Release Notes
PANDORA FMS NG 763 RRR

VERSION UPDATERELEASE763
June 2022

These release notes
describe new features,
improvements and fixedissues in Pandora FMS
NG 763 RRR. They also
provide information
about improvements anddescribe 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.

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New features and improvements
How to update Pandora FMS
Known changes and limitations
Fixed vulnerabilities•••

Changes and improvements•

Legal information

Bug fixedDocumentation update

Feature extinction

Version NG 763 RRRThis is a minor update with new features. The latest high-stability version isPandora FMS 762 AKIRA LTS (Long Term Support). Regular versions (RRR) aremonthly versions that cover many changes and new features.
They’re perfect for those users that need to be up-to-date with the latest news
and are not afraid of finding some rough edge. LTS versions are oriented towards
consolidating all the changes from RRR versions and offering maximum stability.

New features and improvements
OS Quick Report

A new widget has been added to the dashboards, “OS Quick Report”. With thiswidget you may get a table that will perform a counting by the different operating
systems that you’re monitoring

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Sunburst, new service representation

How to update
Pandora FMS

The possibility of a new service representation has been added. This will be acentralized view where you may see the details of the tree node through a tooltip
when hovering with the cursor.

There are several ways
to update Pandora FMS
console:Through Update
Manager, in Pandora
FMS console itself,automatically (it requires
console internetconnection).
Through Update
Manager, in Pandora FMS
console itself, manually,
through OUM update files.
By manually installing
packages (rpm, deb...) andlater updating the console
through the web interface.
The server will have to
be manually updated
through RPM or tarball
packages.

New service evaluation option

A new token has been added to be able to choose which services are recursively
calculated and which ones are uniquely evaluated with a separate interval toimprove the thread load of the service status calculation.

You can find more
information about
Pandora FMS downloads
on our website:
OpenSource version
packages.
Enterprise version
packages.
For detailed informationand the steps to follow
to update each item,
classified by operating
systems, go to our Wiki

PLUGIN - ENTERPRISE

New plugin Azure Storage

With this plugin you may monitor a storage account and retrieve data from it suchas the number of transactions, capacity or latency used by azure to process asuccessful request.
See this plugin in the library >PLUGIN - ENTERPRISE

New plugin Azure SQLWith this plugin you may retrieve performance and connectivity data from an Azure
SQL database such as: CPU used, failed, successful connections or firewall blocks.
See this plugin in the library >pag. 2

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Other resources
for your interest
Documentation of
Pandora FMS online
Plugin Library
Pandora FMS official
technical support

PLUGIN - OPEN

New plugin Gluster fs

With this plugin you may obtain the statistics from each volume and the bricks ofa gluster fs environment, some of the data you may see are full disk, Ordblks orSmblks.
See this plugin in the library >Known changes and limitations
Warp Update
The on-line update system is renamed from Update Manager to Warp Update.

Event Replication (Command center)
The event replication system in the Command Center (Metaconsole) has been
removed. Now from the Command Center you will work with the events of eachnode without replicating them, which ensures greater fluidity when working withevents and ensures higher scalability. The change is transparent when migratingversions and restarting servers.

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Feature extinction
Event replication to Metaconsole has been removed. Queries will be made when
event display is necessary in order to improve Metaconsole performance.

Changes and improvements

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Support #GitLab #Description

13033

8661/8675

Refactored Command Center merger synchronization to include autoconfiguration
mechanisms

12134

7926

Added token to change service evaluation performance

N/A9032

Visual enhancement on the event view when the "event name" field is very long

N/A9031

Change the display of advanced event search options to align horizontally

N/A

9030

Changed the height of the severity filter event display

N/A

9000

Update Manager visual changes

N/A

8912

Improved performance in retrieving event alerts

N/A

8896

Added more default monitoring on equipment detections using Discovery or Satellite
network checks

N/A

8860

Improved SNMP wizard for dynamic elements

N/A

8838

Uploaded the Tuser user field to be able to create users with up to 255 characters

N/A

8730

Changed version check between console and server so as not to launch notification if
it is in the same major version

13173

8690

Added trap management via pandora_db

N/A

7348

Modified MySQL default settings for better service optimization

N/A

8587

Created new Sunburst service representation in Pandora FMS

N/A

9086

Eliminated event replication

N/A

9041

Unified styles in input-type controls

N/A

8767

Added the ability to disable recovery in alerts

N/A

8537

Added azure monitoring improvements using a new agent plugin

N/A

9004

Changed the Metaconsole footer to be exactly the same as that of the node

N/A

8999

Changed default filters in Metaconsole mass operations to improve loading
performance in the first instance

N/A

8882

Added warning message when loading agents using CSV that warns that it is only forloading empty agents without monitoring

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Changes andimprovements

Support #GitLab #Description

N/A

8806

Added pagination in inventory view

13221

8723

Built-in the possibility in the Metaconsole to disable the "realtime stats" for the
deployment of leaves in the service trees so as not to show the count and thus
improve the performance in its deployment

12225

7850

Added search engine for agents in the report wizards

12115

7757

Added TIP in the service trees where parents appear directly above the service to be
consulted through a mouseover

N/A

9038

Modified the filter in the module view to leave basic filtering visible and add the rest
as advanced parameters

N/A

9021

Added cascading protection control so as not to generate loops when the child of one
parent is in turn the father of the other.

N/A

8928

Created new OS Quick Report widget to display a table of agents by operating system

127648657

Added mass network creation in Supernet Config in IPAM

N/A

8153

Implemented extended event field display in reports

N/A

7811

Created a token in collection management to be able to recreate directories within, as
well as a button to be able to recreate all of them

9442

5385

Added module_type log option to the Advanced log parser plugin

Bug fixes

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Support #GitLab #Description

13760

9137

Fixed NCM bug where the same template could not be used in multiple agentssimultaneously

N/A

9134

Added the missing "disabled" field in the tautoconfig table

N/A

9067

Fixed links from Pandora FMS console notification system

N/A

9034

Fixed system event naming as "SNMP Alerts" in tactical view

13668

9026

Solved the search engine within the button to add actions on SNMP alerts

N/A

9022

Fixed the update history when doing it online

N/A

8994

Fixed correlation server performance degradation

13608

8971

Fixed custom threshold definition in Oracle Database plugin

13499

8899

Fixed entering passwords with special characters for history databases

N/A

8897

Solved the appearance of entities within the name of the dashboards with special
characters

N/A

8888

Fixed rotation in visual consoles in mobile view

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Bug fixes

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Support #GitLab #Description

13422

8871

Fixed data processing with datalist by having to enable the option "use_xml_timstamp
0"

N/A

8861

Fixed the erroneous conversion of Hex-String data to String in the SNMP wizard

N/A

8857

Fixed the API call new_agent when performed from the Metaconsole

N/A

8856

Fixed component creation using API in metaconsole

13377

8798

Fixed the monitoring of services that include a stress mark on Windows systems

13365

8758

Solved the translation of strings when doing it on the word Login

13211

8643

Fixed shortcut creation in the Windows menu in the software agent installation

N/A

8630

Fixed the message when you bind a node to a Metaconsole when this one is notregistered in the Update Manager

13067

8514

Fixed the addition of the prefix established in the Oracle Discovery tasks so that themodules are not stepped on if you point two tasks to the same agent

N/A

8061

Fixed netflow display in dark mode

13158

9116

Fixed new bugs in local component creation and their subsequent use in policies

N/A

9115/8803

N/A

9108

Fixed the use of the Odometer widget in Pandora FMS OpenSource version

N/A

9078

Fixed critical state drawing for module charts

N/A

9077

Fixed error 500 when accessing the Wizard section in the Metaconsole

N/A

9074

Fixed the online installer in the gotty installation

13652

9060

Fixed ACL error when using mass module operations

N/A

9036

Fixed visual errors in the inventory view

N/A

9035

Changed the agent inventory tab where it should not appear in display mode if it has
no inventory

13732

9011

Fixed permission failures on scheduled shutdowns

N/A

8970

Corrected the legend in SQL graphs using report templates

N/A

8967

Fixed visual error in dataserver module creation

13577

8958

Removed "none" option in action creation or edition to include a command

13576

8952

Removed the google check in the installation script

N/A

8892

Fixed Top-N widget visual error in dashboards

N/A

8890

Fixed visual error of recognition tasks with many elements

N/A

8872

Fixed visual bug in the service maps in the Metaconsole when not being able to accessany of its instances

Fixed the use of the Advanced module_plugin

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Bug fixes

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Support #GitLab #Description

N/A8853

Fixed error messages on certain pandora_manage.pl calls

N/A

8844

Fixed delete group call using CLI in Metaconsole

N/A8843

Fixed disable group call using CLI in the Metaconsole

N/A8822

Fixed redirection for new suggestions from Pandora FMS console links

N/A8766

Fixed errors when adding event comments with line breaks

13359

8751

Fixed the appearance of entities in the name of agents that have been created using
API calls

13341

8737

Solved the loss of event filtering by switching to full screen

N/A

8721

Fixed the agent browser in visual consoles

13294

8710

Fixed the box size to delete alerts using mass operations

N/A

8709

Increased the character limit to enter in the Update Manager URL field

N/A

8708

Fixed disabled alert display within Pandora FMS mobile view

N/A

8660

Solved that when adding a group to a policy, it did not affect its not-applied state13206

8647

Fixed the faulty creation of the field description in a plugin server module in policy
application

N/A

8641

Fixed visual styles in HA server view

N/A

8636

Fixed visual error of triggered alerts in correlation alerts

N/A

8632

Modified recursion button location in agent view filtering

N/A

8626

Fixed visual error when re-enabling an alert in correlation alerts

N/A

8582

Added zoom on "radial dynamic" maps

N/A

9040

Fixed visual errors in the agent/alert view

N/A

9037

Fixed visual bug in the agent detail view

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Documentation update
Remember that you
can install the official
Pandora FMS update
through the Update
Manager:Update

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Case #GitLab #Description

N/A

8961

Added translations to certain console menus

N/A8500

Translated certain IPAM tabs

N/A

8155/9066

13723

9142

Added that only the admin users can make creation calls in the API

N/A

8640

Refactored Pandora UX documentation

N/A

9110

Updated documentation of the advanced Web checks

N/A

8897

Added documentation of the online installer of the Satellite server

N/A8989

Added link between the agent repository and the Discovery Deployment center

N/A8945

Added documentation of Widget OS Quick Report

N/A

8830

Updated documentation of relations rules in the Metaconsole

Corrected visual errors in the visual styles menu

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