Pandora:Current development:New features & Changes

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This page is mean to show the progress of development and to have a "new features" text to use in future releases. Please, try to locate the item in the correct date and describe it. You could use the tags [SERVER] [CONSOLE] [AGENTS] [SYSTEM] [GLOBAL] to define category of feature.

Contents 1 January-February 2010 2 March - April 2010 3 May 2010 4 Post RC1 release

January-February 2010

• [CONSOLE] New diagnostic screen in console (Setup -> Diagnostic info).

• [CONSOLE] Split setup options in several new setup sub-screens.

• [CONSOLE] [SERVER] [SYSTEM] Added new mode for collect statistics not in real time, improving performance. This needs several important modifications in console and server. New fields and tables added. This allow to have up to 5000 agents in the same system, without performance problems viewing tactical views as group view, server or tactical.

• [CONSOLE] New title styles applied to all pages in WEB console.

• [CONSOLE] New group screen.

• [CONSOLE] Modified tactical view: Events show only pending, and over the server status. Added global health bar.

• [SERVER] Events are now "auto-validated" when a more important event on the same module is displayed or event disapear. This allow to have a "event view" with current events, not historical. To see historical, just select "all events" instead non-validated events.

• [SERVER] Modified main loop to do internal tasks more eficiently.

• [SYSTEM] Pandora DB improvement to do several tasks progresively, using many steps, avoiding database locks.

• [SYSTEM] Added several new indexes and removed some: Important performance increase!.

• [SERVER] [CONSOLE] Added support for SNMP v3.

• [SYSTEM] [SERVER] [CONSOLE] Added support for GeoIP in Recon server.

• [SYSTEM] [SERVER] [CONSOLE] Added support for OpenStreetmaps in Pandora FMS.

• [CONSOLE] Added support for batch policy install in console using a new Javascript control.

• [CONSOLE] Added timezone (global) support for the GUI. This will show the data timestamps according your timezone. Planned to implement timezone also per each user.

• [CONSOLE] New Database Main info screen, about performance and important values of Database, including last time of maintance script.

• [SYSTEM] [CONSOLE] [SERVER] Support for new Log4x information type (logs).

• [CONSOLE] New Enterprise ACL system, to implement low-level access to each page/section of Pandora FMS console.

• [CONSOLE] New group view, replacing old one.

• [SYSTEM] [CONSOLE] [SERVER] Support for realtime/batch statistics mode, reporting general stats per group and per server. This allow a huge performance in GUI user-response time for big environments.

• [SERVER] Rewritten main server scheduler, incrementing the performance.

• [SERVER] New self-monitoring option for the server.

• [SERVER] New alert type: onChange. Implemented to be able to launch an alert on a data value change (string or numeric).

• [CONSOLE] Added support to actions and templates to edit/show it's group, in order to implement efectively ACL.

• [CONSOLE] New metaconsole mode. This allow to operate several -independent- Pandora FMS from a single console, reviewing it's data on a centralized, summarized way, allowing also a simple "delegated" authentication. With this model, you can have an "array" of Pandora Fms, without limits of managed devices (thousands).

March - April 2010

• [CONSOLE] Metaconsole upgrade to support sync of users, policies and modules.

• [CONSOLE] Complete rewrite of the visual console editor. New code from scratch, producing a new, pure Javascript code much more usable than the old one.

• [CONSOLE] New module group editor.

• [CONSOLE] Partial rewrite of old code for visualization/edition of alerts, solving several problems from the past, mostly on performance issues.

• [CONSOLE] New translation (Japanese) for Help files, and console texts for 3.0/3.1

• [SERVER] Pandora_manage.pl: New tool to do things in Pandora (system wide) from the command line.

• [SERVER] pandora_db.pl: Added support to new purge parameters for event, audits, snmp traps, string data and gis data. Added new section to clean orphaned information (using an application -implemented database referencial integrity model).

• [SERVER] Several new command line tools for GIS: gpx2pandora_agent_data.pl, and other server tools: panora_remoteconfig.pl

• [SERVER] New feature (Enterprise): Service monitoring, based on a weighted ponderation of a list of individual monitors. This will allow to create new monitors based on the dynamic sum of a list of items depending of it's status.

• [UNIX AGENTS] Working on new plugins for the unix agent, for process detection, filesystem status and opened tcp port checking using a middle layer avoiding performance degradation.

• [WIN AGENTS] Supported Win2008 R2, Vista and Windows 7.

• [WIN AGENTS] Added support for individual timeout in each module.

• [WIN AGENTS] Added support Agent plugins.

• [CONSOLE] New reporting tool. Added 4 ITIL KPI's, a custom SQL report (based on SQL entered by user), a used-defined data report (based on serialized data in module information), better event/alert listings. Added a wizard for the enterprise. Added a custom page design, incluiding header and footer for enterprise customers. Updated PDF reporting with a fancy design.

• [CONSOLE] Group "All/Any" is now better managed.

May 2010

• [CONSOLE] Dashboard now can display a report inside a widget. Added a new widget which contains external/internal HTML contents.

• [CONSOLE] A LOT of bug fixes.

• [DOC] Japanese translation for documentation is in progress !

• [UNIX AGENTS] OS Abstraction layer to access process and filesystem information. New specific modules for unix plattforms.

Post RC1 release

• [CONSOLE] Modified Algorith for Draw long-term graphs. This increases dramatically the performance on graphs.

• [CONSOLE] Added a lot of new functions to the Pandora FMS API.

• [SERVER] All the functionality of the Pandora FMS API is now implemented by the CLI too.