NetXMS Support Forum

I have downloaded and installed the latest version (1.1.10) with the intention of running it instead of Micrsoft's System Center Essentials. It is running on Windows 2008 R2 and uses SQL 2008R2 (on a separate server) as the database engine. I have managed to get it to install eventually although not without some problems. The main one being that no matter what I did it would not connect to the database. There is no firewall between the servers and they are both on the same subnet so no routing issues. I could telnet to the SQL port and I could also run SQL Management Studio and connect to the database that NetXMS was using with the same account  but still NetXMS said "loging failed". I tried Windows authentication and SQL authentication but NetXMS would not login. It worked fine when I used ODBC (which had no problem connecting using the same credentials) so I guess there is a compatibility problem somewhere.

Anyway, having got it connected I would have expected to see it discovering my network but it has found almost nothing. It did find one switch straight away and from that extracted various subnets. However, there has been nothing since apart from a couple of servers (which is strange). Why should it find them and not some others. They are all running the same OS. Not one device in over an hour apart from them. I thought I might add something manually and the manual does suggest this can be done using the console and the "Add node" option under "Tools". However, there is no such option in the console under "Tools" and I can't find any "Add Node" option anywhere else either.

I thought it might be a permissions thing as I noticed there was an "Access Control" option under properties. I also noticed that there was an "Inherit access rights from parent object(s)" tick box. This is ticked for "Entire Network" but the objects underneath it don't inherit anything. Indeed when I tried this further down they don't inherit anything either.

There were quite a few more things that either didn't work or were significantly different from the manual which leads me to the question that I wanted to ask. Is 1.1.10 the latest working version or is it a beta release? I see it described as a development version on the download page but I see announcements suggesting it has just been released as a fully working version so I am confused about its status. If it is not a production version, which version is the latest working version?

Best wishes....
Colin Bruce

hi colin,

the latest stable release is 10.0.13 and the dev release or beta if you want to call it is 1.1.10.
the beta release is working rather fine and the only beta app i have ever used is the netxms.
1.1.10 has many improvements that the stable release does not have, improvements that i have necessary and useful.
i can't answers all the technical questions you asked due to the fact that i believe that they will well answered by the guy who is developing this awesome application.

Kind Regards,
Lindeamon

Dear Lindeamon,

That's great thanks. I noticed there was an announcement today about a new version (1.2 I think) so I'll give that a try just now.

Best wishes....
Colin

Hi!

Documentation on web site is quite outdated and for 1.0.x branch. Since today 1.0.x version superseded completely by version 1.2.0. We are in progress of moving all documentation to wiki: http://wiki.netxms.org. After some time it will contain up-to-date documentation for current version.

For adding node in new version, you should select container where you want to create it, right click on it, and select "create node".

Network discovery is off by default, you should turn it on via Configuration -> Network discovery menu. Please note that if you are using passive discovery mode, NetXMS should have SNMP access to network devices to get correct results. Alternatively, you can use active discovery, when NetXMS server just pings all IP addresses in given range and adds anything which responds (unless you define discovery filters).

Best regards,
Victor