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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 \<instance> 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 \<apName>
  • Cisco WLC - fixed reported parsing bugs for command show ap wlan 802.11b \<apName>
  • Cisco WLC - fixed reported parsing bugs for command show ap inventory \<apName>
  • 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