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title: "March 2026 - Network Monitoring System (NMS)"
slug: "march-2026-network-monitoring-system-nms"
updated: 2026-07-07T14:16:42Z
published: 2026-07-07T14:16:42Z
canonical: "kb.kentik.com/march-2026-network-monitoring-system-nms"
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# March 2026 - Network Monitoring System (NMS)

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

## Features

- **SNMP polling health metrics**: The default flow monitoring template now includes SNMP polling health measurements so you can monitor and tune SNMP polling.
- **Run only listed reports**: A new monitoring-template option lets you run only explicitly selected reports instead of automatically including new ones.
- **Monitoring template UX improvements**: Adds measurement filtering, bulk Select All/Deselect All, a new Interfaces measurement category, and read-only mode for preset/system templates.
- **Remote SNMP walk for flow-enrichment devices**: Remote SNMP walk now also works for flow-enrichment devices using Universal Agent.
- **Flexible BGP MD5 passwords**: BGP MD5 password validation now allows additional printable ASCII characters (e.g.`;`, `#`, `@`, `,`) aligning with RFC 2385 and major vendors. (The `space` character and `?` are not permitted.)
- **IS-IS neighbor navigation**: Restores clickable hyperlinks to neighbor devices in IS-IS topology details for easier navigation between related devices.
- **iPower and Minuteman support**: Adds SNMP monitoring profiles for iPower PDU and Minuteman RPM1581 PDU, including voltage, current, load, and environmental metrics.
- **Config snapshot soft-delete**: Device configuration snapshots are now soft-deleted, preserving records for audit and recovery.

## Bug Fixes

- **Syslog recency off-by-1000**: Fixes a calculation error that caused devices with infrequent syslog to incorrectly appear as having no syslog data; the Syslog tab and indicator now reflect the intended two-week window.
- **Temperature unit display**: Metric cards and tooltips now show °C instead of % for temperature.
- **Optic metrics display**: Supply voltage and temperature now display reliably in the interface table by separating the queries.
- **BGP prefixes display**: BGP sent/received prefix counts now display correctly for device neighbors by splitting the query.
- **Combined utilization plot**: The SNMP interface utilization graph now scales to the data instead of a fixed 100%, fixing inaccurate 0% readings.
- **This/Last Month time ranges**: Fixes off-by-one errors at month boundaries for "This Month" and "Last Month" ranges.
- **Overview Map health**: Corrects inbound vs outbound health-class assignment in the Overview Map.
- **NMS usage metrics**: Fixes device ID assignment for the NMS usage metric and removes stale BGP neighbor entries from the UI.