Install & upgrade

The “Install & Upgrade ISO” can be used for either a full clean installation, or an upgrade of an existing installation. An upgrade of the OS on a running system only takes a few minutes to complete.

 

 

To upgrade an existing system with the “Install & Upgrade ISO”:

  1. Download the image to your PC
  2. Login to your AKIPS server as admin
  3. Go to the Admin -> System -> Update menu
  4. Choose the image to upload
  5. Click Start Upgrade

Version 26.6   22nd October 2026

  1. Upgraded the operating system to FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE-p12:
  2. Updated third-party packages.
  3. Added token-based authentication method for web APIs. See “8. Applications” in documentation for more information.
  4. Added a “recover” keyword to Threshold Alerting rules, which also sends an alert when the entity returns to normal.
  5. Added option to use carriage return as line terminator in Config Crawler. This can be configured in “Miscellaneous Settings”.
  6. Added search bar to navbar. Search for reports, devices, and groups from the navbar on any page.
  7. Added ability to switch between AND/OR when selecting multiple groups in reports.
  8. Started polling Cisco Interface Oper Status Cause as part of its associated interface.
  9. Fixed some SNMP traps, syslog messages, and events being lost under high load.
  10. Fixed excessive swapping on machines with multiple NUMA memory domains.
  11. Fixed poller instability when interfaces are deleted during a poll.
  12. Fixed alert integrations hanging when the remote HTTP server does not respond.
  13. Added support for Aruba devices in TOS Discovery.
  14. Added Description column to the Arista BGP Peer State report.
  15. Added APC Wireless Temperature report.
  16. Added Cisco CIMC report.
  17. Added Fortinet Wireless reports.
  18. Added Mitsubishi UPS and Battery reports.
  19. Added PowerShield Battery reports.
  20. Added Sophos reports.
  21. Added/updated compiled MIBs:
    • Arista
    • Baicells
    • Fiberroad
    • Hanwha Vision
    • Opengear
    • Sophos

Minimum requirements

VM Deployment
  • Commercial grade VM (e.g. VMware)
  • Dedicated CPU cores
  • Sufficient RAM (50% free)
  • SAN with thick provisioned preallocated storage

 

Physical / Bare Metal
  • Off the shelf server (e.g. Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, etc)
  • Sufficient RAM (50% free)
  • RAID 1 or 10

 

Network size
Minimum platform

Small

  • 50,000 interfaces
  • Virtual Machine
  • 2+ CPU Cores
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 200 GB disk space

Medium

  • 100,000 interfaces
  • Virtual Machine
  • 4+ CPU Cores
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 500 GB disk space

Large

  • 250,000 interfaces
  • Virtual Machine
  • 8+ CPU Cores
  • 32 GB RAM
  • 1 TB disk space

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