“Janus” can be downloaded here. In addition I’ve created NeDiO7 and a VMware ESXi build to get started even faster!
The only DB change since rc1 (nedi-338) was due to Aruba Wlan controllers:
alter table modules change modidx modidx VARCHAR(32);
It might as well be ignored for now, since this is a work in progress anyways. If your installation has write access through the webserver, you can simply update via System-Files…
I’m very excited about the upcoming Sector Nord AG event on 17. November 2011 in Hamburg.
It’s going to be a great opportunity to show the latest developments and how NeDi supports the SNAG-view management system…
Thanks to Sector Nord AG for inviting me and the great support!
If I was to use codenames, nedi 1.0.7 definitely should be called Janus…
But wait, it took me forever for 1.0.6 and only weeks after that I’m announcing a new version, you might ask? Yes, because besides being really busy at my regular job (still paying all our bills), I spent ridiculous amounts of time to rebuild a lot of the internal logic. The changes turned out to be more efficient than expected and multi-tenancy (hence Janus) was a small step for a man, one giant leap for the NeDi community!
BTW, while poking around in my code I had a feeling, which I recently found a name for…
Eagleson's Law:
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months, might as well have been written by someone else. (Eagleson is an optimist, the real number is more like three weeks.)
Anyway…updating from 1.0.6 is easy. Just upload this archive with System-Files, if your webserver has write access to NeDi. Don’t forget to backup your config files! There’s a new option to set rrdsize in nedi.conf, but NeDi just uses 1000, if it’s not used…
If you see “view” on the bottom of the users table in System-Export (depends on which version you initialized the DB with):
Use Export with “alter table users change view viewdev VARCHAR(255);” like this:
Now you’re ready to test the curret beta, with many small fixes and multi-tenancy features…
I updated the forum to keep everything safe. Feel free to sign up and join our community, but please use your work email accounts. No worries I’m not giving them away, but I don’t trust mass mailing accounts due to the spammers. Thanks for your understanding…
The current release works very well so far! Even with additional collection of broadcast, discard and status of the interfaces, it’s faster than the old version! Besides that, it got a lot more robust and verbose.
This makes me very confident that we’ll see the next release rather sooner than later. But don’t worry, upgrading will be a breeze. It’ll even be possible through the GUI! To make it worth while besides many enhancements and multi-tenancy features, I want you to share your thoughts on how you want to work with it every day. Thanks in advance for making NeDi even better!
The stock markets are not exactly doing what I want, but at least this project is! With the upcoming release, I wanted to re-align the website. It should be easier to find the right information and links. Most of the installation instructions are hosted externally anyways, so I decided to give up on the wiki approach and use a more straight forward appearance.
Looks like popularity and activity is picking up! I do my best to keep up with it. It’s great to be invited to events & conventions and learn how extensively NeDi is being used in certain (quite large) networks!
I try to respect all user-needs without making it too complex, which is not easy at times, but seems to work out so far. Using the defaults still keeps it easy, while many new options and policies allow for granular tracking of various networking aspects…
With RC1 out you should be able to get a taste of those recent developments. It’s particularly easy, if you get the new NeDiO6.ISO from a mirror (html docs included)!
