[MIB Explorer] MIB Explorer v1.6 Released

[Frank Fock]

MIB Explorer v1.6 has been released and is available
for download from http://www.mibexplorer.com
All MIB Explorer users are eligible for a free update to
v1.6 (as you can freely upgrade to any v1.x release)

The update is recommended, since v1.6 fixes some
important issues - besides providing many new cool
features! Please see the release notes below for more
details.


RELEASE NOTES

CHANGES Since v.1.5.11:

- Improved: Table view support for sparse tables.

- Fixed: Privacy settings were not changed by the SNMPv3
  admin wizard.
- Added: XML export for the Table View. Tabular and scalar
  instance values can be exported to an XML file. The XML
  file references XSD schemas that can be exported by the
  MIB module export (see below).
- Added: XML Schema (XSD) export of MIB modules.
- Improved: Search&Replace's "replace all" function now
  closes dialog after replacements have been done.
- Fixed: Strange behavior of progress display when running
  a monitor connected to a remote server when the monitor
  had a start time defined.
- Improved: Help system now uses JavaHelp 2.0.

- Added: Monitor scripts can now be embedded into
  the alarm configuration for monitors.
- Added: Monitor scripts can now be easily tested
  by pressing a button within the configuration.
- Fixed: Raise script was also used as clear script.

- Fixed: Unable to edit targets when there are no
  targets defined and one has edited the trap preferences
  first.
- Added: IF monitor expression to pic an expression
  based on a boolean expression.
- Added: Monitor can now be configured to listen for
  incoming traps.
- Fixed: Undo of monitor did not work for first row
  added.

- Added: MIB compiler has now a lenient option that
  can be activated in Preferences/General to minimize
  syntax checking.
- Added: Remote run, stop, and deploy of monitors on
  headless MIB Explorer server.
- Added: Preferred size for monitors when running on
  a headless server.
- Added: Security policy support in order to be able
  to limit connections to/from a MIB Explorer server
  to trusted IP addresses/ports.
- Added: Scripts can now be run on notification events.
  Which script is run, can be configured be associating
  scripts with notification ID subtrees.
- Added: 3D monitors.
- Fixed: Parsing of MIB module with module.object
  references where only one of the ambigous object
  name references is imported from another MIB
  module.
- Fixed: If the last row committed by a Table View
  failed, only one of the edited columns were marked
  as uncommitted.
- Fixed: Redo did not work with partitially committed
  rows in Table View.
- Improved: Dragging a object instance from the MIB
  tree to a PDU will now preserve its syntax (type)
  even if the corresponding OBJECT-TYPE definition is
  not loaded.
- Improved: Error message when encountered a
  duplicate import source.
- Improved: MIB file editor search dialog.
- Improved: Error message when encounterd a
  invalid ordered sequence construct.
- Improved: MIB table now also supports "trying" to
  set read-only values by checking the "Ignore MAX-ACCESS
  read-only" option in the SNMP preferences.
- Fixed: Several flaws in the documentation.


Frank Fock