From b04a11e2f0d8f898ae1f694a7ba9af2f1fe916cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Morten Brekkevold Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:11:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add release note about plugin order change This also removes the premature 5.12 heading: The already existing `Unreleased` section takes it place, and will be updated as standard procedure on the next feature release. --- NOTES.rst | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NOTES.rst b/NOTES.rst index ac45f53fa9..0afb4eedf1 100644 --- a/NOTES.rst +++ b/NOTES.rst @@ -20,9 +20,6 @@ to be able to upgrade to Python 3.11: * :mod:`django-crispy-forms` * :mod:`crispy-forms-foundation` - -NAV 5.12 -======== Deprecation warnings -------------------- .. warning:: The ``[paloaltoarp]`` section of :file:`ipdevpoll.conf`, used for @@ -33,6 +30,20 @@ Deprecation warnings analogous to configuration of SNMP-based fetching. :ref:`See below for more details<5.12-new-http-rest-api-management-profile-type>`. +Change ``ip2mac`` plugin order in :file:`ipdevpoll.conf` +-------------------------------------------------------- + +The Palo Alto ARP plugin in ipdevpoll had a problem which caused the ARP +records it collected from Palo Palo firewalls to be unduly closed by the +regular SNMP-based ARP plugin. This release of NAV fixes this by making the +SNMP-based ARP plugin a "fallback" mechanism that doesn't touch ARP collection +if another plugin has already collected ARP data. + +In order for this fix to work, **you must change the order of the plugins** in the +``[job_ip2mac]`` section of your :file:`ipdevpoll.conf` file, to ensure that +the ``paloaltoarp`` plugin is listed *before* the ``arp`` plugin. + + .. _5.12-new-http-rest-api-management-profile-type: New way to configure fetching of Palo Alto firewall ARP cache data ------------------------------------------------------------------