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This Week in OpenNMS: Catching Up

by Benjamin Reed: April 13, 2010

It’s time for This WeekMonth in OpenNMS. In the last month or so, we did a lot of bug fixes as well as finishing up a whole raft of new features.

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: Reporting
  Jason Aras and Jonathan Sartin both completed their reporting work, and it has all been integrated into the OpenNMS 1.7 series. The new reporting engine is available in 1.7.10.
• Unstable: MultiOutputRrdStrategy
  Seth’s RRD strategy, which will let you write performance data to RRDs as well as a TCP socket, was released in the 1.7.10 release.
• Unstable: Remote Poller Updates
  The remote poller HTTP RMI work has been completed, and integrated into the 1.7 series.
• Unstable: Hyperic Alarm State Integration
  Seth and Jason finished up work on support for pushing Hyperic alarm state to OpenNMS, expanding upon the existing Hyperic HQ integration.
• Unstable: Move to Spring 3.0
  We’ve updated our plumbing to use Spring 3.0.
• Unstable: MMTM Updates
  The SMS monitor infrastructure has gone through a lot of bugfixing in the past weeks, and is solidifying nicely.
• Unstable: Eclipse Updates
  A number of changes have been made to make it easier to use m2eclipse with Eclipse. Updated instructions on doing OpenNMS development in eclipse are on the wiki.
• Unstable: Bug Triaging
  Seth has spent a bunch of time triaging (and fixing) bugs in preparation for 1.8. Yes, seriously, we are actually in the home stretch of preparing for 1.8. It would be foolish to give a date, but it will be soon.
• Unstable: Build System Cleanups
  We did a bunch of rearranging the build system to speed things up (get rid of extraneous repositories, etc.) It trims build time down by a noticeable amount.
• Unstable: Thresholding Without Storing
  Alejandro implemented a long-desired feature, thresholding on collected data without needing to persist it.
• Unstable: New Remote Monitoring UI
  I’ve been working on a new remote monitoring UI. The current UI we have for displaying remote monitor status has a rather odd algorithm for determining status, and it is a time-consuming one which does not scale to many monitors, as well.
  I am instead writing an entirely new UI in GWT which will include a Google Maps integration. You will be able to geotag monitoring locations and use the map to “drill down” into specific areas to view location status by region.

Upcoming Events

• March 10th, 2010: Early bird registration ends for the OpenNMS Users Conference in Frankfurt, Germany. Sign up today and save €60.
• March 17th-18th, 2010: Tarus will be at the Computerworld Open Source Business Conference. Drop him a note if you want to chat. Tarus loves to discuss rare 16th-century vases, I swear! So, do your homework!
• April 10th, 2010: Jeff Gehlbach will be speaking at the Texas Linux Fest on using OpenNMS in enterprise environments.
• April 19th-23rd, 2010: OpenNMS training will be available through The OpenNMS Group at the OpenNMS training facility in Pittsboro, NC.
• May 6th-7th, 2010: The second annual OpenNMS Users Conference will be held in Frankfurt, Germany, thanks again to Nethinks. The call for papers ends January 31st, if you are interested in presenting.
• 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 12th-13th, 2010: The OpenNMS Group is a platinum 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.

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 1.8 release date you’d like to share, don’t hesitiate to say hi.

Tags: bugs, build system, eclipse, gwt, hyperic, managementworld, maps, mmtm, nethinks, osbc, remote poller, reporting, rmi, rrd, self, sms, spring, texas linux fest, thresholding, tmf, training, uce