InterMapper® 5.5 Release Notes

InterMapper^® 5.5.5 - 28 March 2012

• [BUG FIX] Fixed map-list-related updates to properly handle usernames containing "'". (106471)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5.5 - 28 March 2012

• [BUG FIX] Added scrollbars to error list in Layer 2 view (106229).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5.5 - 28 March 2012

• [BUG FIX] Fixed error when sending test email from settings page when using language other than English. (#90534)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed an import error, introduced in 5.5.5b3, when deleting a retention policy and then adding a new one with the same name. (#106447)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed an error, introduced in 5.5.5b3, when stopping the database while retrying a previously-failed import. (#106449)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed an error, introduced in 5.5.5b3, when deleting a retention policy in use by an interface. (#106506)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed an error, introduced in 5.5.5b3, when deleting a retention policy in use by an interface's dataset. (#106594)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Data is no longer missing for reports that cross a daylight savings time boundary and use 'Days' scale (#106492)

Switches 5.5.5 - 28 March 2012

• No changes since 5.5.4.

InterMapper^® 5.5.5b3 - 14 March 2012

• [BUG FIX] Fixed a bug when reading from a modem which affected modem page and SMS notifiers. (105858 and others)
• [BUG FIX] Fixed a memory access error while importing data files with an 'import directive' header.

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5.5b3 - 14 March 2012

• No changes since 5.5.5b2.

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5.5b3 - 14 March 2012

• [BUG FIX] Fixed missing translations for app names on the home page. (#104739)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed additional import errors caused by adding and deleting retention policies. (#105706)
• [BUG FIX] Database The SNMP sysUptime is now correctly exported to the database for devices that collect it. (#105350)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a bug that resulted in certain error messages being logged to imdatabase.log even when there wasn't a problem.
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a set of minor bugs that resulted in the wrong message being shown for a server's import status on the IMDC home page.
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed a set of bugs that prevented CSV export of reports containing international characters. (#105148, #105785)

Switches 5.5.5b3 - 14 March 2012

• No changes since 5.5.4.

InterMapper^® 5.5.5b2 - 24 February 2012

• [FEATURE] Added two new built-in functions available for SNMP probe calculations, etc. They are strfind and strifind, which do case-sensitive substring search and case-insensitive substring search respectively. (96712)
• [BUG FIX] Changed package dependencies for 64-bit versions of Debian/Ubuntu. (99109, 100254, 104960, 105207, 105374)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5.5b2 - 24 February 2012

• [BUG FIX] A race condition could cause an exception when painting large icons (e.g. background images) (105246).
• [BUG FIX] Pressing Up- or Down-arrow when choosing a shape in the Edit Icon dialog caused an exception (105330).
• [BUG FIX] Invalid JPEG icon could throw an exception when painted (105246).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5.5b2 - 24 February 2012

• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed several different import errors caused by deleting retention policies. (#102853)
• [BUG FIX] Database Minor import errors no longer leave internal caches in an inconsistent state, which could lead to additional errors.
• [BUG FIX] Database When database start-up encounters certain errors, it now recovers cleanly instead of proceeding and running into further errors.
• [BUG FIX] Database Addition of new elements to the database is no longer delayed by an import cycle in many cases.

InterMapper^® 5.5.5b1 - 13 February 2012

• [FEATURE] Put an entry in the event log whenever a map-start-edit, map-end-edit, or map-revert occurs. (95929)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5.5b1 - 13 February 2012

• [BUG FIX] It is now possible to drag datasets from the Dataset View to an open chart to add them (100824).
• [BUG FIX] Duplicate Retention Policy names are now prevented by the client before closing of the edit dialog (105168).
• [BUG FIX] Retention Policy expiration inputs allowed large numbers (105182).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5.5b1 - 13 February 2012

• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a serious database schema upgrade problem when migrating directly to InterMapper 5.5 from versions prior to 5.3. (#104862)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a set of rare import errors and glitches triggered by adding and then quickly deleting a map, device or interface.
• [BUG FIX] Database Extremely large retention policy values no longer result in an import error. (#105232)
• [LATERAL] Database Minor start-up and import performance improvements for databases with many datasets.

Switches 5.5.5b1 - 13 February 2012

• No changes since 5.5.4.

InterMapper^® 5.5.4 - 03 February 2012

• [BUG FIX] No changes since 5.5.4b2.

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5.4 - 3 February 2012

• [BUG FIX] Refined new icon-loading behavior (104559).
• [BUG FIX] If the InterMapper Settings/Extensions directory contained a netsaw.xml file but no netsaw.jar, the client would throw an NPE (104589).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5.4 - 3 February 2012

• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed a bug that caused CSV export to silently fail when using Internet Explorer 7 or 8. (#104670)

Switches 5.5.4 - 3 February 2012

• No change since 5.5.3

InterMapper^® 5.5.4b2 - 30 January 2012

• [BUG FIX] Built-in probes now include an HTTPS version of the Follow Redirect probe. (103907)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5.4b2 - 30 January 2012

• [BUG FIX] Added debugging output for failure to load user preferences at startup (104353).
• [BUG FIX] Improved icon-loading performance (104559).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5.4b2 - 30 January 2012

• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a crash in the third-party pg_dump application that caused database backup to fail on some Windows systems. (#102063, #103829, #104154)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a rare web error when viewing the backups page and one of the backups is many gigabytes in size. (#104531)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed web errors when using the Chinese or Japanese translations, or when titles or interface descriptions include unicode characters. (#104350)
• [BUG FIX] Reports The titles, descriptions and parameters for report templates are now localized. (#104562)
• [BUG FIX] Reports When displaying a report as a table, column names are now localized. (#104570)

Switches 5.5.4b2 - 19 January 2012

• No change since 5.5.3

InterMapper^® 5.5.4b1 - 19 January 2012

• [BUG FIX] Fixed a bug introduced in 5.5.3b2 where the server crashed when initializing a device having a command-line probe. (104088)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5.4b1 - 19 January 2012

• [BUG FIX] Fixed an exception that occurred when re-opening the global device list while a map device list was open (103950).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5.4b1 - 19 January 2012

• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a bug where the first value in each sample was counted twice, resulting in slight inaccuracies in mean, standard deviation and count. (#104167)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Reports with two different filters on the same field no longer come up empty. (#104021)

Switches 5.5.4b1 - 19 January 2012

• No change since 5.5.3

InterMapper^® 5.5.3 - 13 January 2012

• [BUG FIX] Added support for Barracuda firmware 5.1 (103954).

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5.3 - 13 January 2012

• No changes since 5.5.3b2.

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5.3 - 13 January 2012

• [BUG FIX] Schema The datasampledaily sample_time column now uses type TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE instead of DATE, for consistency with the other sample tables, and to address various time-zone conversion issues.
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a bug that resulted in daily samples being offset by one day from their matching hourly and 5-minute samples in certain time-zones. (#103582)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a bug that resulted in the import of data from one or two days before the 'Oldest data to collect' time. (#103503)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a bug that resulted in the creation of duplicate hourly samples in timezones with sub-hour offsets from UTC. (#103886)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed a bug, introduced in 5.5, that prevented the display type from defaulting to column when changing the scale to 'Newest' or 'Combined'.
• [BUG FIX] Reports When scrolled to the bottom of a table, and the number of rows changes, the table no longer becomes empty when using Internet Explorer. (#101142)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed visual glitches on the New, Save and Load report screens when using Internet Explorer.

Switches 5.5.3 - 13 January 2011

• No changes since 5.5.

InterMapper^® 5.5.3b2 - 9 January 2012

• [BUG FIX] Fixed a case where certain combinations of dataset retention policies would incorrectly not be exported to the database.
• [FEATURE] When a device variable that is marked as autorecord is a chartable, use the chartable formatting information to format the data that goes to the dataset. (RT 100432 and 96987)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5.3b2 - 9 January 2012

• [BUG FIX] Improved performance when loading a map with lots of interfaces (103700).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5.3b2 - 9 January 2012

• [BUG FIX] Authentication When testing an AD or LDAP connection, the page no longer hangs with the Authenticate button greyed-out. (#102817)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed an additional bug that resulted in the creation of duplicate daily samples. (#102818, #102841, #102848, #102858, #103006, #103553, #103718, #103795)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a bug that prevented the load_data stored procedure from returning data for the hour including the begin_time. (#102903)
• [BUG FIX] Database Reversed an unexpected change in 5.5.2 that resulted in the built-in database logging to the Windows Application log. (#102718)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed a bug, introduced in 5.5.2, that resulted in saved reports loading with the wrong scale setting. (#102943)

Switches 5.5.3b2 - 9 January 2011

• No changes since 5.5.

InterMapper^® 5.5.3b1 - 19 December 2011

• [BUG FIX] Group notifiers that use JavaScript and/or the 4 new variables ( Smart Name; Short, Smart Name; DNS Name; Short DNS Name ) now work properly. (bug found while working on 102495)
• [BUG FIX] Pass xml headers through the web server unchanged; fixes Google Earth exports. (101838, 102545)
• [BUG FIX] Fixed a bug in the IPMI Probe that caused "Too many stackwalks" in the debug log. (102447)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5.3b1 - 19 December 2011

• [BUG FIX] Pinch-Zoom on Mac only zoomed out, not in (102501).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5.3b1 - 19 December 2011

• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a bug, introduced in 5.5.2, that resulted in a 'Couldn't load partially-complete data samples' error under certain conditions. (#102648)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a bug that resulted in duplicate datasample errors when reloading the database part-way through gathering historical data.
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a rare 'unable to save the server's password' error when registering a new server for export. (#101114)

Switches 5.5.3b1 - 19 December 2011

• No changes since 5.5.

InterMapper^® 5.5.2 - 12 December 2011

• [BUG FIX] Fixed a server crash when a notification that uses JavaScript produces an email subject that is the empty string. (102495)
• [BUG FIX] Fixed ASSERT when snmpwalk is invoked via server command. (102498)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5.2 - 12 December 2011

• [BUG FIX] The zoom control's tooltip should not be displayed when the window is maximized (102514).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5.2 - 12 December 2011

• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a regression in 5.5 that resulted in import errors for some notifications and acknowledgments. (#101731, #101791, and others)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed an event import error caused by resetting an alarmpoint. (#102337)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Reports no longer hang on 'Loading data...' when the date range is 'before...' or 'after...' and there is no data within that range. (#102407)

Switches 5.5.2 - 12 December 2011

• No changes since 5.5.

InterMapper^® 5.5.2b2 - 07 December 2011

• [BUG FIX] Passwords greater than fifteen characters no longer fail when external authentication is enabled. (102187)
• [BUG FIX] Daylight savings time no longer causes an off-by-one error in date calculations. (100024)
• [BUG FIX] Corrected display of inherited retention policies for datasets that had never had a retention policy other than 'None'.
• [BUG FIX] In an SNMP probe, the get-next operator '+' now works properly for traversing siblings. (102180)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5.2b2 - 7 December 2011

• [BUG FIX] Fixed a rare NPE in the Chart List view (102360).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5.2b2 - 7 December 2011

• [BUG FIX] Fixed a regression in 5.5 that resulted in errors, and a failure to bring up the 404 page, when visiting nonexistent web interface pages. (#102271)
• [BUG FIX] Fixed a start-up error that arose after using the Manage Apps page to remove all apps and then restarting IMDC. (#102350)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a bug that resulted in the creation of duplicate daily samples. (#101270)

Switches 5.5.2b2 - 7 December 2011

• No changes since 5.5.

InterMapper^® 5.5.2b1 - 29 November 2011

• [BUG FIX] Fixed a bug which caused an ASSERT failure when TCP scripts executed negative offsets in "else goto" constructs. (102054)
• [BUG FIX] Fixed 'Set Link Speed' hyperlinks in interface Status Windows. (102161)
• [BUG FIX] Removed random variables left behind in the dataset view when unchecking some devices. (102192, 102199)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5.2b1 - 29 November 2011

• [BUG FIX] Fixed tooltip for 'Set Link Speed' links in status windows (102161).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5.2b1 - 29 November 2011

• [BUG FIX] Auth Fixed a regression in 5.5 that caused authentication errors when using AD/LDAP directories. (#102066, #102168)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a bug that could cause built-in database initialization to fail on Windows.
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a bug that prevented an InterMapper 5.5 database from gathering data from an InterMapper 5.4 server. (#101974, #102026)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed an error that arose when multiple IM servers were reporting to one database, and import was disabled for one of them on start-up. (#102135)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Newly-created reports now properly default their scale based on the selected range. (#101821)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Charts no longer hang on 'loading data' when reporting on devices with non-ASCII characters in their names. (#102173)

Switches 5.5.2b1 - 29 November 2011

• No changes since 5.5.

InterMapper^® 5.5.1 - 21 November 2011

• [BUG FIX] Updated utility used by Flows installer to know about the correct new InterMapper Settings location. (101775, others)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5.1 - 21 November 2011

• No changes since 5.5.1b2.

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5.1 - 21 November 2011

• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a regression in 5.5 that caused query deadlocks, which are handled automatically, to be reported as warnings.
• [BUG FIX] Reports Reports no longer hang when loading InterMapper datasets with labels containing certain symbols. (#101781)

Switches 5.5.1 - 21 November 2011

• No changes since 5.5.

InterMapper^® 5.5.1b2 - 17 November 2011

• [FILE FORMAT] The file format has changed. Make a backup of your map files before using this version.
• [BUG FIX] Map files were growing each time the server was restarted; affected versions 5.5d5 through 5.5.1b1.
• [BUG FIX] Fixed a bug which prevented InterMapperMenu from working on German Mac OS X installations. (101293, 101452)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5.1b2 - 17 November 2011

• [BUG FIX] Showing/hiding the InterMapper Control Center is now run on a background thread so that it doesn't hang up the GUI while waiting (101293).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5.1b2 - 17 November 2011

• [BUG FIX] Fixed a start-up failure on older Windows systems, caused by the addition in 5.5 of an unnecessary dependency on MSVC90.CRT. (#101245, #101348)

Switches 5.5.1b2 - 17 November 2011

• No changes since 5.5.

InterMapper^® 5.5.1b1 - 11 November 2011

• [BUG FIX] Instead of ASSERTing, put notifier info in debug log and don't send notifier, when FindUserByID() returns NULL. (99856, 101180, 101217)
• [BUG FIX] After a probe runs, the label is now checked if it has been changed, and if so, a KU_labelChange is sent to the client, causing the label to be redrawn. (101225)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5.1b1 - 11 November 2011

• [BUG FIX] 'Layer 2 Enabled Maps' window was too large when displaying lots of maps (101227).
• [BUG FIX] 'Rename Chart' and 'Rename Dataset' menu items should not be enabled for multiple selection (101370).
• [BUG FIX] Checkbox tree folders with partially selected subfolders did not display as partially selected.
• [BUG FIX] Selection should transfer between Icon view and Dataset view.
• [BUG FIX] Revert/Restore did not re-synchronize the Map window when the action was completed.

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5.1b1 - 11 November 2011

• [BUG FIX] Fixed missing translations for several start-up messages.
• [BUG FIX] Database Import no longer stalls in certain situations while loading historical data from the server. (#89762, #95788, #101280)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a web error when viewing the database Overview page while loading historical data from the server. (#98386)
• [BUG FIX] Database When catching up from an interruption, a legitimate error, i.e. when IM is unreachable, no longer produces infinite rapidly-repeating retry attempts.
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a bug in the 'importing old data back to...' status message that caused it to occasionally show the wrong category.
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a bug in the 'importing old data back to...' status message that caused it to occasionally show times in the past.
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed missing translations for some words in several of the database import status messages.
• [BUG FIX] Reports When using the 'combined' scale, the x-axis label no longer shows '{beginTime} to {endTime}'. (#101220)

Switches 5.5.1b1 - 11 November 2011

• No changes since 5.5.

InterMapper^® 5.5 - 08 November 2011

• [BUG FIX] Fix check for editing retention policies (101131)
• [BUG FIX] Don't allow built-in retention policies 'None', 'Forever', or '24 Hours' to be edited.
• [BUG FIX] Fix a segfault when deleting a device that happens to be selected in the chartables window.

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5 - 8 November 2011

• [BUG FIX] Improved behavior of Double-Click preference pane on non-Mac platforms (101139).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5 - 8 November 2011

• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed duplicate datasample import errors that arose during a daylight savings time change-over. (#101184)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed duplicate datasample import errors that arose under certain conditions, particularly after the weekly maintenance task. (#101120, 101121).

Switches 5.5 - 08 November 2011

• No changes since 5.5a3.

• [BUG FIX] Entering a Not for Resale license no longer cause an exception in and disconnect of the InterMapper client. (101046)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5b2 - 4 November 2011

• [BUG FIX] Policy shows 'no data will be exported' with non-zero expiration values (101130).
• [BUG FIX] Droplet animations and X marks on links were not always shown.

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5b2 - 4 November 2011

• [BUG FIX] Fixed an additional issue with a third-party library causing IMDC start-up to fail with permissions errors on systems using SELinux. (#101118)
• [BUG FIX] Database Creating a new built-in database no longer fails with an 'unable to connect to localhost:8183' error (#100201).
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed an issue that reset IM retention policies to all 'None' values when a new server registered for the first time.
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed an issue that prevented charts from loading under Firefox and Opera. (#99994, 101029)

Switches 5.5b2 - 04 November 2011

• No changes since 5.5a3.

InterMapper^® 5.5b1 - 02 November 2011

• [BUG FIX] RemoteAccess logins and logouts are now logging to the Event Log again. Also, they can be rerouted to a custom log or "none". (95951)
• [BUG FIX] When multiple maps have the same name and path, but different graph IDs, all but the first one read in will have .1, .2 etc. appended to the name. This fixes a bug that occurred under certain conditions that crashed the server on startup. (98052)
• [BUG FIX] Nulls are stripped off the end of ifDesc. (101059)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5b1 - 2 November 2011

• [LATERAL] Attempting to change the Retention Policy for more than 250 datasets simultaneously now requires user confirmation.
• [BUG FIX] Lots of internal bug-fixes since 5.5a4.

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5b1 - 2 November 2011

• [FEATURE] Reports Greatly improved the performance of 'Uncheck All' in the device/interface chooser.
• [BUG FIX] Fixed an installer issue, introduced in 5.5a3, that prevented installation on Windows. (#100811, #100816, #100838)
• [BUG FIX] Removed a remaining dependency on libz.so that prevented IMDC from installing from RPM on systems without the zlib library installed. (#98602)
• [BUG FIX] Database Retention policy deletions are now reflected in the database with the next import, rather than waiting for a full synchronization.
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a bug, introduced in 5.5a4, that caused imports to fail after deleting a retention policy. (#101022)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed an import error when adding notifications with tens of thousands of retries.
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a long-standing bug that triggered unexpected web errors in the IMDatabase status section of the IMDC home page.
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed an error in daily maintenance when gathering table usage statistics. (#100794)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed an error when loading a saved report with a status filter. (#101028)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed a set of bugs that made it difficult or impossible to position the edit cursor within the save-as name field. (#100783)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Saved reports created with versions prior to 4.6 now properly restore the set of visible columns. (#101034, #101035)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Saved reports created with versions prior to 4.6 now properly restore the date-range selection. (#101031, #101032)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Numeric filters whose values contain non-numeric characters no longer cause the report to get stuck on load. (#100851)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Numeric filter values are now parsed according to the browser's locale. (#96480)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Date filters now properly exclude the entire date, rather than just the first entry from that date. (#100889)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed several issues preventing duration filters from functioning properly.
• [BUG FIX] Reports The scale drop-down wasn't properly defaulting when switching datasets from one without a concept of scale to one with.
• [BUG FIX] Reports When the scale drop-down is disabled, for datasets with no concept of scale, it no longer changes to match the date range. (#100970)

Switches 5.5b1 - 02 November 2011

• No changes since 5.5a3.

InterMapper^® 5.5a4 - 28 October 2011

• [FEATURE] Notifiers now allow the following 4 new variables: "Smart Name", "Short, Smart Name", "DNS Name", "Short DNS Name". (95943)
• [FEATURE] Support for "Status Window" menu in Chart View. (100885)
• [LATERAL] Make some dataset view entries consistent with other customer-facing names. See notes in 100553.
• [BUG FIX] Retention policies with "\" in the name could corrupt status window display. (100758)
• [BUG FIX] The switches extension now exits properly when InterMapper server is stopped. (100920)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5a4 - 28 October 2011

• [FEATURE] Retention Policies pane in Server Settings is now multi-columnar (100496).
• [FEATURE] Added 'Inherited' column to Dataset View to display the effective inherited policy for each dataset.
• [BUG FIX] Fixed flicker when first opening Preference panes (85712).
• [BUG FIX] Fixed edit-lock icon flicker (99647).
• [BUG FIX] Added 'Multiple' option to policy dropdowns in Dataset View when appropriate (100759).
• [BUG FIX] Dataset View contextual menus were out of sync with the list selection (1000826).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5a4 - 28 October 2011

• [FEATURE] Added -i and --interface command-line arguments that force IMDC to listen on a specific interface instead of all available.
• [FEATURE] Database Added an option to the Delete All section of the Maintenance tasks page to delete data from devices or interfaces that no longer exist on any InterMapper map, and therefore can't have their retention policies changed. (#99889)
• [BUG FIX] Resolved issues preventing the use of the -U (upgrade) option with the Linux RPM packages. (#93114, #99290, #100036, #100037)
• [BUG FIX] Fixed an issue with certain third-party libraries that caused IMDC start-up to fail with permissions errors on systems using SELinux. (#100154)
• [BUG FIX] The service now correctly starts after install on SuSE Linux. (#100127)
• [BUG FIX] The Windows installer no longer starts the service when the install requires a reboot (#99271)
• [BUG FIX] Fixed a regression, introduced in 5.4a3, that resulted in a web error when viewing certain web interfaces pages while the database was disabled. (#100722)
• [BUG FIX] Resolved issues preventing the use of the -U (upgrade) option with the Linux RPM packages. (#93114, #99290, #100036, #100037)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed a regression, introduced in 5.5a1, that prevented filters on 'Any Field' from loading from a saved report. (#100631)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed a regression, introduced in 5.5a3, that prevented the aggregate (avg/min/max) and group settings from loading from a saved report. (#100903)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed a regression, introduced in 5.5a3, that caused percentage columns to sort alphabetically instead of numerically. (#100787)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed a regression, introduced in 5.5a3, that caused percent columns to be multiplied by 100 when exporting to CSV. (#100867)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Tables are now sorted case-insensitively, matching the behavior in other areas of Reports. (#100483)
• [BUG FIX] Reports The specific/before/after/range date-range pickers no longer have the last days of the month cut off when using Firefox or Internet Explorer. (#100642)
• [BUG FIX] Reports The specific/before/after/range date-range pickers are no longer obscured by the 'no records' overlay. (#100890)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed a bug that prevented reports from loading on Internet Explorer 7.
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed a range of minor display glitches and inconsistencies on Internet Explorer 7.
• [LATERAL] Added a warning to the Linux RPM packages when installing IMDC before first installing InterMapper.
• [LATERAL] Reports Standardized the position and titles of interface-related columns in all InterMapper datasets. (#100437)
• [LATERAL] Reports Empty reports now default to a five-minute scale, matching the default date-range of 'day to date'. (#100894)
• [LATERAL] Reports When saving a report that was either already saved, or loaded from a saved report, the existing save-name is used as the field's default. (#100703)
• [LATERAL] Reports Percentage, number and duration columns are now right-aligned for improved readability. (#100866)

Switches 5.5a4 - 28 October 2011

• No changes since 5.5a3.

InterMapper^® 5.5a3 - 19 October 2011

• [LATERAL] Remove non-user-serviceable retention policy ID from status window. (100548)
• [BUG FIX] Make more effort to add devices entered as hostnames (rather than FQDNs) as "Resolve Name to Update Address". (90904)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5a3 - 19 October 2011

• [FEATURE] Added (hidden by default) 'Map Name' column to Notifiers View in the global Device List window (100514).
• [BUG FIX] When using ${URL_LAUNCHER} in Helper Apps, escape variables in the Path and Arguments (96148).
• [BUG FIX] Removed 'Reprobe' from unselected Map context menu (97812).
• [BUG FIX] When the global Device List window was opened after two maps that contained the same vertex ID, an NPE occurred (100663).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5a3 - 19 October 2011

• [FEATURE] Reports Enabled syncing of per-server retention policies to the database.
• [FEATURE] Reports Dramatically improved table view load and pagination performance for large reports.
• [FEATURE] Reports When loading a report in table view, the progress bar no longer shows an indeterminate animation; it updates with the actual progress of the operation.
• [FEATURE] Reports Added a new Device Uptime template, which provides a more focused view, limited to uptime/downtime, on the Status dataset.
• [FEATURE] Reports Added Up, Uptime and Unavailable columns to the Status dataset, to complement the existing Available column. (#100341)
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a regression, introduced in 5.5a2, that caused import to stall permanently on the next database start-up after the deletion of an interface. (#100606)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed a regression, introduced in 5.5a1, that caused saved reports with a filter on 'Any Field' to hang on load. (#100355)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed a regression, introduced in 5.5a2, that broke loading of certain filters from saved reports. (#100631)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed a regression that caused date selections in templates to produce reports whose date-range was shifted back by one day. (#100643)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed a bug that prevented most interface datasets from appearing in template dataset drop-downs. (#100394)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed a regression that resulted in events from outside the selected range appearing in the Event History dataset. (#100550)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Large reports no longer trigger browser slow script warnings when loaded in table view. (#97072)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Partially fixed wildly-inaccurate values in certain Overview and Status dataset columns. (#100393)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed broken behavior with filters on percentage fields, such as those in the Overview and Status datasets. (#100636)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed a regression, introduced in 5.5a1, that partially cut off the last row of dates in the time-range chooser. (#100642)
• [BUG FIX] Reports The loading progress text now changes color to remain readable regardless of its background. (#100632)
• [LATERAL] Reports Standardized the position and titles of interface-related columns in the Event History dataset. (#100437)
• [LATERAL] Reports Adjusted the default column order for the Status dataset to match relative severity.
• [LATERAL] Reports The Overview dataset now uses the same Up and Down percentage columns as the Status dataset.
• [LATERAL] Reports All ordering is now case-insensitive; a device or dataset called 'B' no longer appears ahead of 'a'. (#100483)
• [LATERAL] Reports Added a confirmation prompt before replacing an existing saved report. (#100634)
• [LATERAL] Reports Percentages are now shown to two decimals instead of four.

Switches 5.5a3 - 19 October 2011

• No changes since 5.5a2.

InterMapper^® 5.5a2 - 13 October 2011

• [LATERAL] HTML comments are no longer stripped out of the <tool:...> section of a probe. (99251)
• [LATERAL] If DNS probe returns with truncated bit set, status is set as warning in the absence of other errors. (94784)
• [BUG FIX] Adding probes directly to a probe group no longer risks mistakenly enforcing the device limit. (90904)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5a2 - 13 October 2011

• [BUG FIX] Added 'None' and 'Default' as possible Double-Click Actions (100338).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5a2 - 13 October 2011

• [BUG FIX] Fixed localization of several pieces of text that weren't being translated.
• [BUG FIX] Fixed a bug where it was possible for non-localhost login to become disabled after making changes to the settings page when the 'auto-auth local' check-box was checked. (#96505)
• [BUG FIX] Fixed a bug that prevented saving changes to the settings page when the 'auto-auth local' check-box was checked.
• [BUG FIX] Database Fixed a bug that caused the 'registering' and 'last export at' messages to flash repeatedly on the Reports pane of InterMapper Server Settings. (#100387)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Column headers in CSV export now use their full names instead of internal database keys. (#100395)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Values in CSV export now use the same formatting as on the web, i.e. seconds are formatted as a timestamp or duration. (#100395)
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed an bug that caused the report to appear blank when viewing a report as a chart and then switching to a dataset for which chart view is invalid. (#100355)
• [LATERAL] Removed the DataCenter status entry from the home page, since it no longer serves any purpose.
• [LATERAL] Moved the 'logout' link to the top of the page for better visibility. (#100189)
• [LATERAL] Reports Renamed the 'Status' dataset to 'Overview', which better describes its contents.
• [LATERAL] Reports Renamed the 'Availability' dataset to 'Status', which better describes its contents.
• [LATERAL] Reports The title of a report is now used as a default name when saving it. (#100347).
• [LATERAL] Reports CSV Export now uses the title of the report, instead of just 'report', as a default for the saved filename. (#100431)
• [LATERAL] Reports The dashed border around the report title is now always visible when the report is in edit mode, to make it clearer that the title is a field that can be changed.
• [LATERAL] Reports Standardized the position and titles of interface-related columns in all except the IM and Event History datasets. (#100437)

Switches 5.5a2 - 13 October 2011

• [BUG FIX] Ignore extra click of the Now button on the Server Settings Layer 2 Features pane. (99963)

InterMapper^® 5.5a1 - 10 October 2011

• [FEATURE] Implement 'Reprobe Selection' from global device list. (97161)
• [LATERAL] In SNMP OID high, low, range, and comparison probes, cast OID to be chartable. (99753)
• [BUG FIX] Correctly reads SNMP variables that are of type DOUBLE. (100000)
• [BUG FIX] Remove improper message when entering NFR license and trigger update of license list in Server Settings. (99986)
• [BUG FIX] Fix an ASSERT failure when setting probe from one type with a "fake" link to another type with a "fake" link. (100030)
• [FEATURE] Notifiers and labels may now display both device and interface information using JavaScript. (97039,98579,98634)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5a1 - 10 October 2011

• [FEATURE] Implemented 'Reprobe Selection' from global device list (97161).
• [LATERAL] Vertex highlights should be more visible - they last longer and are less transparent (100027).
• [BUG FIX] Exporting a chart dataset on Windows always resulted in an 'unknown error' because of the OS file locking behavior (100155).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5a1 - 10 October 2011

• [BUG FIX] Fixed a bug that prevented adding and removing apps from the IMDC Manage Apps page.
• [FEATURE] Reports Added several new report templates, simplifying the process of creating common reports.
• [FEATURE] Reports Added a new 'Availability' dataset that shows availability, downtime and other information about a device's status over a given time period.
• [FEATURE] Reports Added a new 'Outage Summary' dataset that provides a high-level overview of the worst status for a set of devices over a given time period.
• [FEATURE] Reports Added a new 'Status Summary' dataset that shows basic summary of a device or interface's status and datasets over a given time period.
• [FEATURE] Reports Creating a new report and loading a saved report are both faster and no longer require a disruptive page reload.
• [FEATURE] Reports Many datasets now include additional columns of information that are hidden by default.
• [FEATURE] Reports There is now a confirmation dialog before deleting a report from the Load or Save views.
• [FEATURE] Reports Added buttons to the New Report and Load Report views to easily toggle between the two.
• [BUG FIX] Reports The menu bar is no longer visible in printed reports.
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed an issue that caused random text to sometimes appear in the server/map/device/interface labels at the top of a report.
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed several display issues related to using Reports in a very small browser window.
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed a bug that prevented changing the 'current page' field when displaying results as a table.
• [LATERAL] Database Improved database start-up time and logging of errors during start-up.

Switches 5.5a1 - 10 October 2011

• [BUG FIX] Fixed another time comparison error to eliminate excessive scan rescheduling and resultant log entries. (99961)

InterMapper^® 5.5d5 - 23 September 2011

• [FILE FORMAT] The file format has changed. Make a backup of your map files before using this version.
• [FEATURE] Edit > Find > Find Devices... now locates a device by device ID. (94626)
• [FEATURE] A map's chart list view now updates when datasets are added, removed, or renamed.
• [FEATURE] Implements putting IM Settings folder in ProgramData instead of the install folder. Also, relocating IM Settings now works using --settings command line arg. (94150)
• [FEATURE] Added a new chartables view with the ability to modify data retention policies of datasets.
• [FEATURE] Data retention policies are now controlled from the InterMapper Server Settings window.
• [BUG FIX] Require signed serial numbers for OS X. Fix misleading error message. (99352)
• [BUG FIX] Fix a case where a license message showed "0" for the device limit instead of translating it to "Unlimited". (99926)
• [BUG FIX] When installing with IM Settings folder in ProgramData, copies switches.zip to the proper location. (99894)
• [LATERAL] Datasets marked as 'autorecord' now have an eponymous data retention policy by default.

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5d5 - 23 September 2011

• [FEATURE] Added support for OS X gestures for zooming maps.
• [FEATURE] Added 'Dataset View' to Map and Device List windows.
• [FEATURE] Added 'Edit Notifiers...' to the Notifiers view's combobox (99793).
• [BUG FIX] 'Set Kind...' should not be enabled if the server has no Device Kind list (84651,99185).
• [BUG FIX] Sound notifiers shouldn't be allowed in Group notifiers (98649).
• [BUG FIX] Macros were always inserted at the start of Email notifier subjects (99296).
• [BUG FIX] 'Cancel' did not cancel changes to Email notifier subjects (99297).
• [BUG FIX] Fixed an NPE when dragging devices in the list view of a pre-5.1 server (99341).
• [BUG FIX] Fixed a bug that caused extra Disk Utilization bars to appear (99380).
• [BUG FIX] Reduced the 'ant blind spot' area between close vertices by improving collision detection for all shapes (99555).
• [BUG FIX] Clicking OK in an Add Text... dialog after the map was closed caused an NPE (99610).
• [BUG FIX] Unchecking the 'Enable Layer 2' checkbox in Server Settings should disable all controls in the Layer 2 settings (99646).
• [BUG FIX] Fixed a possible NPE due to a race condition when renaming a map while also deleting several in the Enabled Maps pane (99725).
• [BUG FIX] Fixed a possible NPE when dragging devices in the Device List (99842).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5d5 - 23 September 2011

• [FEATURE] Database Moved raw data point storage to a new datastore table, which consumes dramatically less space on disk. Since existing data remains in the datapoint table until it expires, these savings are not seen until after the weekly maintenance task runs. Existing SQL queries on the datapoint table must be rewritten to use the new load_data function.
• [FEATURE] Database When enough free disk space is available on the database drive, the weekly maintenance task now uses it as temporary storage. This allows the task to complete faster while consuming less processor and memory resources.
• [FEATURE] Database Improved database start-up times, particularly for databases that have a large number of datasets.
• [FEATURE] Database The daily and weekly maintenance tasks recover more smoothly from certain errors, by skipping individual tables as necessary.
• [FEATURE] Reports Reports can now be exported to Excel-compatible CSV files.
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed several minor display glitches relating to drop-down boxes and the date-range chooser.
• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed several long-standing interface glitches under Internet Explorer 7.
• [LATERAL] Database Clarified the layout and text of the Maintenance Tasks page, and made it easier to reclaim disk space with a single click.
• [LATERAL] Database Added a link to the Maintenance Tasks page to the database status section on the IMDC home page.
• [LATERAL] Reports Minor visual improvements, including new display-type and menu icons.

Switches 5.5d5 - 23 September 2011

• [BUG FIX] Fixed time comparison and rounding error to eliminate excessive scan rescheduling and resultant log entries. (99653)
• [LATERAL] Disable detailed logging during #log and #logs debug commands.

InterMapper^® 5.5d4 - 19 August 2011

• [FEATURE] Server supports automatic updating of disk usage in dataset view for InterMapper disk.
• [LATERAL] Include DOWN service name in NT Services probe logging to Event Log. (98674)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5d4 - 19 August 2011

• [BUG FIX] Fixed bugs in the new disk usage protocol (99283).
• [BUG FIX] Fixed a concurrency issue when loading Flows extensions.

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5d4 - 19 August 2011

• [BUG FIX] Reports Fixed several long-standing interface glitches under Internet Explorer 7.

Switches 5.5d4 - 19 August 2011

• [FEATURE] Added manually-assigned wireless, switch-present and virtual flags.
• [FEATURE] Added spanning-tree root, self-connected and IP conflict flags.
• [FEATURE] Added Layer 2 blacklist to ignore L2 data from certain IP addresses.
• [FEATURE] Improved scheduling options for Layer 2 scans.

InterMapper^® 5.5d3 - 12 August 2011

• [FEATURE] Server supports disk usage in dataset view for InterMapper disk.
• [FEATURE] New charts are now named with the legend of the first dataset in them, rather than "Untitled 1".
• [BUG FIX] Make "behavior" handling more flexible. (97829)
• [BUG FIX] Fix "behavior" handling for multiple vertices. (97829)
• [LATERAL] Enable localization of remaining registration and serial number messages.
• [LATERAL] Clarify some registration and serial number messages.

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5d3 - 12 August 2011

• [FEATURE] The Charts view in Map windows now lists the data sets in each chart.
• [FEATURE] It is now possible to rename, copy, move, and remove chart data sets in the Charts view.
• [FEATURE] Added "Show Device" contextual menu item for datasets in Charts view.
• [FEATURE] Added "Show Device" contextual menu item to chart legends.
• [BUG FIX] Set Behavior... window now uses tri-state checkboxes (91346).
• [BUG FIX] File->Duplicate no longer asks for a map name (98738).
• [BUG FIX] Fixed a few situations where the remote client did not automatically reconnect (98832).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5d3 - 12 August 2011

• [LATERAL] Removed the interface used to edit retention policies; this is now done on the server.
• [FEATURE] Reports Added a new interface pane dedicated to creating new reports from templates.
• [FEATURE] Reports Redesigned the load and save interface panes, making them more intuitive and easier to use.
• [FEATURE] Reports Added a menu bar to better organize actions such as creating, exporting or printing a report.
• [FEATURE] Reports Standardized fonts, colors and spacing across Reports to make the interface easier to read.

Switches 5.5d3 - 12 August 2011

• No changes.

InterMapper^® 5.5d2 - 28 June 2011

• [FEATURE] Device labels can now be up to 64K bytes in length. The map file version number has been bumped to 95. This is to support JavaScript in labels.
• [FEATURE] Added Layer 2 access (FullLayer2Access) for non-admin users.
• [FEATURE] Added Layer 2 blacklist and support for layer2.ignore attribute.
• [BUG FIX] Avoid most spurious CRC errors in NRPE probes. (97555)
• [FEATURE] Accommodates registering serial numbers with missing prefixes and licenses with missing hyphens.
• [FEATURE] Device labels can now be generated with JavaScript, which has access to 69 device attributes, as well as probe parameters and variables.

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5d2 - 28 June 2011

• [FEATURE] Added 'Ignore IP' feature to ignore an IP address during Layer 2 scans.
• [FEATURE] Added 'Flag as' features to manually set certain flags in Layer 2.
• [FEATURE] Added more scheduling options to Layer 2 settings in Server Settings.
• [FEATURE] Added new GUI to control which maps are enabled for Layer 2 in Server Settings.
• [FEATURE] Added new GUI to edit database Retention Policies in Reports pane of Server Settings.
• [FEATURE] Added ability to stream a copy of the Client Log to disk.
• [BUG FIX] Menus could become too long to fit on the screen (96728,96627).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5d2 - 28 June 2011

• [FEATURE] The built-in PostgreSQL database server has been upgraded to version 8.3.15.

Switches 5.5d2 - 28 June 2011

• No changes.

InterMapper^® 5.5d1 - 31 May 2011

• [FEATURE] Extensions may be pre-fetched from the server by setting the 'prefetch' attribute. (84837)
• [BUG FIX] Puts a message in debug log if CPU utilization from Host Resources probe is outside of 0 - 100 range and sets it to zero. (97398)
• [BUG FIX] Detects some edge cases of invalid serial number status and reports a correct summary. (97530)

InterMapper RemoteAccess^™ 5.5d1 - 31 May 2011

• [FEATURE] Do not show license after user has already agreed to it in the installer (75041).
• [FEATURE] Extensions may be pre-fetched from the server by setting the 'prefetch' attribute (84837).
• [FEATURE] Added 'Device List' to Map List contextual menu (94738).
• [FEATURE] Acknowledge and Maintenance badges are now optional (96207).
• [LATERAL] Changed "Firewall" to "Access Control List" in Remote/Web/Telnet Server preference panes (85423).
• [BUG FIX] Most window preferences will now expire after 6 months since last read (91237).
• [BUG FIX] Auto- and Organic layout sometimes flung small disconnected clusters far away from the rest of the map (94312,94663,94673).
• [BUG FIX] 'Endpoints Only' filter in Layer 2 view was too obscure (95813).

InterMapper^® DataCenter^™ 5.5d1 - 31 May 2011

• [FEATURE] The built-in Python interpreter has been upgraded to version 2.7.1.
• [FEATURE] Greatly improved the performance of the web interface on low-bandwidth connections.

Switches 5.5d1 - 31 May 2011

• No changes.