Release Notes

1.1. Upcoming

1.1.1. Billing:

• Item price can now be specified for each item individually

• Settlementrun is now automatically validated via 2 checks

  • sum of booking record amounts must be equal to control sum of SEPA xml

  • count of non zero amount booking records must be equal to count of SEPA xml transaction

1.2. Version 3.2.0

1.2.1. New Modules:

• Nokia Altiplano

  • L2 provisioning using Altiplano

  • L3 provisioning via ACS / CWMP

  • monitoring (online status, real time values, historical data)
    
    

• DMS / DocumentMgmt

  • not based on LaTeX anymore → easier to adapt for customer

  • template support

  • documents can be edited in the browser

• SmartONT

  • zero touch provisioning for Huawei OLTs/ONTs

  • can be extended to other vendors

• Statistics

  • summary overview of numbers of customer / items / revenue

  • create your own SQL queries for custom reports

  • display results over time in diagrams

• High Availability

  • services: DHCP, DNS, TFTP, TR-69

  • polling engine

  • further developments in micro-service architecture

1.2.2. Provisioning:

• firmware update campaigns (updating a subset of devices in user specified time slots)

• RADIUS: suggest IP pool to be assigned via BRAS / BNG (CPEPriv / CPEPub), instead of assigning it via NMS Prime

• RADIUS: Authenticate devices via Agent-Circuit-Id instead of username/password

• ACS: allow devices to be reprovisioned on-demand (without having to factory reset the device)

1.2.3. Monitoring:

• up-/  and downstream bandwidth measurements for Commscope cable modems (using iperf)

• Icinga alarming rollup

• modem analysis auto-update

• reduce load on device for SNMP controlling

• Show TR069 CWMP protocol logs in modem analysis page according to DHCP logs for DOCSIS modems

1.2.4. Billing:

• fix: show correct cost-center in booking and accounting record files

• added column 'costcenter number' to booking record csv

• Separated overdue debts import from settlement run → new menu entry in overdue debts module

• automatic Ropa CDR import

1.2.5. Tier-1

• new logical customizable hierarchic view and specialized tier-1 customizable UI/view

• new system architecture

  • added polling engine Telegraf

  • highly flexible micro-service architecture 

1.2.6. Deployment:

• NPM based deployment / removed git submodules

• reducing size + compressing js/css/html files

• fixing long-lasting npm production issue

1.2.7. Backend:

• switch to postgres for whole database

• introduce timescaleDB for high scalability

• introduce Prometheus

• major vue.js update

• laravel update

• voipmonitor update (improved stability)

1.2.8. Minor Improvements

• speed improvements due to UI, framework and DB changes

• small bug fixes

1.2.9. Breaking Changes

1.2.9.1. environment variables:

DATATABLES_RELATION_THRESHHOLD is now DATATABLES_RELATION_THRESHOLD
DATATABLES_HUGE_TABLE_THRESHHOLD is now DATATABLES_HUGE_TABLE_THRESHOLD

1.3. Version 3.1.0 (2022-02-21)

Dependencies:

• update to PHP8

• replace Cacti with Grafana for Modem/CPE diagrams

• update Icinga2, Icingaweb2, Icingaweb2-Director and Cacti to PHP8 compatible versions

• update genieACS to the latest version

• use SourceGuardian to encrypt prime apps

• introduce websockets for modem analysis

Base:

• Add App overwiew: quickly see which apps are installed and which are available

• Reworked Sidebar

  • Search and favorite your NetElements

• Rework Tabs

• Add Notification-System to NMS Prime

• Improve TR069 Support

• speed and scalabilities improvements

  • Unify the way position Data is handled internally

• improve API responses

• restart DHCPd less often

• display hints if DHCP config is not valid

• allow modem-specific options

• a lot of "small fixes" from everyone

Monitoring:

• any TR069 values can be retrieved, calculated and shown in diagrams

• PHY values (US/DS power, SNR) of TR069 devices shown and colorized on map (with user definable thresholds)

• introduce highly scalable rust-based modemparser for both DOCSIS and TR069 devices

• user definable grafana dashboards / diagrams

• cache DNS queries

Detect:

• Rewrite Map Engine

  • use Leaflet instead of openlayers as underlying library

  • use webgl to improve performance of maps

  • colorization of non-docsis devices on topography

  • Support for HereMaps, (update Google Maps and OSM integration)

• D3.1 with OFDM monitoring

• Improve FTTH and DSL Monitoring

• vicinity graph added for non-remote controllable amplifiers

• New ERD (accessible via toggle switch)
  
  

  • improve ERD logic to improve load times and show intermediate elements consistently

Workforce:

• show Tickets and connect them with the Truck/User that is assigned

• get directions to a ticket

Ticket:

• Tickets must be connected to a Model of the system

• Add TicketReceiver

Overdue Debts:

• Increase MT940 compatibility

• Improve Debt calculation

Scalability:

• topography displayed using WebGL where possible

• select fields retrieved via AJAX (paginated)

• modem positioning rules vastly improved

• introduce asynchronous CMTS poller for retrieving modem US SNR values

• introduce many background jobs and different priority queues → GUI won't block

1.4. Version 3.0.0 (2021-03-16)

• IPv6 provisioning of cable modems

• bug fixes and performance improvements

• Update to PHP 7.3 and Laravel 6.0

• user defined logos

• unified API response

The following features are only available with the enterprise version! Have a look at our news page.

• Make currency configurable

• Add ticket comments quick and easy via ajax

• Add trouble dashboard

• Add workforce module

• Add PNM Heatmap

• Support Opennumbers telefony accounting

• Show DOCSIS3.1 realtime values

• Add Sat-Kabel tap controlling

1.5. Search stuff by yourself

1.6. Statistics