WHAT´S NEWPANDORA FMS 7.0 NG

UPDATE PACKAGE
RELEASE749•

New features and developments•

Feature extinction•

How to update Pandora FMS•

Changes and improvements•

Changes and known limitations•

Bug fixes•

Fixed vulnerabilities•

Legal notice

September 2020
These release notes
describe new features, improvements
and fixed issues
in Pandora FMS
NG 749. They also
provide information
on enhancements
and describe someworkarounds forknown issues.

New features and improvements
Integrated HA improvements
After investigating improvements in Pandora FMS HA environment, as well as being able tosolve some errors due to module synchronization between nodes, improvements have been
implemented in the configuration of the HA environment to achieve higher stability in log
synchronization and receipt.
In order to achieve these improvements, MySQL configurations have been additionally changed
to better support the load. The new ISO includes in addition the necessary configurations incase you want to use HA, as well as scripts to automatically modify the necessary configurations
for this new HA system.

Visual enhancements in user management
The display of user management has been modified. There were difficulties to be able to see
the information of each one of the users, as well as the insertion of multiple profiles to the sameuser giving a display failure in it.
Changes were made to how options to be configured in a user appear at the top of theinformation thereof, as well as the collapse of profiles in case the user has more than 6 profiles.

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Pandora FMS in Centos 8
How to update
Pandora FMSThere are several ways
to update Pandora
FMS console:

Pandora FMS is constantly evolving as well as operating systems, and we could absolutely not fallbehind. In this version, the packages for the official Pandora FMS update in CentOS 8 are supplied
for the first time:
ConsoleServer
Software agent

Through Update
Manager, automaticallyin Pandora FMS console
itself (it requires
console internetconnection).

As well as the introduction of official support in CentOS 8.

Through Update
Manager, manually inPandora FMS console
itself by means of OUM
update files.

Log viewer

By manually installing
packages (rpm, deb ...)and later updating theconsole through theweb interface.

Fixed vulnerabilities

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

Known changes and limitations
The Pandora FMS log viewer display has been modified. Log view sources can be edited,being able to shut down or create new sources.

Thanks to the information collected, we have been able to correct and fix the following vulnerabilities that affected Pandora FMS
In this release, different entryways (XSS) to Pandora FMS code through the web browser inthe following views have been solved:

N/A5989

In update/creation of groups in Metaconsole.

N/A6171

In third-party calls through a direct call via URL in theconstruction of network components.

N/A6170

In issue view.

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

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In this release, no existing Pandora FMS feature has disappeared.

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Changes and improvements
Learn more:
Pandora FMS online
documentación

Case#Description

N/A

5994

Integrated HA improvements.

N/A

4971

Pandora FMS in Centos 8.

N/A

6147

User management changes.

N/A

6246
6245
6241
6235
6214
6198
6128
6016
5512
6268
6239
6218

Modification and introduction of documentation in Pandora
FMS Wiki:•Log source agents.
•MySQL configuration new HA method.
•Glusterfs.
•Pandora FMS database.
•Agent CSV Deployment.

N/A

6039

Improved updating systems through RPM.

N/A

6089

Pandora FMS log view changes. Log view sources can be edited,being able to shut down or create new sources.

5697

2233

Changes in availability report. Currently, in addition to thedefault report, the 24x7 option can be selected.

N/A

5367

Add search and action filtering.

N/A

5876

Adding Ishw binary for agents for correct use of inventory
functions.

9422/9700

5355

Added the possibility of updating module thresholds usingXML.

N/A6123

Added in the agent view the status of the agent’s log.

N/A6037

Added help for creating alerts.

N/A5609

Added a link in module creation to be able to access saved
credentials.

10321

6070

Modifications in the grep_log plugin. Option added to groupall lines in a single entry.

N/A

6203

Snmp_bandwith.pl plugin update. The possibility of performing
multiple executions and updating OIDs has been included.

10371

6117

Updated and inserted new modules in Marklogic plugin.

6418/10093

5812

Added “reject” function in Xenserver plugin.

N/A5060

Added phantomjs packaging in rpm.

N/A

6259

Modified the sample of IPs available when starting a machine
where Pandora FMS ISO has been installed.

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GitLab #••••Marklogic plugin.
24x7 reports.
Dataserver plugins.
Discovery MS SQL.

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Bug fixes
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GitLab #Description

10517

6284

Fixed a metaconsole agent cache update failure in HA
environments. The slave node has been prevented fromexecuting the agent cache update.

N/A6249

Fixed the agent selector of a policy.

N/A6231

Failure in the creation of agents by means of discovery taskwith configured templates.

10534

6224

Dataserver processing failure with active “lifo” token.

9948

6217

Log correlation alert failure by agent name.

N/A

6211

Fixed failures in updating the online version of the openversion.

10326/10410

6156

Fixed operation of “snmp_remote.pl”.

N/A

6102

Fixed error in changing the name of alerts in Metaconsole
and synchronization to the node.

10329

6093

Fixed fields in snmp alerts.

8030

4033

Fixed Oracle plugin data type errors.

10553

6236

Fixed Metaconsole API call to remove agents.

N/A

6228

Changed dependencies for Pandora FMS RPMs. The fileutils
and textutils dependencies have been replaced by coreutils.

N/A

6225

Fixed the filter of the modules view, where when applying afilter it showed the number of modules but did not show themodules themselves.

10495

6201

Fixed the error of using macros in “event responses”.

N/A

6196

Increased security in console files. There were some lines in a.htaccess file that blocked entries to certain directories, and could
give an error depending on the way php was executed. They havebeen modified to be able to obtain the same security regardless ofthe php method.

N/A6193

Fixed timeout of Omnishell tasks.

9909

6174

Fixed the error of importing agents by CSV through theDiscovery “Deployment center”.

N/A

6167

Fixed the creation of SNMPv3 processes through wizard.

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Caso #

GitLab #Descripción

10427/10374

6164/6108

Fixed recognition tasks with SNMP with uppercase fields incommunity.

9858

6163

Modified the way to make the queries through “pandorafsnmp”.

10385

6139

Fixed the different possible date formats of Pandora FMS
console.

10419/9496

6124

Fixed SNMP Uptime type modules.

N/A

6113

Modified open version message when exceeding the numberof modules in an agent.

N/A

6099

Fixed module duplication error.

10177

6090

Fixed general report when trying to be exported in CSV.

10339

6081

Fixed the Metaconsole agents/alerts/modules wizard.

10334

6080

Modified agent message with non-initialized modules.

N/A

6078

Modified the WMI modules both in the console and in the satellite
server. Double queries are now possible.

N/A

6075

Fixed SNMP Browser bug with v2.

N/A

6068

Fixed the error of special character usage in SNMP Browser.

N/A

6067

Fixed comments in WUX files. If there was a WUX check wherecommented comments appeared, it gave back an error.

10314

6054

Modified the display of the “Group Status” widget in thedashboards.

10205

6053

Modified the report mail sending message obtaining the typecorrectly. If you wanted to send the report in CSV, it was sentin PDF.

N/A

6036

Fixed the editing of alerts of “Monitoring Event” type.

N/A6029

Fixed deletion of agent groups in Metaconsole.

N/A6028

Re-introduced the TIP option in custom graphs.

10206

6027

Fixed CLI call to create agents.

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Remember you candownload the lastversion of Pandora FMS
through the Update
Manager.
Update

GitLab #

N/A

5961

Removed the dependency Perl (YAML::Tiny), now it is only
optional if Omnishell is used.

N/A5931

Fixed erroneous operation of “Min number of alerts”.

N/A

5821

Modified the display of notification settings where theavailable options did not appear.

N/A5685

Fixed visual glitch in Metaconsole event history paging.

N/A

5577

Fixed SLA statuses at future times.

N/A

4434

Corrected the ACL permission to see the Pandora FMS
audit log.

N/A

6140

10587

6248

Fixed SQL error in module graphs.

N/A

6277

Fixed the error of creating SNMP modules with the new
SNMP wizards.

N/A

6264

Fixed the graphics of the modules created with SNMPInterface Wizard.

N/A

6261/6260

Fixed the configuration of new user permissions.

B/A6238

Deleted an error from the incorrect log generated by thenew wizard interfaces.

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