NDM requires JAVA Version 6, you can verify your JAVA version on the SUN website :
http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp
Firewalls:Your firewall must allow the JAVA machine to receive and transmit UDP frames to and from broadcast addresses. It must also allow SNMP traffic.
- Since NDM version 2.18.0, NDM supports the following operating systems:
- You do not need to install any application, you juste need to run the Jar file.
- You can run ACKSYS NDM from the command line:
java -jar AcksysNDM.jar
- You can also run ACKSYS NDM from a graphical interface by starting it with Sun Java Runtime.
- In the GNOME environment you can create a shortcut (launcher) on the desktop. For this, use the right-click on the Desktop. An icon is provided in the distribution media.
When you will configure several products at the same time, you must know the topology of the network and configure farther products first.
Changing the IP of a product behind a router will render it unreachable until (1) you update the NDM remote products database and (2) the ARP cache of the router gets updated.
NDM supports multiple network interfaces.
It has been reported that, upon installation of this version in replacement of V2.10.7 or earlier, products appear and disappear randomly in the product pane.
Cleaning the "Detected products database" solves this issue.
| Version / date | Changes |
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| 1.0.0 26-may-08 | Initial release |
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| 1.2.0 24-jul-08 | Ethernet Air-Pack and HyperLan supported |
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| 1.4.0 01-aug-08 | System tray icon |
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| 1.6.0 03-apr-09 | WLg-SWITCH, WLg-DONGLE, WLg-DONGLE-OEM-TTL support |
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| 2.0.0 18-nov-09 | Configuration profiles, management of products across routers |
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| 2.2.0 06-sep-10 | Support for 900 MHz products (WL-XR900 range) and miscellaneous enhancements |
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| 2.4.0 31-mar-11 | Support for WLn- products |
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| 2.6.0 06-oct-11 | Enhanced WLn products support |
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| 2.6.6 29-mar-12 | Enhanced WLn products support |
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| 2.8.0 16-aug-12 | Signal Trace graphics and logs |
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| 2.10.0 19-sep-12 | Change language of NDM and support for WLg-link V3 |
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| 2.10.2 20-dec-12 | Correction of known bugs and evolution |
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| 2.10.7 29-jul-13 | Identification of products, WLn product update and correction of known bugs |
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| 2.12.0 13-nov-13 | Multiple network interface support and correction of known bugs |
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| 2.12.1 14-nov-13 | Correction of known bug |
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| 2.16.0 18-nov-15 | Enhanced WLn series and Railbox series support, function improvements and correction of known bugs |
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| 2.18.0 12-dec-16 | Enhanced Railbox series support, function improvements and correction of known bugs |
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| 2.20.0 21-fev-17 | Enhanced WaveOS series support |
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| 2.20.1 31-mar-17 | Enhanced WaveOS series support, function improvements |
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| 2.20.2 04-sep-17 | Enhanced WaveOS series support |
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| Tracker# | found in versions | version corrected | Description / Countermesures |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 1.6.0 | 2.12.0 | Cannot detect products on Ethernet and a VPN simultaneously.
(same for any multi-homed computer)
See How to... in the help. |
| 17 | 1.6.0 | 2.12.0 | With multiple network interfaces on a Linux box, an message
"the computer is not connected to the network" displays when
any interface link drops. Restart NDM should this happen. Use of NDM on a multi-homed computer is discouraged. |
| 19 | 2.0.0 | (not repeatable) | Null pointer exception after a product firmware upgrade followed by a refresh. |
| 23 | 2.0.0 | - | The McAFee antivirus sometimes detects forbidden accesses to UDP ports 6666 and 6667 (minor). |
| 25 | 2.0.0 | (not repeatable) | "Unavailable" displayed in some columns after a change of the IP address. |
| 26 | 2.0.0 | (not repeatable) | If a product alive on the LAN has the same IP than an
inaccessible other product previously recorded in the remote
products database, the (inexistant) remote product is displayed
with an IP conflict indication, and the (existant) local product
is not correctly displayed.
→ This problem was not repeatable. Should it happen, delete the recorded remote product. |
| 27 | 2.0.0 | 2.10.7 | Message "no route to host - datagram send failed" must be
acknowledged several times when the network connection is lost.
→ The message can be disabled/enabled in the preferences→options dialog. |
| 29 | 2.0.0 | - | Multi-configuration dialog: using "reset factory settings" on several products at once is very slow. |
| 30 | 2.0.0 | (not repeatable) | NDM does not work on some configurations of Windows 7.
→ The reason is unknown and still under investigation. |
| 38 | 2.4.0 | 2.12.0 | Multi-homed products (WLn series) may still incur previous bug #24, in which the displayed gateway is incorrect after a reset to factory settings. |
| 40 | 2.0.0 | - | If the IP address of the computer running NDM is changed,
NDM ceases displaying the products.
→ Minor. Stop and restart NDM. |
| 44 | 1.0.0 | - | On some Linux/Ubuntu user interface configurations,
the systray icon is too small.
→ Minor, display-only, issue. |
| 46 | 2.6.0 | - | On some Windows platforms, the user HOME directory is
mistaken; it is a
Java known (and not yet solved) issue.
→ Move back the user's "Desktop" in the user's "home" directory. |
| 48 | 2.6.0 | - | When either the MAC or IP address of a product changes,
NDM cannot query its SNMP agent to display its state, nor
can it download new firmware.
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| 49 | 2.6.0 | 2.10.7 | NDM cannot upgrade the firmware of WLn-series products if
they are not in emergency upgrade mode.
→ Upgrade using either emergency upgrade mode or the web interface of the product. |
| #179 | 2.6.0 | 2.10.2 | Products in 802.11s mode display incomplete information. |
| #321 | 2.6.6 | 2.10.2 | When a product (not a category) is selected in the connections tree, pushing the refresh button causes NDM to hang. |
| #344 | all | 2.10.0 | When a product can not be loaded, NDM show the wrong message.
→ Displaying a message "all loaded" when all product are loaded successfully; a message "all fail" when no product is loaded; a message "some fail" when some product are loaded successfully. |
| #351 | all | 2.16.0 | When the default "snmp read/write community" is changed, previously detected products are still polled with the original community.
→ Delete products detected by NDM (until V2.12.1) or change their community to default in the "detected products database" so that the new community will be used when they are re-detected. |
| #352 | 2.8.0 | 2.10.0 | There is no Signal Trace part in HELP file.
→ Add this part. |
| #356 | 2.8.0 | 2.10.0 | There is no change language manually part in HELP file.
→ Add this part. |
| #464 | 2.10.2 | 2.16.0 | "Hide selection" cannot hide after refresh. |
| #752 | 2.4.0 | 2.12.0 | In the "Infrastructure station" node of products tree, bad location of access point which is WLn product. |
| #753 | 2.10.2 | 2.12.0 | Wrong Mesh title
→ Change "Mesh node" to "Mesh Portal". |
| #754 | all | 2.12.0 | Useless delay during scanning |
| #755 | all | 2.12.0 | The NDM icon is not always removed from the taskbar when NDM exits. |
| #756 | 2.10.7 | 2.12.0 | SNMP does not work on serial/Wi-Fi port server. |
| #765 | 2.8.0 | 2.16.0 | In the Signal Trace dialog, after the product is lost, NDM continues to trace using the last value. |
| #766 | 2.12.0 | 2.12.1 | NDM does not work on Windows with OpenVPN in TAP mode. |
| #770 | 2.12.1 | 2.16.0 | Time axis in the Signal Trace dialog should be in 24 hours format. |
| #1439 | 2.12.1 | 2.16.0 | In the Signal Trace dialog, "Apply" button can incorrectly start the trace without pressing "Start" button. |
| #1455 | 2.12.1 | 2.16.0 | NDM cannot start in a network without gateway. |
| #1482 | all | 2.18.0 | NDM cannot start if user name of operating system contains special characters (non-ASCII7 characters). |
| #1870 | all | 2.18.0 | NDM cannot upgrade the firmware if the firmware file size is bigger than 32MB. |
| #1873 | all | 2.18.0 | If the product is in emergency upgrade mode, firmware upload starts after the TFTP password check timeout. |
| #1890 | 2.6.0 | 2.18.0 | NDM behaves randomly if one of the products has more than 4 wireless interfaces defined on one radio card. |