Changelog 2024

Features

• ONUs - GPS Coordinates
• ONUs - Custom description
• Switch/OLT Manufacturer, Model, FW and HW are included as entities in the alert definitions
• Default permissions for the users in NetSense - Viewer, Manager, Admin

Enhancements

• Capture Rx, Tx and Temperature for Nokia switches (except Nokia 7750 SR)
• All cases for alerts without related objects (device, port, etc.) are handled. Cases that have been handled:
• Port deletion
• Alarm definition change
• Alarm definition deletion
• Device hostname change/rename
• Device deletion

Bugfixes

• Dashboard Top 10 PON ports by downtime shows wrong data

Features

• xNMS becomes NetSense NMS
• Aggregated InfluxDB graphs visualization
• A mobile version of NetSense (User Interface only) tailored for Partners and Field Engineers
• Switch port Rx, Tx power (and thresholds) as entities in Switch port alert definitions - now they can be used to create alert rules

Enhancements

• Cockpit: Sorting POP B by Status and Type (Access first)
• The Overutilized view for OLT ports is now the default and only view
• Ongoing alerts for the OLT and port related to the ONU are included in the "/api/v2/onus/olt-info" API
• ONU refresh function is disabled when the related PON port or the OLT is down

Bugfixes

• The "Port name" column in Switches view now displays the full port name
• The "Entity" column in the Alarms tab has been expanded to accommodate the full name of the ports
• ONU Rx Power in the Dashboard won't show ONUs within the "Warning" range (RX>=-26 and RX<=-28)

Features

• Fetch and Display ONU ID with the PON port in ONU view

Enhancements

• Adjusted the maximum width for the columns in xNMS tables

Bugfixes

• DO NOT capture and visualize “A1” interface for NOKIA switches

Features

• Display uptime/downtime for devices in xNMS based on their status
• Bandwidth utilization baseline - calculated by the data from the last 3 polling cycles

Enhancements

• Device models filter in xNMS to display only models that are present in the currently selected region
• "Status" and "Port Name" columns are combined in the Port status tables (Switch ports, PON ports, Uplink ports)

Bugfixes

• ONU Down status icon does not reflect the reason in the ONU View

Features

• Switches port speed is now visualized in the UI
• OLT Uplink port Rx graph is now visualized in the UI

Enhancements

• OLT > PON Port > Graphs are aligned horizontally

Bugfixes

• “Active Alarms by Type” breaks when displaying more than 20 alarm definitions

Technical

• “Zone” is renamed to “Tenant” in the xNMS DB Schema - not affecting UI/UX
• InfluxDB Storage optimization - data for the graphs is aggregated by the following schema
• NOW → Last 1 month- no aggregation
• Last 6 months - 1 point hourly
• Indefinitely - 1 point daily
• Optimized xNMS <-> XNMP(agent) communication

Features

• ONU-level view - one level deeper view of the ONU: Performance information and Syslog are present in this view for the time being - [video tutorial](https://www.loom.com/share/635bd46886d94deeacc62aedb52b9b1b?sid=d80bc0e9-0b6f-43f4-a577-cc02a702fbd0)
• Bandwidth utilization baseline - calculated by the data from the last 3 polling cycles

Enhancements

• Added search capability in the Model filter for the Switches
• "Status" and "Port Name" columns are combined in the Port status tables (Switch ports, PON ports, Uplink ports)

Features

• Included switch port performance parameters Rx, Tx, Temp and Bandwidth in the poller The current and historical values are visualized

Enhancements

• Housekeeping to include closed alarms. All closed alarms, older than 30 days, are now deleted

Bugfixes

• Disabled PON ports are displayed as down for OP-9702 OLT models

Enhancements

• Improved xNMS dashboard metrics (Added Warning status, updated OLT temp ranges, proper name convention and ranges for ONU Rx power)

Bugfixes

• Displayed HW and FW version for the devices when DOWN

Features

• Manually delete alerts in xNMS (deletion can be done from Switch/OLT alarms tab)
• Added time picker for the graph filter selection in xNMS - now you can pick the exact date and time as a filter for the graphs

Enhancements

• FW version capture for Huawei YunShan OS (S5735-L8T4X-QA-V2)
• Added dBm sign to all Rx and Tx power params for better visibility

Features

• Add custom description to Switch and OLT ports - [video tutorial](https://www.loom.com/share/ea5804455fe94eedae526be290860c6e?sid=26bb7e95-e13b-4f87-ba83-e3073b6df85c)
• Switch port Rx and Tx params capture

Enhancements

• Displayed Rx and Tx power for the Uplink ports of Genexis, Optilink OP-944/948, OP-9702, OP-1144 and OP-924

Features

• Optilink OP-94816A model integration
• Added OLT Uplink ports monitoring for Syrotech and Technxt GPON OLTs
• Customizable tables columns

Features

• Manually delete ports - this option will be available only for ports with the status DOWN.
• OLT Uplink (ethernet) ports status and params monitoring - you can monitor params the same way as the PON ports

Enhancements

• Interface data won’t be polled if the device or the interface is down (admin or operational)

Bugfixes

• A visualization error in the graph for PON port errors

Features

• New front-end design

Enhancements

• Extend the REST API to provide information about ongoing alerts for the OLTs and their ports

Bugfixes

• Disabled PON ports are displayed as down for OP-9702 OLT models

Features

• Optilink OP-944 OLT model integration
• Polling and of PON port parameters: Temperature, Rx, Tx, Bandwidth, Errors, Discards
• Displaying current and historical values of these PON port parameters

Enhancements

• Hide/show the sidebar

Bugfixes

• Disabled PON ports are displayed as down for OP-9702 OLT models

Features

• Switch port down alert suppression if they are member of an Eth-trunk and that is down
• Genexis PON port-down alerts

Features

• The new initial page for the platform - Dashboard
• Added visualization of the “last ONU down reason” - different icons have been implemented for “Dying gasp”, “LOS” and “Unknown” reasons
• Integration of Optilink OP-MEN99216BC switch model

Enhancements

• Improved sorting of the newly opened alerts

Bugfixes

• Alerts de-duplication

Enhancements

• Alerting rules have templates and allow customization of the messages

Bugfixes

• The wrong uptime value for Syrotech and Technxt OLT is fixed with a new OID for system running time

Features

• Huawei non-LACP Eth-trunk interfaces are captured

Enhancements

• Bulk ONU and PON status API endpoint
• Alarm definitions have edit/change history

Features

• ONU delete functionality
• Alerts history per device
• API endpoint for the active alarms

Enhancements

• Stopped recovery for Device rebooted alerts
• Alarm definitions have edit/change history
• Improved device down detection in SNMP requests

Bugfixes

• Admin down port detection for Optilink switches and Mikrotik which caused fake alerts for port down