May 2023
We are pleased to announce the latest release of Statseeker. Here’s a summary of the new features in v5.6.0.
Dashboard Panel Templates
Panel templates are preconfigured panels which can be added to your custom dashboards. Statseeker v5.6.0 offers over 30 ready-to-use panel templates including:
- Tables presenting anomalous traffic, details on ‘Device Down’ events, threshold breaches and VPN user sessions.
- Device uptime and Ping RTT comparison graphs.
- CPU load and interface utilization single statistics.
- Worldmap panels presenting device status, interface outages and high network load.
- A wide range of ‘TopN’ interface traffic graphs.
For more information, see Panel Templates.
Default Dashboard Variables
Statseeker automatically includes 3 pre-configured variables in all newly created custom dashboards on initial save:
- Group ($Group) – a list of all groups (containing at least one device) on the server.
- Device ($Device) – a list of all devices on the server, filtered by the current value of the Group variable.
- TopN ($TopN) – text-box which can be referenced in a query’s Limit field to restrict the number or rows returned by the panel query.
These variables are added to all newly created custom dashboards on initial save of the dashboard.
For more information, see Dashboard Variables.
Ping Polling Update
Statseeker has restructured Ping data collection.
- Ping RTT has been replaced entirely by what was previously Ping RTT (high precision). All associated reports and dashboards are updated on upgrade to use this new default.
- Added Ping RTT Minimum, Maximum and Jitter at 1-minute granularity.
- Ping Lost data has been simplified and expanded.
- Updated how we record Ping Duplicated data.
SNMP State Monitoring
Statseeker now automatically monitors and records SNMP state changes across all SNMP polled devices on your network. This data enables SNMP Availability tracking and both SNMP state and Availability have been added to a number of default dashboard reports. These metrics can also be utilized in custom dashboards, reports, thresholds and alert configurations.
System and Administration
- OS updated to FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p7.
- Incorporated CDT packages for Juniper CPU, RPM and CoS, Palo Alto HA, Blue Coat Systems, Cisco WSA, EfficientIP, Aruba Optical, Hirschmann Optical, MOXA Optical, and Enviromux Environment Monitoring.
- The Console can now be hidden/exposed on a per- user basis.
- Usernames now support email addresses.
- Expanded SNMPv3 encryption options (SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, and MD5).
Reporting
- Updated Device Viewer.
- Added:
- SNMP Availability, Outages and SLA reports
- EIP DHCP
- Bluecoat Proxy Connections
- Cisco FRU and Fan Status
- Environment Monitors Dew Point Graphs
- Palo Alto HA Status
- A range of F5 Big IP reports
- Aruba and Hirschmann Optical Signal monitoring reports
- APC Power Systems
- A range of Juniper CoS and RPM reports
Dashboards
- Legacy dashboard system is removed on upgrade (no legacy dashboard will be available to any user post-upgrade to v5.6.0) – for assistance migrating existing legacy content, see Legacy Dashboard Migration.
- Improvements to, and standardization of, dashboard linking and drilldown options across all panel configurations.
- Worldmap panels now feature options to configure multi-level labels for map nodes.
- SNMP State and additional Ping metrics added to Device Viewer, Server Overview, and Network Summary dashboards.
- Ping Rtt Comparison dashboard updated to include ping poller selections.
- Statseeker Server Overview and Processes dashboards updated to present data from either the Statseeker server or a selected Observability Appliance.
API
- Simplified the query needed to aggregate data by group to a single parameter in a single request.
- Added options to apply filters and formulae both pre and post aggregation.
Upgrading to Statseeker v5.6.0
- Requires a current Statseeker v5.5.5 installation.
- May require updates to your Statseeker license to enable some new features, contact the support team for details.
- For instructions on upgrading your Statseeker server, see Statseeker Upgrade Guides.
Service Pack Availability
Statseeker periodically releases Service Packs to resolve issues between releases. The latest Service Pack for Statseeker v5.6.0 servers is:
For details on the content of this service pack and how to access it, see the Service Packs section in the Release Notes.
This service pack is only applicable to Statseeker v5.6.0 servers. For access, please contact Customer Support.
Complete release notes can be found here.
See the Statseeker Documentation and Video Library for additional details on the release content.