Release Notes
PANDORA FMS 7.0 NG 757

RELEASE757

September 2021

These release notes
describe new features,
improvements and fixedissues in Pandora FMS NG
757. They also provide
information about
upgrades and describe
some workarounds for
known issues.
For more information
on previous versions,visit the release notes
section on our website.
For information aboutminimum system
requirements, visit
the installation
section in our official
documentation.

VERSION UPDATE••••

How to update Pandora FMS
New features and improvements
Known changes and limitations
Fixed vulnerabilities••••Feature extinction
Changes and improvements
Bug fixed
Legal information

New features and Improvements
Internal Metaconsole messaging system.
A messaging system has been implemented into the Metaconsole, which now
allows to see, similarly to nodes, update notices, messages from other users andsystem notes.

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How to update
Pandora FMS
There are several ways
to update Pandora FMS
console:Through Update
Manager, in Pandora
FMS console itself,
automatically (it requires
console internet connection).
Through Update
Manager, in Pandora FMS
console itself, manually,
through OUM update files.

New documentation in Russian
Although the translation is not 100% completed, we’re proud to say that Pandora
FMS official documentation is already in five languages: Spanish, English, French,
Japanese and now… Russian!

curl -Ls https://pfms.me/agent-deploy | bash

By manually installing
RPM packages andlater updating the console
through the web interface.

The server will have tobe manually updated
through RPM or tarball
packages.
You may find more
information about
Pandora FMS downloads on our website:

OpenSource
version packages.
Enterprise version
packages.

Fixed Vulnerabilities
In this release, an issue that allowed scripts to be inserted and run using the FileManager (Collections) function has been fixed.
Case#

GitLab ##7801

Description
File execution using File Manager.

Feature Extinction
No features have been removed.

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Changes andimprovements

Changes and improvements
Case#

GitLab #Description

N/A#7883

Allow the use of patches (.oum) in Opensource console.

N/A

#7882

Patch system optimization using Update Manager Offline.

N/A

#7786

Improved Metaconsole policy agent synchronization.

#11428#7073

Modified the VmWare plugin to add the option to not to update IP addresses.

#11184#6911

Active Directory monitoring adapted to Windows environments in Spanish.

N/A

#4759

SSL compatibility and certificates to protect MySQL connections.

#11172#6885

Added search filter in Monitor Detail with the rule "NOT".

#9234

#5100

MongoDB plugin update.

N/A

#4546

Modified Cisco Plugin to allow logging in for devices.

N/A

#7612

Implemented the messaging system in Metaconsole.

11346

#7036

Added IP column in event view.

#4702

#2592

FTP plugin now supports SFTP.

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Case#GitLab #Description

10121

5981

Fixed bug in web module execution with "cron" configured.

N/A

7315

Fixed bug in the group selector in event alerts. It did not appear sorted by recursion.

N/A

7352

Fixed error in module filter inside the "label view".

N/A

7366

Fixed bug in massive operations, tag modification/addition in policy module edition.

N/A

7387

Fixed visual bug in "netflow live view".

N/A7392

Added cron configuration warning in Discovery, even if you remove the warning.

N/A7397

Fixed visual bug in item "Module graph" within visual consoles.

N/A7429

Fixed bug in import/export of policies with inventory modules.

N/A

7437

Fixed bug in Metaconsole widget “Agent WUX transaction” that could not find theWUX transaction.

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Case#GitLab #Description

N/A7440

Fixed visual bug in Metaconsole dashboards, where the "Group status" did not show
the colors correctly.

N/A7441

Fixed bug in Metaconsole dashboards, item "Tree view" where uninitialized modules
were not included.

N/A7442

Solved bug in Metaconsole dashboards, in the widget "Wux transaction", where theWUX transaction was not found.

N/A

7443

Fixed bug in dashboard, both in Metaconsole and node, widget "Top N events", whereno information was shown.

N/A

7445

Fixed bug generated when storing string data in "Alert fired" events.

N/A7447

Fixed bug of user with permissions to access policies, specific groups assigned, that
could not see policies with group "All".

11802

7489

Fixed visual bug where outdated icons appeared on dashboards.

N/A

7491

Fixed visual failure in the servers view where the server image was not displayedcorrectly.

11853

7531

Fixed bug where the side menu was not hidden correctly.

11853

7532

Modified tag performance in the last events widget, where when more than 1 tag wasconfigured, instead of searching with "OR", it was done with "AND".

11855

7534

Fixed bug in log viewer when adding "-" in the name.

N/A

7537

Solved transaction status bug, in transactional maps, where it always showed OKstatus.

11882

7542

Fixed bug in the action search engine of an alert.

11772

7543

Fixed visual bug in "Command Snapshot view" if the dark theme is set on the console.

N/A

7563

Fixed bug in group icon dynamic loading in agent creation.

N/A

7564

Fixed bug in the general policy search engine.

N/A

7566

Fixed bug by which "Data configuration" did not appear if the module name had aspace at the end of the line.

11898

7568

Fixed visual bugs in visual consoles, the lines could not be moved like any item andthe size of event graphics was reduced.

11928

7581

Fixed bug referring to service SLA configuration where the option to configure the"SLA Limit" did not appear.

N/A

7589

Fixed bug when setting dark theme, where this theme was only set in some consolemenus.

N/A

7592

Fixed bug in the network component editing menu, where the "Tcp Send" box wasauto-completed.

N/A

7613

Fixed bug in new installations where it did not allow to complete the "Timezone setup"of the initial form.

N/A

7615

Fixed alert command bug where if you set the "hide" option it would not hide the field.

N/A7619

Fixed bug in snmp walk parameter modification of a module that totally changed themodule's configuration.

N/A

7633

Fixed visual bug in custom graph group selector.

N/A

7642

Fixed syntax error in report and template “SQL horizontal bar graph” item.

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Case#GitLab #Description

N/A

7648

Fixed visual bug where HTML entities appeared on behalf of Integria ticket createdfrom Pandora FMS.

N/A

7659

Fixed writing errors in correlated alerts.

N/A

7666

Fixed bug in the relationship boxes of a node in network maps.

12011

7668

Fixed bug in tags within the last events widget of the dashboards where the selected
events were not loaded.

12038

7676

Fixed SQL error in users with administrator profile in the “Users connected” view.

N/A

7689

Fixed paging bug in users view.

N/A

7692

Fixed visual bug in the owner change selector in the Metaconsole event modalwindow.

N/A

7702Fixed visual bug in agent view, agent status image.

N/A7723

Fixed bug that showed error 500 when creating services without assigning an agent.

N/A7725

Fixed bug where SLA items were duplicated.

N/A

7728

Fixed visual bugs when creating/editing correlated alerts.

N/A

7738

Fixed bug in Pandora FMS cloud where the password change notification led to anerror screen.

N/A

7747

Fixed bug that did not allow downloading plugins.

N/A7755

Fixed visual bug that showed the font with a very small size in the email.

N/A

7758

Fixed warning log of pandora_server.error referring to snmpserver.

N/A

7767

Fixed bug when assigning secondary groups to an agent.

11981

7773

Fixed bug in tomcat plugin when it has only one connector.

N/A

7805

Fixed bug referring to the status of pandora_server.

N/A

7814

Fixed bug when selecting independent virtual machines in Discovery> Azure.

12139

7816

Fixed bug in which historical events were not obtained in the Metaconsole.

N/A

7817

Fixed visual bug that did not completely show the license entry window.

N/A7819

Fixed bug in the report view when classifying items.

N/A

7823

Fixed bug in the "Interface view" where the value of the "Last data" field was shownerroneously.

N/A

7832

Fixed bug by which users created in Metaconsole could not log into nodes.

N/A

7852

Fixed bug that checked the "memory_limit" of the file "php.ini"

N/A

7853

Fixed bug where there were LDAP authentication errors.

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Bug fixes

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Case#GitLab #Description

N/A

7854

Fixed console warning where the memory value was not detected correctly.

12235

7856

Fixed ticket creation bug in Integria through integration with Pandora FMS.

12238

7857

Fixed visual error in Odometer on dashboards.

N/A

7859

Fixed bug in IPAM where the ping action was not executed correctly.

N/A

7860

Fixed bug where the pandora_ha service did not exclude the Main Frame server fromthe check.

12249

7866

Fixed bug in which the value of the _snmp_f1_ macro was not collected.

12015

7876

Fixed visual bug where "webserver string" data could not be displayed in 101.

N/A

7878

Fixed problem calling the API from Metaconsole to node.

12282
12271

7880

Fixed bug where the “Command center” was not sending collections to nodes.

N/A

7881

Fixed command bug instead of actions in SNMP alerts.

N/A

7884

Fixed bug that did not allow to create items in Metaconsole visual consoles.

12305

7894

Fixed bug in Agent/Module widget where modules were not shown.

N/A

7907

Fixed Metaconsole "Command center" bug where the backup action did not work
properly.

N/A

7908

Fixed visual error of the console's main menu where the text appeared misplaced.

N/A

7909

Fixed bug where the "Data" field where the string module values were not shown insome console views.

N/A

7913

Fixed bug in "Command center" where dates were not synchronized.

N/A

7915

Fixed bug in "custom field" filter in inventory reports.

N/A

7920

Fixed bug in managing local users in Metaconsole.

N/A

7940

Fixed bugs in open version report items.

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Documentation
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Documentation update
Case#GitLab #DescriptionN/A7314

Updated remote modules with usage examples in case of the special character ".

N/A

7967

Added alert correlation to new Metaconsole menu.

N/A

7975

Fixed Metaconsole alert creation through Wizard.

N/A

7885

Correct general report sorting.

N/A

7737

Deleted notice of non-defined font in recently installed Pandora FMS.

N/A

7984

Fixed ACL failure in API.

N/A

7632

Fixed drop error in event alerts.

N/A

7444

Fixed Metaconsole alert report error.

N/A

7981

Fixed deletion error in some modules from the Metaconsole.

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