NIMPEE v2.x.x

2.4.0 (27th February 2019)

Features - Protocol and technology support

Collecting SNMP configuration for all vendor/families
Technology => Management => SNMP
Collecting Netflow / IPFIX, sFlow configuration for all vendor/families
Technology => Management => Flow
Added VXLAN support for Cisco IOS-XE, NX-OS, Arista EOS
Technology => VXLAN
Added BGP support for Arista EOS
Added NTP support for Arista EOS, ArubaSW, Huawei, F5
Added OSPF support for Arista EOS, Check Point Gaia, Cisco ASA, Extreme XOS, Fortinet Fortigate, Huawei VRP, PaloAlto
Added Routing table summary for Arista EOS, Extreme XOS, Huawei VRP, Checkpoint, Cisco ASA
Added VRRP support for Fortinet FortiGate
Configuration Management - added support for Fortinet Fortigate, Extreme XOS
Added overview of local and remote logging targets configured on network devices
Technology => Management => Logging
BGP address family support (new tables with all session families).
Technology => Routing => BGP => Address Families (table is also available after click from graph on BGP edge)

Features - Visualization

Significant speedup of graph for big networks
Added VXLAN as L3 protocol
Host to GW - "show only active devices" option added, it will display only devices in the path
Path lookup - Asymmetry check is evaluated based on the layer instead of a protocol.
Graph RIB edges - L2 switches have default GW route disabled by default. Can be enabled in RIB protocol settings
Unmanaged devices can now be added and displayed, even if connected edges are not visible.

Discovery

Shaper was limited to 10Mb

Improvements

Discovery page - statistic about how many devices were discovered is without AP now
Added support for Cisco Mobility Express WLC detection
Site separation by regex - you can specify the transformation of hostnames before regex separation is used. It solves a situation when is used mix uppercase/lowercase hostnames in the network.
Arista vEOS version detection improvement
Juniper ISIS - added support for any other level than 1 or 2
Juniper Loopback interfaces lo0.16384, lo0.16385, lo0.32768 are internal auxiliary loopbacks and are not included in discovery.
Fortinet Fortigate - improved version detection for devices running with FortiOS6
Fortinet Fortigate - improved prompt detection in case that prompt ends with $
Cisco IOS/XE/XR - Updated next-hop evaluation for CEF/MPLS records
Cisco SG300 - Added support for different show version output
Huawei - added NTP support on Huawei VRP 8.x
Huawei - xDP interface names correctly standardized
Huawei - Routing table sanitation (127.0.0.0 and 0.0.0.0 next-hop removed)
HP Aruba AP, F5 - added missing memory information
HP Aruba switch/Procurve - OS detection - added support for 2600/2300/2500 platforms
HP Aruba switch/Procurve - Localhost routes removed from the routing table
Routing stability table - Added connected routes

Bug Fixes

Virtual gateways count in tables fixed.
Path lookup - Edge switch must be in the same site as default gw (fixes wrong edge switch selection because of virtual mac addresses)
Router to switch L2 connection - Fix for routers with virtual mac addresses
Cisco IOS - MPLS forwarding table fixed parsing - output for one record can be broke to more lines
Cisco IOS, IOS-XE w/o routing table - default gw entry adds interface now
Cisco IOS - fixed parsing "show environment all" command
Cisco IOS - ACL - role based trustsec entries are ignored until trustsec support will be added.
Cisco IOS-XR duplicate hsrp virtual addresses fixed
Cisco NX - improved parsing "show environment fex all" when it returns "FEX is not present"
Cisco ASA - routing table fixed parsing
Cisco XR - improved parsing for "show mpls ldp vrf \ neighbor detail" command
Cisco IOS-XE OSPF interfaces fixed parsing for the unnumbered tunnel interface
Cisco MPLS LDP - updated parsing for LDP neighbor with no source interface
Cisco QOS policy-map interface - improved parsing for different command output
Cisco IOS-XE 3560 - show version stack inventory parsing fix.
Cisco SG - fixed parsing of different output for STP detail command
Extreme XOS - MTU wasn't parsed on extreme xos 22.5.1.7
Path lookup - FEX on access fixed
Arista vEOS - missing SN is replaced by system mac address
Arista vEOS - interface unconfigured speed parsing fix
Arista vEOS - arp N/A timer parsing fix
Arista vEOS - interfaces MTU parsing fix
Arista vEOS - parsing fix when NTP is disabled
Extreme XOS - memory information fixed parsing
Checkpoint Gaja - fixed parsing of different output for command fw ctl pstat"
Fortinet Fortigate - fixed ambiguous command to get info about the routing table
Fortinet Fortigate - fixed parsing for different output about memory information on FortiOS6
HP Aruba switch - fixed NTP associations
HP Aruba switch - Reported CDP devices without capabilities fix
HP Aruba switch - Non-complete interface record parsing fix
HP Aruba switch - show tech buffers command parsing fix
HP Aruba v8 fixed parsing to get details about AP
HP Comware fixed parsing of different output for device interfaces
HP Comware fixed parsing of different output for linkAggregationVerbose command
Huawei VRP - fixed ambiguous command for observer port command
Juniper - SRX firewall/router mode detection, the default is firewall when no relevant output is available
Tables - FIX filtering in columns where is able to switch property for filtering i.e. Nat - Rules
Tables - Filter rules were inserted randomly after the seventh rule
Tables - some tables had wrong values for export into CSV (Object Object)

2.3.1 (7th December)

Improvements

Path lookup - improved calculation for the default gateway
Cisco ASA serial number detection updated to better support virtualized devices
Cisco NX - improved parsing for FEX information
Cisco IOS/IOS-XE - improved parsing for "show monitor detail" command
Cisco NX - improved parsing for "show monitor session all" command

Bug Fixes

Cisco NX 7K - fixed parsing of version, VDC wasn't recognized
Juniper JunOS - fixed parsing pf memory information

2.3.0 (5th December)

Features - Protocol and technology support

Added FHRP support for HP Aruba/ArubaSw, Huawei VRP, Arista EOS, Cisco XR
Added support for FEX modules connected to Cisco Nexus 7000 series switches
Added support for environmental information for Cisco Nexus FEX modules
Added support for MPLS & LDP protocol for Cisco IOS/IOS-XE/IOS-XR/NX, Juniper
New tables in Technology => MPLS
Added support for Port Mirroring for Cisco IOS/IOS-XE/NX/SG, Juniper JunOS, HP Comware, Huawei VRP
New table in Technology => Management => Port Mirroring
Added support for NAT for Cisco IOS/IOS-XE/ASA
New tables in Technology => Addressing => NAT

Features - Visualization

Default view - each user can define own default view instead of displaying overall network topology
Added MPLS support in path lookup & LDP protocol for edges
Enhanced orientation in diagrams - when is graph opened through the link on hostname column then the graph will be zoomed in to the device.
Site interconnections are now displayed separately from generic transit
The site can be renamed directly from a graph (only for uses with write privilege)
Window details dialogs are now open in a direction where is more space, better UX.
Protocol CEF was renamed to RIB and CDP to xDP
Unmanaged neighbors and Transit edge are now the same types of neighbors. They can be grouped using prefix length setting under Options > Site edge

Features - Discovery

New Settings - OUI, where can be enabled/disabled vendors what will be used in discovery from ARP protocol.
Cisco SG300 family - added support for SF switch line

Improvements

Inventory/devices added columns Total memory, Used memory, Memory Utilization %
Enable to searching in ACL/Zone policies using IP or network

Bug Fixes

Switch to router L2 connections - Mismatch duplicated connections created on the router with same mac address on all ports. Fixed when xDP exists between switch and router.
Graph - all graph icons are preloaded into cache now, this fixing situation when was generated Site Low-Level design report and graphs were without icons.
Report Site Low-Level graph could be generated as corrupted docx (not escape data in XML)
The app could crash in IE - Inventory/Sites when Site report was downloaded and then was tried to load Site Diagram then the App crashed - fixed (It's highly recommended to use Chrome, instead IE. Chrome has much better performance)
Cisco NX - LLDP - capabilities 'not advertised' were not parsed correctly, some server entries without destination port were added incorrectly.
Cisco NX - fixed parsing of "show fex detail" command
Cisco NX 5000 - power supply failure from environment fix
Cisco NX ACL options - generic support for 'divert' option added
Cisco EIGRP - Ambiguous command fixed on ASR9000
Cisco EIGRP - Fixed parsing when enabled but no neighbors detected
Cisco BGP - DMPVPN no families fix
Cisco IOS-XR OSPF parsing fix when an interface is down
Cisco IOS-XE OSPF neighbor parsing fix (output may differ per version)
Cisco IOS/IOS-XE: RIP - NVI interfaces are ignored now
Cisco IOS/IOS-XE - Routing table - added support for default gateway detection e.g. on L2 switches
Cisco AAA - extended support for AAA-related options and setting
Cisco service object-groups - added support for ICMPv6 params parsing
HP Comware - Ethernet 100Mbps interface parsing fix
HP Comware - Routing table inactive next-hop removed
F5 BigIP - VLAN interfaces state is now used from 'list net self' command only
xDP - if capability contains IGMP, then the neighbor is recognized as a network device
User edge port and user mac address recognition improved with OUI network vendor.
Scheduling of System Backup could fail and the process wasn't executed at all
System backup - FTP directory was transformed to lowercase it could be a problem when the directory on FTP server was in uppercase.
Dashboard - fixed Snapshot History widget for MAC's
Dlink and Enterasys wrongly recognized as Aruba switch. Version parsing fixed.
Routing table - recursive lookup for vrf leak fix
Graphs - Host to gateway and path lookup default gateway selection fix (the mask is considered in calculation now)
802.1x interface authentication port control mode is now parsed from show run if it is not available in show dot1x command output
Updated RIP neighborship mapping for JunOS routers

2.2.9 (31st October 2018)

Features - Analytics

Path verification - you can now save a path for continuous verification
Saved paths are stored in Technology \ Routing \ Path verifications
Path analysis - added support for Symmetry verification
Path analysis - added support for L2 flooding
Path analysis - added overview tab listing all matching filters and forwarding
History - new widget in Dashboard displays the number of discovered devices and changes for each snapshot.

Features - Protocol and technology support

Added vendor support for Arista EOS
Added vendor support for HP Aruba switch / ProCurve
Added vendor support for Huawei VRP
Added vendor support for F5 BIG IP
Detailed information about IS-IS protocol (support for Juniper JunOS)
New table Technology \ Routing \ IS-IS \ Neighbors
New table Technology \ Routing \ IS-IS \ Interfaces

Features - Visualization

Network overview - protocols settings are now persistent
Added MTU tab into window detail for OSPF, EIGRP, and RIP protocols
Added IS-IS routing protocol visualization
Improved wired hosts usability
Specific routing protocol sessions to transit cloud are now shown when "Site edge" is turned on.
New option added "Show edge devices only" which shows devices connecting to edge
Improved overall graph performance

Features - Discovery

Discovery - Added DNS Name column to Error Report (DNS Resolve has to be enabled in Settings).

Improvements and Bug Fixes

Site separation - R&S option site name swapping fix
Routing table - fixed recursive NH interface lookup
Graph - position of transit cloud in the network overview is now saved
Graph Path lookup - Forwarding L2 switch to an unknown neighbor
Router with only one route and ATM interface was recognized as 'host'
Path lookup - Default GW forwarding fix
BGP neighbors uptime column is now properly formatted
Cisco IOS OSPF neighbors parsing fix
Cisco IOS/IOS-XE/IOS-XR BGP neighbors parsing fix
Cisco IOS-XE Auth session parsing fix (different header and no session output for interface cmd)
Cisco IOS-XE 3850 - version parsing fix
Cisco Catalyst 9300 - version parsing fix
Cisco IOS-XE VRRP parsing fix
Cisco IOS fixed ACL parsing
Cisco IOS BGP dynamic neighbor address parsing fix
Cisco Updated local IP address information for EIGRP neighbors for unnumbered interfaces.
Cisco - IPv4 Unicast address group for BGP neighbors accepts only IPv4 records.
Juniper JunOS - correctly detects SRX device in packet mode as router device type
HP Comware BGP neighbor idle parsing fix
HP Comware platform a-msr30 wasn't discovered
HP Aruba - fixed version detection, enable command now trying all combination from enabling password list
Riverbed CMC - version parsing fix
Riverbed updated telnet access information.
Juniper BGP neighbor session time parsing fix
Scheduled snapshots do not work, wasn't rescheduled on error
Discovery - enable password list wasn't sorted by priority
Mac table - NX-OS vPC peer link support added

2.2.8 (10th September 2018)

Features - Analytics

Detailed information about all Unmanaged Neighbors
New table Technology \ Interfaces \ Connectivity Matrix \ Unmanaged Neighbors Summary
New table Technology \ Interfaces \ Connectivity Matrix \ Unmanaged Neighbors Detail

Features - Protocol and technology support

BGP protocol support for HP Comware
Detailed information about EIGRP protocol (support for Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR, NX-OS)
New table Technology \ Routing \ EIGRP \ Neighbors
New table Technology \ Routing \ EIGRP \ Interfaces
Detailed information about RIP protocol (support for Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR, NX-OS, HP Comware, Juniper JunOS)
New table Technology \ Routing \ RIP \ Neighbors
New table Technology \ Routing \ RIP \ Interfaces

Features - Visualization

The NEW design of edges between the nodes, you can switch between "Curved" and "Straight" (new) type in Protocols menu
Added EIGRP routing protocol
Added RIP routing protocol
OSPF & BGP & EIGRP & RIP protocols added into overall network overview
MTU Check - edges are colorized according to colorization rules in table Technology / Interfaces / MTU. If there is no colorization rule then the color will follow these rules
green - MTU is the same on both sides
red - MTU is not the same on both sides
gray - one if the MTU values are empty.
Path lookup - Zone Firewall matching rules table
Path lookup - each forwarding decision can be highlighted in a graph for a selected node. See forwarding tab
Path lookup - the devices where the packet is stopped because security rules (ACL, Zone FW) are now red.
Unmanaged neighbors - also displaying unmanaged neighbors from routing protocols
Additional information can be added for labels, for example, Interface Media, Interface IP, Subnet, STP path cost, AS for BGP/EIGRP, etc.
"Non-redundant devices" option has been renamed to "Single points of failure"

Features - System

NIMPEE setup wizard added
NIMPEE UI will inform you when not enough space on disk remaining
Added SFTP as a destination for backups
System Update - Added "upload offline upgrade package" button even if Callhome server is reachable

Features - Discovery

Riverbed Steelhead - in some cases CLI output had an escape sequence what broke a device prompt detection.
Discovery - Connectivity Report - added column DNS Name - the resolved name of the IP address (DNS Resolve has to be enabled in Settings).

Improvements and Bug Fixes

Tables - new advanced filter operator "has the color", so you can filtering on column what has some color and add next filter rule for the same column to get a specific result.
Site Separation - the process could fail when using a regex for separation, and one of the sites was previously renamed.
STP - inconsistencies Multiple STP & Vlans without STP: false positives fix
Juniper JunOS - Hostname representing chassis cluster is now derived from the active node.
CDP/LLDP devices with phone capabilities were recognized as a network device.
Host to the gateway - FW as default GW added
Port-channel with member port XDP is not now edged port
Fixed mapping of results for BGP tasks
End to End path lookup - connected host mac address is now taken from gateway ARP.
STP - inconsistencies Multiple STP & Vlans without STP false positive fix
FIXED DNS resolving of Discovered inventory
Scheduled backup with destination FTP failed, the credentials weren't decrypted
Fixed NTP information - Correct parsing of GNSS reference, stratum \< 16 as check for reach-ability
Cisco Nexus 7000 admin vdc NTP copy to other vdc (system clock is controlled only from one vdc)
Cisco IOS - fixed reported parsing bugs for command "show ip access-list"
Cisco IOS - fixed reported parsing bugs for command "show bgp all neighbor"
Cisco IOS - fixed reported parsing bugs for command "show bgp all summary"
Cisco IOS - parsing fix dynamic cluster-HSRP/NAT acl rules
Cisco IOS - fixed reported parsing bugs for command "show ip ospf neighbor detail"
Cisco IOS - auth session parsing fix when no output is available
Cisco WLC - fixed processing of pagination
Cisco WLC - fixed reported parsing bugs for command "show ap config 802.11a summary"
Cisco WLC - fixed reported parsing bugs for command "show ap config 802.11b summary"
Cisco WLC - fixed reported parsing bugs for command "show ap wlan 802.11a \"
Cisco WLC - fixed reported parsing bugs for command "show ap wlan 802.11b \"
Cisco WLC - fixed reported parsing bugs for command "show ap inventory \"
Cisco WLC - fixed reported parsing bugs for command "show network summary"
Cisco NX-OS - fixed reported parsing bugs for command "show interface status err-disabled"
Cisco NX-OS - fixed reported parsing bugs for command "show ip ospf interface vrf all"
Cisco NX-OS - fixed reported parsing bugs for command "show access-list summary" (IPv6 entries).
Cisco NX-OS - fixed reported parsing bugs for command "show ip ospf interface vrf all"
Cisco IOS-XE (Catalyst) - fixed parsing of "show version" when stack switch has "Unknown" uptime
Cisco fixed parsing of command 'show ospf neighbor detail'. OSPF areas can be represented by either number or CIDR
Cisco ASA parsing fix for routing table - age and interface for dynamic routing protocols
Cisco IOS - LLDP/CDP neighbor interface for phone fix
HP Aruba - fixed reported parsing bugs for command "show ap bss-table"
HP Comware - fixed reported parsing bugs for command "display ospf peer verbose"

2.2.7 (31st July 2018)

Features - Analytics

Technology / Security / Secure ports - 802.1x / Users - added information about authorized user. Columns Username, User MAC, User method, User state

Features - Protocol and technology support

Detailed information about BGP protocol (support for Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR, NX-OS, Juniper JunOS)
New table Technology \ Routing \ BGP \ Neighbors
Collecting information about MTU on interfaces
Added MTU column into Inventory\Interfaces
New table Technology \ Interfaces \ MTU
Added MTU consistency check into Diagrams
Collecting information about NTP
New tables Management \ NTP
Collecting information about Wireless Radios on Wireless Access Points
New table Technology \ Wireless \ Radios/BSSID
Cisco IOS-XR collecting information about OSPF protocol

Features - Visualization

Host to gateway lookup is part of Network graph now and display the path over the network location
Added option to display/hide Wireless Access Points - AP is disabled by default
Align & Distribute menu which helps to quickly arrange multiple selected nodes
New options "MTU checks" to check MTU consistency
Path lookup - ACL implicit rules added to a matching table, show details button added
End to end path lookup possibility to specify TCP Flags in packet
Added BGP routing protocol
Added OSPF routing protocol

Features - System

Features - Discovery

Extreme XOS - in some cases CLI output had an escape sequence what broke device prompt detection.

Improvements and Bug Fixes

Tables
added button what prepare a link for sharing of current table view
Table header can be seen as fixed (sticky) when scrolling
new advanced filter operator - not equal to a column
Management / Changes - Speed up of the table for snapshot selection
Juniper JunOS Description for interfaces is now available in NIMPEE.
Juniper JunOS added MAC address for logical interfaces.
Juniper JunOS Fixed parsing of routing table with MPLS records
Juniper JunOS show ethernet-switching interfaces changed to an interface for compatibility with newer platforms
Juniper JunOS Updated routing engine schema for EX3400
Cisco - Secured Access ports - fixed parsing for ports with MAB only clients, changed command for IOS c2960c405
Cisco WLC - fixed getting of hostname for HA cluster
Cisco object-group parsing fix - support for new protocol names added
Cisco IOS - fixed ambiguous command & parsing for Power & Fan environment
Cisco IOS - fixed authentication session interface command for version higher than 15.2
Cisco IOS - fixed mapping of state for HSRP output
Cisco ASA - fixed parsing of a routing table
Cisco ASA - fixed parsing of "show version" command, missing SN for the particular switch in stacking information
Cisco ASA - ACL is now read from configuration (using regular commands was too expensive)
Cisco NX-OS - the fixed end to end path lookup for routes with default VRF
Cisco NX-OS - fixed system version parsing
Cisco NX-OS - fixed parsing of 'show access-list summary' command
Extreme switch SN - if not present chassis or switch in inventory, then SN is taken from the first available slot
FIX: If the server was restarted during the discovery process then the discovery process was stuck after server restart.

2.2.6 (2nd July 2018)

Features - Analytics

Greatly improved support of security rules interpretation for Juniper, Cisco, and HP Comware
Added default & global policies for Zone-based firewalls

Features - Protocol and technology support

Added collection of ARP and MAC tables for HP Aruba
Added collection of routing information for Cisco XR
Added object-groups support for Cisco and HP Comware

Features - Visualization

E2E Path & Site separation no longer reset the view upon close
Width of the grouped links in the diagram is increased logarithmically according to the count
Details in window components - The component can be moved outside of the screen and it will be minimized when it’s released outside of the screen
Graphs - Hub meshing is now restricted to Tunnel and VLAN interfaces

Features - System

Updated EoX reports for Cisco & Juniper
Customer credentials are no longer needed for updates over the Internet

Features - Discovery

Connectivity report - added a new report for Ambiguous or Incomplete command error
Cisco WLC - added support for WLC unit type detection in HA
Full BGP routing table handling - an Added setting which enables to skip downloading of BGP routes if the router has more BGP routes than the threshold

Improvements and Bug Fixes

Cisco WLC APs without configured IP address will now appear in discovery with IP of 0.0.0.0
Cisco NX-OS fixed parsing of environment variables
Cisco SG300 switch port trunk VLAN parsing fix
Cisco ASA - fixed parsing of SN when Chassis information is not available
Fixed parsing for OSPF neighbors, neighbor ID can be device name.
HP Aruba allows connecting AP to internal switch (fixing AP location)
HP Comware 850 WLC - AP interface name and VRF fix
HP Comware 7 fixed processing of L2 interfaces
HP Comware - display license command is sent only for virtual platforms to get the SN
Juniper JunOS fixed ethernetSwitchningInterfaceDetail parsing error when untagged VLAN is unavailable
Juniper JunOS Command Route - updated parsing of access-internal routes
Juniper JunOS Updated mapping for routing table (multi discard flag).
Juniper JunOS fixed mapping for task SecureAccessPort
Extreme XOS - fixed parsing of OS version
Riverbed L3 interfaces fixed task mapping
Fixed processing of CLI pagination for corner cases and improved detection
Fixed CLI output download, which was not available in some cases
Fixed Configuration Management scheduling component which didn’t remember the selected date(s) for Every week option
Tasker - fixed memory overflow bug when finishing jobs (Topology build could fail in big network with multiple Full BGP routers)
Updater would fail upon discovered of multi-homed AP with clients
Diagrams - Grouped protocols had a wrong arrows direction
Diagrams - Fixed shifted protocol labels in PNG Export
Table Inventory / Hosts added PoE column (hidden by default)

2.2.5 (12th Jun 2018)

Features - Analytics

Added STP pseudo-link between routers and switches not to rely on CDP/LLDP
HSRP, VRRP, and GLBP are now under FHRP menu.
Added preemption and protocol information to FHRP table.

Features - Protocol and technology support

Added vendor support for Extreme XOS
Added wireless support for HP830/850
Added support for CISCO GLBP & VRRP
Added support for Cisco ASA contexts
Added voice gateway device type
Added support for Cisco Nexus environmental parameters

Features - Visualization

E2E Path lookup is part of Network graph now and displays the path over the network locations
The tooltips are replaced with drag & drop windows which enable to display more valuable information directly in the graph

Features - System

NIMPEE VM can now be restarted or shut down from System Administration interface
System Administration - added option for restarting API
New support portal - http://support.ipfabric.io/

Features - Discovery

Significantly improved discovery error detection and reporting
Detailed communication logs are now available in Connectivity Report / Error reports & in each table with Hostname detail (only for user with Settings privileges)
XDP (Discovery Protocols) now consider only neighbors with capabilities "router" or ("switch" or "bridge" but excluding "phone" or "host")

Improvements and Bug Fixes

Juniper/JunOS ARP records weren’t used as discovery targets
Juniper/JunOS Zone FW is now collected from configuration (fixing 100% CPU BUG)
Configuration management no longer attempts to download configuration of Wireless APs
Forms with password field shouldn’t prefill a passwords
LDAP authentication now supports multiple LDAP servers for a domain
Firewalls are now included in the routing domain calculation
STP between switch and router for site calculation and graphs
Site recalculation - delete STP topology before start
Voice GW 224 device type
Added Vendor column to /inventory/hosts table
Improved Cisco VRRP support
Translated Cisco NX-OS routing protocol into a standard name
DOWNLOAD configuration file in /technology/management/saved-config-consistency can’t be sanitized.
Moved Table /reports/end-of-life-milestones to /inventory/end-of-life-milestones
Local IP now inserted into ARP table for a platform which doesn’t show local ARP entries
AP without CDP/LLDP is now connected to switch with pseudo-STP link
Removed duplicate tables that served as dedicated checks, since now each table can have any number of checks using table colors (reports)./dashboard/risk/device-stability (now a color in /inventory/devices)/dashboard/risk/eox (duplicate of /inventory/end-of-life-milestones)/dashboard/risk/err-disabled (duplicate of /technology/interfaces/errdisabled)/dashboard/risk/outbound-balancing (duplicate of /technology/port-channels/outbound-balancing-table)/dashboard/risk/routing-stability (duplicate of /technology/routing/route-stability)/dashboard/risk/stp-stability (now a color in /technology/spanning-tree/stp-instances)/technology/addressing/host-ip (duplicate of /inventory/hosts)/technology/management/config-register (now a color in /inventory/devices)/technology/management/os-version-consistency (duplicate of /inventory/os-versions)/technology/management/unexpected-reloads (now a color in /inventory/devices)
Fixed Cisco ASA parsing of empty localL4connections
Fixed parsing of 802.1X details for Cisco IOS-XE
Fixed parsing of auth sess int \ detail command for Cisco IOS-XE
Fixed parsing of 802.1X client list and sessionId for Cisco IOS
Fixed parsing of ARP entries for HP/Comware
Fixed processing port security command for HP/Comware when it isn’t configured
Fixed updater failing on validation of Zone FW rules
Fixed discovery of Juniper/JunOS from ARP entries
Fixed routing table flags parsing for Juniper/JunOS
Fixed parsing of non-active routes for Juniper/JunOS
Fixed ARP parsing of incomplete entries for Palo Alto
Fixed parsing of Cisco policy-maps under certain conditions
Fixed parsing of Cisco interfaces and IP interfaces under certain conditions
Fixed parsing of Juniper/JunOS configuration firewall command
Disabled sanitization of configuration files for Saved Configuration Consistency checks

2.2.4 (14th May 2018)

Migration to this version can take a long time, depending on the amount of history collected.

Features - Analytics

End to End path lookups now enable to lookup any IP or Hostname directly from the source or destination field
End to End path lookup now support L4 protocols and ports
End to End path lookup now supports Zone Firewall rules
Improved routing next hop analysis in the cumulative routing table
Improved 802.1x analysis
Added DNS resolution to hosts
Added voice VLAN for VoIP phones

Features - Protocol and technology support

Added support for Juniper SRX clusters (platforms)
Added support for Firewall Zones (security)
Added support for STP Guards (spanning tree)

Features - Visualization

Small sites (less than 5 devices) are now grouped into redundant and non-redundant groups.
Individual STP instances can now be hidden through Objects diagram menu
L2/L3 boundary is now enhanced through MAC lookup between router and switch using VLAN, ARP, and MAC (now still marked as stp)

Features - System

Added LDAP support for user authentication (supported Open LDAP, Microsoft AD)

Features - Discovery

Discovery connectivity report now contains vendor column for connection attempts from ARP entries
Discovery from XDP protocols now considers only neighbor with capabilities "router", "switch", or "bridge"
SSH/TELNET authentication credentials can now be limited to a specific subnet

Improvements and Bug Fixes

Significant performance boost for a historical snapshot comparison
Fixed Cisco 6500 OS version detection for certain variants
Fixed parsing of LLDP capabilities for Cisco SG
Fixed inventory parsing of certain Catalyst 4500 Sup8 IOS-XE variants

### 2.2.3 (10th April 2018) Features - Tacacs Authentication failure retries settings - SettingsAdvancedSSH-Telnet - The sites can be separated from the diagram (requires site detection using Routing & Switching) - Site names automatically derived from hostnames when sites detected using Routing & Switching - Discovery service windows have download log button - Speed improvements for Spanning Tree and QoS information - Tables now allow filtering using regex using =\~ operator in addition to advanced filters - Diagrams - automatic meshing for sites with over 200 meshable edges - Diagrams - Spanning Tree tooltips for the failure domain now consider VLANs active on a link **System Features** - Crypto image option (encrypted disk) - OS security updates - Service health check and auto healing for failed application services (arangodb, nimpeeAPI, nimpeeUpdate, syslogUpdater, syslogWorker) - Short DNS name in web certificate CSR can be removed **BugFixes** - Routing domains are now separated by sites - Switches with one default route are not calculated into the routing domain - Port-channel members with stp are not considered network edge - Phone and AP ports are considered network edge - EOL reports for Juniper had incorrect data - IP Phones are now detected using MAC in addition to LLDP/CDP - Discovery pages now always display Connectivity Report button - Tables - fixed CSV export for colored cells - Juniper & HP routing protocol types translation to a standard format - Calculate affected users - fixed root computation - Cisco - crypto session command - parsing fix - Cisco SG300 - ARP, L2 interface, and Loopback collection fix - PaloAlto - environment Power & Fan validation fix - Juniper - added support for multiple neighbors on a single interface - Tech support decryption was failing when file size was less than 1MB ### 2.2.2 (26th March 2018) **Features** - Dashboard - Table colors - the order of assigned color rules can be arranged (use drag&drop) - Added more predefined verification checks & updated Dashboard view - Diagrams - more information in the tooltip for STP edges - Tables - Colorize rules - fade out the background for results with value ‘0’ **BugFixes** - Predefined Advanced Filters was deleted by next Discovery start - Filtering any tables for the selected site - Diagrams - export png for end2end path lookup and host2gateway didn’t work - Diagrams - the tooltips for ACL/QoS were not showing - Fixed an error when manually uploading an update package - Fixed API endpoints for TechnologyPlatformsVDC & TechnologyPlatformsVPC - Wireless access point impact is calculated now only from errors and drops on wired interfaces - Cisco SG300 spanning-tree is now correctly parsed and saved - Fortigate hostname saved when no authorization is allowed ### 2.2.1 (21st March 2018) **BugFixes** - Report - Site Low-Level report - some cases had bug during generation - Report - Network Analysis report showed duplicate percentage under radar charts - Fortinet hostname not visible - Mac self entries not considered as a switch - TechSupport file - download doesn’t work - TechSupport file doesn’t contain discovery and CLI logs - TechSupport file doesn’t contain the most recent archived CLI logs - TechSupport file doesn’t contain nimpee system logs ### 2.2.0 (19th March 2018) **Features** - Colorizing tables using custom filters rules - The dashboard is fully customizable - Site separation now allows OR conditions in regex - Site recalculation can be now performed without a new discovery process - Discovery seed - IP networks can now be added as seed (currently limited to /24) - Diagrams - performance optimizations - Diagrams - Network - added mask separation option for transit networks - Diagrams - new UI for protocol menu - Diagrams - moved link grouping and layer grouping options to protocol menu - Diagrams - Network - multiple items can now be selected using CTRL key **System Features** - Added system interface accessible using system account - Integrated backup & restore (currently local or FTP target) - NIMPEE can now be updated over the Internet or by uploading an update package **Vendor Support** - FortiGate - Palo Alto - Juniper - JunOS OS - Cisco wireless - added support for new wireless access point AIR-AP2802I - HP 830 Unified Wired-WLAN platform - (Interface parsing, without wireless features) **BugFixes** - Diagrams - Network - nodes without edges now remains visible in the graph - Diagrams - Network - sites can now be added/removed in parallel - Check Point - Added support for ‘expert’ mode - Cisco ASA - routing table parsing issue fixed - Cisco - Wireless added support for clients in ‘start’ state - Cisco C1900 Routing table parsing issue fixed - Cisco Environment parsing fix on some IOS platforms - HP Comware - fixed parsing STP in MSTP mode ### 2.1.2 (19th January 2018) **Features** - New audit check **Technology - Spanning Tree - Inconsistencies - Neighbors ports VLAN mismatch** - New audit check **Technology - Spanning Tree - Inconsistencies - Ports with multiple neighbors** - New audit check **Technology - Spanning Tree - Inconsistencies - STP/CDP ports mismatch** - New audit check **Technology - Spanning Tree - Inconsistencies - Multiple STP between two devices** - New audit check **Technology - Interfaces - Duplex** Half duplex table replaced with Duplex mismatch table. - New technology table **Technology - Security - 802.1x - Devices** displays grouped data about 802.1x per device. - New technology table **Technology - Platforms - Stacks** displays grouped data about stacks per device. - Improved overview **Technology - Platforms - Stacks - Members** new connectionsCount column, popup with information for hostname, link to open site diagram. - Improved overview **Technology - Platforms - Stacks - Connections** new membersCount column, popup with information for hostname and interface. - Added support for relayed Syslog messages - Improved diagram performance - Improved diagrams **Diagrams - Network** - added "ignore filters" option to allow displaying of a single device with no known connections - Improved diagrams **Diagrams - Network** - added show utilization option - Improved diagrams **Diagrams - Network** - updated site presentation - Improved diagrams **Diagrams - Network** - tunnels between sites are now displayed in the network overview - Improved diagrams **Diagrams - Network** - added caching for redrawing which removes device jumping when redrawing - Improved Web UI - Enabled searching in quick sites filtering (top left corner) - Improved diagrams UI - enabled searching in the list of sites, routing domains, and switching domains - Settings - Authentication - disable browser popup to save passwords - Sites calculation type "Routing & Switching domain" change to sticky. Now using an intersection of previously found serials numbers with new ones. Previously renamed sites before this release will be discarded without a migration script. **BugFixes** - CLI parsing - Fixed false prompt detection when was used ">" char in the interface description - CLI parsing - Cisco NXOS - fixed parsing of the routing table for local routes - CLI parsing - fixed WLC platform AIR-C25xx - Updater service - heap out of memory fixed - port with CDP AP considered as an edge - Remove phone capability in CDP/LLDP send from some Nexus platforms - Configuration Management - Fixed false positives, which erroneously showed changes in configuration, when in fact none have occurred. (Line break n vs rn) - Diagrams - Fixed label boxes disappeared after hiding - Diagrams - Fixed search - Diagrams - Fixed link overlapping in the network view - Diagrams - Network - removed impact option - Diagrams - labels in the export image are always visible - Table **Technology - Interfaces - Switchport** Edge column displayed wrong values - Table **Reports - Site Low-Level Design** column siteName was wrong after the site renaming - Site Low-Level Design - Report: siteName was wrong after the site renaming - Site Low-Level Design - Report: if user arranges a site diagram then the diagram in a report also rendered according to this positions. - Web UI - Fixed generation of TechSupport file, which could fail with a large data set - Web UI - Some messages of informative character was displayed as critical messages (red color). - Routing domains calculation fix - protocols forming domains were not correctly filtered ### 2.1.1 (5th January 2018) **Features** - The component for scheduling **snapshots** and **configuration management** - **Technology - Management - Saved config consistency** display diff directly in the table, instead of on a new page - **Technology - Interfaces - Switchport** added columns **Access Mode Vlan**, **Voice Vlan** - **Technology - Wireless - Access points** added column **Mac**, **Impact** - The columns labels & help is now used in the search. - HP Aruba - more detailed error & drop counters **BugFixes** - HP Aruba - fixed parsing of wireless clients - The discovery process stuck when DNS resolve was enabled. - Telnet client - fixed negotiation for IOS XR - Cisco IOS-XE 3.04.06 fixed parsing of environment/stuck command - Cisco IOS-XR fixed parsing of age for arp command - Cisco IOS 870 fixed parsing of crypto session command - Cisco IOS-XE fixed parsing of OSPF neighbor command - Cisco IOS 2500, IOS-XE cat4500e fixed parsing of OSPF interfaces command - Cisco IOS - fixed parsing of switchport command, trunk allowed VLAN list - Cisco IOS 2950 - fixed parsing of a serial number - HMM protocol removed from CEF ### 2.1.0 (15th December 2017) **Platforms** - Checkpoint Gaia - HP Aruba (Wireless) **Features** - NX-OS Routing summary support - **Technology - Addressing - Managed IP** added columns **VRF**, **DNS name**, **DNS matched**, **DNS reverse** *(check if DNS record correspond with a hostname of the device, including DNS reverse lookup))* - **Technology - Management - Saved config consistency** *(check if a device have unsaved configuration)* - **Technology - Security - IPSec** - **Technology - Security - DMVPN** - **Technology - Platforms - Environment** (Power Supplies & Fans) - **Technology - Interfaces - Switchport** - **Technology - Spanning Tree - Neighbors** - **Technology - Routing - OSPF - Neighbors & Interfaces** - **Technology - Security - 802.1x** - **Technology - Wireless - Clients** add new column **SSID** - **Technology - Wireless - Access points** add new columns **Average Signal Strength**, **Average Signal to Noise Ratio** *(Clients with a weak signal, Access points with problematic clients)* - **Settings - Advanced - SSH/Telnet** *(customer can define retries limit for failures)* **BugFixes** - SSH & Telnet clients - fixed false prompts detection *(Cisco ASA timeouted on \<—More—>)* - Cisco WLC - **show client summary** command timeout fix *(reply "y" on display more entries? y/n)* - Cisco WLC - **show port detailed info** fixed parsing - Cisco **show spanning-tree detail** STP instances with no interfaces removed - IP Phones - fixed LLDP & CDP different destination interfaces - L2 edge port & user mac address detection improvement - NX-OS OTV interface supported - IE11 better performance ### 2.0.0 (9th November 2017) **Platforms** - Riverbed Steelhead - HP Comware 5 and Comware 7 **System BugFixes** - Fex parsing when description includes non-alphanumeric characters - OS Versions VDC fix (the only chassis are included) - STP parsing logic fix - Duplicate IP not reported for /30-32 networks - Fixed telnet negotiation **Features** - Combined Discovery & Analysis - Network Change Management - New diagrams - New central API - Added IP telephony - Added QoS - Added PoE - Added StackWise - Added routing protocols summary table - Added Interfaces - Transceivers - Added Interfaces Rate (inbound, outbound, bidirectional) tables - Added Spanning Tree - Inconsistencies table - Added Wireless controllers, access points, clients tables - Added End of life reports for 3COM, HP Enterprise, ProCurve, Riverbed + Cisco reports updated - Better TACACS controls - FEX-FABRIC port-channel type - Export encrypted tech support file - Jumphost support - Connectivity matrix based on protocol direction - Access List - new filter for source & destination port (searching in port range, filter values can be separated by ",") - Tables improvements (Automatic calculation of rows per page, Table rows size, Sticky first column, better pagination design) - User management including roles - Option to create a CSR (Certificate Signing Request) - CLI authentication records importance can be changed by drag & drop, the upper record will be used first. - Search - user can simply find the related page using search - User with settings privileges can clear DB