Release Notes
PANDORA FMS NG 752

VERSION UPDATE•

New features and improvements•

Changes and improvements•

How to update Pandora FMS•

Bug fixed

RELEASE•

Known changes and limitations•

Documentation update752•

Fixed vulnerabilities•

Legal information•

Feature extinction

February 2021

These release notes
describe new features,
improvements and fixedissues in Pandora FMS NG
751. They also provide
information about
upgrades and describe
some workarounds for
known issues.

New features and improvements
Remote server configuration form
This new feature allows modifying the server’s configuration through a simple
form from Pandora FMS console, being able to continue using remote or local
configuration as before. It is a view where you can enable/disable servers, as well as
modify some of the configuration advanced fields.

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.

New elements for dynamic network interfaces in visual consoles
The possibility of including an element with which the information flow between
two visual console items can be represented, such as the traffic between two
network interfaces, has been added.

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Pandora FMS

Improvements in dynamic services
An advanced mode has been implemented in dynamic services that allows the useof regular expressions to be able to match agent conditions, modules and custom
fields (both name and value), as well as warning messages when any of these fields
fails to match any agent.

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.
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.

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

New macros available in event responses
Macros for “_data_”, “_event_instruction_” and “_moduledescription_” have been
added inside event responses.

Known changes and limitations
Improved maintenance and deployment of historical database throughpandora_db
History database maintenance has been modified through pandora_db, where
it will no longer be necessary to have the maintenance separate from the mainand historical databases, being carried out just from the configuration of themain database. In the next release (753) a visual configuration interface will be
implemented to create it.

Fixed vulnerabilities
In this release, different entryways (XSS) to Pandora FMS code through the webbrowser in the following views have been solved:

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Caso#

GitLab #

N/A

4025

Descripción
Added the need to re-enter the password for the user who wants to change theirpassword within Pandora FMS console, except for administrator users.

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

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Visual_console_manager extension has been removed.
The possibility of generating Metaconsole log reports has been deleted.
The backup extension has been removed, now the feature is integrated into
Pandora FMS Discovery.
Deleted event statistics view.
Deleted the entry in the Tools -> IPAM menu, leaving only Admin Tools -> IPAM.

Changes and improvements

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Case#

GitLab #Description

N/A

6922

Removed .vstafs and MYMETA.json files, which are not required but imply dependency
conflicts.

N/A

6889

Removed IP column from the list of connected users in order to comply with RGPD
regulations.

N/A

6886

Deleted the possibility of adding the Permissions report item within report templates.

N/A

2948

Added a new form to modify Pandora FMS server configuration.

N/A

6849

Removed Visual_console_manager extension.

N/A

6665

Added new macros that can be used within event responses.

N/A

5840

Modified the install.php file so that when a random password is generated, it complies
with Percona password policy.

10974

6825

Added token to control the maximum elements in custom charts and to see a warning
message when more than the configured ones are included.

N/A

6351

Deleted the possibility of generating Metaconsole log reports.

N/A

6048

Modified WUX file upload text notifying the possibility of uploading .side files for
Selenium 3.

N/A

7037

Fixed regular expression matching in the Agent field of certain items in reporttemplates.

N/A

6985

Visual enhancements made in the settings of the mail to be used by Pandora FMS,
changing the SSL/TLS option to just SSL and adding a warning text box for SMTP
cases with specific ports for Gmail and Office365.

N/A

6915

Modified license types, in the license view, by Perpetual or Trial.

N/A

6913

Improved WUX tool performance in DOCKER environments.

N/A

6862

Added all dependencies, both OpenSource and Enterprise, for Pandora FMS docker
public image.

N/A

6847

Added pandora_db.sql and pandoradb_data.sql files within Pandora FMS OUM files sothat they are updated with the changes of each version.

N/A

6845

Deleted the backup extension since it is within Discovery feature.

N/A

6844

Deleted event statistics view.

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Changes andimprovements

Case#

GitLab #Description

N/A

1175

Updated copyright texts of Artica Soluciones Tecnológicas in all Pandora FMS files.

N/A

6815

Modified the SAP HANA plugin for Windows to avoid controlling the .exe files that
Windows performs and not be able to use the plugin correctly.

N/A

6384

Created new brutus elements in visual consoles of dynamic input/output interface
elements.

N/A

6652

Modified maintenance of main and historical database through pandora_db.

N/A

6158

Dynamic service improvements to be able to use regular expressions and custom
agent fields of agents in configuration drawing.

N/A

6126

Added report type selector when using a scheduled task to save the report in disk.

N/A

6933

Changed display of alert templates, actions and commands based on grouppermissions.

N/A

6779

SNMP tag "event criticity" visually replaced by "event severity".

N/A

6280

Added certificate and sign within software agents for MacOS

10181

6146

Improved Kafka plugin to return an output supported by Pandora FMS, as well as new
options to include thresholds.

N/A

6932

Increased the amount of characters to be able to use in tag naming.

N/A

5265

Modified regular expression matching for the agent field within report items, by
previously having a match within report creation in the template.

10801
11254

6908
11254
6959
7020
6938

Optimization of the SNMP Browser feature, where timeouts are deleted for interfaces
with many devices, limiting MIB translation by default.

N/A

7003

Added new filters for Oper Status, Admin Status for SNMP interface wizards.

Bug fixes

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Case#

GitLab #Description

11176

6896

Fixed ACLs error when trying to see a snapshot of any type of module, automaticallylogging out from the console.

11192

6930

Fixed alert firing bug for module templates in unknown state.

N/A

6920

Fixed string data display with snapshots activated for the mobile version.

N/A

6902

Modified pandora_db performance to remove uninitialized elements by leaving thetoken empty within performance configuration.

N/A

6901

Fixed introduction of custom graphics within Metaconsole visual consoles.

N/A

6897

Modified certain styles of some views of the Metaconsole that made their features
fail.

N/A

6895

Fixed the possibility of creating scheduled tasks to send reports by email withoutchoosing any report template.

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Bug fixes

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GitLab #Description

N/A

6893

Fixed the possibility of creating event filters without a name, where now an error
window will appear when trying to create them.

N/A

6863

Fixed the styles of the service massive operation view.

N/A

6854

Modified a warning when starting the server referring to pandora_db as it does nothave a history database.

N/A

6822

Fixed an error in the SNMP view when not having any agent created in Pandora FMS.

N/A

6819

Fixed an error in tag view when not having any agent created in Pandora FMS.

N/A

6804

Modified the error when trying to access an Enterprise feature in Pandora FMS
OpenSource version.

N/A

6799

Fixed dashboard widget width management error.

N/A

6798

Fixed dashboard display priority, where it always prioritized the first widget created nomatter where it was located.

N/A

6797

Modified the default timeout for generating reports in PDF to be able to see large
reports.

10869
10704

6792

Fixed the interpretation of the WMI modules where the capitalization of the elements
was taken into account.

N/A

6791

Modified the performance of pandora_db, which deleted all sessions from the console
when it was executed.

N/A

6786

Fixed SNMP remote component creation when using dynamic scan option.

11050

6765

Fixed the change of SNMP password data when changing any token in SNMP v3 inmassive operations.

N/A

6755

Modified data retrieval of the group report item in Metaconsole to obtain data from
the Metaconsole table instead of that of the first node.

10398

6744
6142

Fixed the rescanning field of VMware tasks whereby when editing it, the rescanning
would always be enabled.

11010

6737

Fixed group status widget to take into account secondary groups.

10925

6736

Fixed Quickshell working when using self-signed certificates.

N/A

6727

Visual bug fixes in SAP view.

N/A

6719

Fixed the warning when starting the server in the OpenSource version not having thecorrect Enterprise parameters.

N/A

6718

Fixed visual error in the software agent installer in Windows.

N/A

6707

Fixed data compaction in the history database whereby entries in tconfig were
duplicated.

N/A

6705

Modified policy enforcement errors through Metaconsole when using agent auto
configuration with centralized mode active.

N/A

6698

Fixed Metaconsole default visual consoles display.

N/A

6689

Fixed group selectors in Metaconsole module view.

N/A

6687

Modified the install.php file to take into account when it is a Metaconsole.

N/A

6682

Fixed the problem where the same component could be created more than once,
giving an error when using it later.

N/A

6681

Fixed multiple SNMP network component creation when using SNMP Browser.

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Bug fixes

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Case#

GitLab #Description

N/A

6675

Revised and fixed Metaconsole visual console items.

N/A

6674

Added default field in service size in visual console to avoid errors in services withmany elements.

11001

6670

Fixed SNMP alert priorities.

N/A

6666

Fixed Mainframe extension to be able to access with a standard non-administrator
user.

N/A

6664

Fixed errors in service editing and creation with brackets in the name in Metaconsole.

N/A

6653

Fixed visual console public link display when they are linked to other visual consoles.

10560

6651

Fixed agent filtering in Metaconsole policies.

N/A

6645

Changed the Discovery task view so that tasks from groups you do not havepermission to cannot be seen.

N/A

6643

Fixed the summary of Discovery VMWare tasks, whereby it always indicated that thetask had not been executed.

N/A

6637

Fixed fired alert counting in Metaconsole tactical view.

N/A

6636

Fixed pie graphs element display in visual console public links.

N/A

6634

Fixed the visual error that appeared after deleting a recognition task in Discovery.

N/A

6632

Modified the favorite Dashboard view in the side menu, where all dashboards werefavorites previously.

N/A

6631

Fixed ACL widget display issues within dashboards and added information about it in
the documentation of Pandora FMS wiki.

N/A

6628

Fixed title and subtitle deletion in Pandora FMS OpenSource version.

10909

6627

Fixed alert correlation rule updating bug.

N/A

6623

Fixed module editing filtering in Metaconsole whereby only modules created in
Metaconsole were displayed instead of all modules.

N/A

6614

Fixed error message when deleting a plugin in the Metaconsole.

N/A

6613

Fixed network component filtering in the Metaconsole.

N/A

6609

Fixed visual bug in agent auto configuration in the Metaconsole.

N/A

6605

Fixed Pandora FMS general search to locate network maps.

N/A

6582

Fixed module filtering in mass operations using status filter.

N/A

6562

Fixed SNMP alert deletion through mass operations.

N/A

6539

Fixed visual error when creating a service in manual mode instead of smart mode.

N/A

6534

Fixed visual console displacement when using visual console migration from legacy tocurrent mode.

N/A

6515

Fixed collection message when there are no agents included.

N/A

6509

Fixed total module counting and counting by state in agent view.

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Case#

GitLab #Description

N/A

6507

Fixed Metaconsole policy application during Metaconsole agent auto configuration
when having centralized mode enabled.

N/A

6446

Fixed visual error in visual console when using the dark fullscreen mode.

N/A

6425

Fixed visual error when deploying the advanced options of Metaconsole module
creation.

N/A

6407

Fixed the possibility of making SNMPWalk checks by means of the console's SNMP
Browser choosing a Server Satellite as server to be executed.

N/A

6405

Fixed the deletion of the conf and md5 files of the agents in the node when they aredeleted from the Metaconsole with centralized mode enabled.

N/A

10771

Fixed visual console widget display in dashboards when dealing with large visualconsoles.

N/A

6403

Fixed Pandora FMS active user display to only be able to see those that belong to thesame permission group.

N/A

6388

Modified script paths where two different paths appeared, leaving only /usr/share/
pandora_server/util/recon_scripts

N/A

6355

Fixed widget messages in an ACL display dashboard; additionally added ACL display
information in dashboards.

N/A

6347

Fixed the erroneous possibility of choosing multiple agents for editing within the
Metaconsole.

N/A

6506

Fixed normal-state module counting within the group view.

N/A

6505

Fixed total monitor counting and server performance within tactical views, so thatinactive modules are not taken into account.

N/A

6503

Fixed alert counting in the tactical view so that inactivated alerts are not taken into
account.

N/A

6501

Fixed the possibility of entering external links by default as a user's home screen.

N/A

6498

Modified email alert templates so that the icons take into account the type of statusof the module itself.

N/A

6490

Fixed the action selector to add to an alert when editing it to add new actions.

N/A

6449

Fixed collection folder deletion failure when deleted from Metaconsole withcentralized mode enabled.

N/A

6447

Fixed visual help bugs in visual console elements.

N/A

6340

Fixed visual bugs of additional agent information within the Metaconsole tree view.

N/A

6339

Fixed visual errors in the monitor view within the Metaconsole.

N/A

6335

Fixed bugs referring to the "waitForText" command within web checks using Selenium
3.

10681

6321

Fixed the maximum limit of labels in a graph for which all were previously shown
without respecting the maximum number of elements to display.

N/A

6319

Fixed the problem in getValue and asynchronous web module creation, whereby they
were created as image mode when they should not.

N/A

6292

Fixed service creation through massive operations.

N/A

6282

Fixed creating module templates without entering any data.

N/A

6209

Fixed screen mirroring error when using Quickshell in Firefox.

7654

6091

Modified errors within Pandora FMS console log to avoid fill-up with non-criticalinformation.

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Case#

GitLab #Description

N/A

6065

Fixed visual errors in graphic generation for the correct display of labels.

N/A

5983

Fixed visual errors in the different tree views when displaying alerts, data and graphs.

N/A

5489

Fixed filtering the general search engine by groups, where secondary groups are now
taken into account.

N/A

5351

Fixed visual problem of PDF graph generation of custom SQL queries.

N/A

5115

Fixed Metaconsole monitor view filtering by which the submenu would disappear.

N/A

4953

Fixed admin user login through LDP in Metaconsole whereby it only logged in withlocal data, not through LDAP.

N/A

4491

Modified the colors used for value representation when hovering over a bar graph in avisual console.

N/A

3661

Added the possibility of choosing which server will execute certain Discovery features.

N/A

6856

Fixed server warning: “Use of uninitialized value $retries in numeric lt (<) at /usr/lib/
perl5/PandoraFMS/Tools.pm line 1586.”

N/A

7001

Fixed latency modules for OpenSource servers.

10973

6723

Fixed the color of the lines between visual consoles showing the status between
elements.

N/A

6151

Modified RPM packages for Suse for which there were dependency errors even though
they all existed.

N/A

6876

Fixed Export Server erroneous operation.

N/A

6855

Fixed network scanning errors in Pandora FMS OpenSource version.

11094

6800

Fixed deletion of fields 11 to 20 in SNMP alerts regardless of the action to be taken.

N/A

6790

Fixed summary view in Discovery Oracle tasks.

10891

6624

Fixed SQL errors in Discovery VMWare tasks when dealing with old tasks.

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11363
8763

4704

Fixed boolean web modules which did not give critical results when obtaining timeout
on the page to monitor.

N/A

6864

Fixed graph forwarding by mail, where graphs are cropped or do not appear for Gmail
and Office 365.

Documentation update

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GitLab #Description

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6125

Added advanced option for plugins in console.

N/A

6419

Added documentation of the new _modulecustomid_ macro for integrations withthird-party applications through API/CLI calls.

N/A

6684

Modified information of the data obtained through SNMP Wizards to clarify visible
data before creating the module with incremental data.

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GitLab #Description

N/A

6717

Updated product installation documentation to add the new dependencies, such as
the operating systems supported by the tool.

N/A

6829

Added information about the new control token for the elements that can bedisplayed within a custom chart.

N/A

6158

Updated dynamic service documentation.

N/A

6957

Added documentation Pandora FMS server new remote configuration.

11169

6882

Added information from the API/CLI call set create_alert_template with the "notnormal" option.

N/A

6843

Added warning in graphic display for environments with a time zone different from theone configured in the user.

N/A

6814

Documented changes to module_graph call.

N/A

6811

Added documentation for the debug mode of WUX modules.

N/A

6701

Added documentation on relation rules within Metaconsole configuration.

N/A

6607

Tentacle Server documentation updated.

N/A

6588

Modified ACL permission information in dashboard element display.

N/A

3551

Agent cache management update in Metaconsole.

N/A

5986

Updated documentation of the use_xml_timestamp token in Pandora FMS server
configuration.

10181

6146

Added new documentation with the modified fields of the Kafka plugin.

N/A

7046

Updated documentation of DOCKER environments for selenium deployment.

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