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title: "June 2026 - Network Monitoring System (NMS)"
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# June 2026 - Network Monitoring System (NMS)

The following updates were released to the Kentik platform for Network Monitoring System (NMS) during June 2026.

## Features
- **Essential measurement support**: Monitoring templates can now restrict collection to only essential metrics (for example, /components, /system, or /system/cpus/summary), reducing data collection overhead while preserving critical monitoring. 
- **SNMPv3 authNoPriv support**: Added support for SNMPv3 authNoPriv mode, allowing authentication without encryption.
- **Faster device updates and flexible custom columns**: Improved device information retrieval and added options to control custom column loading for faster device processing. 
- **Site as a queryable dimension**: site-id is now available as a queryable dimension in NMS metrics without added storage cost. 
- **New device SNMP support**: Added SNMP monitoring support for Meraki cloud-managed devices, Check Point devices, and ITL devices, including trap notifications for status and hardware events. 
- **Improved SNMP trap parsing**: Extended trap parsing to correctly handle OSPF IPv4 address traps, integer-encoded BITS/numeric fields, and additional vendor encodings. 
- **Hardened agent registration**: Agent registration now supports mandatory provisioning tokens and approval gates for stronger security, and standby agent state is now exposed for cluster upgrades.

## Bug Fixes
- **Fixed monitoring deadlock**: Resolved a deadlock between the update processor and managers that could cause extended monitoring outages. 
- **Explicit + essential measurements**: Fixed handling when both explicit measurements and essentials-only mode are configured together. 
- **Classic threshold policies**: Restored device_name storage so classic threshold policies relying on it continue to work. 
- **Accedian trap parsing**: Fixed trap parsing for Accedian devices so their alarms are received and processed correctly. 
- **Agent re-registration**: Fixed an issue where previously approved agents re-entered the pending approval state on re-registration, improved agent recovery with new provisioning tokens, and made the install endpoint accept both token parameters. 
- **SNMP OID matching**: Fixed OID prefix matching so traps with out-of-order varbinds parse correctly, reducing spurious errors.