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2025 updates

Welcome to the 2025 update notes for Collection Zones. Collection Zones are updated regularly. This page highlights usability and performance enhancements plus new features.

Note

At each update, databases, infrastructure services, or shared libraries are upgraded as required to improve stability and performance or eliminate vulnerabilities. Here is the current list of shared libraries available for use in ZenPacks.

April

The April 2025 update contains improvements for the Configuration Cache service, Simple Network Management Protocol verion 3 (SNMPv3) support, and fixes for critical issues.

Improvements

This update includes the following improvements:

Configuration Cache service Improvements

  • zentrap SNMP OID maps are now cached.

  • Cached configurations are now compressed to reduce memory usage.

  • Fixed issues that resulted in stale configurations.

SNMPv3 support

  • Added support for SHA256, SHA224, AES192, and AES256 protocols for SNMPv3 authentication and communication. When changing SNMPv3 credentials, you must submit a support ticket to restart the zenperfsnmp, zenmodeler, and zentrap services.

Miscellaneous

  • Improved startup time for manual monitoring and modeling of one device.

  • Improved the stability of monitoring SSH devices.

  • Added general stability improvements and fixes.

Fixed Issues

The following issues were fixed as part of this release.

Improved Performance

  • The issue that caused stuck tasks and monitoring failures has been fixed.

  • Issues caused by the loading time of the Configuration Cache service have been resolved.

  • The issue that was caused by a malformed string error and resulted in configurations not loading has been fixed.

  • The issue that caused invalidations to go unprocessed has been resolved.

Improved Functionality

  • The issue that caused problems when modeling Cisco Meraki devices using SNMPv3 has been resolved.

  • Added support for SNMPv3 256-bit encryption.

  • The issue that caused a user’s session to end abruptly with an “Unauthorized” error has been resolved.

March

The March 2025 update adds support for AWS Aurora and includes minor fixes to several ZenPacks.

The following ZenPacks are included in this update:

ZenPack Version Changes
ZenPacks.zenoss.DatabaseMonitor 3.1.4 This update improves the upgrade process.
ZenPacks.zenoss.MysqlMonitor 3.2.1 This update adds SSL encrypted connection support for MySQL Server.
ZenPacks.zenoss.AWS 5.3.0 This update adds support for AWS Aurora.

February

The February 2025 update includes the latest security patches for underlying infrastructure, including collector appliance OS updates and minor fixes to several ZenPacks.

ZenPacks updated

The following ZenPacks are included in this update:

ZenPack Versions Changes
ZenPacks.zenoss.ConfigurationManager 3.5.6 - 3.5.7 This update improves handling of Device and DeviceComponent recursion results.
ZenPacks.zenoss.DurationThreshold 2.1.0 - 2.1.1 This update adds minor performance improvements.
Zenpacks.zenoss.EnterpriseSecurity 2.0.1 - 2.0.2 This update resolves logging issues.
Zenpacks.zenoss.Impact 5.7.0 - 5.7.1 This update resolves logging issues.
ZenPacks.zenoss.Kubernetes 1.2.0 - 2.0.0 This update adds performance improvements and resolves known issues.
ZenPacks.zenoss.LinuxMonitor 2.3.4 - 2.3.5 This update adds monitoring support for RHEL 8.0 and RHEL 9.4.
ZenPacks.zenoss.NetAppMonitor 4.2.1 - 5.0.0 This update adds REST API support and performance improvements, and resolves known issues.
ZenPacks.zenoss.PS.Citrix 1.2.1 - 1.2.2 This update resolves known issues.
ZenPacks.zenoss.PS.Meraki 3.6.3 - 3.7.0 This update improves API performance and error handling, and resolves known issues.
ZenPacks.zenoss.PS.PaloAlto 2.9.6 - 2.9.8 This update resolves known issues.
ZenPacks.zenoss.PS.Util 1.14.3 - 1.14.6 This update resolves known issues.
ZenPacks.zenoss.PS.WebTransactions 1.0.3 - 1.2.0 This update adds performance improvements and resolves known issues.
ZenPacks.zenoss.RestrictionFilter 1.0.2 - 1.0.3 This update adds minor performance improvements.