Release 2.2 RC1 of FreeNAC is ready for production use

Hi,

The FreeNAC v2.2 solution for LAN access control is ready, a tarball is available for download, or it can be
pulled from Subversion (branch 2.2). An update Virtual Machine will be available tomorrow.

This is a significant release, with major changes in the database design. It is already stable and used in
production. We recommend you use this release, rather than v2.1.

Comments are feedback are welcome, please join the discussions in the forum.

Regards,

The FreeNAC core team

Key changes (from the CHANGELOG)
o Database redesign: improved keys, field names and table names will allow the DB
to better grow with time and ensure better data consistency.
There were for example, locations as text fields in several tables. There are now
lookups into a location table which in turn looks into a building table.
Many new empty base tables for the enterprise edition were added.
-- See the drawing db_schema_v2.2.jpg in the doc directory.

o The server scripts, Web and Windows GUI have been adapted to suit the new schema.
o The new db name is by default 'opennac' (and can be changed); it was 'inventory' before.
o Many cosmetic changes to the Windows Gui
o End-devices: add an expiry date, set in the Windows GUI, checked in vmpsd_external
o Ports: record the last vlan used, and when.
o The end-device status has been extended from enabled/disabled to:
unknown, active, unmanaged, killed.
o Docs updated

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