Project Updates

• 1.8: Current Release is 1.8.1
  1.8.1 is the current stable release, tagged July 12th. The second stable release in the 1.8 series, it adds a ton of bugfixes and a number of enhancements since 1.8.0. For a complete list, see the “New and Noteworthy” page on the OpenNMS wiki. As always, it is recommended that you back up your database before upgrading.
• 1.8: Windows Installation Fixes
  More work on WIndows installation has been going on this week, with an overhauled launcher setup which works properly on 32- or 64-bit Windows, as well as a possible fix for the installation of PL/PgSQL on systems that don’t have it enabled in their template1 databases by default.
• 1.8: Remote Poller Updates
  When the remote poller fires events, it now includes the location monitor ID, so alarms can be processed based on the monitor reporting issues. Also, Philip updated the legend on the Distributed Status page to better reflect the various statuses shown. A few other UI bugs were fixed as well.
• 1.8: Instrumentation Log Reader
  Philip wrote a handy tool for debugging collection issues called the Instrumentation Log Reader. It’s in the opennms-tools/ directory of the OpenNMS source (as of what will be 1.8.2), and allows you to analyze your collectd.log to get statistics on how long collections take for various services. You can see a sample output in the source tree here.
• 1.8: SNMP Asset Adapter
  Seth has been working on a Provisiond adapter for pulling SNMP data into asset records. He’s still working on documentation, so I don’t have a ton of details, I’ll try to give a pointer to it next week. =)

Bugs Fixed Since Last TWiO

• #3836: Unable to delete nodes with capsd disabled.

Count Down to Dev-Jam 2010

Everyone is humming in anticipation with Dev-Jam 2010 just around the corner. People will start arriving in Minnesota at the end of the week, and we’ll be kicking off the festivities with the ritual hazing initiation welcoming our new OGP members and OpenNMS Group employees. We’ve got the monkeys, duct tape, leather straps, pomade, pitchforks, and belt sander ready, so listen for the screams of excitement about becoming part of the fold, you’ll be able to hear them wherever you’re at!
Traditionally Dev-Jam is accompanied by a flurry of activity in the OpenNMS codebase, so expect the next few weeks’ TWiOs to be way cooler than this one.

Upcoming Events

• July 21st, 2010: Tarus will be giving his “So, You Think You Want to Start an Open Source Business?” talk at OSCON
• July 26th-30th, 2010: OpenNMS Dev-Jam 2010 will be held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN

If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know.

Until Next Week…

As always, if there’s anything you’d like me to talk about in a future TWiO, or you just have a comment, criticism, or hazing rituals that you’d like to share, don’t hesitate to say hi.

Project Updates

• 1.8: Current Release is 1.8.0
  1.8.0 is the current stable release, tagged June 7th. The first major stable release in the 1.8 series, it adds a whole slew of new features compared to 1.6. For a high-level overview, see the “New and Noteworthy” page on the OpenNMS wiki. While we consider this release to be stable, a ton has changed. It is recommended that you back up your database, and test an upgrade on non-production hardware before moving to 1.8 in production.
• 1.8: Packaging Fixes
  A number of fixes relating to packaging and installation for Windows, Debian, and Solaris were checked in this week.
• 1.8: Spectrum Trap Importer
  Jeff wrote a little utility to import Spectrum traps.
  The Spectrum trap importer reads custom event definitions in the format used by CA Spectrum and creates equivalent definitions expressed in the XML OpenNMS event schema. It parses Spectrum-style alert mappings, event dispositions, event tables, and event formats and attempts to preserve the major attibutes that can be mapped to the OpenNMS model, including varbinds used as alarm discriminators, substitution token expansion, and limited cause/clear-cause relationships.
• 1.8: Remote Poller Updates
  Matt added the ability to “pause all” and “resume all” to the distributed status page. A few other bugs were fixed in the OpenStreetMaps and Mapquest map implementations.

Bugs Fixed Since Last TWiO

• #2922: PSQLException in poller backend: DB field length exceeded on remote location monitor status update

1.8.1 Release Delayed

FYI, the 1.8.1 release was supposed to happen today, but we have a couple of bugs we want to clean up real quick before we do so, so it will be a day or two late You should see an announcement on Twitter or Planet OpenNMS when it’s ready.

Upcoming Events

• July 21st, 2010: Tarus will be giving his “So, You Think You Want to Start an Open Source Business?” talk at OSCON
• July 26th-30th, 2010: OpenNMS Dev-Jam 2010 will be held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN

If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know.

Until Next Week…

As always, if there’s anything you’d like me to talk about in a future TWiO, or you just have a comment, criticism, or jet-lag cure that you’d like to share, don’t hesitate to say hi.

Project Updates

• 1.8: Current Release is 1.8.0
  1.8.0 is the current stable release, tagged June 7th. The first major stable release in the 1.8 series, it adds a whole slew of new features compared to 1.6. For a high-level overview, see the “New and Noteworthy” page on the OpenNMS wiki. While we consider this release to be stable, a ton has changed. It is recommended that you back up your database, and test an upgrade on non-production hardware before moving to 1.8 in production.
• 1.8: SNMPv3 Fixes
  Seth has been working on updating our SNMP code to deal with the latest SNMP4J and fix some issues with SNMPv3 eventually failing.
• 1.8: Remote Poller Map Refactoring
  Matt finished up our major refactoring of the remote poller maps. It is now orders of magnitude faster, loading large (2800-poller) datasets in only a few seconds, rather than 20 or 30.
• 1.8: Remote Poller Map Updates
  The remote poller maps have been updated to explicitly show DISCONNECTED and STOPPED locations differently. Additionally, the boxes for selecting which status types are shown has been moved to the top, and UNKNOWN (never reported in) locations are no longer shown by default.

Bugs Fixed Since Last TWiO

• #3443: “ADD NODE” produces “too much” config
• #3804: Installer is trying install linux library on windows.
• #3917: Add a new token for a shorter date/time format.
• #3929: 1.8.1-SNAPSHOT could not startup due to eventd failure
• #3932: Patch: bottom of page navigation also for notifications and outages
• #3939: Notifications No Longer Filter
• #3940: manager.log should contain socket errors

Dev-Jam Registration Ends This Week

You still have time to join us at OpenNMS Dev-Jam 2010. Registration ends July 10th, so sign up now!

Upcoming Events

• July 7th-9th, 2010: Ben will be speaking at OpenStreetMaps’ State of the Map 2010, in Girona, Spain.
• July 21st, 2010: Tarus will be giving his “So, You Think You Want to Start an Open Source Business?” talk at OSCON
• July 26th-30th, 2010: OpenNMS Dev-Jam 2010 will be held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN

If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know.

Until Next Week…

As always, if there’s anything you’d like me to talk about in a future TWiO, or you just have a comment, criticism, or already written map-related presentations that you’d like to share, don’t hesitate to say hi.

Project Updates

• 1.8: Current Release is 1.8.0
  1.8.0 is the current stable release, tagged June 7th. The first major stable release in the 1.8 series, it adds a whole slew of new features compared to 1.6. For a high-level overview, see the “New and Noteworthy” page on the OpenNMS wiki. While we consider this release to be stable, a ton has changed. It is recommended that you back up your database, and test an upgrade on non-production hardware before moving to 1.8 in production.
• 1.8: Inline Thresholding Regression
  Inline thresholding was enabled in the default configs late in the 1.6 series, but it was never enabled by default in the 1.7 branch, so 1.8.0 was released without inline thresholding enabled. This was changed with the fixing of bug #3912, so be aware when merging configs when 1.8.1 comes out!
• 1.8: Remote Poller Maps Updates
  Matt, Donald, and I did a bunch of work on the remote poller maps, doing a huge amount of optimization of the queries used to pull poller data into the UI, adding support for Mapquest’s click and double-click behaviour (center, and center+zoom), and adding support for multiple map types in the OpenLayers implementation.
  
• 1.8: Tons of Bug Fixes
  I did a bunch of work going through Bugzilla this week, trying to close out bugs in preparation for 1.8.1, which will go into code slush next monday, and be released on the 12th.

Bugs Fixed Since Last TWiO

• #1181: Collectin Windows disk space, trying to poll the CD drive
• #1920: javamail using authentication encodes the username and password twice
• #1959: Too many calls to getlocahost()
• #2922: PSQLException in poller backend: DB field length exceeded on remote location monitor status update
• #2944: java.lang.NullPointerException on KSC Graphs
• #3124: HttpMonitor doesn’t check JSON repsonses for response-text
• #3192: New Feature: allow syslogd to bind to specific ipaddress
• #3280: Equallogic iSCSI array performance data
• #3283: Reparenting of iLO interface on HP servers not working with ESX4
• #3291: provisiond : snmpinterfaces not created
• #3296: running the installer without the database running throws an exception about “The database server’s error messages are not in English”
• #3306: 1.7.svn (fresh today) does not show service, availability on node page
• #3514: default datacollection-config.xml breaks alias length limit
• #3536: Unable to use the “percent sign (%)” in a notification text message
• #3576: Fix send-event.pl script to encode time in DateFormat.LONG
• #3578: Incorrect http content-type header for svg request
• #3589: Advanced Alarm Search some of the Sort by options don’t work properly
• #3598: An Exception occurs when you try to create a surveillance category that already exists.
• #3622: Bugs with Hyperic servlets
• #3624: Rename from Import to Synch(cronize) in Prov Groups
• #3632: admin role is negated for users also in readonly role
• #3637: JasperException PWC6033
• #3644: trying to add list of ip range to discover
• #3656: mib2opennms does not install in Debian Lenny
• #3675: Events missing page counter
• #3722: Debian Packages: opennms-contrib missing dependency for libxml-twig-perl
• #3847: Page Sequence Monitor still submitting multiple ‘Cookie:’ response headers even with BROWSER_COMPATIBILITY is enabled
• #3869: Data Collection Failed Event (dataCollectionFailed) not informative
• #3871: linkd not showing links between nodes and cisco switches
• #3899: Patch: allow per node filtering in notifications list
• #3900: dashboard user has security issues
• #3901: add support for click/double-click handlers
• #3910: Patch: display First Next Previous links in events list at the bottom of the page
• #3912: inline thresholding is no longer enabled by default
• #3915: regular expression “pattern”s in XSDs are not evaluated
• #3923: Stale location specific status change events should be deleted
• #3924: NPE handled too gracefully by MailAckProcessor in Ackd

Goof-Up of the Week

Jeff relayed this tale of the importance of having priorities in scrum this morning…

I spent last week helping a telecoms industry client implement OpenNMS. Toward the end of the second day we decided to switch from Capsd discovery to Provisiond requisitions, so I wrote a small script that
reads an inventory dump from their old NMS (CA Spectrum) and creates an OpenNMS requisition describing the same nodes. The database was full of junk events from before we’d put in place some new SNMP trap definitions, so I went about removing all that stuff manually before importing the new requisition. Several folks were going out for a beverage and invited me along, so I hurried in order not to hold them
up. The next morning there were over 600 nodes in the system instead of the 391 I was expecting. I double-checked that Capsd was turned off, that Provisiond was not handling newSuspect events, and that there were in fact no such events in the database, then contacted the development team about my suspicion of a bug. After nearly an hour, the client mentioned that he was seeing some duplicate nodes that didn’t have any events, alarms, or notifications associated with them. Only then did it dawn on me that, in my haste to get my hands on some suds, I had forgotten to delete the old nodes themselves before importing the new requisition!

Upcoming Events

• July 7th-9th, 2010: Ben will be speaking at OpenStreetMaps’ State of the Map 2010, in Girona, Spain.
• July 21st, 2010: Tarus will be giving his “So, You Think You Want to Start an Open Source Business?” talk at OSCON
• July 26th-30th, 2010: OpenNMS Dev-Jam 2010 will be held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN

If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know.

Until Next Week…

As always, if there’s anything you’d like me to talk about in a future TWiO, or you just have a comment, criticism, or blocking bug closing machines that you’d like to share, don’t hesitate to say hi.

Project Updates

• 1.8: Current Release is 1.8.0
  1.8.0 is the current stable release, tagged June 7th. The first major stable release in the 1.8 series, it adds a whole slew of new features compared to 1.6. For a high-level overview, see the “New and Noteworthy” page on the OpenNMS wiki. While we consider this release to be stable, a ton has changed. It is recommended that you back up your database, and test an upgrade on non-production hardware before moving to 1.8 in production.
• 1.8: Hibernate Updates
  Seth did some work optimizing the Hibernate queries used for the remote poller maps.
• 1.9: Port JEXL Code
  Seth ported the JEXL code recently introduced in trunk away from the JSR223 API, so that we can continue to support Java 1.5.
• 1.8: Remote Poller Map Updates
  Donald, Matt, and I have been working on the remote poller code some more. Matt and I are working on refactoring and cleaning it up some; Donald added support for click and double-click handling.
• 1.9: MAC Address Handling
  Seth worked on handling OCTET-STRING MAC addresses in traps.

Bugs Fixed Since Last TWiO

• #3662: Cpu Usage graph missing when using rrdtool
• #3869: Data Collection Failed Event (dataCollectionFailed) not informative
• #3900: dashboard user has security issues
• #3901: add support for click/double-click handlers

iPhone and iPad Beta Testers Wanted

I’ve wrapped up what will become version 1.0 of the OpenNMS iPhone application. I’d like to get some iPhone and iPad beta testers, especially people on older iPhone OS releases (the app supports as low
as 3.0) or using older hardware, like the original iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G. Depending on feedback, we’ll send it to the app store in the next couple of weeks.
If you are interested in helping test it out, we have a limited number of developer slots on our iPhone development account that we can hand out (first come, first serve). We’ll add you as an OpenNMS iPhone developer, and you will have the ability to distribute the app to your own devices.
If you already have an iPhone developer account for your own use, you can build and install the iPhone app right now, by following the steps here.
For those of you who have already received this notice and responded to me, don’t worry, you’re on the list. I’m still working out the best way to do Ad-Hoc distribution. You’ll get an email soon about the next steps.

Upcoming Events

• July 7th-9th, 2010: Ben will be speaking at OpenStreetMaps’ State of the Map 2010, in Girona, Spain.
• July 21st, 2010: Tarus will be giving his “So, You Think You Want to Start an Open Source Business?” talk at OSCON
• July 26th-30th, 2010: OpenNMS Dev-Jam 2010 will be held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN

If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know.

Until Next Week…

As always, if there’s anything you’d like me to talk about in a future TWiO, or you just have a comment, criticism, or actual working Ad-Hoc iPhone distribution instructions that work that you’d like to share, don’t hesitate to say hi.

Project Updates

• Stable: Current Release is 1.8.0
  1.8.0 is the current stable release, tagged June 7th. The first major stable release in the 1.8 series, it adds a whole slew of new features compared to 1.6. For a high-level overview, see the “New and Noteworthy” page on the OpenNMS wiki. While we consider this release to be stable, a ton has changed. It is recommended that you back up your database, and test an upgrade on non-production hardware before moving to 1.8 in production.
• Unstable: Current Release is …?
  We have not yet started developing major new features for the 1.9 series yet.
• 1.8: SVG Map Updates
  Antonio did more cleanup and tweaking of the SVG maps, including some refactoring, improved multilink support, and other bugfixes.
• 1.8: Microblog Notifications
  Jeff wrapped up merging support for microblog notifications, which will allow you to post notifications to Twitter, Identi.ca, and similar services.
• 1.8: Provisiond Updates
  Matt and Donald did some more work cleaning up a few remaining open bugs in Provisiond.

Bugs Fixed Since Last TWiO

• #3802: Solaris package using svc may disturb system boot
• #3807: build error 1.7.91-1 / sms-monitor
• #3848: post apt-get upgrade to v1.8 web UI fails
• #3849: Move quick search box below current outages box on front page
• #3850: Add events for rising/falling Net-SNMP dskTable DISMAN event traps
• #3857: allow ‘add interface’ in the UI
• #3861: Resource graphs picker control on front page submits to KSC reports controller

OpenNMS 1.8 Released!

As mentioned above, OpenNMS 1.8.0 has been released! If you plan on upgrading, it is recommended that you back up your database (pg_dump -Fc!) and configuration files before doing so. We are in the process of writing a more formal upgrade document with notes on backing up and managing config file changes. For a full list of major features, see the New in OpenNMS 1.8 page on the wiki.

OpenNMS iPhone/iPad App Update

I spent the last week at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference, bugging engineers in the labs and soaking up new iOS features. I had a lot of time to finally go over the OpenNMS iPhone app codebase and really whip it into shape. It now supports both iPhone and iPad, fully supports rotation (switching between landscape and portrait mode), and has an interface for adding a device to discovery.
I’ve put a ton of new screenshots up on the wiki page for it, if you want to see what it’s going to look like, and if you have an iPhone developer account, I’ve put up some pointers on checking out and installing it yourself.

I’ve got a few bugs to wrap up in the next day or two, and then we’ll be ready to start beta testing. The goal is to have it to the app store in the next few weeks.

Upcoming Events

• July 7th-9th, 2010: Ben will be speaking at OpenStreetMaps’ State of the Map 2010, in Girona, Spain.
• July 21st, 2010: Tarus will be giving his “So, You Think You Want to Start an Open Source Business?” talk at OSCON
• July 26th-30th, 2010: OpenNMS Dev-Jam 2010 will be held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN

If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know.

Until Next Week…

As always, if there’s anything you’d like me to talk about in a future TWiO, or you just have a comment, criticism, or app store approval guarantee or two that you’d like to share, don’t hesitate to say hi.

Project Updates

• Stable: Current Release is 1.6.11
  1.6.11 is the current stable release, tagged May 20th. It adds a few small features and fixes a few bugs. For a full list, see the bugzilla 1.6.11 milestone. This is a non-critical but recommended upgrade for anyone on OpenNMS versions older than 1.6.11.
• Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.91
  1.7.91 is the current unstable release, tagged May 26th. Since 1.7.90, there have been a few bug fixes. A full list of changes is in the release notes.
• Unstable: Remote Poller Updates
  The remote poller was updated to handle config changes on the fly, and is more resilient to errors on the server or poller side, retrying instead of exiting out.
• Unstable: Logging Cleanups
  Seth has fixed up logging in a bunch of different places in the code, and I’ve updated log4j.properties to get some stuff out of uncategorized.log and where they belong.
• Unstable: SVG Maps
  Antonio has been doing more bug fixes and a few minor features in the SVG maps.
• Unstable: Changes to the Page Sequence Monitor
  The PSM previously followed a 3xx REDIRECT received when POSTing as a GET. While this is useful in some cases, in others, it can make it hard to tell definitively what’s going on when following a sequence of pages. The best way to set up a sequence to handle a redirect is to first do a page tag which detects the redirect (using the “response-range” attribute), and then a second page tag which goes to the relevant location. To make this easier, a new parameter to the page tag was added: locationMatch, which lets you perform a regular expression match against the Location: specified in the redirect.
  A simple example would look something like this:

      <page path="/foo" method="POST" response-range="300-399" locationMatch="/expected_redirect_url_fragment">
        <parameter key="j_username" value="foo"/>
        <parameter key="j_password" value="bar"/>
      </page>
      <page virtual-host="localhost" path="/expected_redirect_url_fragment.htm"  method="POST" successMatch="monkeys!">

  The old POST -> GET behavior can be enabled by creating a parameter in the poller-configuration.xml service entry:

      <parameter key="redirect-post" value="true" />

Bugs Fixed Since Last Week

• #2914: Add ability to search by node id
• #2980: Unable to schedule due to null pointer
• #3413: Replace JEP with Apache Commons JEXL
• #3609: Remove unwanted exceptions from Provisiond log
• #3732: Running the early morning report causes NPE
• #3751: Refactor SVG Map ContextMenu
• #3780: Collection fails to start with Provisiond newSuspectEvents
• #3785: Page Sequence Monitor uses configured method instead of GET when following redirects
• #3786: vacuumd does not fill eventsource column which violates db constraints
• #3789: No way to identify a node’s requisition/source
• #3796: Need to be able to search for a node by foreign source
• #3801: gnu-crypto library is required for RadiusAuthenticationProvider
• #3803: log statments log wrong values
• #3809: Web UI should have more naked women
• #3810: repair-sequences could reset sequences to a bad state
• #3811: transaction exceptions make it through RMI interfaces

OpenNMS is Project of the Month at SourceForge!

OpenNMS is Project of the Month at SourceForge. They did a nice interview with Tarus, who went over the history of the project all the way up through our plans for the future. Check it out!

Upcoming Events

• June 11th-12th, 2010: Antonio will be speaking at the Conferenza Italiana sul Software Libero (Italian Conference on Free Software)
• June 11th-13th, 2010: The OpenNMS Group is a diamond sponsor of the Southeastern Linuxfest to be held in South Carolina. Since it’s close, we expect a lot of the OpenNMS crew will be able to make it.
• July 7th-9th, 2010: Ben will be speaking at OpenStreetMaps’ State of the Map 2010, in Girona, Spain.
• July 21st, 2010: Tarus will be giving his “So, You Think You Want to Start an Open Source Business?” talk at OSCON
• July 26th-30th, 2010: OpenNMS Dev-Jam 2010 will be held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN

Also, I’ll be at WWDC next week if you feel like saying “hi,” just send me an email and we can meet up.
If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know.

Until Next Week…

As always, if there’s anything you’d like me to talk about in a future TWiO, or you just have a comment, criticism, or spare release candidate or two that you’d like to share, don’t hesitate to say hi.

Project Updates

• Stable: Current Release is 1.6.11
  1.6.11 is the current stable release, tagged May 20th. It adds a few small features and fixes a few bugs. For a full list, see the bugzilla 1.6.11 milestone. This is a non-critical but recommended upgrade for anyone on OpenNMS versions older than 1.6.11.
• Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.90
  1.7.90 is the current unstable release, tagged May 20th. Since 1.7.10, there have been quite a few bug fixes, and a few new features, including new JMX monitoring options [1], [2], remote poller maps, SVG map enhancements, and reporting enhancements. A full list of changes is in the release notes.
• Unstable: Remote Poller Maps
  Donald and I fixed some more bugs in the remote poller maps. There’s still more to do, but it’s starting to solidify nicely.
• Unstable: Logging Updates
  Seth spent some time on our logging infrastructure. The plan is to be able to do some more useful logging of things at the “element” level, rather than the thread/daemon level. IE, the ability to have one place to see all the logging related to a node, or interface, or notification, etc. That part isn’t done yet, but now it should be easier to work on such things.
• Unstable: Provisiond
  Matt did more work on Provisiond, fixing up handling events from discovery. It can now be configured to replace capsd (or not).
• Unstable: SVG Maps
  Antonio did more small feature and bug work on the SVG maps.
• Unstable: RANCID API
  I did a few small NPE and cleanup fixes to the RANCID API code.

Bugs Fixed Since Last Week

• #3354: debian init.d script and packaging
• #3658: Context Menu in the bottom of the mapPanel are out of the map panel
• #3701: JasperException when accessing ifindexes on switches
• #3745: PDF availability reports fail to render
• #3756: Linkd fails, keeps ONMS from starting.
• #3768: Rrd Queueing Threads don’t identify themselves
• #3771: Redundant configuration in snmp-graph.properties

OpenNMS 1.8 Release Candidate 1 (1.7.90) Released

That’s right, we finally got a 1.8 release candidate ready and released. Here is a list of everything major that has changed since 1.6.

Architectural Changes

DAO Updates

Many more parts of the OpenNMS data access layer have been updated to be compatible with Hibernate and database abstraction.

Database Versioning

The OpenNMS upgrade process now uses LiquiBase for managing schema changes between versions.

OSGi Preparation

Some daemon architectural changes have happened to support an eventual integration with OSGi (post-1.8).

Spring 3.0

OpenNMS was updated to use Spring 3.0.

Test Framework Updates

A number of handy annotation-based test framework changes have been made, using JUnit 4.

New Features

Core and Infrastructure

Pinger

A new multithreaded, high-performance ping infrastructure was added used by all subsystems that talk ICMP.

RADIUS Authentication

A RADIUS authentication provider has been added.

RANCID Integration

An integration with RANCID has been added. If configured, extra data about node configuration, etc. will be available in the node UI and maps.

RESTful Interface

A number of interfaces to OpenNMS data have been made available through a RESTful interface, using the Jersey API.
This includes simple web API access to alarms, events, nodes, notifications, and outages, and it is expected that this will be expanded in future releases.

Discovery and Capability Scanning

Provisioning

A complete replacement for Capsd, called “Provisiond” is introduced in this release. It allows you to define specific behaviors for detecting services and attributes of devices in manual, automated, and semi-automated ways, with simple APIs for writing your own custom scanning behavior and detectors. This includes a highly-scalable, highly-parallelizable threading architecture which will be used for other parts of OpenNMS in future releases.

DNS Importing

Provisiond is able to provision nodes based on a DNS zone transfer.

Automatic Map Creation

Provisiond can automatically create maps and link nodes together when they are provisioned.

New Capsd Plugins

JDBCQueryPlugin, JMXSecurePlugin, WebPlugin, WmiPlugin, XmpPlugin

Monitoring and Data Collection

Mobile Sequence and SMS Ping Monitors

A new pair of monitors have been added that have the ability to perform monitoring of cellular networks with phones attached to the OpenNMS server.

Remote Poller

The remote poller has been enhanced to communicate with the OpenNMS server through HTTP (which makes it proxyable).

TCP RRD Strategy

A data collection strategy that allows pushing collected data over the network.

SNMP Poller

A service that let you snmp poll the interface operational and administration status (up/down) for selected interfaces

WMI Support

Support has been added for polling and datacollection from Windows Management Instrumentation.

XMP Support

Support has been added for the XML Management Protocol (Cartographer).

New Poller Monitors

BSFMonitor, JDBCQueryMonitor, JMXSecureMonitor, MemcachedMonitor, WebMonitor, WmiMonitor, XmpMonitor

Events, Alarms, Notifications, and Acknowledgement

Acknowledgement Daemon

A daemon for interacting with acknowledgements programmatically has been added. This will open up APIs for acknowledging alarms through cell phone, IM, e-mail, and so on.

Asterisk Notification Support

It is now possible to send notifications through Asterisk.

User Interface and Reporting

Upcoming Events

• June 11th-12th, 2010: Antonio will be speaking at the Conferenza Italiana sul Software Libero (Italian Conference on Free Software)
• June 11th-13th, 2010: The OpenNMS Group is a diamond sponsor of the Southeastern Linuxfest to be held in South Carolina. Since it’s close, we expect a lot of the OpenNMS crew will be able to make it.
• July 7th-9th, 2010: Ben will be speaking at OpenStreetMaps’ State of the Map 2010, in Girona, Spain.
• July 21st, 2010: Tarus will be giving his “So, You Think You Want to Start an Open Source Business?” talk at OSCON
• July 26th-30th, 2010: OpenNMS Dev-Jam 2010 will be held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN

If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know.

Until Next Week…

As always, if there’s anything you’d like me to talk about in a future TWiO, or you just have a comment, criticism, or missing documentation that you’d like to share, don’t hesitate to say hi.

Project Updates

• Stable: Current Release is 1.6.10
  1.6.10 is the current stable release, tagged March 9th. It adds a few small features and fixes a few bugs. For a full list, see the bugzilla 1.6.10 milestone. This is a non-critical but recommended upgrade for anyone on OpenNMS versions older than 1.6.10.
• Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.10
  1.7.10 is the current unstable release, tagged March 9th. Since 1.7.9, there have been quite a few bug fixes, and a few new features, including allowing the remote monitor to phone home over HTTP, pushing data collection to a TCP daemon, and integration of the Jasper reporting engine. A full list of changes is in the release notes.
• Unstable: Provisiond Work Continues
  Matt and Donald continued working on Provisiond, it now has basic support for handling newSuspect events and provisioning null (requisitionless) nodes, which was previously the purview of Capsd. There’s still a bit of work to do on bugs and corner cases, but it looks like it’s progressing well.
• Unstable: SVG Maps
  Antonio did more feature and bug fix work on the SVG maps.
• Unstable: Remote Poller Maps
  Donald and I continued work on the remote poller maps, fixing bugs and tidying things up. The remote poller now properly handles configuration changes (including dynamically getting node/interface/service adds and removes).
• Unstable: Logging Cleanups
  Seth has been working on evaluating our current logging infrastructure and looking at how we can update it to be cleaner and more useful.

Bugs Fixed Since Last Week

• #3738: Provisiond DNS import: IXFR –> AXFR fallback implementation
• #3741: automatic maps disappear when saved and renamed
• #3742: Map empty when window resizes
• #3757: No graphical difference between a single link and a multi link
• #3758: Reload map.properties

Upcoming Events

• May 18th-20th, 2010: David Hustace, Craig Gallen, and Tarus Balog will be attending the TeleManagement Forum’s ManagementWorld conference in Nice, France. If you use or are interested in OpenNMS and will be at the conference, please let them know, they’d love to meet.
• June 11th-12th, 2010: Antonio will be speaking at the Conferenza Italiana sul Software Libero (Italian Conference on Free Software)
• June 11th-13th, 2010: The OpenNMS Group is a diamond sponsor of the Southeastern Linuxfest to be held in South Carolina. Since it’s close, we expect a lot of the OpenNMS crew will be able to make it.
• July 21st, 2010: Tarus will giving his “So, You Think You Want to Start an Open Source Business?” talk at OSCON
• July 26th-30th, 2010: OpenNMS Dev-Jam 2010 will be held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN

If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know.

Until Next Week…

As always, if there’s anything you’d like me to talk about in a future TWiO, or you just have a comment, criticism, or release notes that you’d like to share, don’t hesitate to say hi.

Project Updates

• Stable: Current Release is 1.6.10
  1.6.10 is the current stable release, tagged March 9th. It adds a few small features and fixes a few bugs. For a full list, see the bugzilla 1.6.10 milestone. This is a non-critical but recommended upgrade for anyone on OpenNMS versions older than 1.6.10.
• Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.10
  1.7.10 is the current unstable release, tagged March 9th. Since 1.7.9, there have been quite a few bug fixes, and a few new features, including allowing the remote monitor to phone home over HTTP, pushing data collection to a TCP daemon, and integration of the Jasper reporting engine. A full list of changes is in the release notes.
• Unstable: Bug Fixes
  Seth spent some more quality time with Bugzilla and cleaning up bits of the codebase.
• Unstable: Remote Poller Initialization Scripts
  I spent some time last week fixing up the remote poller scripts so that they provide proper SysV init on Debian- and RPM-based distributions (and work the same way on both platforms). Seth later fixed the bugs in my scripts.
• Unstable: Remote Poller Map Updates
  I spent some free time during the conference fixing a bug in the map-handling for Mapquest, and also implemented basic OpenLayers support. Now it is possible to use RP maps using entirely unencumbered APIs.

OpenNMS User Conference Europe 2010 a Success

(Like we’d say otherwise! <g>)
So OUCE was a whole lot of fun, and I think everyone really enjoyed it and got a lot out of it.
Personally, I intend to make a wiki version of my talk, “Getting Started with OpenNMS Development,” in tutorial form, and all of the talks should all be available soon on video. We’ll let you know as soon as they’re available.
Thanks to Nethinks for putting everything together, things went great!

Upcoming Events

• May 18th-20th, 2010: David Hustace, Craig Gallen, and Tarus Balog will be attending the TeleManagement Forum’s ManagementWorld conference in Nice, France. If you use or are interested in OpenNMS and will be at the conference, please let them know, they’d love to meet.
• June 11th-12th, 2010: Antonio will be speaking at the Conferenza Italiana sul Software Libero (Italian Conference on Free Software)
• June 11th-13th, 2010: The OpenNMS Group is a diamond sponsor of the Southeastern Linuxfest to be held in South Carolina. Since it’s close, we expect a lot of the OpenNMS crew will be able to make it.
• July 21st, 2010: Tarus will giving his “So, You Think You Want to Start an Open Source Business?” talk at OSCON
• July 26th-30th, 2010: OpenNMS Dev-Jam 2010 will be held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN

If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know.

Until Next Week…

As always, if there’s anything you’d like me to talk about in a future TWiO, or you just have a comment, criticism, or ash-resistant airplanes that you’d like to share, don’t hesitate to say hi.