color in the tree (and parent map) did not change according to the connection status of the links defined for this submap. 3. By default, starting from this version , old events from the "History Events" DB are cleaned automatically after 5 days. The number of days can be changed via the "History Events" window. 4. Various minor bugs and display issues fixed for various platforms. 5. Updated featured support for some 3-rd part devices. CloudView NMS Release v2.34g Nov 26, 2019 0. a. Added new Windows version for enterprise customers, see the download page: "CloudView NMS Enterprise". Please ask customer support for details. b. Fixed some minor issues in Main Menu->Network->"Monitor IP Address Range(s)" feature c. "Monitor IP Address Range(s)" feature improved. Now you can see all the discovered hosts and their status dynamically per range while the "monitoring" is running. d. Version 2.34e allows define device specific actions as "SNMP SET". See "Actions /Scheduler/" window. The actions also appear as menu items under “Actions…” item in the devuce soecific popup menu. e. Version 2.34f fixes some issues for Ubuntu version later than >=18.x f. Version 2.34g fixes some issues when connecting to CloudView NMS server as non-admin users. It also fixes some issues when monitoring "services" as "non-admin" web-portals users. g. Version 2.34g contains updated default security certificate for web GUI since the previous has become outdated. Reminder: customers can always generate their own security certificate via Main Menu->Options->Web Server Config->Self-Signed Cert feature. . 1. Performance and reliability of Web Console significantly improved. Upgrade is recommended to most customers using this GUI mode. 2. "Interfaces Table"->"Interface/Port Details" window now allows setting 24x7 "link status" monitoring. Alert events (Event Log messages, e-mail, etc...) are issued when port link status changes. Previous versions allowed only monitoring for error activity and traphics thresholds. See the bottom right part of the "Interface/Port Details" window. Yes, we know that you could achieve the same effect using SNMP "Interface Link Up/Down" traps. However in some cases 24x7 monitoring/alertsis better than SNMP Trap. 3. Full featured support for Optical ZONU's ZONUConnect products (Universal Base Station to DAS Fiber Transport). CloudView NMS Release v2.33c Jul 05, 2019 0. Version 2.33b,2.33c was released shortly after2.33a to add the following: a. "Custom Device Type" can now be added when the "example device" is offline. (see Main Menu->Options->Use Selected Device to define a New Device Type) b. All the "Independent" actions and "Device Group" actions (3-rd party executables) are now accessible as menu items of a device's right-mouse click menu. In previous versions they could, be invoked via "Actions /Scheduler/" window only. Now they also appear as menu items under “Actions…” item in the popup menu. c. "Build Custom MIB monitoring App" feature (right mouse click popup menu->SNMP-> Build Custom MIB monitoring App) can now be used when the device is offline. The new "Add as keyed object" button is not disabled now when the device SNMP is "down" d. Version 2.33c adds the following protocols to SNMPv3 support: Privacy protocols: AES-256 (BLUMENTHAL) and AES-256(CISCO REEDER) Authentication Protocols: HMAC192SHA256 (SHA-2). Please notice that DES-3 privacy protocol was NOT added intentionally since it was dropped from SNMPv3 standard. Windows version only (for now, Linux support coming...) 1. Added RESTful API to let other software automatically interact with CloudView NMS (retrieve info about devices up/down status, events...). The responses are in XML format. Details are in the restfulapi.pdf file found in the CloudView NMS/Trial root directory after installation. 2. Added support for Optical ZONU's ZONUConnect products (Universal Base Station to DAS Fiber Transport). Multiple pairs of BASE-REMOTE devices can be placed on CloudView NMS Maps and monitored 24x7 and providing specific GUI via double-click on the device's specific icon. This feature has not been finished yet (under development) 3. "Device/NMS Scheduled Actions" feature improved. It now allows adding "independent" actions to be performed ny time via main menu or device right-mouse click specific menu (not just when scheduled). This is mostly needed for integration with multiple 3rd party executables/scripts to be invoked for a specific devices per user request. 4. "Compile MIB" feature is now also supported in Linux and MacOS versions of CloudView NMS. In previous versions, user had to utilize MS Windows CloudView NMS (or it`s Trial) to produce MIO-files (*.mio) from MIB-files (*.mib) CloudView NMS Release v2.32f May 26, 2019 0. a. Version 2.32c released after 2.32b to fix some important scalability problems found in Linux version of CloudView NMS. Upgrade is recommended to all enterprise customers running CloudView NMS server on Linux. b. Version 2.32c Windows fixes some minor bugs for WEBSITE type of devices. d. Version 2.32d Windows fixes some bugs in Web Interface. In some rare case using web console (regular one, not the "alternative") could actually crash CloudView NMS server. 2.32d also fixes some crash in "Add/Describe Link" dialog in Web Console. e. Version 2.32e Windows fixes additional bugs in web interface (MS Windows version only) It also fixes e-mail problem with "Office 365" SMTP servers: e.g., it fixes the problem with e-mails from www.outlook.com/smtp-mail.outlook.com (MS Windows version only) f. Version 2.32f Windows: additioanl improvements to Web Console over https. 1. Added MTConnect support per standard (https://www.mtconnect.org), for factory/shop floor devices monitoring. The features includes periodic polling of multiple MTConnect Agents. Thousands of agents can be supported. User can add MTConnect device to the CloudView NMS map via MainMenu->Edit->Add dialog (Generic Devices->MTConnect). User will be requested to enter URL of a MTConnect agent (like http://myagent.mycompany.com or https://192.168.1.15 ). Since one MTConnect agent usually supports several shop floor devices, it is recommended to have a separate CloudView icon for each of them. In such cases per MTConnect protocol the URL will look like https://192.168.1.15/DEVICENAME . CloudView NMS periodically (like every 10 sec) issues MTConnect 'CURRENT' request and analyzes the response for predefined patterns to issue events (e-mail/SMS alerts) when the response pattern corresponds to an abnormal device operation. Our plans for future CloudView NMS releases is to keep the responses in SQL DB for a predefined period of time for future analysis. 2. For WEBSITE (webpage) type of devices added ability to search http/https response for certain text and issue events (e-mail/SMS alerts) when the text is found or (not found) 3. Fixed some issues with features connected to Googe Maps and geolocation. The issues appeared after Google changed its policies. CloudView NMS Release v2.31b Sep 5, 2018 1. "Proxy-SSH" dialog improved. This is the one which provides SSH-shell imitation for scripting purposes. It also provides master GUI SSH access to slave SSH devices and access to the server SSH devices via CloudView GUI client or web browser. 2. "Add Raw SNMP OID" feature (available from "Build Custom MIB App") improved. User can now use not only "SNMP-GET", but also "SNMP-NEXT" which allows to determine the SNMP OID indices in tables. 3. Some bug fixes connected to "Master-NMS"-"Slave-NMS" communication (startup of the internal CloudView NMS Agent) CloudView NMS Release v2.30a Aug 17, 2018 1. Added the following two buttons to the "SSH-proxy" dialog: 1.1 "Poll via CLI Config" - monitoring via predefined CLI commands 1.2 "Device Actions Scheduler" - scheduling actions per device including periodic execution of predefined SSH-scripts. Correspondingly the above two functions are now available not only for SSHDEV and LINUXSSH type of devices, but for any type device. For example, if you know that some "Generic SNMP device" also supports SSH, you can configure the credentials via the SSH-proxy dialog. The above two functions are available via the buttons located at the bottom part of the SSH-Proxy-CLI dialog. 2. "Poll via CLI Config" dialog improved. It now allows to copy/paste previous "CLI commands" from the list when adding new commands. The fields are automatically filled when user selects some command in the list. Additionally there is capability to set polling interval for the command (previously 'device polling interval') was always used by default). 3. "Devices List/Network Inventory" window/tab now allows filtering by device group. "Device Groups" feature was introduced in 2.29c). This window/tab has been redesigned so it updates automatically when device's status changes. This tab/window has currently evolved into network "logical view" by devices groups vs. geographic view provided by CloudView NMS maps. 4. "Device/NMS Actions Scheduler" screen now allows to simply repeat an action every "N seconds" option (in addition to already existed "calendar values" option). 5. Starting from this version all the security sensitive information (snmp security parameters, ssh accounts, etc...) is double encrypted when/if kept in CloudView NMS directory. 6. Starting from this version there is a possibility to decrease fonts (in addition to always existed "increase fonts" option). The option was added to both Local Server GUI and CloudView Client GUI for all the platforms. CloudView NMS Release v2.29c Jul 10, 2018 1. Added ability to use DNS name (host-name) versus static IP Address when communicating with devices for polling and other functions. The corresponding field added in the "Describe IP/SNMP Parameters" window which is available via right mouse click menu item. When DNS host-name resolves to another/new IP Address, the system automatically changes the device's IP Address. To set/unset this feature for a group of devices use "Set Map Devices Polling" (Main Menu->Map->"Set Map Devices Polling") 2. Added ability to run predefined SSH-scripts for multiple devices located on CloudView NMS maps. You can also schedule the action. This can be used, for example, for bulk firmware upgrades and/or pushing predefined configuration to multiple devices. The corresponding menu items are: 2.1 MainMenu->Options->NMS Actions Scheduler 2.2 MainMenu->Options->Run SSH Script on multiple devices 3. Describe IP/SNMP Parameters" window look and feel improved. Some minor bugs fixed when adding devices via web browser client. 4. Fixed bug, which did not allow showing "Event Details" Window when user double-clicks on an event line in the "Current Events Log" window. This bug appeared in local server GUI only after v2.28a 5. The new feature "MainMenu->Options->Define Device Groups" allow to define device groups to be used later for group operations. It is currently used int the following features: MainMenu->Options->Run SSH Script on multiple devices MainMenu->Options->NMS Actions Scheduler (to schedule SSH script to run on a predefined group) MainMenu->Map->Set Map Devices Polling (to change polling parameters for a predefined group) 6. Version v2.29c: fixed some bug in Remote GUI (both web browser based and independent GUI client) when user could not select a device on a map. 7. Version 2.29c: fixed bug in in Remote GUI (both web browser based and independent GUI client) when user could not scroll a map image properly. 8. Version 2.29c: in Remote GUI (both web browser based and independent GUI client) added a new function (as a tool button) to allow maximizing map image. 9. To support the above new features, we had to update also Independent GUI Client (CloudView NMS GUI Client). So the client version on our download page is 2.29 CloudView NMS Release v2.28a May 27, 2018 1. For CloudViewNMS Android Agents added support for monitoring Battery Level, Storage Usage and WiFi Level. The correponding new CloudViewNMS Agent version 1.15 uploaded to Google Play, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cloudviewagent.server&hl=en_US Allows monitoring thousands of Android devices (e.g. Android-based sales PDAs) for battery power left, WiFi level, storage left, Geo-location, ... etc. CloudView NMS Release v2.27a Jan 10, 2018 1. Fixed some bug in "Interface Details” window. For some SNMP devices, even when 64-bit counters from IF-MIB were supported the window still displayed 32-bit counters only. The problem did not happen for all the SNMP devices, only for devices of certain manufacturers. 2. Additional performance improvements for monitoring CloudView Agents over HTTPS (MS Windows version only) 3. For SNMP devices, including MS Windows SNMP Agent, "Maximum CPU Load %" (among all the CPUs) was reported instead of calculated "Average CPU Load %" for all the CPUs. The problem is fixed in this version. We realize that some customers possibly wanted "Maximum CPU Load %" to be reported. So please contact our Customer Support to get the solution. 4. CloudView NMS Linux, Mac OS versions only: added ability to use SQL DB located on another computer. See "Main Menu->Options->SQL Connection Params" window. This window used to be called "SQL DB password". Starting from 2.27 added additional fields: "SQL User", "SQL Server IP/FQDN", "SQL Server Port"; 5. CloudView NMS Linux, Mac OS versions only: fixed seldom situation when connection to SQL DB can timeout without being reconnected. As a result there were multiple "insert SQL error" yellow messages in the Current Events Log. 6. For SNMP devices (including MS Windows SNMP Agent) and "CloudView Agent" devices added ability to replicate the same set of thresholds for all other devices located on CloudView NMS maps. There is a corresponding button in the "Main Device Window" (the one that pops up by double-click). CloudView NMS Release v2.26g Dec 04, 2017 1. Added support for Tait Communications "TB9100" device. 2. Fixed bug in CloudView NMS Linux/MacOS server, running in service mode ("headless", no local server GUI). The bug used to prevent showing little "red bells" in top left corners of icons, indicating new alerts. The bug affected both remote Web GUI HTML-5 App and CloudView NMS GUI Client (no update of the GUI client required, the bug was in on the server's side) 3. A new window added when acknowledging device's icon events via right mouse-click menu item. The window allows entering some comment to be seen by a CloudView NMS user entering this window later. To keep backward compatibility, the window also allows to disable the feature. Note that the new feature was added to "local server GUI", "Advanced HTML-5 App" Web GUI and CloudView NMS GUI Client. The feature was NOT added to our "basic Web GUI". 4. Fixed some bugs with maps/devices status colors. The colors were wrong when some device was set to be in "maintenance" mode vi "Describe" window 5. Fixed some typo in the "MainMenu->Network->"Background Ping App" Dialog. The "Threshold" combo box should say "ms" (millisecond), not "sec". 6. "Poll via CLI Config" feature (which is available for "AGENT”, "LINUXSSH" and "SSHDEV" devices) improved. It now contains special GUI to automatically compose a CLI command for periodic checking whether some process is running or not. 7. Fixed sime bugs in "Poll via CLI Config" feature for "AGENT" devices. The bug was that when "Poll via CLI" commands were configured, the "AGENT" device could periodically loose communication (become "red") 8. 2.26f,2.26g Windows version only: fixed some important bug in performance and scalability when communicating with CloudView Agents. Upgrade to 2.26f is REALLY recommended if you use large number of CloudView agents connected to CloudView NMS Server MS Windows, which is configured to use HTTPS. The bug manifistated itself as a sudden increase in CPU usage (up to 90-100%) after some time of CloudView NMS Server running. As a result GUI used to become slow and some metrics could be reported wrong. 9. Added a warning messages when user is trying to start a second instance of the CloudView NMS Server,for example, via Windows->All Programs->->CloudView->CloudView Pro (full version). Such situation may happen when the server is already running as "Windows service" or "Linux boot daemon". Running second server instance may corrupt CloudView NMS database. 10. In Web Client and CloudView GUI Client: some customers complained that "left side tree" leaves were presented by the same image for "submaps" and "regular devices". This is fixed in 2.26g CloudView NMS Release v2.25f Sep 12, 2017 1. Fixed some bug in CPD Cache table: Device Address is now shown correctly. There are some additional CDP issues fixed. 2. CDP table window now allows enable/disable CDP on the device. "Interface Details" Window also allows to enable/disable CDP per port. 3. "Interface Alias" (ifAlias from if.mib) is now included in many windows showing device interfaces/ports. It is also included in the "event string" in e-mails/sms messages which are sent in connection with the specific interface/port. The examples are "interface link up/down" events and "interface thresholds" events. 4. User can now add "cloud" image to CloudView NMS maps. The image can have optional link lines representing connections with other devices on the map. User can add some multi-line text to be displayed inside the image. The text is defined by the "Notepad" field (see the "Describe" dialog). In order to add a "cloud" image, use MainMenu->Add item. In the "Add Device" dialog choose "Generic->UNKNOWN" device type. In the "Describe" window check the "Cloud icon" check-box. 5. User can now define additional polling for any device/icon. The possible types of polling include "Ping", "SSH" and "HTTP/HTTPS". Use right-mouse-click-menu "Additional Polling" item to configure polling entries for selected device. The same window can be used to monitor current results of the polling. Up to 50 different polling entries can be configured for a device. Example of usage: SNMP device (which is already being polled via SNMP) can be additionally configured for SSH and HTTP polling. When polling status goes up/down, corresponding events are placed in CloudView Current and History Events Logs, To configure the events for email...etc, use "Polling Status..." events in the "Events Config->Generic" Window. Note that any CloudView device/icon additional polling entry may contain not only the IP Address of the device, but any other IP Address/FQDN name. It may be useful to configure monitoring of a service as whole (which may also depend on another IP Address(es). You can define "additional polling" even for the "cloud" symbol (see 4. above) 6. Starting from 2.25b, an "SSH script" configured to run on the device when some event occurs, can run also be configured to run on any OTHER device located on CloudView Maps. See "Events Actions/Sounds..." dialog, which is available via right mouse-click-on-desired-device 7. Starting from 2.25c, in "Build Custom MIB App" user can set a recognizable "Label" for any SNMP object configured for periodic monitoring. (for example "Temperature", "RSSI", etc...) This label is conveniently shown in "Results of Custom MIB App". It is also shown in the new "Device Snapshot" Window (see below (9)) . 8. Starting from 2.25c, in "Build Custom MIB App" user can use raw SNMP OID to add SNMP object for periodic monitoring (see "Add Raw OID" button). Raw OID is a sequence of numbers separated by dots, which uniquely identifies the object. It means that, from now on, it is not necessary to compile private SNMP MIBs in CloudView NMS to add objects for monitoring. Our users, migrating from other SNMP tools, may find it more convenient. 9. Starting from 2.25c, new "Current Device Snapshot" window/tab is allways shown in the main CloudView NMS Window. The "Snapshot Info" is updated dynamically every 10 seconds. Additionally information in the window automatically changes when user selects (clicks on) another "current device" icon in map image. "Device Snapshot" contains the most current info about the device monitoring status, including "Results of Custom MIB App" with "labels", (see (7)) and results of "additional polling" (see (5)). 10. "Slave-NMS" devices "Snapshot" window is also available via "Maser-NMS" GUI. It means that our service provider customers can have their customer's devices polling info on the "Central Office" or "cloud-based" "Master-NMS" via secure (encrypted over SSL) upstream "slave-master" link. 11. CloudView NMS Independent GUI client has been updated to the version 2.25. It is currently the default version available from our Download page. The improvements are: 11.1 removed blinking when updating map image. 11.2 fixed the issue when newly opened windows are hidden behind (overlapped by) the previous windows. 12. Fixed red/green blinking when poling LINUXSSH devices. 13. (2.25e) "Device Snapshot" Dialog improved: For LINUXSSH, SSHDEV, GENERIC SNMP, AGENT devices resources usage displayed (NET, MEM, CPU, etc...) . For WEBSITE devices Response Time(sec) and Speed (Mbps) displayed 14. (2.25e, Linux). Fonts size increased in Linux GUI dialogs both for "local server" GUI and CloudView Client GUI. 15. (2.25f, Windows) CloudView Improved performance and scalability when communicating with CloudView Agents. Upgrade to 2.25f is REALLY recommended if you use large number of agents connected to CloudView NMS Server MS Windows, which is configured to use HTTPS. CloudView NMS Release v2.24a Jul 26, 2017 1. "Advanced e-mail configuration" dialog is used to configure a "white-list" of devices which can "generate" e-mails for different events associated with the devices. If this feature is configured, the devices which are not in the list will not generate any e-mails. Starting from version 2.24a, user can also add maps/submaps to the above list. This would mean that only devices located on those maps/submaps can generate e-mails. The "Advanced e-mail configuration" dialog is available via MainMenu->[Internet] Options->E-mail Config dialog-> "Advanced..." button. 2. "Alternative e-mail receivers" dialog allows to configure different e-mail addresses for different devices. Starting from version 2.24a, user can also assign different e-mail addresses per maps/submaps. You can get to this dialog via Right-mouse click on an icon representing a map/submap->"Alternative E-mail...". Or select an submap icon on a map and use "MainMenu->Options->Device Alternative E-mail" item. 3. "Advanced e-mail configuration" dialog was improved: a field was added which allows to search for the desired device/map in the list. 4. Fixed some issue which did not allow to show events (autonomous messages) from some TL1 devices. Tl1 is a protocol defined by Telcordia (aka Bellcore). Some TL1 devices send autonomous messages which are NOT in the exact format defined by TL1 protocol. Correspondingly the events/alarms were not shown in the CloudView NMS Events Log. The 2.24a fix allows to receive show messages anyway and forward them as e-mails/SMS, etc... 5. Remote client user can now save a screenshot of his current screen on the CloudView NMS server computer. The feature is available via Main Menu both in Web Browser Client (no additional install is required) and CloudView independent GUI Client (install of CloudView GUI Client 2.24 or higher is required). 6. Remote client user can now share his screen with other clients which are currently logged in the same CloudView NMS server computer. The feature is available via Main Menu both in Web Browser Client (no additional install is required) and CloudView independent GUI Client (install of CloudView GUI Client 2.24 or higher is required). 7. Fixed some seldom issues which could happen when using our Master/Slave/Agent features. 8. Cisco CDP Table (Table of neighboring devices ) is included in the CloudView Cisco Devices support. It is accessible via Main Device Window Menu for Cisco Devices (under "Routing"). It can also be accessed for any device via MainMenu->Standard MIBs->Routing->CDP Cache Table, when the desired sevice is selected on the current map. CloudView NMS Release v2.23a Jun 08, 2017 1. Important performance and security improvements for MasterNMS-SlaveNMS feature. 2. "Geolocation" (latitude and longitude) now can be set for any device. In previous versions, this feature used to be available for Android "CloudView NMS Agents" only. Now it is available for any CloudView device. It allows seeing the geographic location of the device(s). Google maps are used, so it is required that CloudView NMS Server has internet connection. The feature is available via CloudView "Main Menu", "device main window" menu and "Devices List/Network Inventory" window. CloudView NMS Release v2.22a May 15, 2017 1. Fixed additional scalability issue when using CloudView NMS Windows version with Agents/Slaves communicating over HTTPS (secure HTTP over SSL). The issue was that CloudView NMS server suddenly restarted after CPU usage jumps to 100%. 2. The new CloudView NMS Agent version 2.22a is now ready for future automated upgrades from CloudView NMS Server GUI. Upgrading CloudView Agent running on large number (maybe hundreds) of computers requires more effort than just updating CloudView NMS Server and this is the reason we added the feature. We recommend upgarding to CloudView Agent 2.22a. It has new features (see below) and it is ready for future AUTOMATED upgrades. 3. When setting Agent thresholds (for CPU, RAM usage, etc...), you now can set some delay time. It means that the alert event will not be issued until the condition persists. It allows, for example, not issuing alerts for occasional CPU usage spikes. See "Main Agent Window". 4. Starting from this Agent version you can now monitor Windows Event Log for predefined event types. See "Main agent Window". CloudView NMS Release v2.21f Apr 28, 2017 0. Attention: customers who use our "Agents" and "Master-Slave" technology are strongly advised to upgrade both CloudView NMS Agent and CloudView NMS Server to version 2.21f. The new CloudView NMS Agent 2.21f for Windows/Linux/Mac was highly optimized to have smaller footprint and save resources of both CloudView NMS Server and monitored computer running Agent. Correspondingly much more scalable monitoring solution is provided for large networks. We realize that upgrading CloudView Agent running on large number (maybe hundreds) of computers may require more effort than just updating CloudView NMS Server, but we still recommend the upgrade. Future CloudView NMS Server versions will provide automated “one-click” way of upgrading Agent on multiple remote computers via CloudView NMS Server GUI. 1. For SNMP devices, CloudView NMS discovers and monitors all the interfaces (which usually correspond to the device's ports). The interfaces are discovered via standard SNMP MIBs (MIB-2 and IF-MIB). By default, all the interfaces are monitored and shown. However for some devices, the number of interfaces can be huge. Also users may be not interested in monitoring/managing some interfaces. Starting from this version, CloudView NMS implements ability to skip monitoring for some interfaces (ranges of interfaces) It can be done for specific devices via "Interfaces Availability..." window (the setting is in the left lower corner of the window). To open the window: 1.1 In Local Server GUI : right-mouse click on the device icon, in the pop-up menu select "Interfaces Availability/Statistics/Health/SLA....". 1.2 In Web Browser GUI/CloudView GUI Client: right-mouse click on the icon, in the popup select "Health" item. In the "Health..." window, click on the "Interfaces Availability" button. In order to see the result of the settings immediately, you need also to click on "Restart Interfaces Monitoring" button in the "Interfaces Availability..." window. CloudView NMS will also ignore Generic SNMP traps LinkUp/LinkDown for exluded interfaces. 2. For CloudView NMS Server (MS Windows version only), fixed some bug which could lead to a server crash. The crash could happen when there are Agents or Slaves connected to the server. The crash could happen even more often when there is significant number of Agents/Slaves connected to the server and HTTPS is configured via "Main Menu"->"Options"-"Web Server Config" menu item. 3. After 2.21b,2.21c,2.21d the CloudView Windows crash described in 2. above still could happen when increasing number of Agents/Slaves. It is also connected to the fact of how powerfull is the computer running CloudView NMS Server. To improve the scalability of CloudView Windows we had to release 2.21e and 2.21f. 4. Fixed some bug when working via CloudView GUI client. Text entered (by user) into text fields sometimes were not correctly retrieved by the server. The issue was NOT in the client, but in the server (MS Windows version of the server only) 5. Fixed some bug in enforcing remote user restrictions to access certain maps/submaps. The corresponding setting is accessible via MainMenu->Options->Add/Delete Users dialog, click on "Submaps Access Restriction for Selected User". CloudView NMS Release v2.20a Mar 12, 2017 1. Main Window for Linux SSH Devices ("LINUXSSH" type) now shows result of Linux "uptime" command for the target host. It changes every polling interval. 2. Main Window for Agent devices (corresponding to Windows/Linux/MacOS computers running CloudView NMS Agent) and SSH computers (corresponding to Linux/SSH Devices polled by CloudView NMS via SSH protocol) has a new "Poll via CLI Config" button. This button opens "Monitoring CLI Commands" window. The window allows configuring several CLI commands to be performed on the target device every polling interval. An event will be issued if any of the command`s response does not match a predefined condition. The event condition can be defined as either "Response contains some predefined text" or "Response does NOT contain some predefined text". User is given ability to set both "CLI Command text" and "Text to find in response". User can additionally configure the event-type for e-mail,SMS,..etc in the "Events Config" Window (via popup-menu opened by right mouse-click on one of the AGENT or LINUXSSH/SSHDEV devices). The Event Type is "Specific->CLI command response alert". CloudView NMS Release v2.19i Feb 22, 2017 1. Many more useful functions are now available from "slave"-server, when working via "master"-server GUI. The functions are the same which used to be available only for "master"-server devices only. Now they can be accessed remotely and securely from the "slave" CloudView NMS Server via "master"-server GUI. The functions are: devices health/availability/down time, "top ten ports", "events history" per device and more. To use the functions you need to be connected to the master"-server GUI via Web Browser GUI or CloudView Client GUI. There is a limitation that the functions are not supported via "local" server GUI. This minor limitation should not affect your daily work, since 'local' GUI is usually used only during initial CloudView NMS configuration, i.e. adding maps, devices and users. (Some customers do not use "local" server GUI at all, i.e. those installing CloudView NMS on headless servers or Linux servers without X Windows) 2. Added some scalability improvements for remote Client GUI when number of monitored devices is big (like thousands). The improvements are done for both browser-based HTML-5 GUI and CloudView Independent GUI Client. 3. Added ability to get a file from CloudView NMS Server on a client computer. The feature is available via Main Menu->Options->View/Edit/Get File on Server. It is available for both browser-based HTML-5 GUI and CloudView Independent GUI Client. 4. Fixed issue which used to happen when user sets "Hierarchical tree look" (Main Menu->File->Hierarchical tree look). The server could not restart properly. The issue was in CloudView NMS Windows version, local GUI mode only. 5. Fixed seldom issue which sometimes prevented CloudView NMS Server to respond to remote GUI clients, "slave"-servers and agents. The issue was ONLY in MS Windows and only when SSL/HTTPS was configured in :MainMenu->Internet Options->Web Server Config" dialog. 6. Fixed some bug in the "History Events View" web page which started happening after 01/01/2017. This page worked fine only if user set the year explicitly in the filer: setting "All Years" did not work. (This bug is one of the reasons why we had to move from 2.19d to 2.19e and 2.19f) 7. Significantly improvedperformance of "master"-"slave" communication. (This is one of the reasons why we had to move from 2.19d,2.19e to 2.19f) 8. Versions 2.19h and 2.19i add additional performance improvements in "master"-"slave" communication. CloudView NMS Release v2.18f Jan 2, 2017 1. Improvements in polling Linux devices via SSH: added ability to set "prompt ending" symbol to speed up polling. Also real bandwidth usage is shown even when Interface speed is unknown. 2. Improvements in CloudView Linux Agents: real bandwidth usage is shown even when Interface speed is unknown. 3. Fixed some bug in polling of SNMP devices. The issues appeared when SNMP requests timed out frequently. 4. Map editing operations "Copy [icon]", "Cut [icon]" and "Paste [icon]" are now available also in remote client mode (both for Web Client and independent CloudView GUI Client) 5. Fixed some bugs in polling websites and ssh devices which appeared after 2.18a 6. Added support for Raspberry Pi with connected DS18B20 Thermometer. It is now in CloudView NMS Environmental Monitoring Application. 2.18d fixes some issues in this feature which appeared after 2.18c. 7. Fixed some issues in Linux version of CloudView NMS, when running on computers with low RAM available. We found the issues when running CloudView NMS server on DigitalOcean droplet with 512MB RAM ($5.00 a month Ubuntu mini-server/VPS). The symptoms of the problem are: a. ./startservice.sh script fails because of "not enough memory". b. The CloudView NMS server "java" process reports to be "killed" when you start adding devices to the maps. Ideally CloudView NMS requires at least 2GB of RAM; however it will still work OK if you set Linux swap file. We included the detailed instructions how to do that in the root CloudView NMS Server directory (usually ~/cloudviewj) Also in this version, the "startservice.sh" script now automatically adjusts to the available RAM size, no matter how small it is. 8. Fixed some issues in Windows version of CloudView NMS server, which appeared after 2.17f. 9. Fixed very specific situations memory leak, which normally could not happen, but still happened for some cutsomer in very specific configuration. CloudView NMS Release v2.17f Dec 01, 2016 1. There were some changes in license password algorithm (Linux and MacOS platforms only). We will e-mail the new license password to all registered CloudView NMS customers upon request. 2. Added the ability to periodically scan predefined ranges of IP Addresses and issue a corresponding event when a device appears/disappears in a range. The event can be configured for e-mail...,etc. in "Events Config" window, see "Device appeared/disappeared in/from IP Range..." event. This feature can be used by network administrators to monitor newly hooked up devices. Please note that if the IP address belongs to a device, which is already located on CloudView maps, it will be skipped from scanning. 3. Fixed bug which did not allow sending e-mail to more than one e-mail address (The bug existed on Linux and MacOS platforms only). 4. Fixed bug in agentless monitoring of Linux and Windows servers via SNMP. It did not allow the "threshold violated" event (for CPU, RAM, Disk(s) and Network usage) to be issued. It worked correctly only after restart of CloudView NMS server. 5. Fixed bug in CloudView Agent Linux-Centos, when monitoring network usage. The "max bandwidth" and usage was always equal to 0.0 6. Added additional capabilities for agentless monitoring of Linux servers via SSH. The features allow to monitor CPU, RAM, Disk(s) and Network usage. There are "resources usage" historical graphs, ability to set thresholds and receive events in log (via e-mail). Please note though that the features are only if you do not want installing CloudView agents on Linux servers. Using CloudView agents is still a prefered way, since it provides more capabilities. 7. Added some usability improvements to "Environmental Monitorin App" based on "GEIST" Watchdog units. 8. Added "SSH Devices" autodicovery mode in "Autodiscovery" window. It allows to discover all SSH devices with entered credentials (username and password) in certain IP Address range. 9. The following events: "SNMP Communication UP", "TCP/IP UP", "Agent UP", "Website UP" and "SSH Connection is UP" now also tell you how long the corresponding device was down before and time/date it went down previousely. Of course the info is also included in the corresponding e-mail alert. 10. Fixed a bug which made local server GUI showing popup menu in wrong location, when user right-mouse clicks on a maps/devices tree node. The bug existed only in CloudView Linux local server GUI. 11. Added ability change a cdevice icon and/or it's size from remote CloudView Web Client and CloudView GUI Client (right mouse click on any icon, select "Change Icon" in the popupmenu. In previos versions, this feature was available in local server GUI only). 12. Fixed some bug in setting thresholds for Watchdog enviromental units. The bug existed in version 2.17b only. 13. The remoute GUI client now allows to see that you are running Trial version vs. Permanent version. It could lead to some confusion in previous versions. 14. Fixed some bug connected to "Clear Events" function. The bug existed 2.17b-2.17d versions only. 15. Fixed crash in polling devices via SSH ("SSH_Capable_Device" type). The bug existed in 2.17b-2.17e versions only. 16. Fixed bug which did not allow changing "Notepad" field in "Describe" dialog. The bug existed in 2.17a-2.17e Linux/Mac versions only. CloudView NMS Release v2.16b Oct 26, 2016 1. Added additional capabilities for agentless monitoring of Linux and Windows servers via SNMP. The features allow to monitor CPU, RAM, Disk(s) and Network usage. User can view corresponding historical graphs and set thresholds to receive events in log (via e-mail). Please note though that this feature is only for those customers who do not want installing CloudView agents on servers. Using CloudView agents is still a preffered way, since it provides more additional capabilities. 2. Apple released new iOS version 10.0.2. We checked the compatibility of our client web application, when working from iPhone/iPad. We found that when working in secure mode (via HTTPS) there are problems. It seemed like it worked, but in fact it did not. The reason was our self-signed certificate. iOS 10.0.2 requires: 1.1. The "CN parameter" ("Common Name") in the certificate must be exactly the domain part of the URL when accessing from iPhone/iPad. For example, if you are accessing CloudView NMS server like "https://mycloudview.mycompany.com", the "CN parameter" should be "mycloudview.mycompany.com". If you are accessing CloudView NMS server via IP Address like "https://192.168.10.15",the "CN parameter" must be "192.168.10.15". The solution is to let user generate his own self-signed certificate and we added the feature in the "Web Server Config" (which is available via "MainMenu->Internet Options->Web Server Config" menu items). 1.2 After you generated your self-signed certificate, it will be in the directory /web . The name of the file is "myca.cer". You should install this certificate (make it trusted and verified) on your iPhone/iPad. To do this simply e-mail this file as attachment to yourself and open the e-mail on your iPhone/iPad. When you click on the attachment, your device will ask to confirm that you trust this certificate. 3. "Extended History Events Log" Window is now available from Remote GUI. It used to be available only from Local Server GUI. The only difference from usual "History Events Log" Window is that "extended" one has additional functions for automatic periodic log cleaning (SQL DB cleaning) and backups. Added additional capability for periodic deleting old event from the SQL DB. 4. Fixed crash in "Extended History Events Log" Window, which could happen when user sets backup/clean SQL DB parameters (MS Windows version only). CloudView NMS Release v2.15b Sep 26, 2016 0. Fixed several security vulnerabilities found by Tenable Network Security, Inc. Credit goes to Jacob Baines, Tenable Network Security. Thank you. 1. Added capability to view collected history graphs in the following dialogs: a. Background Ping App. b. Agent Resources Usage.(CPU,RAM, Network,...etc) c. Web Server/Site response time/bandwidth d. Results of Custom SNMP MIB Application. CloudView NMS Release v2.14b Sep 05, 2016 1. "Event Details" Window (which is shown by double-click on an event line in "Current Events Log","History Events Log"....) now contains several usefull shortcuts which are elevant to the device mentioned in the event: a. SSH to relevant device. b. Ping relevant device. c. Call Web Browser to access Web GUI of relevant device. d. Open relevant device main window. e. Locate relevant device on the CloudView maps. Additional new shortcuts are connected to the corresponding event configuration They proved to be very useful since they allow to configure an "event type" format/actions/sounds "by example". The event coonfiguration can be done for "All devices" or only for the device which received the event. 2. There are new objects in NMS.MIB(file ../mibs/nms.mib describes CloudView NMS Northbound SNMP interface). The new objects in mvwNmsAlrEntry are: mvwNmsAlrEntAckStatus INTEGER, mvwNmsAlrEntClearedStatus INTEGER, mvwNmsAlrEntAdminStatus INTEGER, mvwNmsAlrEntIdentity Unsigned32, mvwNmsAlrEntTimeString DisplayString Additionaly format of mvwNmsMessageTrap changed to include mvwNmsAlrEntTimeString and sequential number of forwarded trap, which can be used by receiving Northbound entity to make sure no trap is lost. 3. Fixed some minor bugs which did not allow compiling some specific mib files in MibView window (there was a problem when a mib file was too long and contained several '.' characters). 4. Fixed bug in monitoring Watchdog enviromental units. The bug sometimes did not allow a correcting event (when temperature, humidity... goes back to normal) to appear in the log. The bug affected Linux/MacOS CloudView version only. 5. Added Zoom-In/Zoom-Out/Zoom Default feature both in local and remote client mode. This feature existed before in local mode only, but it was buggy. 6. Fixed some issues in remote Web Client when working with Google Chrome Browser. 7. Fixed bug in setting background image via Google Maps. Sometimes, the system did not persist the image after server restart. CloudView NMS Release v2.13b Aug 16, 2016 1. Added Environmental Monitoring Application. The corresponding window is Available via Main Menu->Network->Env. App item. The application is based on Geist ITWatchDogs enviromental monitoring devices/sensors with SNMP support. (Watchdog-15 and Watchdog-100 units). Thousands of sensors can be autodiscovered and placed on CloudView NMS map for 24x7 monitoring. Predefined actions can be performed when sensor values violate predefined thresholds. For example, when server room temperature goes too high, the system can automatically SSH-login in every server to perform some predefined SSH script (like "sudo poweroff" command). 2. Added new generic device type "SSH Device/Server" which is specifically suited for handling SSH-capable devices, e.g. Linux servers. User can add this device to a map via MainMenu->Add Device/Submap item (which is marked as "+" shortcut in different CloudView NMS GUIs). When adding "SSH Device", you must provide SSH Login credentials, i.e. user name and password. The login credentials can be also set via SSH "identity file" (which is, for example, the usual way accessing Amazon AWS instances ). The system uses the credentials to poll SSH device, meaning it automatically logs in every polling interval to perform some predefined "polling command". The polling command can be something simple like "pwd" just to check that SSH connectivity is OK. After device is added, CloudView NMS polls it via SSH. If it discovers Linux environment, the device icon automatically changes to Linux "penguin" and additional functions become available. The functions include monitoring current RAM usage with alerts when predefined thresholds are violated. 3. Proxy-SSH dialog (which is essentially SSH CLI) now allows defining/recording "SSH Scripts" for a device. The SSH Scripts can be used in "Events Actions/Sounds" dialog, meaning NMS automatically runs the "SSH Scripts" on the device/server when the corresponding event comes. 4. Fixed bug, which did not allow setting background map image from web client and independent GUI client. 5. Fixed some bugs in reporting devices availability ("health" statistics). CloudView NMS Release v2.12b Jul 24, 2016 1. Added Ping App. The feature can be used to analyze response time and reachability of VoiP servers which is connected to VoiP QoS. The ping packets can be sent from the NMS as well as from connected remote agents and "slave"-NMS. This way service provider can check response time reachability of VoiP servers from their customer networks. CloudView NMS distributed model ensures security via SSL. No VPN is required. Both "real-time" and "background monitoring" modes are provided. In "real time" mode user can see real-time graphs for latency and jitter values. In "background monitoring" mode, corresponding events can be set to receive alerts when "latency"/RTT/ becomes greater than the predefined threshold or "pinged" host goes down. 2. Modern Linux servers (as well as other devices) improve SSH-2 Security by using new set of encryption algorithms. As a result CloudView embedded SSH function sometimes used to fail with message like "Cannot negotiate encryption algorithm". This problem is fixed in the current release. 3. Fixed some minor bugs connected to "slave-NMS" and Agent polling. CloudView NMS Release v2.11b Jun 28, 2016 1. Additional fixes connected to high resolution displays (all platforms and all CloudView NMS GUI products). 2. Significant performance improvements for large scale networks (more than 1000 monitored nodes) 3. "Raspberry Pi" (small $35 Linux box) was added as a platform which can run CloudView NMS Server and CloudView NMS Agent. Service Providers can pre-configure "headless" (no keyboard/monitor) "Raspberry Pi" box and plug it in the customer's network so it will monitor the network and securely (over SSL) report the info to "Central Office" CloudView NMS. No re-configuration of customer's router/firewall is required. The process of "Raspberry Pi" configuration is as simple as writing config files in the removable SD card which serves as "Raspberry Pi" hard drive. The step-by-step manual is available on our download page. CloudView NMS Release v2.10a Jun 03, 2016 1. Fixed several security vulnerabilities found by Rapid7, Inc. Thank you, Tod Beardsley and Deral Heiland of Rapid7! 2. Fixed display issues in CloudView NMS Windows server local GUI interface. The issues existed when high resolution (more than 1920x1080) and other than "small fonts" in Windows "Display settings" CloudView NMS Release v2.09b May 03, 2016 1. There were several configuration tasks which used to be available only via local CloudView Server GUI. Now the tasks are also available from remote web Interface and remote GUI Client. The tasks are: 1.1 Assigning alternative/custom device icon. 1.2 Adding/Compiling SNMP MIBs in MibView, Custom MIB App and other MIB browsing windows. Note, if you run CloudView NMS server on Linux, the MIB still must be compiled in Windows version. You can use our free Windows Trial for this operation. The source MIB-file (xxx.mib) and compiled MIB-file (xxx.mio) should be copied in Linux server under .../cloudviewj/mibs directory. 1.3 Adding SNMP Traps/Notifications from private SNMP MIBs in "Events Configuration" dialog. Assigning actions in "Events Actions/Sounds Config" dialog. 1.4 Assigning alternative double-click action to a device. 1.5 Use current device to define a new "Device Type". All the above operations are available under "Options" menu item of the remote GUI client (or HTML-5 Web based client) and work with the current selected device on the map. 2. Fixed the following bug in remote GUIinterface: wrong current device used when remote GUI client menu item selected. 3. Windows agent now allows working with disk drives other than "c:" 4. The following dialogs: "Double-click action", "Build Custom SNMP MIB App" and "Events Actions/Sounds Config" allow to assign the same configuration to multiple devices. 5. Tables in all multi-paltform GUIs support mouse-wheel scrolling. 6. Fixed some issues when running CloudView NMS Linux on "no-GUI" computers. CloudView NMS Release v2.08a May 01, 2016 1. Full Command Shell (command-line interface) is now provided for Windows/Linux computers running CloudView NMS Agent. It means that for such computers you do not need using SSH (or Proxy-SSH) any longer. Additional advantage is that the shell is available from "behind-the-firewall" when communicating over public Internet to the "Central Office" CloudView NMS. All the communication is secured via SSL. 2. CloudView NMS Agent for Windows/Linux was updated to report Network (Bandwidth) Usage. GUI (Main Agent Window) allows setting thresholds on bandwidth usage and receiving corresponding events in the Events Log and as e-mails. 3. Agents Bandwidth Usage Window allows seeing current bandwidth usage reported by all connected agents. The list can be sorted by bandwidth value in Mbps. The window allows to identify bandwidth hogs on your network. 4. We now allow special type of license password for cloud-based installations. For such installations, license password check is not tied to the computer hardware. 5. Fixed some issues in Web Inerface when accessing GUI with Microsoft Edge Browser (Win10) and recent Safari updates (MacOS). 6. Fixed some issues when running CloudView NMS Server/Agent on the latest MacOS X "El Capitan". The issues are connected with new "rootless" "System Integrity Protection" features of "El Capitan". CloudView NMS Release v2.07b Dec 02, 2015 1. CloudView NMS Agent running on Windows or Linux allows to monitor CPU, RAM and File Systems usage. GUI (Main Agent Window) allows to set thresholds on the above resources usage and receive corresponding events in the Events Log and as e-mails. For now, it works for Windows and Linux agents ONLY. We will add the same feature for Android agents in the future. 2. Added multiple dialogs for standard SNMP MIBs (bridge, routing, tcp statistics,etc...). The dialogs are available via main menu or device window menu. 3. Fixed some bug in setting background images for multiple maps/submaps via Google maps. 4. Security community recently (June 2015) discovered latest SSL/TLS vulnerability ("logjam", connected to using weak Diffie-Hellman key). As a result Firefox and IE issued corresponding updates and the updated browsers stopped showing CloudView NMS Web pages. The issue happened ONLY with MS Windows version of CloudView NMS. It did not happen in Linux/Mac versions of CloudView. This release fixes Windows version of CloudView NMS Web server to avoid "logjam", so recent versions of Firefox and IE can be used providing CloudView NMS web GUI. 5. Improved HTML-5 web interface: the the "map" can now go "fullsceen" - there is a corresponding "toggle fullsceen" button in the top left corner of the "map". CloudView NMS Release v2.06 June 18, 2015 1. New "Proxy SSH" function allows to run SSH shell to any device in remote Web GUI or "Independent GUI Client". It is important that ssh connection is still provided from CloudView NMS server, so connection is available even when client cannot be directly connected to the device. That is why the function is called "Proxy SSH Shell". It is available from specific device's menu. 2. The "Proxy SSH" function works even via another connected CloudView NMS Server. Using this function, service providers can always securely login from "Central Office" CloudView NMS to any SSH-enabled device located in the customer's network (which of course must have it's "local" CloudView NMS Server, see below notes for Release v2.05, 1. ) There is no need to reconfigure customer's router for port forwarding. There is no need for VPN either. To enter the "Proxy SSH" shell just click on the corresponding device-button in the list of devices inside the main agent window (the agent corresponds to the remote CloudView NMS sever which is located in the customer's network. The "Proxy SSH" function turns CloudView NMS Server in a kind of "SSH-enabled terminal server" providing secure channel for accessing the devices over public internet without using port forwarding or VPN. 3. Fixed bug in SSH shell function in local server GUI running on Mac OS. 4. License password can now be set while CloudView NMS server is running as a trial via Web client menu. This feature is most useful when CloudView trial is running as MS Windows Service or Linux boot daemon (and there is no local GUI available). See Menu->Options->Set License 5. From now on configuring events actions (running predefined executables when a specific event occurs) can be done from Web Client menu as well. See right mouse click on an icon->Icon Menu->Event Actions/Sounds Config. 6. Fixed bug in CloudView NMS Windows version, connected to forwarding events to "Central Office" CloudView NMS (It was possibility of skipping some events). CloudView NMS Release v2.05 May 15, 2015 1. From now on, CloudView NMS Server can be connected to another (upper in hierarchy) CloudView NMS Server(s), e.g., "Central Office(s)". Upon connection, "the connected" Server (which is also called slave-NMS) appears as an agent in the "Connected Agents" Window on the "Central Office" Server. The "Central Office" Server is correspondingly called "master-NMS". After user clicks "Add to Map" button in the "Connected Agents" Window on "master-NMS", it appears as a special "NMS"-type agent icon on its map. This allows remote monitoring of the evices/events/maps via the "Central Office"/master-NMS/ CloudView GUI. With this feature you can create really distributed network management and monitoring. With such scenario, the "connecting agent" NMS (or slave-NMS) can be hidden behind firewall/router. The slave-NMS acts as a client, correspondingly it can have NAT IP Address and still provide all the required info and functions to the "Central Office" master-NMS. "Central Office" GUI user will have access to the "connected" slave-NMS maps/devices/events. This feature is for Service Providers, who wants securely monitor their customer's networks WITHOUT reconfiguring customer's router. There is also no need for "port forwarding" or VPN to use the feature. Service Providers can pre-configure a small CloudViewNMS Server box (Windows,Linux) and drop it in their customer's network (no keyboard/monitor required after pre-configuration) . The "connecting agent" on slave-NMS is configured via Main Window Menu->Internet Options->Connect to upper NMS" menu item. Once configured/connected the "connecting" CloudView NMS will persist the connecion to the "Central Office" master-NMS upon restart. It will also automatically reconnect if the connection is lost for some reason. In order to automate solution even more, it is recommended to run the "connecting" slave-NMS as either "MS Windows Service" or "Linux boot daemon" depending on your choice of operating system. 2. Agent now allows pushing and running scripts by request initiated from CloudView NMS server (Windows/Linux agents ONLY). The corresponding functions are accessible from the main "Agent Window" (the one which opens by double-click on an agent icon on the CloudView NMS map). In order to run a script which is ALREADY located on the agent, use "Get File from this agent" button. In order to "Push" a file from the server and run it on the agent, use "Run" button. 3. Windows/Linux CloudView Agents now allow to stream the contents of the screen (like a movie) to the connected CloudViewNMS Server. See the "Screen" button in the main Agent Window. Note also that any connected CloudView NMS server (see 1. above) also provides the same service. This feature is not available when Agent is running as "MS Windows Service", "Linux boot daemon" or the box does not have a GUI (like Linux boxes without X11). CloudView NMS Release v2.04 February 03, 2015 1. Fixed some bugs in "headless" (no-gui) mode 2. Added new features connected to managing Bluetooth devices of "iBeacon" type which are discoverd by CloudViewNMS Agent runing on Android Phones/Tablets 3. Fixed some bugs which could result in broken connections with agents. CloudView NMS Release v2.03c December 31, 2014 1. Starting from this version, "CloudView NMS Linux" can operate in fully "headless" mode (i.e command line) There is no more requiremnt to have X11/GUI on the server. You can start CloudView NMS server either from command line or as Linux bootup daemon. After that all required configuration is done via remote GUI: either via HTML-5 web browser-based interface or independent GUI client. 2. Improved performance of the remote based GUI client (both web browser based client and independent GUI client) CloudView NMS Release v2.02a November 30, 2014 1. Fixed some bugs connected to scrolling in the Main Window (CloudView NMS Server, local GUI Windows version only). The bug manifested itself only when "map" quadrant was in "scrolled state". User would scroll large maps to see the "hidden" parts. The scrolling was OK, but after that some clicks on links/menu-buttons did not work. 2. Added some basic support for Android CloudView Agents "paired" with "SensorTag TI". (Texas Instruments SimpleLink Bluetooth\AE Smart SensorTag). The support added by a customer request. The updated CloudViewNMS Agent app is on Google Play. The agent can also work with "CloudWeb File&Web Server" app. CloudWeb app is also updated on Google Play. 3. Fixed some minor bugs in HTML-5 web interface. CloudView NMS Release v2.01a October 22, 2014 1. Recent Google Android update introduced some bugs. As a result CloudView HTML5 GUI was broken when working via HTTPS from Android. The issue happened ONLY when CloudView NMS server was running on MS Windows and ONLY when the server was configured for HTTPS. The problem has been fixed in this release (we had to workaround Android bugs). 2. Added option to monitor contents of websites for changes. To use the feature add "WEBSITE" type device to CloudView map. After the desired URL is set and the icon becomes green double click on the icon and see the option. To monitor multiple pages add additional "WEBSITE" devices to the map. The "Website changed" event will be placed in the Events log, when a change is discovered after some poll. You can configure this event to generate e-mail in "Events Config" Window which is accessible via right-mouse click menu on any "WEBSITE" device icon. CloudView NMS Release v2.00b September 10, 2014 1. New independent GUI client is available for download from our download page. It is supported for Windows, Linux and Mac. The dialogs are almost the same as they are in the local server GUI. The client aimed for customers who prefer full-blown remote windows interface vs. Web Browser Interface. 2. For Web Browser Interface, added new alternative HTML-5 based GUI. You can enter it either via hyperlink on the first remote login page, or directly like: http:///application This GUI is aimed for customers who prefer full-blown "windows"-like interface inside web Browser window. The dialogs are almost the same as they are in the local server GUI. This interface is good to use when working from desktop and/or tablet Web Browsers since it requires some reasonable screen size. If you work from phone browsers (iPhone/Android/Win8Phone), it is better to use our "old" HTML-5 based interface. 3. Fixed some bugs connected to enforcing user access limitations in remote screens. Remote user is allowed to watch or modify only those maps/devices/interfaces/events/services which are configured for him by "Admin" via local server GUI. (See MainMenu->Options->Add/Delete Users dialog). "Admin" configures these limitations by associating some maps with a particular user. If these associations are not configured for a user, he is allowed to watch all the maps/devices/interfaces/events/services. If the user has "SUPERVISOR" access, he is also allowed to make modifications. 4. In the "Events Configuration" Window, added option to delay "bad event"-associated e-mail. The delay interval can be set for 1-10 min. For example, if a device goes "DOWN" (CRITICAL event), but after delay it is already "UP" the e-mail will not be set (though still both events are kept in the Events Log). This option will allow not to bother responsible person with temporary problems. This setting is currently available only for "CRITICAL" events. Such events are (for example): 5.1 For SNMP devices "SNMP Communication Down" (Generic Event for any SNMP Device) 5.2 For TCPIP devices "TCP/IP Down" (Specific Event for TCP/IP devices) 5.3 "Website Down" (Specific Event for "WEBSITE" devices) 5.4 "Remote Agent Down" (Specific Event for "Agent" devices). Please note that you change "email delay" interval for some "CRITICAL" event, the corresponding "NORMAL" event will be adjusted automatically for proper functionality of the algorithm. 5. Fixed some issue in Windows Spy-Agent: it did not give indication in the server log, when wrong user/name password used to connect to CloudView NMS server. It simply was sitting without producing screenshots. CloudView NMS Release v1.12a. August 7, 2014 1. New "Current Events Summary" Window is available. It shows colored "Pie Chart" representing percentage of event severities in the Current Events Log. It is available in both "local server GUI" (from the "Current Events Log" Tab/Window and web browser remote client GUI (from the "Network..." combo-box). 2. "Top 10 interfaces" Tab/Window now shows "Pie Chart" reflecting percentage of traffic/utilization/errors for every interface in the list. The total is a sum of all interfaces in the list. This Window is now also available in web browser remote client GUI (from the "Network..." combo-box). It was previously "hidden" deep under "Global Operations Tree". 3. Fixed bug in "History for Interface XXX" traffic chart. This bug existed in the remote HTML-5 based GUI only. CloudView NMS Release v1.11a. July 1, 2014 1. Network traffic and ports utilization graphs (speedometer, lines and bars) are now available in remote HTML-5 web browser GUI. We checked most modern web browsers including those of mobile devices. In previous versions, the graphs were available only in local server GUI and remote Java web browser GUI. In short: starting from this version, there is no Java requirement to see traffic graphs in web browser interface. 2. Fixed some issues with Windows Spy-Agent when running on Windows 8. CloudView NMS Release v1.10a. June 11, 2014 1. Added a new feature for Android CloudView Agent 1.4 /in conjunction with CloudView NMS 1.10a or higher/. The feature allows remotely turning on Android camera, downloading and watching the recorded video. No local interaction of the phone/tablet holder is required, so this feature turns your Android into wireless Web Camera. The video can be watched in real time either via local CloudView NMS server GUI or remotely from any browser via HTML-5 based interface. 2. Fixed seldom bug in Android Agent which could make the agent unresponsive. 3. Minor improvements in remote HTML-5 GUI. CloudView NMS Release v1.09a. Apr 10, 2014 1. Web interface login page now allows choosing between HTM-5 based GUI and Java based GUI. The default is HTML-5 GUI, which is supported by most modern web browsers. 2. Windows Spy-Agent is now available for download. In addition to all the agent functions it also allows to watch (like a movie) everything shown on the screen of the computer the agent is running on. Once installed, spy-agent keeps low profile an starts as soon as user logs in the computer. Remember it is your responsibility not to use this feature for illegal spying. We assume legal goals, e.g. an employer monitoring company owned computers or a parent monitoring his kids. Full file system of the computer is available remotely (to upload and download/delete files), even if the agent-computer is behind a corporate/home firewall and have NAT/DHCP IP Address. CloudView NMS Release v1.08d. Feb 14, 2014 1. Android CloudView Agent app version 1.3 is available from Google Play. The new features include: 1.1 View the current geo-location of your team/family members devices on a map. 1.2 Receive alarms/e-mail alerts when a team/family member moves beyond some predefined area. For example, this feature allows you always know where your kids are. 1.2 Capability to remotely delete a file(s) with from ALL monitored phones/tablets in a couple of clicks. This allows, for example, to remove sensitive company's documents when a device holder(s) leaves the team. 1.3 When manipulating with files on remote agents you can now also see their size and the "Last Modified" date/time. 1.4 When started in background, the app keeps low profile with no visible messages. This was a request from some our customers. Remember it is your responsibility not to use this app for illegal spying. We assume legal goals, e.g. an employer monitoring company owned devices or a parent monitoring his kids. 2. GUI web Interface improved for mobile devices.Web App for iPad. 3. Improved interface to configure reporting e-mails. For testing purposes, added default CloudView e-mail account. See Main Window menu->"Internet Options"->"E-mail Config". 4. Improved "Device health/SLA" dialog. Added a new field: "last time device restored communication after being down". 5. Improved "Extended Interface Info" and "Interfaces Availability..." dialogs. Added a new field: "last time interface restored to be up after after being down". 6. Fixed bug with "not opening combo-boxes" in local windows mode. The issue manifested itself in some dialogs when "Larger fonts" are chosen in Wndows "Control panel/Display" properties. CloudViewNMS Release v1.07c. November 29, 2013 1. CloudView Agent for Android phones/tablets is available. This allows companies to implement BYOD ("Bring Your Own Device") system and MDM (Mobile Devices Management) with CloudView NMS. The corresponding free Android app can be installed from Google Play. Please search for CloudViewNMS Agent. It can be installed on any Android phone/tablet. To join/connect to the CloudView NMS server, the app requests IP address/DNS name of the server and credentials which correspond to any of the users accounts on the server. The features include: 1.1. HTTPS over TLS/SSL industrial strength security standards supported. 1.2. Monitoring of Availabiity/health for multiple Android phones/tablets presented as icons on the CloudView Map. Up/Down events/alarms and corresponding actions (e-mails, etc...) are supported for Android devices like for any other CloudView monitored devices. 1.3. Convinient download (receiving) files from multiple phones/tables. 1.4. Convinient (in a couple of clicks) simultaneous upload (pushing) files to multiple phones/tablets. The pushed files appear under "/sdcard/CloudViewAgent" directory on the target Android device. 1.5. No limitation on the number of simultaneously connected mobile devices. 1.6. Capability to configure agent as android background service which starts and connects automatically when the device starts. 1.7 Capability to send/broadcast instant notification to one/multiple connected devices. In CloudView NMS Main Server find the Connected Agents tab/screen in the lower part of the main window. This screen is a gateway to all the above functions. This screen is also available as one of the "web-menu" shortcuts in the CloudView web interface. 2. Mib compile now allows '_' to be a part of a MIB variable name. This is against ASN1 rules but there are some legacy private MIBs which use '_' character in variables names. 3. When compiling new SNMP mibs (or extracting traps from the MIBs to be configured as new events), there is a requirement that the mib file must have extension '*.mib'. This requirement was not enforced in previous versions, which could lead to some issues. Starting from this version this requirement is enforced. 4. Monitoring web sites app now allows "https" prefix as well. Also the response time for website is calculated more accurately. 5. Fixed some seldom issue which could happen while using Chrome for HTML-based Web interface. The interface Web client could close suddenly and request another login (it was connected to some specifics of websocket implementation in Chrome) 6. In the "Add Device/Submap" screen, double-click on the tree "Branch" type node toggles the branch as expected (it used to give an error in previous versions). This is the official release of CloudView NMS v1.06c . October 09, 2013 Changes: 1. Right mouse click on a submap icon and selecting "Open as window" in the popup menu will open the submap view in a separate window. This will allow to see more than one submaps at once. (local GUI mode only). 2. Fixed some minor bugs when connection links are created via dragging and droppping devices or interfaces in left side tree. (local GUI mode only). 3. Now you can drag any device node in the left side tree and drop it in a submap node.(local GUI mode only). 4. Now you can drag any submap in the left side tree and drop it into another submap.(local GUI mode only). 5. Now you can create "connection links" by dragging one device into another on the current map (local GUI mode only). 6. Added capability to connect to remote computer via MMC from right mouse click menu. (Windows version, local GUI mode only). 7. Added capability to configure your own "Connect via..." tool. This way you can use a program of your choice (e.g. VNC) to connect to the remote device/computer. See device specific right mouse click menu->"Connect via..."->"Configure your 'Connect via"" item. (Windows version, local GUI mode only). 8. Fixed critical bug in historical traffic rate collecting for SNMP devices interfaces/ports. The bug manifestated itself only if history collection in SQL DB was enabled for some interface/port. 9. You can now set different configurations for "SNMP Up" and "SNMP Down" events (see "Events Configuration Dialog - Generic Events" and "Device Actions/Sounds - Generic Events " screens) In previous version these events were combined in one and as result you could not, for example, set different sounds for "SNMP Up" and "SNMP Down" events. 10.New Tool Bar Button functions: "Toggle Tree Pane ON/OFF","Toggle Lower Pane ON/OFF","Toggle Map Pane ON/OFF","Toggle Fullscreen ON/OFF", Zoom In/Zoom out for icons AND background image. (Local GUI only) 11.Fixed bug in the Events Log connected to events filtering severity combo-box. In previous versions though if filtered OK , it still allowed new events to be shown even if the severity did not correspond to the filter. 12.You can now rename maps via right mouse clck on the corresponding node in the tree pane.(Local GUI only) 13."Strict hierarchy" tree mode now can be set via "Main Window Menu"->"File"->"Hierarchical Tree Looks" (Local GUI only) 14."Connection Link" right-mouse-click menu now has a new item/function "Straighten Link Line". (Local GUI only) 15. Fixed bug connected to the main map window vertical scrolling (the bug existed in Windows version , local GUI only) This is the official release of CloudView NMS v1.05 . September 12, 2013 Changes: 1. Improved generic MIB variables monitoring app. (See right-mouse click on SNMP device : "Build Custom MIB Monitoring App" and "Results of Custom MIB Monitoring App" The app is used for monitoring MIB values and possibly issue alarms if certain threshold is violated. Now the issued alarms can be configured to obey "Events Correlation" algorithm. This significantly reduces number of unnecessary events. 2. Fixed bug resulted in wrong display of some screens and map view in Windows version. The bug manifested itself when "Medium" and "Larger" fonts were set as default windows "display scheme" (Control Panel->Display) 3. Font size now can be increased (for better readability) via "Main CloudView Window Menu"->Options->"Misc options" Dialog. 4. In windows version: fixed crash which could happen by right-mouse click in some screens 5. Fixed bug in FilesView Web page which is part of remote access Web GUI. The bug did not allow to go lower level directories. 6. Introduced CloudView NMS Agents. In many cases Agents are not needed. However sometimes managed devices cannot be accessed by CloudView NMS for the following reasons: a. There is a firewall between managed device and CloudView NMS computer. b. Managed devices do not have permanent IP Address (for example, IP Addresses are set via DHCP) d. Managed devices have NAT (Network Address Translation) IP Addresses and corresponding are hidden behind a router/firewall which is a common situation for corporate and home networks nowadays. e. You to need a convinient way to get a file from managed device/computer. In the above cases CloudView NMS agent is required to be installed on the managed devices. Currently we have Java-based agents that can be installed on any Windows/Linux/Unix computer. In the future we plan to add agents for Android phone/tablet and iPhone/iPad. Please see CloudView NMS Agent manual for more details. 7. Fixed bug in monitoring web sites. There could be situations when "Web Site Down" alarm was not issued. ====================================================== This is the official release of CloudView NMS v1.04b . August 20, 2013 Changes: 1. Fixed critical bug in "Options->Use Selected Device to Define a new Device Type" screen. This screen is used to add custom SNMP devices types to CloudView and compile corresponding 3-rd party MIBs. 2. MAC Addresses Table per switching port allows to see which devices are connected via this port. 3. Autodiscovery via SNMPv3 is now supported. 4. Events Correlation: we changed the default to "Do not use 'Events Correlation'". This feature was understood well by "Carrier" type customers, but it confused some "Enterprise" type customers. 5. For win32 version: removed dependency from some DLLs which created problems on some MS Windows configurations. 4. Cosmetic bug fixes. ====================================================== This is the official release of CloudView NMS v1.03 . July 02, 2013 Changes: 1. Added support for other platforms: Linux and Mac OS, see CloudViewJ manual on www.cloudviewnms.com . 2. Cosmetic bug fixes ======================================================