=head1 NAME
App::Netdisco::Manual::ReleaseNotes - Release Notes
=head1 Introduction
This document will list only the most significant changes with each release of
Netdisco. You are B<STRONGLY> recommended to read this document each time you
install and upgrade. Also see the Changes file, for more information.
=head1 Migrating from Netdisco 1.x
This distribution (App::Netdisco) is a complete rewrite of the Netdisco
application. Users often ask whether they can run both versions at the same
time, and whether the database must be copied. Here are the guidelines for
migrating from Netdisco 1.x:
=over 4
=item *
You can run both Netdisco 1.x and App::Netdisco web frontends at the same
time, using the same database (if "C<safe_password_store>" is set to
"C<false>").
=item *
Only enable the backend daemon and discovery jobs from I<either> Netdisco 1.x
I<or> App::Netdisco.
=item *
You can share a single database between Netdisco 1.x and App::Netdisco. The
deploy script for App::Netdisco will make some schema changes to the database,
but they are backwards compatible.
=back
=head1 2.029014
=head2 General Notices
The node archiving behaviour of Netdisco 2 has until now been accidentally
different to that in Netdisco 1. This has now been fixed. See the new
"C<node_freshness>" configuration setting if you wish to revert or tune this
behaviour.
=head1 2.029010
=head2 General Notices
When upgrading you will encounter a current incompatibility between Netdisco
and one of its components. To work around this, issue the following command:
~/bin/localenv cpanm --notest --force Dancer@1.3126 DBIx::Class@0.08270
=head1 2.029008
=head2 General Notices
When upgrading you will encounter a current incompatibility between Netdisco
and one of its components. To work around this, issue the following command:
~/bin/localenv cpanm --notest --force Dancer@1.3126
=head1 2.029002
=head2 General Notices
The backend polling daemon has been rewritten and as a result your
configuration can be simplified. Some keys have also been renamed. Our advice
is to remove (or comment out) the complete C<workers> configuration which
enables auto-tuning. If you do wish to control the number of worker
processes, follow this pattern:
workers:
tasks: 'AUTO * 2' # this is the default, twice the number of CPUs
=head1 2.029001
=head2 Health Advice
This release will remove from the database spurious Node (workstation,
printer, etc) entries on vlan 0, which were causing dupliate entries in the
web interface. We advise that you back up the database prior to upgrade:
/usr/bin/pg_dump -F p --create -f netdisco-pgsql.dump netdisco
=head2 General Notices
The configuration item C<reports> is now a list (used to be a dictionary).
Each item in the list must have a C<tag> entry which was previously the
dictionary key. For example, now use:
reports:
- tag: power_inventory
category: Device
label: 'Power Supply Inventory'
columns:
- {name: 'Name'}
- {ps1_type: 'PS1 Type'}
- {ps1_status: 'PS1 Status'}
query: |
SELECT d.name, d.ps1_type, d.ps1_status
FROM device d
WHERE d.ps1_type IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY name
Old configuration will be continue to work, but we recommend you reconfigure
anyway.
=head1 2.028000
=head2 Incompatible Changes
The daemons can be started from init scripts, as root. They will drop back
from the root user to C<netdisco> before opening logs. However a limitation is
that the web frontend might temporarily keep root status to bind to a specific
port (e.g. 80) - the logs will then be created as root user. Sorry about that.
You might also find when upgrading that previous logs were owned by root and
Netdisco now wants to write to them as non-root (C<netdisco>) user. Please
either remove the logs before restarting, or alter their ownership.
Logs can be found in the C<logs> subdirectory of Netdisco's home area.
=head2 General Notices
The configuration item C<housekeeping> has been renamed to C<schedule>. Old
configuration will continue to work, but we recommend you now rename this key
in your configuration anyway.
=head1 2.025001
=head2 General Notices
The Web and Backend daemons (C<netdisco-web> and C<netdisco-daemon>
respectively) will now watch your C<deployment.yml> configuration file, and
restart themselves whenever it is changed.
The Web and Backend daemons will also now drop privilege to the same user and
group as their files on disk. This allows use of run control (init) scripts
whilst maintaining non-root privilege status (see
L<Deployment|App::Netdisco::Manual::Deployment> documentation for details).
The housekeeping task C<expiry> has been renamed to C<expire>. Old
configuration will continue to work, but we recommend you rename this part of
your C<housekeeping> configuration anyway.
=head1 2.023000
=head2 Incompatible Changes
This release will automatically migrate user passwords to have stronger
hashing in the database (a good thing!). This is incompatible with Netdisco
1.x web frontend, so if you must maintain backward-compatibility, set the
following in your C<deployment.yml> file:
safe_password_store: false
=head2 General Notices
The number of parallel DNS queries running during node discovery has been
reduced to 10 for maximum safety, but resulting in lower macsuck performance.
If you have a robust DNS infrastructure, you can probably put it back up to
something like 50 or 100:
dns:
max_outstanding: 100
=head1 2.021000
=head2 Incompatible Changes
SNMP community strings provided in the C<community_rw> configuration setting
will I<no longer> be used for I<read> actions on a device (despite having
"C<rw>" in the setting name).
If you have the same community string for read and write access, then you must
set both C<community> and C<community_rw> in your C<deployment.yml> file. In
any case, we recommend using the new C<snmp_auth> configuration format which
supercedes both these settings.
=head2 Health Advice
This release includes support for Device and Node expiry from your database.
This is an important part of housekeeping for your installation, and our
recommendation is to enable this feature such that suitably old Devices and
Nodes are expired nightly.
Add the following to your "C<housekeeping>" configuration in
C<deployment.yml>, to have a nightly check at 11:20pm:
housekeeping:
expire:
when: '20 23 * * *'
You should also configure one or more of C<expire_devices>, C<expire_nodes>,
and C<expire_nodes_archive> to a number of days. See the
L<Configuration|App::Netdisco::Manual::Configuration> documentation for
further details.
=head2 General Notices
If you use an Apache reverse proxy, we recomment increasing the timeout from
our previous example of 5 seconds to, perhaps 60. This is because some reports
do take more time to run their queries on the database. See
L<Deployment|App::Netdisco::Manual::Deployment> documentation for details.
=head1 2.020000
=head2 General Notices
If you were using the C<X::Observium> plugin, you'll now need to install
the separate distribution L<App::NetdiscoX::Web::Plugin::Observium>.
=head1 2.019000
=head2 General Notices
This release fixes a number of issues with the poller, and is a recommended
upgrade.
During Arpnip, Node IPs are resolved to DNS names in parallel. See the C<dns>
configuration option for details. Note that the C<nodenames> configuration
items from release C<2.018000> are no longer available.
This release includes new support for SNMPv3 via the C<snmp_auth>
configuration option. Please provide feedback to the developers on your
experience.
=head1 2.018000
=head2 General Notices
The previous mentioned bug in Macsuck is now fixed.
=head1 2.017000
=head2 General Notices
There is a bug in Macsuck whereby in rare circumstances some invalid SQL is
generated. The root cause is known but we want to take more time to get the
fix right. It should only be a few more days.
The C<no_port_control> configuration setting is now called C<check_userlog>
and its logic is inverted. Don't worry if this is not familiar to you - the
option is only used by Netdisco Developers.
=head1 2.016000
=head2 General Notices
The dangerous action log messages are now saved to the database. In a future
version there will be a way to display them in the web interface.
=head1 2.015000
=head2 Health Advice
Some of the "dangerous action" confirmation dialogs offer to take a log
message (e.g. Port Control, Device Delete). Currently the log messages are
B<not saved>. This feature will be added in the next release.
=head1 2.014000
=head2 General Notices
The backend poller daemon is now considered stable. You can uncomment the
C<housekeeping> section of the example configuration and thereby enable
regular device (re-)discovery, arpnip and macsuck.
=head1 2.013000
=head2 General Notices
You can now configure LDAP authentication for users.
=head1 2.012000
=head2 Security Notices
The read-write SNMP community is now stored in the database, when used for the
first time on a device. If you don't want the web frontend to be able to
access this, you need to:
=over 4
=item *
Have separate C<deployment.yml> files for web frontend and daemon, such that
only the daemon config contains any community strings.
=item *
Use separate PostgreSQL users for web frontend and daemon, such that the web
frontend user cannot SELECT from the C<community> DB table.
=back
=head1 2.011000
=head2 General Notices
Users can be managed through the web interface (by admins only).
=head1 2.010000
=head2 General Notices
You can now simplify database configuration to just the following, instead of
the more verbose C<plugins/DBIC> setting which was there before:
database:
name: 'netdisco'
host: 'localhost'
user: 'someuser'
pass: 'somepass'
Also, the C<REMOTE_USER> environment variable and C<X-REMOTE_USER> HTTP Header
are now supported for delegating authentication to another web server. See the
Deployment and Configuration documentation for further details.
=head1 2.008000
=head2 Health Advice
This release contains the first version of our new poller, which handles
device and node discovery. Please make sure to backup any existing Netdisco
database before trying it out.
=head2 General Notices
You can remove any settings from C<~/environments/deployment.yml> which you
didn't edit or add to the file yourself. All defaults are now properly
embedded within the application. See the new C<deployment.yml> sample which
ships with this distribution for an example.
=head1 2.006000
=head2 Incompatible Changes
The default environment configuration file C<develpment.yml> has been renamed
to C<deployment.yml>. This better reflects that users are not developers, and
also fits with the default for PSGI compatible cloud deployment services.
Please B<rename or copy> your environment file:
mv ~/environments/development.yml ~/environments/deployment.yml
=head2 General Notices
The installation is now relocateable outside of a user's home directory by
setting the C<NETDISCO_HOME> environment variable. This defaults to your own
home directory.
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