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This Week in OpenNMS: 1.8.0 Released, iPhone App Coming!

by Benjamin Reed: June 14, 2010

It’s time for This Week in OpenNMS. In the last 2 weeks, we released 1.8.0, started finalizing the iPhone/iPad app, and did some more bugfixing.

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.

Tags: 1.8, dev-jam, disman, identi.ca, ios, ipad, iphone, ksc, maps, microblog, net-snmp, oscon, provisiond, reporting, solaris, stateofthemap, svg, This Week in OpenNMS, twitter