# NeDi - 2.6.026
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Release date 01-02-2026

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Introduction
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NeDi discovers, maps and inventories your network devices and tracks connected end-nodes.
It contains a lot of features in a user-friendly GUI for managing enterprise networks.
For example: MAC address mapping/tracking, traffic & error graphing, uptime monitoring,
correlate collected syslog & trap messages with customizable notification, drawing
network maps, extensive reporting features such as device software, PoE usage, disabled
interfaces, link errors, switch usage and many more. It's modular architecture allows for
simple integration with other tools. For example Cacti graphs can be created purely based
on discovered information. Due to NeDi's versatility things like printer resources can be
monitored as well...

Changes from 2.5.025
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Discovery & Monitoring:
- Added contributions to improve Vlan discovery
- Added XCloudIQ OS for new Extreme Wing controller series
- Added Windows11 recognition (LLDW) and optimized it for Windows10 (now LLDX).
- Added INSERT IGNORE option (-J) for writing devices to avoid abort on duplicates
- Added interface status notPresent to discovery to identify empty SFP slots or unconfigured Portchannels for example
- Changed contrib/nedi_db_maintenance.sh to use dbnedi user (was root)
- Changed nedi.conf's arppoison behaviour to be used if 0 is set in DB (used as default previousely).
- Changed poe & poealloc fields to MEDIUMINT (integer for Pg) as some PoE switches deliver more than 65W
- Improved many Def files for accuracy
- Improved API to force all MAC addresses to be returned as string
- Improved behaviour upon writing duplicate devices (can happen with parallel discoveries)
- Improved run and startup configuration verification resulting in new acknowledged state
- Removed Mikrotik workaround to mitigate incomplete MAC address table, since they fixed it now.
- Updated vendorinfo (EoL) data and removed entries with end of sale < 2008
- Updated some Defs (compare newest ones with previous versions upon unexpected behaviour)
- Fixed & Updated EoL information

GUI:
- Improved SN Inventory check info
- Improved Other-Defed OS selection
- Improved Devices-Status.php to show login on NoDi devices for admins
- Improved Assets-Locations to only show Geo map option with static map method configured
- Improved monitoring status depiction whith sub-tests (like interface status) to align with map display
- Added uptime filter in Monitoring-Setup
- Added user info to Assets-Vendor for improved EoL management
- Added Reports-Asset module to help with lifecycle management
- Added event class filter to Monitoring-Events for ease of use
- Added TLS flag switch for ldaps. Check included nedi.conf for usage
- Added new Devices-Interfaces setting to ignore interface status events
- Added Log in Devices-Interfaces (for tracking nodes and status changes)
- Added interface edit indicator in Devices-Status and Devices-Interfaces
- Added Wireless option to Topology-Table to show locations only containing APs
- Added shortcut to Assets-List in Assets-Management for certain filtered lists
- Added "Duplicate Vendor Values" query to System-Database, execute maintenance
- Added link to the PoE Device-Report in the Total-PoE widget of Monitoring-Health
- Added interface edit shortcut in Monitoring-Setup, when interface status is monitored
- Added state Reserved to assets (allocated cables are now reserved and a new allocated option is available)
- Changed city shapes in maps from purple to sienna color
- Changed sanitization removed special characters (like `)
- Changed traffic statistics > bandwidth to show calculated value
- Changed Report-Modules Inventory to Discover to avoid confusion with new asset reports
- Changed Report-Interfaces PoE Statistics to show a red bar on average PoE > 15W instead of 7W
- Changed nedi-syslog to listen to port 514 and updated System-Services accordingly (restart no longer possible due to permissions)
- Fixed some issues and Improved Devices-Translator
- Fixed html in configs being rendered instead of shown as is
- Fixed System-Database CSV export IP and timestamp optimization
- Fixed context menu visibility in the rackview of Topology-Table
- Fixed city icons in Topology-Table when "Icon Small" is selected, updated context help
- Fixed Monitoring-Health link to broken non-SNMP targets (takes you to Devices-Status now)
- Fixed a bug in the API where MAC addresses were interpreted as numbers in scientific notation
- Fixed System-Database URI with quotes arguemnt when added as admin notice and messy CSV output with column titles enabled.
- The greyhound theme is back! Elegant and easy on the eyes
- Many smaller bug fixes and optimizations

nedi.conf:
Add the following line to enable asset reports in the menu:
module      Reports           Asset             dstp  mgr

Important!
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- Make sure you have the DB updated with NeDi 2.4 (or is initialized with NeDi 2.5) before updating NeDi to 2.6!
- If using LDAP check nedi.conf for additional TLS switch after port!