Changelog v4

Version 4.1.19

✨New: Preparation for the upgrade to version 5. Note: This update will restart the server.

Version 4.1.16

🔧Fix: Folder /var/monsta/agent/store did not remove old files.

🔧Fix: Maximum value in a chart is shown as 0 when the value is negative.

🔧Fix: SNMP cache, in some situations, prevents the agent from performing queries against the device.

🔧Fix: Native SNMP uses the same request-id and causes high memory usage on some equipment.

🔧Fix: In the Panel, in some situations, the save button has no effect after modifying or inserting a component.

🔧Fix: Program monagentd stops responding to requests from the Monsta core in some situations.

🔧Fix: Instances with numeric names fail to be monitored.

🔧Fix: Automatic monitor rules create monitors with the alert group left blank.

Version 4.1.15

✨New: Ability to remove automatic monitors in minutes/hours/days.

🔧Fix: Automatic monitors duplicate created items when dynamic instance search is not checked.

🔧Fix: New version available warning takes up to 15 minutes to appear on the screen.

🔧Fix: monstadb logs are not rotated correctly.

Version 4.1.14

✨New: Automatic discovery of monitors (Monsta creates and removes monitors automatically as they are handled on the device).

✨New: Filter for displaying devices and monitors.

✨New: Ability to upgrade Monsta to Beta versions.

✨New: Backups with up to 1 month of information to restore.

✨New: Option to import and export templates.

✨New: WebSockets - New function ws.send_recv() to be used in monitors.

✨New: Low SMS and email credits trigger alerts on the screen.

✨New: Local cache for instances in SNMP.

✨New: Button to disable monitoring for a host.

✨New: Native SNMP (for lower resource consumption).

✨New: Option to save user data on the login screen.

✨New: Timeline shows monitor values.

✨New: Bar to increase device text on the main screen.

✨New: New TP-Link - Switch template.

✨New: New Cambium Networks template.

✨New: New WNI - Challenger template.

✨New: New Intracom Telecom - OmniBAS template.

✨New: New Intelbras - APC template.

✨New: New Juniper - MX5 template.

✨New: New Cianet - OLT GEPON template.

✨New: New Huawei - OLT MA5600 template.

✨New: New Socomec - Net Vision Masterys BC (UPS) template.

✨New: New 3Com - 4800 Switch template.

✨New: New Ericsson - Mini-Link template.

✨New: New Datacom (OLT) template.

✨New: New Volt - MPPT Charge Controller template.

✨New: New Volt - Full Power 620 Evolution template.

✨New: New Volt - AC Distribution Point template.

✨New: New Volt - Customer Distribution Point (PDC Evolution) template.

✨New: New Volt - Pop Protect template.

✨New: New Volt - Power Net 1000 Evolution template.

✨New: New Volt - Mini Central UPS SNMP template.

✨New: New monitors for Mikrotik - Routerboard.

🔧Fix: Groups displayed in alphabetical order.

🔧Fix: New devices appear for users without permission to access them.

🔧Fix: SMS messages longer than 160 characters were not sent (messages are now truncated).

🔧Fix: Real-time display option did not work properly on the timeline.

🔧Fix: Removed libraries from /opt/monsta/lib that conflicted with Linux server updates.

🔧Fix: Existing template monitors could not be modified.

🔧Fix: Data source for uptime check did not appear ordered. In some cases, some items were no longer displayed.

🔧Fix: Backups are overwritten when more than one license is in use on a single account.

🔧Fix: Cloning a device causes the primary device’s chart to be published.

🔧Fix: A monitor’s limits are not changed when the return type is changed (e.g., numeric, boolean, string, etc.).

🔧Fix: Function params.InstaceId() does not return the correct value, causing monitors that use it to fail.

🔧Fix: Devices are considered critical in the total sum even if only one monitor is in a critical state.

🔧Fix: Some Monsta logs were not being rotated.

🔧Fix: Monsta writes repeated information to the moncored.log file, causing these files to grow very large.

🔧Fix: When restoring a backup, icons are not copied.

🔧Fix: Device boxes do not shake when their state changes.

🔧Fix: When installing a license, Monsta occasionally reports that it is already in use.

🔧Fix: Charts with monitoring frequency in seconds are now displayed with a 1h range by default.

🔧Fix: In the panel, charts allow selection of monitors of type string.

Version 4.0.20

✨New: Added option of tools for the device (traceroute, ping and open in a browser).

✨New: Option to hide chart legends in a panel.

✨New: Sending alerts via Telegram.

✨New: Real-time chart display.

✨New: New visualization tree (Sunburst).

✨New: New BGP - BGP4 template.

✨New: New Intelbras - Recorders (HDCVI) template.

✨New: New Sophos - XG Firewall template.

✨New: New Brother - Laser Printer template.

✨New: New Ubiquiti - Edgeswitch template.

✨New: New Parks - OLT 10008S template.

✨New: New Huawei - NE20S template.

✨New: New Huawei - S6720 template.

✨New: New Morningstar - XPS template.

✨New: New Volt - Net Probe template.

✨New: New BlockBit - UTM template.

✨New: New Seagate - NAS template.

✨New: New SMS - UPS template.

✨New: New Intelbras - WOM template.

✨New: New Apple - Mac OS X template.

✨New: New Lenovo - IX4 template.

✨New: New Dell - iDRAC template.

✨New: New Polycom - Videoconference template.

✨New: New Fiberhome - OLT template.

🔧Fix: While editing/inserting a device, when specifying a packet size in the uptime check, the Ok button did not save the settings.

🔧Fix: IP addresses are not displayed when selecting an instance.

🔧Fix: Color legends appear without information in published charts.

🔧Fix: In some system stress situations, monitors that use ICMP, such as uptime and ping, stop working.

🔧Fix: When cloning a device, the default group is added automatically.

🔧Fix: Monsta sends alerts for a device’s monitors even when that device is in a critical state.

🔧Fix: Some scripts with dynamic instances cannot obtain metric values.

🔧Fix: When editing a metric, the maximum value did not allow negative values.

🔧Fix: Publishing a chart with multiple instances did not show their names in the legend.

🔧Fix: In some situations, the data verification service stops responding and it is necessary to restart the service.

Version 4.0.12

✨New: Percentile and ability to select data grouping time in charts.

✨New: Multiple state selection on the devices screen.

🔧Fix: Date selection component in a chart sometimes becomes slow.

🔧Fix: Some metrics appear with zeroed values in the Panel.

🔧Fix: Chart fills do not keep the same color as the line.

🔧Fix: In monitors with multiple boolean metrics, clicking a metric always displayed the chart for the first one.

🔧Fix: Instances with long names cause a loading error when adding a monitor.

Version 4.0.6

🔧Fix: It was not possible to save devices that use snmp with a port other than 161.

🔧Fix: It was not possible to save a data source with a return type other than numeric.

🔧Fix: Point view on charts did not show seconds.

🔧Fix: String-type monitors were always returned with the normal state.

Version 4.0.4

✨New: Function ping.send() modified to return success after receiving the first packet.

✨New: The uptime monitor displays the time the equipment has been up (only for devices with snmp).

✨New: Button to export/print a chart in PNG, PDF, SVG, CSV and XLS formats.

🔧Fix: When adding a device, the uptime monitor started in a critical state.

🔧Fix: When removing a device group from a user, Monsta adds all devices from that group individually to the same user.

🔧Fix: Chart legend returned to the previous model.

🔧Fix: Devices marked to not send alerts were not listed on the device view screen.

🔧Fix: Metric name of a monitor returned in alerts when a monitor returns to normal state was incorrect.

🔧Fix: SNMP v3 generates error during authentication.

🔧Fix: On systems with openssl versions later than 1.0.1e, RPM installation fails when generating the SSL certificate and the HTTP server does not start.

🔧Fix: Number of attempts was ignored in some situations.

Version 4.0.2

✨New: System core completely remodeled for lower hardware consumption and increased performance.

✨New: Configuration database now works in memory.

✨New: New color selection format for monitor and Panel charts.

✨New: New models for tree display (Hierarchy and Map) with zoom and pan.

✨New: Device and monitor check interval can be in seconds.

✨New: Ability to search for dynamic instances on a device (e.g., users authenticated with PPPoE).

✨New: New variables to be used in alert templates.

🔧Fix: Uptime chart is not displayed correctly when selecting a period longer than 4 months.

🔧Fix: In some browsers, group boxes swap places when clicking on them.

🔧Fix: In some cases, the count of devices by status is not displayed correctly.

🔧Fix: In tree view, devices without an icon cannot be selected.

🔧Fix: Pagination enabled on the Timeline.

🔧Fix: During metric editing in a template, the up/down move arrows delete the selected metric.

🔧Fix: Special characters are not displayed correctly on the devices screen.

🔧Fix: Correction of the algorithm for the “CPU Usage” monitor in the Linux template.