TraffAcct Release Notes and History

Change log

• Minor changes to the VPDN collectors error handling to better catch unexpected exceptions
• Fixed "year list" issue. Year list is now comprised of the current year and the 4 previous years.

Change log

• Interface based collector (i.e. serial/ethernet etc) can now locate an interface by decription rather than just snmp interface ID. On a Cisco, the "description" value is the one used (not sure on other platforms). To use this feature simply put the description in double quotes as the interface ID rather than the snmp int ID. e.g. in the config file

  		test:Test Circuit:"test ethernet connection"
  	

• A collector for VPDN sessions has been developed and included in this release. The circuit ID is the complete username associated with the VPDN session. This collector has been developed with the support of IExec.com.au. Many thanks.
• SNMP Counter Wraps and system restarts are now handled properly. The collectors keep track of the devices uptime each time they are polled. If the uptime decreases then a system restart is assumes and that poll sample is dropped. If the counter value is less than the previour value and the system hasn't restarted then a proper wrapped value is calculated.
• When a users changes their password, the new password is stored as an encrypted string rather than a clear text string. Clear text is also supported for initial account creation.
• NOTE : various elements of this release have tickled minor bugs in recent Ember releases. A new Ember release, 1.6, has been made available. It contains several bug fixes and should be used if you run this release of TraffAcct. Please install Ember 1.6 BEFORE you install this release of TraffAcct as it will need to compile the libraries with the new Ember.

Change log

• Rewrote the IP collector so that it uses GET_BULK rather than a series of GET requests. This will improve performance but does require the target device to support SNMPv2c (as if anything doesn't these days). ** NOTE ** it also requires the new snmp module for ember (mod_snmp-1.1) as this is the first with support for SNMPv2c PDU's and the GET_BULK operation
• Changed the user definition and configuration format to use a more structured approach. Rewrote authentication and password change routines to use the new format.
• Added support for external authentication hand-off via the user config file
• Added support for conditional display of the "change password" button based on a user config setting.
• Added a system wide config file using the same format as the user config file
• Added logging so that warning and error messages are sent to a central log file.
• Added user audit trail creation.

Change log

• Fixed a bug in export that can result to exhausting the file descriptors available to the process (and hence reporting zero data counts for various circuits)
• Fixed problem that resulted in the incorrect year being shown in a report if the report spanned a year boundary.
• Added the start of an FAQ
• Added a sample IP collector configuration to sample-config

Change log

• Problems with handling of community file that is missing the trailing line feed character fixed.
• Problems with handling circuit config files that are missing the trailing line feed fixed.
• Various minor modifications to the documentation to remove possible confusion or to clarify certain aspects of the installation process.

Change log

• Initial public release.