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Hi all!

We finally published NetXMS version 4.0. There are lot of new features, changes and improvements, some are visible, some are under the hood. Unfortunately we didn't finish planned changes to UI, so new UI is available as preview alongside old one, and we plan to finalize it during following patch releases.

There are few changes that may cause compatibility issues when migrating from 3.x:

1. Incompatible attributes in NXSL class "DCI": "instance" now refers to instance value (as in {instance} macro), not instance name as before. Instance name can be accessed via attribute "instanceName".
2. Operators print and println in NXSL are now functions, so arguments should be enclosed in brackets as usual for function call.

Below is full change log:

- Two-factor authentication for users
- SMTP implemented as a notification channel and e-mail actions replaced by notification actions
- Added 'DefaultNotificationChannel.SMTP.Html' and 'DefaultNotificationChannel.SMTP.Text' server configuration parametes for default SMTP channel names used by internal functions
- Removed lock for user management view
- Strings "true" and "false" interpreted as boolean values when accessing custom attributes from NXSL
- Database manager can create database and database user before database schema initialization
- OPC UA subagent moved to core product
- Added option to manually create subnet
- Separately configurable timeouts for agent's external parameters and external command execution
- Zoning is enabled by default
- Value of any type can be used as boolean in NXSL
- NXSL operator "in" works for strings and hash maps
- Single-quoted strings in NXSL (without escape characters)
- Multiline string constants in NXSL
- Operators "print" and "println" in NXSL converted to functions
- New methods "contains" and "remove" for NXSL hash maps
- Improved string manipulation functions in NXSL
- Integer division operator in NXSL
- Multi-OID SNMP requests in NXSL
- Macros can be used in object comments
- New threshold type "absolute deviation"
- Added option for L2 network maps to create links using physical links
- Configurable HTTP request method and request data in web service definitions
- Polling intervals can be overridden on object level via custom attributes
- Implemented DCI search on container
- Improved Web API
- Improved SSH subagent
- Inherited object access rights visible in object properties in UI
- Correlated events can be processed in event processing policy
- Escalation level for responsible users
- Structured alarm filter in UI
- Log parser debug output only controlled by debug level for tag logwatch.parser (parser option "trace" is deprectated)
- Added support for multi-select fields in report execution forms
- Improved package deployment via agents
- New event template option "hide from event monitor"
- Reporting server uses XLSX format instead of XLS
- Fixed small isues in object custom attribute inheritance
- Fixed issues:
   NX-1 (New threshold type: absolute deviation)
   NX-251 (Service check for pop3s and smtps)
   NX-436 (Add an option to secure syslog server)
   NX-1354 (Object ACL editor should not allow empty list of users without "inherit access rights" checkbox)
   NX-1382 (NXSL '$dci->instance' has 'instance-name' value)
   NX-1452 (User filter for Process.Count parameter)
   NX-1468 (Status from network map objects is not propagated to map groups)
   NX-1487 (Grace period for automatic template removal)
   NX-1611 (Macro expansion in object comments)
   NX-1660 (Generate event on ICMP status poll failure)
   NX-1673 (DCI Performance tab - {instance-name} doesn't work)
   NX-1698 (SNMP query for printer status string is unreadable)
   NX-1766 (File transfer implementation issues)
   NX-1776 (Forbid deletion of events that are used in thresholds or policies)
   NX-1822 (DCI should stay disabled, if it stops getting discovered by instance discovery and gets discovered again)
   NX-1829 (Misleading error message, when trying to rename protected image in image library)
   NX-1838 (Files in file delivery policy should be exported as part of configuration export)
   NX-1859 (Implement two-factor authentication in NetXMS server)
   NX-1923 (Enforce unique event names)
   NX-1972 (Add extended version of System.Processes table having info on CPU and memory consumption per process)
   NX-2013 (Add ability to send audit log to syslog in UTF-8)
   NX-2025 (Add macro expansion in timer delay and snooze time fields in EPP action properties)
   NX-2062 (Add option to specify community string in CreateSNMPTransport)
   NX-2066 (Add more parameters to events created on server within Windows Event Log synchronization)
   NX-2068 (Rename column "check_responce" in table network_services to "check_response")
   NX-2069 (Collect hardware information about HDD/SSD and network cards on Linux)
   NX-2095 (Add option to access node hardware inventory information from NXSL)
   NX-2098 (New action type "Execute command on remote node via ssh")
   NX-2100 (Add "support level" or "escalation" value to Responsible persons)
   NX-2111 (Add ability to configure web service proxy in node properties)
   NX-2167 (Add context to SYS_SCRIPT_ERROR event)
   NX-2173 (File integrity monitoring)
   NX-2174 (Periodically check telegram API if it's operable)
   NX-2178 (Configurable encoding for SNMP)
   NX-2179 (Configurable encoding for syslog)
   NX-2184 (Notification channels SMTPS support)
   NX-2185 (Certificate pinning for agent tunnels)
   NX-2189 (Typo when interfaces are removed during polling)
   NX-2190 (Add NXSL function that will convert numeric value to human-readable form with multipliers)
   NX-2191 (Ignore node unreachable state when performing manual configuration poll)
   NX-2194 (Add option to access node software inventory information from NXSL)
   NX-2195 (DB Checker inefficiencies with IsDciExists)
   NX-2198 (Alternative data source for agent parameters Hardware.System.* on Linux)
   NX-2199 (Agent parameters to get certificate information from file)
   NX-2200 (Remove length limit on command in NXSL method Node::executeSSHCommand)
   NX-2204 (Agent not recognizing Windows 11)
   NX-2205 (Generate event if LDAP sync failed)
   NX-2207 (Implement System.OS metrics for Linux, AIX, FreeBSD and Solaris)
   NX-2208 (Zone UIN being reused)

Best regards,
Victor

Thanks for the great work all.  I notice NPI files aren't published for the agent binaries, are they no longer needed to upload a package for deployment?

No, NPI files are no longer needed. Package manager deduces package type from file name, and you can adjust it during import if detection went wrong.

Best regards,
Victor

First of all, thanks for the great work for this version.

I have upgraded the netxms-server from 3.9.420-1 to 4.0.2088-1.  And web console also upgraded,  but can not login because of network protocol mismatch error.

Try stopping Tomcat and deleting work catalog, then redeploying .war file again.

thank you for all the great job. i have been waiting for this release for a long time.
U R The Best

Quote from: Filipp Sudanov on February 09, 2022, 02:28:53 PM
Try stopping Tomcat and deleting work catalog, then redeploying .war file again.

Cleaned folders on tomcat work Catalina folder and worked normally, thanks.

Since update to version 4.0 (include nxdbmgr upgrade) there will be the messages shown in the attachment within consolewindow.
My environment is debian with mariadb installed.
Currently netxms is compiled from source with --with-mariadb --with-mariadb-compat-headers.
Best regards and thanks for Your software
Georg

Could you enable SQL trace for some time (this will generate lot of records in log)? Then it will be possible to see all bindings for this query.

You can turn it on while server is running with the following commands in debug console:
debug sql on
debug db.query 9

and to turn back off:
debug sql off
debug db.query -1

Best regards,
Victor

We just uploaded patched version of UI (version 4.0.2111).

Best regards,
Victor

Hello

After upgrading server to 4.0.2151 i get alot of alarms "Node is unreachable by ICMP". They resolve after some time and when pinging node from server, ping is normal.

Also in alarms tab its not possible to filter by "Outstanding" is that normal?

Hello,

Running Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS and i can't find any 4.0 packages released, yet. Does that mean you guys are dropping Xenial support?

Hi,

General support for Ubuntu 16 ended in 2021, so we decide to exclude it from general release. Packages may still be made available if there will be request from customers with valid support contract (but we didn't get any yet).

Best regards,
Victor

Thanks! Kind of couldn't find that info so i had to ask.

Hi,
Nice new look and feel !
just 1 question, ho do you change the expected state of a interface ? --> old version was with right klick on the interface and change the expected state..
with version 4 this option is gone ?...