What's New with OiDViEW?

OiDViEW 6.0 Release (what's new since 5.2):

- Trap Manager and Notifier Removed
- The Trap Manager console is no longer included in OiDViEW.
- Users needing Trap Support should download Trap Manager.

- Licensing
- We introduced a FREE Version of OiDViEW!!! (Enjoy!)
- Now there is no licensing restriction and after a full 7-day trial of Enterprise, you can use FREE version - forever!

- Miscellaneous
- BUG FIX: Mac Addresses were not being displayed properly in the MIB Browser or I-GRID
- BUG FIX: In some cases, while in table mode the row values were not being displayed in the correct syntax.

--> OiDViEW 5.2 Release (what's new since 4.2):

- Trap Manager Console
- Trap Manager Console is now both a separate application and a module inside of OiDViEW
- Trap Tray will work independently of Trap Service
- Trap Tray will be displayed on newer operating systems like Vista, Windows 7, etc.

- Installation
- Faster, easier install with no questions!
- Better firewalls rules created for both XP and Windows 7

- Licensing
- Simplified Evaluation Licensing for OiDViEW and TMS to not require second level of activation

OiDViEW 4.2 Release (what's new since 4.1.36):

- Signed Installation and Executables
- OiDViEW and TMS now signed and ByteSphere recognized as authentic vendor by Microsoft

- Installation
- Other Firewalls detected and notice will be given to user to create exclusion

- Trap Manager Console
- Filter Manager UI now allows Duplication of Filters

- Miscellaneous
- BUG FIX: SNMPv3 discovery and communication broken in some instances
- BUG FIX: IPv6 addresses not showing up in SNMP PDU Trace Module
- BUG FIX: Discovery module leaving blank rows in grid

OiDViEW 4.1.36 Release (what's new since 4.0.0):

- New Operating System Support
- OiDViEW and TMS now supported on Windows 2008, and Windows 7

- Installation
- UAC and admin rights automatically assigned on Windows 2003, Vista, 2008, and Windows7
- Exceptions for OiDViEW and TMS added to Windows Firewall automatically

- Miscellaneous
- BUG FIX: TMS not able to receive or send traps (see Installation above)
- BUG FIX: TMS Notifier not getting updated when settings modified via OiDViEW config
- BUG FIX: TMS Connection light ON when it should be OFF
- BUG FIX: Notifier not able to send emails (see Installation above)
- BUG FIX: Notifier not sending emails when email display name set
- BUG FIX: OiDViEW not able to PING or communicate with TMS (see Installation above)
- BUG FIX: Compiler broken when INTEGER SYNTAX constructs start on following line
- BUG FIX: WMI Toolbar and Search box not behaving as expected

OiDViEW 4.0.0 Release (what's new since 3.1.37):

- IPv6
- IPv6 is now fully integrated into the system

- WMI Browser
- Full Windows WMI Browser integrated into OiDViEW

- Miscellaneous
- BUG FIX: IfLastChange not getting properly displayed

OiDViEW 3.1.37 Release (what's new since 3.0.11):

- Trap Manager Service
- TMS now integrated with JaguarSX

- Trap Manager Console
- Filter Manager UI now includes class and event types
- Send traps using trap builder
- Send traps using a traplog

- SNMP MIB Browser
- Send traps from browser by clicking on trap node

- Miscellaneous
- Documentation rewrite in PDF format

OiDViEW 3.0.11 Release (what's new since 2.8.90):

- SNMP Trap Manager Service
- Trap manager receiver now separate from OiDViEW console
- runs as a standalone Windows Service

- Trap Manager Console
- Better Filter Manager UI - Filters are organized by Vendor
- Control local or remote Trap Manager Services (TMS) from one OiDViEW console

- Trap Manager Filters
- Support added for over 7000 events
- Support added for hundreds of devices and vendors

- Miscellaneous
- Fixed performance issue with IGRID and huge #s of routes in ipCIDR routing tables

OiDViEW 2.8.90 Maintenance Release (what's new since 2.8.0):

- Trap Manager Updates
- Send and Forward secure SNMPv3 traps
- Forwarded Traps now include origination address for v2c and v3 traps

- OiDViEW Agent
- Supports SNMPv3 discovery and system table
- add internal SNMPv3 secure users for OiDViEW agent for use with Trap Forwarding

- Miscellaneous
- SNMPv3 error messages more verbose
- Fixed bug with SHA authentication in SNMPv3
- Fixed bug with MIB downloads not completing



OiDViEW 2.8 Release (what's new since 2.7.61):

- Installer Updates
- OiDViEW is now officially supported on Windows Vista
- Complete library rebuild - smaller installation footprint

- Notifier
- Notifier Panel is now separate from the OiDViEW console

- Miscellaneous
- Export from IGRID module
- Export from SNMP testing module
- Updated Enterprise Numbers
- Fixed issue where 30-day eval key would cause an unexpected crash when launching modules like IGRID, Entity, etc.
- Numerous other small bug fixes in Trap Manager, Notifier, Data Exporter, etc.



OiDViEW 2.7.61 Maintenance Release (what's new since 2.7.50):

- Trap Manager Updates
- Trap Filter changes now update in real time (no need to shutdown and restart oidview)!
- Trap Filter Forwarding now supports dynamic trap conversion (send one type of trap as another)

- Miscellaneous
- OiDViEW can now display data in different languages and fonts (e.g. can show traps or browser data with Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Cyrillic characters, etc.)



OiDViEW 2.7.50 Maintenance Release (what's new since 2.7.21):

- SNMPv3 Updates
- Supports full Privacy / Encryption

- Trap Manager Updates
- Supports new Filter and Condition Types (Severity and Clear)
- Automatically Clear Traps based on conditional criteria

- SNMP Testing Module (NEW!)
- Fully Automated Agent Testing of any ASN.1 MIB
- Syntax and Semantics (GET, GETNEXT, GETBULK, GETMULTI, SET, etc.)
- Save and Load Tests
- Output results to log file



OiDViEW 2.7 Release (what's new since 2.6):

- SNMP Dialog
- Supports IP Ranges during multiple SNMP operations (New!)

- Discover Subnet
- Completely New UI, including sortable results
- Discover Wizard Interface

- Miscellaneous
- Bug fixes in following modules: Notifier, Trap Manager, Filter Manager, MIB Manager, and License Manager



OiDViEW 2.6 Release (what's new since 2.5):

- Trap Manager (NEW!)
- Supports SNMPv3 Secure Users/Traps
- Identification mechanism uses Trap Filters and MIB lookup
- Automatic Alarm detection based on MIB definition
- Alarm Deduplication (configurable)
- Live Display
- Alarm Detail
- PDU Trace
- Launch OiDViEW Tools from specific Alarm
- Create Filter based on Alarm
- Modify Filter based on Alarm

-Advanced Trap Filter Manager (NEW!)
- Pre-loaded with Filters for Cisco, Juniper, and Standard MIBs
- Edit, Modify, Delete Filters from UI
- Uses condition based matching
- Link Filter to Notifier Profile

-Notifier (NEW!)
- Send SNMP-Trap, SMS, PAGE, Email, NTEvent, or Execute Command
- Create Notification profiles, order send events

-MIB Compiler
- Export to CSV

- SNMP Dialog
- UI enhancements

- Miscellaneous
- Lexicographical OID Sorting
- MIB Browser now uses new DB Grid control (easily allows multiple selections, better usability, etc.)
- Word Search/Filter UI is now a panel on the main window, rather than a stand-alone dialog



OiDViEW 2.5 Release (what's new since 2.4):

- Cisco CLASS-BASED-QOS-MIB Browser (NEW!)
- Browse and Verify your Quality of Service (QoS) Configuration on your Cisco Routers.

- Miscellaneous
- MIB Manager now uses new DB Grid control (easily allows multiple selections, better usability, etc.)
- DB Table Viewer now uses New DB Grid control (easily allows multiple selections, better usability, etc.)
- UI and Performance Enhancements, and minor bug fixes


OiDViEW 2.4 Release (what's new since 2.3):

- SNMPv3 User Manager (NEW!)
- Add, Modify, and Delete SNMPv3 Users

- More Licensing Improvements!
- OiDViEW now allows a trial period without needing a key

- MIB Compiler Enhancements
- Export to HTML

- SNMP Dialog (NEW!)
- Unlimited SNMP dialogs can be opened
- PDU Builder - control how your PDU is crafted before you send
- SNMP configuration in toolbar
- Supports GET, GETNEXT, GETBULK, SET, and ROW INSERTS
- Auto-Query helps you find rows to SET
- MIB Syntax checking
- Not tied to a particular session

- Updated IGRID
- Supports in-grid edits (via SNMP SET)
- New Toolbar
- IfAlias column added for IF-MIB profile

- Miscellaneous
- INSERT Rows into SNMP MIB Tables
- Unlimited MIB Browsers can be opened
- Support for multiple sessions with different views for the same agent
- Rename sessions once they have been created
- Better selection and interface with grid
- Fixed crash when sorting grid on non-English systems
- Fixed numerous international character set issues
- Trace SNMP PDUs during Session Creation
- Exposure of MIBAquire and MIBDetect preference
- Save Mibwalk to different filename
- Fixed bogus timeout/request failure issue with SNMP GETBULK
- Alias MIBs not being registered correctly in DB


OiDViEW 2.3 Release (what's new since 2.2):

- SNMPv3 throughout the product

- Licensing Improvements
- OiDViEW allows multiple MAC address binding to the license

- MIB Browser
- improved MIB import and session refresh
- improved UI and search functionality
- improved configuration from drop-downs for default browser

- LiveGRID
- improved navigation, sorting
- TableView format - columns horizontally and indexes vertically
- Export Data to Clipboard, XML, CSV, Microsoft Excel (if installed)
- BITS type parsing, including multiple option choices for SETs

- IGRID, DataWindow:
- bandwidth bars, statistics for IF-MIB Datawindow
- IP address for interface (IF-MIB)
- ATM sublayer support for type 30/DS3 (IF-MIB)
- IfStackLayer display (may be postponed to next release)

- Performance Poller improvements
- poll and graph counters and gauges simultaneously
- save and load poller "profiles": OIDs and chart state

- Discover Subnet
- improved speed, accuracy
- added multiple ports, communities, ip ranges
- show status, elapsed time
- export config to XML
- discover node capabilities (routing, switching, etc)
- define discovery rules using a simple XML definition file

- PDU Trace
- improved speed, packet classification, timing
- decoding of SNMPv3 PDUs

- Status Dialog
- improved look and feel
- better status messages

- MIB Compiler
- new MIB Compiler/Load UI
- export to XML (SMI compliant)
- better classification of OBJECT types