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NMIS9 Virtual Appliance: Release Notes

NMIS9 Virtual Appliance: Release Notes

Release 2026-02-06

RELEASED 2026-02-06

The latest update to the FirstWave VM can be downloaded here: https://dl-nmis.opmantek.com/FirstWave-VM-20260206-Debian11-x86_64.ova
Installation and general use are described in more detail on the Getting Started page.

Improvements

  • NMIS - Teldat OSDX model & plugin updates, options to generate files in NMIS8 format, and more.

Highlights

The OS is Debian 11
NMIS 9.6.5   (Release Notes)
Open-AudIT 5.6.5   (Release Notes)
opCharts 4.9.1-4   (Release Notes)
opConfig 4.7.0   (Release Notes)
opEvents 4.6.2   (Release Notes)
opHA 5.1.4   (Release Notes)
opReports 4.6.8   (Release Notes)
opAddress 2.4.0   (Release Notes)

Release 2026-02-02

RELEASED 2026-02-02

The latest update to the FirstWave VM can be downloaded here: https://dl-nmis.opmantek.com/FirstWave-VM-20260202-Debian11-x86_64.ova
Installation and general use are described in more detail on the Getting Started page.

Improvements

  • opReports - Introduced a new special report OSDx IP SLA Report that provides comprehensive network quality analysis (NQA) metrics for OSDx network devices.

  • opHA - Fixed a specific installation failure issue when the target directory is different than the default /usr/local/omk/, such as /data/omk/.

Highlights

The OS is Debian 11
NMIS 9.6.4   (Release Notes)
Open-AudIT 5.6.5   (Release Notes)
opCharts 4.9.1-4   (Release Notes)
opConfig 4.7.0   (Release Notes)
opEvents 4.6.2   (Release Notes)
opHA 5.1.4   (Release Notes)
opReports 4.6.8   (Release Notes)
opAddress 2.4.0   (Release Notes)

Release 2026-01-07

RELEASED 2026-01-12

The latest update to the FirstWave VM can be downloaded here: https://dl-nmis.opmantek.com/FirstWave-VM-20260107-Debian11-x86_64.ova
Installation and general use are described in more detail on the Getting Started page.

Improvements

The VM is now built with MongoDB 7.0.28 which includes the fix for vulnerability CVE-2025-14847, see MongoDB CVE-2025-14847.

opHA

  • Portal Enhancements: Added message bus connectivity status information to help visualize which parts of the Message Bus are connected and view current system health.

  • Bug Fixes

  • Fixed opnode_admin.pl to use opHA-MB license instead of using opHA license.

  • Fixed an issue related to nats connectivity issue on retries.

  • Fixed an issue where graphs would not display when switchover to mirror occurs. Now the appropriate cluster_id (that of Mirror) is used for displaying graphs in opCharts

  • Fixed ophad failure on restart issue when one of the Mongodb servers goes down in the replicated mode.

Highlights

The OS is Debian 11
NMIS 9.6.4   (Release Notes)
Open-AudIT 5.6.5   (Release Notes)
opCharts 4.9.1   (Release Notes)
opConfig 4.7.0   (Release Notes)
opEvents 4.6.2   (Release Notes)
opHA 5.1.3   (Release Notes)
opReports 4.6.7   (Release Notes)
opAddress 2.4.0   (Release Notes)

Release 2025-10-21

RELEASED 2025-10-22

The latest update to the FirstWave VM can be downloaded here: https://dl-nmis.opmantek.com/FirstWave-VM-20251021-Debian11-x86_64.ova
Installation and general use are described in more detail on the Getting Started page.

Improvements

  • opReports Reports can now be generated and distributed as PDF documents, Health Report now supports tagged Models.

  • NMIS Add support for tagged Models, Added model and plugin for Teldat OSDx RS420 with QoS support

  • Ownership of /etc/logrotate.d/mongod has been set to root so that /var/log/mongodb log files are now rotated successfully.

Highlights

The OS is Debian 11
NMIS 9.6.4   (Release Notes)
Open-AudIT 5.6.5   (Release Notes)
opCharts 4.9.1   (Release Notes)
opConfig 4.7.0   (Release Notes)
opEvents 4.6.2   (Release Notes)
opHA 5.1.0   (Release Notes)
opReports 4.6.7   (Release Notes)
opAddress 2.4.0   (Release Notes)

Release 2025-10-14

RELEASED 2025-10-14

The latest update to the FirstWave VM can be downloaded here: https://dl-nmis.opmantek.com/FirstWave-VM-20251014-Debian11-x86_64.ova
Installation and general use are described in more detail on the Getting Started page.

Improvements

  • opCharts Maps, Dashboards and Charts can now be exported as PNG, JPG, or PDF format; a new Node Audit API

  • opEvents Added Durable Escalations, a new mechanism that ensures escalation actions are never missed

  • opHA-MB opHA-MB 5.0 introduces a Message Bus to transfer data between opHA servers, as a faster alternative to Web Service data transfer

  • NMIS A new collect_pingable_services option to gather services from ping-only nodes with collect protocol being marked as down.

Highlights

The OS is Debian 11
NMIS 9.6.3   (Release Notes)
Open-AudIT 5.6.5   (Release Notes)
opCharts 4.9.1   (Release Notes)
opConfig 4.7.0   (Release Notes)
opEvents 4.6.2   (Release Notes)
opHA 5.1.0   (Release Notes)
opReports 4.6.4   (Release Notes)
opAddress 2.4.0   (Release Notes)

Release 2025-07-16

RELEASED 2025-07-21

The latest update to the FirstWave VM was released 21 July 2025 and can be downloaded here: https://dl-nmis.opmantek.com/FirstWave-VM-20250716-Debian11-x86_64.ova
Installation and general use are described in more detail on the Getting Started page.

Improvements

  • MongoDB 7.0 is supported for all products, and the VM uses MongoDB 7.0

Highlights

The OS is Debian 11
NMIS 9.6.2   (Release Notes)
Open-AudIT 5.6.5   (Release Notes)
opCharts 4.9.0   (Release Notes)
opConfig 4.7.0   (Release Notes)
opEvents 4.6.0   (Release Notes)
opHA 4.1.2   (Release Notes)
opReports 4.6.4   (Release Notes)
opAddress 2.4.0   (Release Notes)

Release 2025-07-10

RELEASED 2025-07-10

The latest update to the FirstWave VM was released 10 July 2025 and can be downloaded here: https://dl-nmis.opmantek.com/FirstWave-VM-20250710-Debian11-x86_64.ova
Installation and general use are described in more detail on the Getting Started page.

Improvements

  • opEvents has a new feature to identify multiple events which have a single root cause and suppress all but the root cause event. See Root Cause Dependency Analysis for Events

  • opCharts has new Dependency Maps for use in generating and visualising node dependencies for use with Root Cause Dependency Analysis for Events

  • NMIS has a new polling_group feature to improve Root Cause Dependency Analysis for Events

  • opEvents has a new Event Actions GUI editor, go to opEvents → System → Edit Event Actions

  • Administration has a new page for opCharts Settings

  • opReports added 95th percentile columns for the Jitter In and Jitter Out metrics to the Huawei NQA Report

Highlights

The OS is Debian 11
NMIS 9.6.1   (Release Notes)
Open-AudIT 5.6.5   (Release Notes)
opCharts 4.9.0   (Release Notes)
opConfig 4.7.0   (Release Notes)
opEvents 4.6.0   (Release Notes)
opHA 4.1.2   (Release Notes)
opReports 4.6.4   (Release Notes)
opAddress 2.4.0   (Release Notes)

Release 2025-04

RELEASED 2025-04-27

The latest update to the FirstWave VM was released 27 April 2025 and can be downloaded here: https://dl-nmis.opmantek.com/FirstWave-VM-20250427-Debian11-x86_64.ova
Installation and general use are described in more detail on the Getting Started page.

Improvements

  • TACACS Authentication now supports authentication redundancy with an optional Secondary TACACS Server

  • Export Nodes to CSV file with the Export to CSV button in the Administration → Nodes screen

  • Discovery improvements for Open-AudIT, see the Release Notes

  • NMIS has improved installation support for RHEL 8.10 and Debian 12 operating systems

  • NMIS has improved support for WMI and WMI monitored services

Highlights

The OS is Debian 11
NMIS 9.6.0   (Release Notes)
Open-AudIT 5.6.5   (Release Notes)
opCharts 4.8.4   (Release Notes)
opConfig 4.7.0   (Release Notes)
opEvents 4.5.1   (Release Notes)
opHA 4.1.2   (Release Notes)
opReports 4.6.2   (Release Notes)
opAddress 2.4.0   (Release Notes)

Release 2025-03

RELEASED 2025-03-31

The latest update to the FirstWave VM was released 31 March 2025 and can be downloaded here: https://dl-nmis.opmantek.com/FirstWave-VM-20250331-Debian11-x86_64.ova
Installation and general use are described in more detail on the Getting Started page.

Improvements

  • Added support for SAML Authentication for all products

  • Open-AudIT upgraded to 5.6, see the Release Notes

  • opConfig Compliance Report enhancements

  • Improved Topographical Maps and Enterprise Services in opCharts

Highlights

The OS is Debian 11
NMIS 9.5.2   (Release Notes)
Open-AudIT 5.6.4   (Release Notes)
opCharts 4.8.3   (Release Notes)
opConfig 4.7.0   (Release Notes)
opEvents 4.5.1   (Release Notes)
opHA 4.1.2   (Release Notes)
opReports 4.6.2   (Release Notes)
opAddress 2.4.0   (Release Notes)

Installation notes

Please read FirstWave Virtual Machine: Installation and Getting Started

Release 2024-12

RELEASED 2024-12-17

The latest update to the FirstWave VM was released 17 December 2024 and can be downloaded here: https://dl-nmis.opmantek.com/FirstWave-VM-20241217-Debian11-x86_64.ova
Installation and general use are described in more detail on the Getting Started page.

Improvements

  • Added support for SAML Authentication for all products

  • Open-AudIT upgraded to 5.6, see the Release Notes

  • opConfig Compliance Report enhancements

  • Improved Topographical Maps and Enterprise Services in opCharts

Highlights

The OS is Debian 11
NMIS 9.5.2   (Release Notes)
Open-AudIT 5.6.0   (Release Notes)
opCharts 4.8.3   (Release Notes)
opConfig 4.6.1   (Release Notes)
opEvents 4.5.1   (Release Notes)
opHA 4.1.2   (Release Notes)
opReports 4.6.1   (Release Notes)
opAddress 2.4.0   (Release Notes)

Installation notes

Please read FirstWave Virtual Machine: Installation and Getting Started

Release 2024-07

RELEASED 2024-07-22

The latest update to the FirstWave VM was released 22 July 2024 and can be downloaded here: https://dl-nmis.opmantek.com/FirstWave-VM-20240721-Debian11-x86_64.ova
Installation and general use are described in more detail on the Getting Started page.

Improvements

  • Added support for MongoDB 6.0 for all products, and the VM uses MongoDB 6.0

  • Open-AudIT upgraded to 5.2 with new framework with Bootstrap and Dark Mode, see the Release Notes

  • opCharts has new Inventory, Status and NMIS Events APIs.

Highlights

The OS is Debian 11
NMIS 9.5.0   (Release Notes)
Open-AudIT 5.2.2   (Release Notes)
opCharts 4.8.0   (Release Notes)
opConfig 4.6.0   (Release Notes)
opEvents 4.4.0   (Release Notes)
opHA 4.1.0   (Release Notes)
opReports 4.6.0   (Release Notes)
opAddress 2.4.0   (Release Notes)

Installation notes

Please read FirstWave Virtual Machine: Installation and Getting Started

Release 2024-01

RELEASED 2024-01-30

The latest update to the FirstWave VM was released 30 January 2024 and can be downloaded here: https://dl-nmis.opmantek.com/FirstWave-VM-20240130-Debian11-x86_64.ova
Installation and general use are described in more detail on the Getting Started page.

Improvements

  • Added support for Debian 11 for all products

  • Added Quick Add Node in Administration

  • opCharts TopN is improved and now called TopN Favorites, added Metric Links to Maps, added new Dynamic Topological Maps

  • Added Save Filters for Current Events so that you can save your opEvents filters and reuse them later, add a Notes feature for events.

  • Improve filtering and pagination on Saved Reports and Operational Status in opReports and add exception reporting to Response Time Report, 

Highlights

The OS is Debian 11
NMIS 9.4.6   (Release Notes)
Open-AudIT 5.0.3   (Release Notes)
opCharts 4.6.3   (Release Notes)
opConfig 4.5.4   (Release Notes)
opEvents 4.3.8   (Release Notes)
opHA 4.0.1   (Release Notes)
opReports 4.5.4   (Release Notes)
opAddress 2.3.2   (Release Notes)

Installation notes

Please read Opmantek Virtual Machine: Installation and Getting Started

Release 14 March 2023

The latest update to the Opmantek Virtual Appliance was released 14 March 2023 and can be downloaded here: https://dl-nmis.opmantek.com/Opmantek-20230314-VM9-Centos7.2009-64bit.ova
Installation and general use are described in more detail on the Getting Started page.

Improvements

  • Improved Administration module with a Guide to get you started using the system step by step.

  • Enterprise Services have been added to opCharts.

  • New list manager feature opCharts Element Lists

  • Improved Accessibility options, including support for Dark Mode. We have taken the opportunity while we tidied up the screens to change Opmantek to FirstWave.

  • Upgraded with support for MongoDB 4.2

Highlights

The OS is Centos 7.2009
NMIS 9.4.3   (Release Notes)
Open-AudIT 4.4.2   (Release Notes)
opCharts 4.5.4   (Release Notes)
opConfig 4.5.1   (Release Notes)
opEvents 4.3.1   (Release Notes)
opHA 3.6.2   (Release Notes)
opReports 4.5.0   (Release Notes)
opAddress 2.3.0   (Release Notes)

Installation notes

Please read Opmantek Virtual Machine: Installation and Getting Started

Release 01 February 2022

The latest update to the Opmantek Virtual Appliance was released 01 February 2022 and can be downloaded here: https://dl-nmis.opmantek.com/Opmantek-20220130-VM9-Centos7.2009-64bit.ova
Installation and general use are described in more detail on the Getting Started page.

Highlights

The OS is Centos 7.2009
NMIS 9.3.0   (Release Notes)
Open-AudIT 4.3.2   (Release Notes)
opCharts 4.3.2-1   (Release Notes)
opConfig 4.3.1   (Release Notes)
opEvents 4.1.0   (Release Notes)
opHA 3.4.0   (Release Notes)
opReports 4.3.0-1   (Release Notes)
opAddress 2.1.1   (Release Notes)

Installation notes

Please read Opmantek Virtual Machine: Installation and Getting Started


Release 19 August 2021

The latest update to the Opmantek Virtual Appliance was released 19 August 2021 and can be downloaded here: https://dl-nmis.opmantek.com/Opmantek-20210817-VM9-Centos7.2009-64bit.ova
Installation and general use are described in more detail on the Getting Started page.

Highlights

The OS is Centos 7.2009
NMIS 9.2.3   (Release Notes)
Open-AudIT 4.2.0   (Release Notes)
opCharts 4.2.5   (Release Notes)
opConfig 4.2.5   (Release Notes)opEvents 4.0.2   (Release Notes)opHA 3.3.0   (Release Notes)opReports 4.2.1   (Release Notes)opAddress 2.0.1   (Release Notes)