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Nimsoft Infrastructure for Linux (glibc 2.3 or higher on x86)

This package contains the Nimsoft NAS, distsrv, Hub and Robot for the Linux UNIX system. Thus, enabling the system for use with the Nimsoft product family.

Installation Notes


Please note that many Linux systems (incorrectly) add the hostname of the machine to the loopback device in the /etc/hosts file like this:

127.0.0.1 yourhostname localhost localhost.localdomain
10.0.0.2 yourhostname yourhostname.yourdomainname

This causes name lookup problems (the system thinks its IP address for this machine is the loopback device!). To correct the problem either remove yourhostname from the loopback device entry (recommended) or move the correct IP address (10.0.0.2 in the above example) to the top of the /etc/hosts file.

The Nimsoft Robot is installed with the Nimsoft Loader. Follow these steps to successfully install the software:
1. Download the install_.zip package to your local package repository/archive.
2. Download the compressed tar-archive containing the nimldr binaries (the nimldr binaries are also accessible from the web archive). This program will install the Nimsoft Robot on the targeted UNIX platform.
3. Extract and copy the correct nimldr binary to your UNIX platform. E.g. extract nimldr/SOLSPARC/nimldr for Solaris 2.x . NOTE: Remember to transfer the files using binary mode.
4. Run the nimldr program as root (superuser)
- When the UNIX system is on the same network segment as the Nimsoft archive: # ./nimldr
- When the UNIX system is on a different network segment: # ./nimldr -I ip-address to Nimsoft archive.
Revision history
Date Description State Version
04.04.2024

Updated to include hub and robot versions 23.4.1

SHA-256 Checksum: 1e47549a215f26dbf16e42be0cb8de974b6fc5f475b2db1b1ea56c52ba0438f7
GA 23.4.1
07.03.2024

Released with DX UIM 20.4 CU10

SHA-256 Checksum: 7f7d597a970e322d1be6029322b1bda64bb4618ead0e6cf2f249057935fae2b5
9.41
09.01.2024

Released with DX UIM 23.4

SHA-256 Checksum: 4e2e3034b4be53c1b9105d1b49ec1e157f250d758f1d3d74a092a534355c2993
23.4.0
28.09.2023

Updated to include hub and robot versions 9.40.

SHA-256 Checksum: 17b7af52587c5442e9c9266e0b28e8e25f5f282a2d9c26a487b8576cbec924dc
9.40
05.07.2023

Updated to include hub and robot versions 9.39.

SHA-256 Checksum: d172a827ad10acd287a23d000ec14f58822c8d8f4cd8eb90bdc81689ce608abc
9.39
02.05.2023
  • Updated to include hub and robot versions 9.38.
SHA-256 Checksum: d0a380274e3391df332913fb11a41efcd1c1c385de46428255d17d2093a16eac
9.38
13.02.2023
  • Updated to include hub and robot versions 9.37.
SHA-256 Checksum: 56aef642770b8827d10c077cd6487f18fb960c0e8943aa1fd624d6aef49ab659
9.37
22.09.2022
  • Updated to include hub and robot versions 9.36.
SHA-256 Checksum: 80fb68109567121da2d85526280201139739a7081681722cafdf0246416bac17
9.36
19.05.2022
  • Updated to include hub and robot versions 9.35.
SHA-256 Checksum: dd4703cf5ff8459a8fbb7485a3912c88cd2fdd99f192f9a4127687c60de27ac4
9.35
22.12.2021
  • Updated to include hub and robot versions 9.34.
SHA-256 Checksum: e468e917c2e2fea2010cb488e2c7b693aefa1247b9096885a60152d2eedaa081
9.34
25.03.2021
  • Updated to include hub and robot versions 9.33.
MD5 Checksum: 4a3e6486c9a164088c17a792ff0155d8
SHA-1 Checksum: 3ff24040407390ed9f31bf80fc0815a2e61e2133
9.33
21.10.2020
  • Updated to include hub and robot versions 9.31.
MD5 Checksum: d26f288709421da8c4ca1675f7b8261c
SHA-1 Checksum: 9035811769cea46529fadff5f72b11011c8d7cc8
9.31
24.03.2020
  • Updated to include hub and robot versions 9.30.
MD5 Checksum: d38ce4fb37df61dc266a42959dcf3c5a
SHA-1 Checksum: 8da2880dae0dc4222e155e484d03077170655841
9.30
20.08.2019
  • Updated to include hub and robot versions 9.20.
MD5 Checksum: abad466c0a3f495b9ba5248fe61f0d6a
SHA-1 Checksum: e3ac4bbbd89b578711885ac86eb9eab6c94a60ff
9.20
04.12.2018
  • Updated to include hub and robot versions 7.97.
MD5 Checksum: 18e118e93bfc7e6dee70a053dc70184c
SHA-1 Checksum: eb6c2b3721fc00562f85870be546ea346ff4410a
7.97
04.12.2018 7.96
06.09.2018

This package includes support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

MD5 Checksum: cd35d33cb4e2482db70a3019fa8fbb74
SHA-1 Checksum: 1a7b00b157be308c9e28ad7a83ae2a537fb597db
7.93
01.11.2017 md5sum: efcd09247d0d9fd24a3374d42b6ef742
sha1sum: 727e03a1ffd74d5bcf6860455b19d8abe7cdcb35
7.93
03.04.2017 Updated to include Hub and Robot versions 7.91. No longer bundling probe utility with robot installer.

md5sum: ad0c967e7058d2c07b49f069973dc2cc
sha1sum: 0a2ae11e7d41b10e3b0612200b059a99a6ba9f69
7.91
02.03.2017 Updated to include Hub and Robot versions 7.90. No longer bundling probe utility with robot installer.

md5sum: d028a33bcab9007b228c07170d1206c9
sha1sum: 6ea520c30a18a225435b6c56badf25127a7375d2
7.90
29.06.2015

• Proxy mode for robot will now allow the robot spooler to start. In hub-7.7x, the spooler will not start on a controller restart when the controller is configured in proxy mode, due to a port assignment conflict. In hub-7.80, this issue was resolved.

• In SSL mode 0, the robot spooler will not attempt to communicate using SSL.

• AIX java probes will now start up. Previously, on AIX, the controller did not start java probes correctly, so that the java probes process failed to launch. The fix changes the way the system calls to start java probes allowing them to start.

• Controller pre-install exit codes are now correctly interpreted. Previously, POSIX systems were incorrectly utilizing the exit code which would cause improper behavior.

• Added longer output from the command line probe utility. The individual item character line limit is now 300 characters.



md5sum: 83924c76a20e158d9b6ffd83cf45eb1f
sha1sum: 357831bc72574aeb0d74308277d5b482c5955bae
7.80
08.04.2015 7.71 fixes an issue seen with hub 7.70 in assigning ports for tunnel client connections. Prior to 7.70, the tunnel client connections would consistently use the 48xxx port range (based on the controller’s default first_probe_port setting of 48000). An issue in hub 7.70 caused the tunnel client connections to use a system-assigned port number, which would not be reliably fall in the 48xxx range. This caused issues with firewalls where the tunnel ports were explicitly allowed and expected to be in the specific range.

With hub 7.71, the default port range for tunnel client connections will again fall in the 48xxx range. The specific ports for tunnel connections can be overridden (as previously) by setting tunnel/ignore_first_probe_probe = 1 and tunnel/first_tunnel_port = in the hub.cfg.

md5sum: 1f6458a9ca6e14922f1dc160435b3c84
sha1sum: d7879c5e38b63be03a5f7d2d703a035a357123ff
7.71
31.03.2015 New features:
• When a robot fails over to a secondary hub, the robot retains its origin. The origin is attached to each QoS message generated by a probe and routed through its robot. By default, the origin is the robot’s designated parent hub. With hub v7.63 and earlier, the robot's default origin upon failover changed to the name of the failover hub. As of hub v7.70, the origin remains the name of the robot’s designated parent (specified by the hub attribute in robot.cfg). Icon
Note: UIM administrators can override the default value by defining the origin in the robot configuration. In multi-tenant environments, for example, an admin can specify the origin in order to group data and control user access to the data. If the origin attribute exists in robot.cfg, the robot’s spooler attaches it to the message, and the hub’s spooler does not alter it. This behavior has not changed.
• A hub can be configured to send an alarm to report dropped messages. All messages generated by probes have a subject that is used to route the message on the message bus. If the hub does not have an attach or post queue configured for a particular subject, any message with that subject is dropped by the spooler. Hub 7.70 has the ability to send an alarm to provide a summary of how often this occurs. This behavior is disabled by default. To enable it, specify in hub.cfg: subjects_no_destination_alarm_interval=< seconds >
• Username and password limitations are consistently enforced. Username must be 1 to 254 characters long and cannot contain control characters, right or left arrows (< or >), or forward slashes (/); password must be 5 to 254 characters long.
• Removed the ability to provide SID to command line probe utility. In past releases, the -S option of the pu command (which lets you execute probe commands from a command prompt) could be used to explicitly set a session identification (SID). This capability has been removed to prevent security from being bypassed through SID injection.
• Improved behavior of SSL mode. If a controller is managed by a hub that has SSL mode=0, the controller no longer creates the robot.pem file upon startup. Any UIM components installed on that system will not accept SSL connections.
• Improved DNS lookup during tunnel setup. DNS lookup, which maps the hostname to an IP address, will retry on DNS failures, making tunnels more tolerant of temporary or intermittent failures.
• Robot user tags are propagated in bus-generated messages and alarms. These values are specified in robot.cfg by configuring the controller probe in Admin Console or Infrastructure Manager.
• Robot can automatically pull probes with ADE. Upon startup, controller looks forrequest.cfg, a text file you can create to enable automatic deployment of the probes to the robot. Previously, these requests could only be facilitated by distsrv, which still handles them by default. With the release of automated_deployment_engine v8.1, the ADE probe also has the ability to handle these requests. To direct request.cfg files to ADE, use the Raw Config utility to add the deploy_addr parameter (which specifies the UIM address of the ADE probe) to robot.cfg: deploy_addr=/<domain>/<hub>/<robot>/automated_deployment_engine

md5sum: fde0bbb6102c33fd274cee753144eef0
sha1sum: d88494b15f683e93635b3d7022f2b8ad5a838f9b

*Note: Package version was deprecated to 7.70 to match the embedded hub and robot versions.
7.70
30.12.2014 • OpenSSL 1.0.0m
• Removal of a potential crash condition at shutdown
• Improvements to port free checks under various circumstances

md5sum: 63042fc813429810ad8050004266f5ec
sha1sum: bfc7326f489c5d713a3197f63168d45a8bfb326a
8.10
29.09.2014
  • Packaged with 8.0

Md5sum: 1ed281aa4de77185846e60c1202f581f
sha1sum: fd7061910eff42764070cb09c14468f71ce5ef23
8.00
20.06.2014

Package that is included in the NMS 7.60 distribution.

md5sum: ca136b4c02a72947b8cafbeb2c532132
sha1sum: 001a64736bb729eb7026e675b8f4930e98457f28

7.60
31.03.2014

Package that is included in the NMS 7.50 distribution. Note that this is a package version. The actual robot version is 7.05.

  • MD5 checksum: 9a189ed5fef6d7b6c37a5e95643c24a2
  • SHA-1 checksum: a2c3ce4b19414f342b970d7e6eacc86aebb11672
  • 7.50
    20.12.2013
  • Archive package for the Nimsoft Monitor 7.10 release.
  • MD5 checksum: 9bc4c555aaf86646c9a06e6ec9299b24
  • SHA-1 checksum: c4d47f097d35436f8dbae14fbd4668a2653cf751
  • 7.10
    02.10.2013
  • Robot install package for the Nimsoft Monitor 7.0 Release
  • MD5 Signature: a7490c61b3d2d60ffa084fbca77ff0f9
  • 7.00
    01.04.2013 New versions. This package contains:
    Robot 5.70
    Hub 5.82
    Distsrv 5.30
    6.50
    02.10.2012 Adds installation support for Debian versions 5 and 6 systems, and Ubuntu versions 10, 11 and 12 systems
    This package contains:
    Robot v5.70
    Hub v5.81
    Distsrv v5.23
    6.10
    05.07.2012 Removed nas. This package contains: Robot v5.70 Hub v5.80 Distsrv v5.22 6.00
    30.12.2011 New versions. This package contains:
    Robot v5.51
    Hub v5.66
    Nas v3.72
    Distsrv v5.21
    4.71
    28.10.2011 New versions. This package contains:
    Robot v5.51
    Hub v5.64
    Nas v3.71
    Distsrv v5.21
    4.70
    01.07.2011 New versions. This package contains:
    Robot v5.42
    Hub v5.60
    Nas v3.63
    Distsrv v5.14

    Included support for GLIBC 2.13-2.19.
    4.60
    01.03.2011 New versions. This package contains:
    Robot v5.32
    Hub v5.44
    Nas v3.54
    Distsrv v5.11
    4.51
    19.01.2011 New versions. This package contains:
    Robot v5.30
    Hub v5.42
    Nas v3.53
    Distsrv v5.10
    4.50
    08.12.2010 New versions. This package contains:
    Robot v5.23
    Hub v5.34
    Nas v3.52
    Distsrv v5.04
    4.49
    01.11.2010 New versions. This package contains:
    Robot v5.22
    Hub v5.31
    Nas v3.51
    Distsrv v5.03
    4.47
    01.10.2010 Fix for recognizing Linux GNU libc (GLIBC) version 2.10 to 2.12. New versions. This package contains:
    Robot v5.21
    Hub v5.31
    Nas v3.50
    Distsrv v5.02
    4.46
    08.07.2010 New versions. This package contains:
    Robot v5.11
    Hub v5.12
    Nas v3.43
    Distsrv v5.00
    4.42
    11.06.2010 New versions. This package contains:
    Robot v5.10
    Hub v5.10
    Nas v3.43
    Distsrv v4.95
    4.41
    31.03.2010 New versions. This package contains:
    Robot v5.00
    Hub v5.01
    Nas v3.41
    Distsrv v4.91
    4.40
    10.02.2010 New versions. This package contains:
    Robot v4.05
    Hub v4.90
    Nas v3.31
    Distsrv v4.90
    4.33
    17.12.2009 New versions. This package contains:
    Robot v4.02
    Hub v4.90
    Nas v3.31
    Distsrv v4.90
    4.32
    11.12.2009 New versions. This package contains:
    Robot v4.01
    Hub v4.90
    Nas v3.31
    Distsrv v4.90
    4.31
    07.12.2009 New versions. This package contains:
    Robot v4.00
    Hub v4.89
    Nas v3.30
    Distsrv v4.90
    4.30
    19.06.2009 New versions. This package contains:
    Robot v3.52
    Hub v4.88
    Nas v3.27
    Distsrv v4.74
    4.21
    16.06.2009 New versions. This package contains:
    Robot v3.51
    Hub v4.87
    Nas v3.24
    Distsrv v4.73
    4.20
    16.03.2009 Minor fixes. 4.13
    19.12.2008 Server 3.60. This package contains:
    - Robot v3.12
    - Hub v4.73
    - Nas v3.22
    - Distsrv v4.72
    4.12
    12.09.2008 New versions. This package contains:
    - Robot v3.11
    - Hub v4.71
    - Nas v3.15
    - Distsrv v4.71
    4.11
    05.05.2008 Server 3.50 GA Release.

    This package contains:
    - Robot v2.71
    - Hub v4.21
    - Nas v3.12
    - Distsrv v4.18
    3.58
    23.04.2008 Server 3.50 GA Release.
    This package contains:
    Robot v2.71
    Hub v4.21
    Nas v3.11
    Distsrv v4.18
    3.57
    29.02.2008 Server 3.50 CR_04 Release.
    This package contains:
    Robot v2.70
    Hub v4.21
    Nas v3.10
    Distsrv v4.17
    3.56
    29.11.2007 Server 3.50 CR Release.
    This package contains:
    - Robot v2.68
    - Hub v4.21
    - Nas v3.05
    - Distsrv v4.16
    3.52
    03.08.2007 New Robot version.
    This package contains:
    Robot v2.65
    Hub v4.12
    Nas v2.75
    Distsrv v4.13
    3.41
    11.05.2007 See datasheet for details! 3.37
    Requirements
    Platform: See Platform support matrix located in the Download section of http://support.nimsoft.com
    Software: None
    Hardware: None