WHAT´S NEWPANDORA FMS 7.0 NG

UPDATE PACKAGE
RELEASE

748
August 2020
These release notes
describe new features, improvements
and fixed issues
in Pandora FMS
NG 748. They also
provide information
about upgradesand describe someworkarounds forknown issues.

•New features and developments•

Feature extinction•

How to update Pandora FMS•

Changes and improvements•

Changes and known limitations•

Bug fixes•

Fixed vulnerabilities•

Legal notice

New features and improvements
Smart Services
Pandora FMS service creation has been improved and modified. However there is still manualservice creation, where “simple” and “automatic” services will disappear, migrating directly tomanual services.

The “smart” service feature has been included. These services, unlike the previous ones, willcalculate thresholds automatically by means of studying the elements the service contains.

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Metanconsole collection browser
How to update
Pnadora FMS

Due to the increase of systems to be monitored, the need arises to include new features toimprove and simplify their use. This version includes the possibility of searching throughout
collections by name.

There are several ways
to update Pandora
FMS console:

Visual consoles improved
Through Update
Manager, automaticallyin Pandora FMS console
itself (it requires
console internet
connection).
Through Update
Manager, manually in
Pandora FMS console
itself by means of OUM
update files.
By manually installing
packages (rpm, deb ...)and later updating theconsole through theweb interface.
The server will have tobe manually updated
through RPM or tarball
packages.

You can find more
information about
Pandora FMS downloads
on our website:
OpenSource
version packages
Enterprise version
packages

There is now the possibility to prevent refresh settings from being displayed, as well as thename of the visual console itself, when you want to see a visual console in both Metaconsole
and Node, which allows its correct full display. la misma.

General General overall report featureWith this new version, you have the possibility of obtaining all data from a selected moduleusing the rate option of the “General” report type.

New API/CLI calls
The number of calls to the API/CLI has increased. There is a new option to set an event in “inprogress” status, as well as being able to obtain the status of an agent by both agent nameand alias.

Change in profile permission system
The UM permission within Pandora FMS has been modified, so that said profile has thenecessary permissions to be able to perform actions on those profiles that also have saidpermissions.

New packages for CentOS 8
Pandora FMS evolves as OS do. That is why this new version includes RPM packages to beable to smoothly install them in CentOS 8.

For detailed
information and thesteps to follow toupdate each item,
classified by operating
systems, go to our Wiki.

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Known changes and limitations
Learn more:

Smart Services
Pandora FMS online
documentación
Plugin Library
Pandora FMS
Official Support

Service display and creation have been modified and old services have been migrated to the“manual” type (see above, in new features).

UM Permission
This permission has been modified, restricting a little more the actions that a user can carryout with said permission on other users.

Fixed vulnerabilities
Thanks to the information collected, we have been able to correct and fix the following vulnerabilities that affected Pandora FMS

In this release, different ways of entering (XSS) the Pandora FMS code have been solved byusing the web browser in the following views:

N/A

5992

In event comments

N/A

5987

Metaconsole tag creation

N/A

5954

File upload using file manager

Feature extinction
In this release, no existing Pandora FMS features have disappeared.

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Changes and improvements
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GitLab #Description

10048

5843

Agents/Modules widget added again to Dashboards.

9287

5206

Possible separator configuration when exporting in CSV.

N/A

5705

Pandora_DB improved for deleting non-existent items in thedatabase.

N/A

6084

Net-Telnet dependency removal in the face of changing toCentOS 8.

N/A

6012

Improvements and changes in the service creation system.

N/A

5765

Search tool added in Metaconsole collections.

9972

5764

Improved visual console display in full screen.

N/A

1957

Data added in general report.

N/A

4425/3879

New API and CLI calls.

N/A6141

Trial licensing system improved.

N/A6034

Improved permission system.

9109

4971

New packages for CentOS 8.

N/A

6010

Filtering added to list/table/service tree.

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Bug fixes
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GitLab #Description

10407/10409

6160

Fixed failure in plugin and Metaconsole inventory synchronization to Node10435

6168

Fixed failure in E6 server compilation for LWP usage

9542

6112

Fixed macro _data_ in event alerts in legacy mode

N/A

6100

Fixed the default alert command Monitoring Event

N/A6073

Fixed false HA environment desynchronization notification

9945

6069/5851

Fixed bandwidth plugin

10231

6001

Fixed string data retrieval using pandorafsnmp

N/A5965

Fixed "exit_on_fail" token with the new Selenium version 3

N/A

5946

Fixed "Global time" token retrieval from pandora_ux.

10172

5940

Fixed Metaconsole SQL reports

10162

5933

Fixed screenshotting Windows event logs

N/A

5888

Fixed interval field in SAP monitoring

N/A

5874

Fixed module_min/max tokens on data modules.

N/A

5801

Fixed _policy_ macro

N/A5681Fixed Hyper-V plugin bugs

405/9779/10123

5607

Fixed mailings through the configuration entered in console

N/A

2925

Fixed log warning message in web modules

10407

6172

Fixed Metaconsole policy enforcement with many agents

10324

6162

Fixed index failure in resource registration

10428

6161

Fixed pop-up window for button 101 of string modules

N/A

6135

Fixed module duplication when applying policies

N/A

6130

Fixed Metaconsole custom graphic display errors

N/A

6120

Fixed event correlation tag filtering

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GitLab #Description10248

6115

Fixed event_module field display in event correlation.

10196

6107

Fixed massive system notification sending even if the problem.
was solved

N/A

6101/5907

Fixed threshold edit failure in prediction modules.

7658

6096

Fixed _label_ macro in Metaconsole automatic combined graphs.

N/A

6074

Fixed missing public link option for dashboards.

N/A

6057

Fixed visual bugs in Discovery monitoring.

10299

6045

Fixed automatic deletion of _field10_ or higher in SNMP alerts.

N/A

6011

Installed the default zoom of a service tree view.

N/A

6004

Fixed visual error when filtering components in Metaconsole.

10233/10190

5996/5970/
5963/5443

Fixed status coloring in PDF reports.

10205

5991

Fixed string data retrieval in CSV exports.

10246

5990

Fixed report naming when sent by email or created throughTemplate.

N/A

5969

Fixed HTML report views.

N/A

5964

Fixed refresh times in public view of visual consoles.

N/A

5920

Fixed display of visual_console_manager option on visualconsoles.

10135

5913

Fixed MarkLogic plugin bugs.

N/A5909

Fixed how to display the result after a global search.

N/A

5908

Fixed bug where two agents with same ID and alias could
be created.

N/A

5870

Fixed visual failure on the login screen in Metaconsole.

N/A

5819

Changed the agent/module licensing control system

N/A

5814

Fixed visual problems in the console audit option.

N/A

5810

Fixed the _id_module_ macro.

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GitLab #Description

9943

5808

Fixed regex matching engine in correlation alerts.

N/A

5806

Fixed post processing line duplication.

9943

5804

Fixed visual error of correlation alerts in Spanish.

N/A

5771

Fixed bug where Vcente events were not displayed onDiscovery VMWare tasks.

N/A

5769

Added confirmation window for deleting events.

N/A

5743

Added policy notice in centralized mode once you go into apolicy.

N/A

5742

Fixed the introduction of the "module_disabled 1" token whenapplied in policies.

N/A

5722

Fixed image bug in Database Maintenance module inMetaconsole.

N/A

5716

Fixed HA node configuration display when saving newinformation.

N/A

5676

Changed the alphabetical order within agent and module
dropdowns in alert correlation.

9875

5674

Fixed gauge chart display in PDF.

N/A

5670

Fixed issue with Max and Min token display in an alerttemplate.

N/A

5618

Fixed the display error of the owner in an event.

N/A

5587

Fixed default actions when applying a template in your filter.

N/A

5573

Fixed MIB downloading from MIB uploader.

N/A

5561

Fixed node collections menu.

N/A5532

Fixed centralized system applied to templates/actions/alert
commands.

N/A5505

Fixed service tree view.

9594

5468

Fixed the error of introducing additional space in the exec
server.

N/A

5447

Removed references to log4x in pandora_db.

N/A

5445

Fixed prediction modules in Metaconsole.

N/A

5440

Fixed Metaconsole policy agent deletion and adding errors.

N/A

5423

Added the delete option in the non-existent general searchin Firefox.

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through the UpdateManager.
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GitLab #Description

9519

5413

Fixed mobile console display

9349

5396

Fixed custom SQL report pagination

8691

5369

Fixed the error of naming the export file in CSV depending on
where the export is performed

N/A

5282

Fixed the error of linking or unlinking modules using massive policy
options

9235

5105

Fixed tactical view display on mobile console

N/A

5070

Added the possibility to enter a new license in the expired license
notice8858

4776

Fixed legend in module charts

7873

4158

Fixed API call for creating an event, where it couñd not be created
if the id_server did not exist

5385/ 5315

2002/1952

Fixed the display of "network component management" wherenow the hierarchy is taken into account

N/A

1972Fixed display of graphics with a large number of elements.

N/A

1940

Fixed weight calculation in module charts

N/A

5967

Visual correction of removed event responses

N/A5849

Visual corrections of the Metaconsole selection menu

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