NetXMS Support Forum

Hi,

I've installed NetXMS 2.0-M4 on CentOS 6.6 and have some feedback / issues - hope this helps.

Compared to release 1.2.17 I find it not so user-friendly to have to create nodes in the "Infrastructure Services" tree to force nodes discovered. That's currently the only way I found to force the discovery of some nodes. But then I cannot delete the node from the "Infrastructure Services" otherwise it disappears from the global "Network". Is there a way to proceed? I think there was a way to do it in a user-friendly way in 1.2.X. "Create Node", define IP and something like "Ping" or "Resolve". Why not available anymore?

Second, Many of my nodes have several IP addresses on a single NIC (alias / virtual IP). NetXMS 2.0-M4 does not seems to manage this well. Sometimes, it finds the physical IP, sometimes the virtual and sometimes the node hostname. Whatever it takes, it does not seem to be possible to harmonize the display and get hostname displayed.

Also, in 1.2.x the cluster related features were not optimal but seemed to work. Here as the alias / virtual IP are not well handled, it is not usable.

Also, when defining the "networks" of the cluster, if you enter an ip address that you then change, your network is automatically increased by one!!!

I regularly get put up with "An internal error occurred during "Get DCI values for node <IP Addr>", java.lang.NullPointerException.

In Management Console (not the Web based), the "Cluster" panel in "Object Details", the window showing the schematic of the cluster infrastructure is not properly sized. The bottom info about resources ownership is not displayed entirely and there is no roll bar. If you resize window then things appear.

For some strange reason, I had the "MTU" column filled in in the "Interfaces" panel of "Object details" for some Agent/SNMP enabled nodes but not all. And for those, the aliases where found. But that was under NetXMS 2.0-M2. The other columns seem to be correctly filled up.

Also in "Entire Network" nodes are discovered and labeled with an IP address that is not related to the network under which they are reported. Those nodes have an IP address in this network. But one would expect to get the node name as label or the IP address related to the network under which it is listed.
For example, a node has an IP address 172.10.25.11 and the virtual IP of that interface (cluster resource) is 172.10.25.10. That same node as another interface on 10.10.0.11 and the virtual IP for that side is 10.10.0.10. Well the node is then discovered as 172.10.25.10 under the network 10.10.0.0/24 and the Interfaces under "Object Details" show only the IP 172.10.25.11 and 10.10.0.11 not the virtual ones while they are used somehow for the labeling.

Do you have a clean way to empty the DB so that I can restart discovery from scratch and see if it helps?
That does not seem to be feasible through nxdbmgr tool.

Many thanks
Best regards,

Jdamien

"In Management Console (not the Web based), the "Cluster" panel in "Object Details", the window showing the schematic of the cluster infrastructure is not properly sized. The bottom info about resources ownership is not displayed entirely and there is no roll bar. If you resize window then things appear."

Note, I experience this issue also in NXMC web-based GUI