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This Week in OpenNMS: Now with 14% More Tardiness!

It’s time for This Week in OpenNMS. Please excuse the Tuesday release, but Monday was a holiday in the US. Even that harsh taskmaster Tarus allows OpenNMS.com employees a brief day of rest before pushing our noses back into the grindstone. <grin> This week we continued work on finishing up Provisiond, as well as some other feature work slated for 1.8.

Project Updates

• Stable: Current Release is 1.6.5
  1.6.5 is the current stable release, released May 16th. It fixes a number of bugs, and adds a few features. For a full list, see the bugzilla 1.6.5 milestone. This is a non-critical but recommended upgrade for anyone on OpenNMS versions older than 1.6.5.
• Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.3
  1.7.3 is the current unstable release, released May 3rd. It fixes a number of 1.7.2 bugs, and is the first public release including the new ACL code. A 1.7.x overview is available in the release notes on the site.
• Unstable: Database Schema Management
  The new LiquiBase stuff is working, and now I’m going to be integrating it into our current installer this week.
• Unstable: RANCID Updates
  Guglielmo has RANCID HTML and XML reports working in trunk.
• Unstable: Thresholding Rework
  Alejandro has merged his in-line thresholding and latency fixes into trunk. The changes should be available in the latest 1.7.4 nightly snapshots.
• Unstable: Provisiond Updates
  Donald has been continuing work on bringing the detectors available in provisiond in-line with the existing Capsd plugins, so that everything Capsd can detect, Provisiond can detect. Matt has been doing some refactoring and scoping out what needs to be done to support discovered (non-foreign-source’d) nodes in Provisiond.
• Unstable: Alarm, Event and Notification Acknowledgement Fixed
  1.7.3 shipped with a rather annoying bug in acknowledging alarms, events, and notifications in various places in the web UI. These have been fixed in trunk.
• Unstable: ACL UI Work
  Massimiliano Dessì continued his work on the ACL/Custom View UI webapp. Hopefully this will be finished up before 1.8 goes final, but if not, it will probably be included in a later 1.8.x release.

SourceForge Community Choice Awards

SourceForge has once again opened nominations for the 2009 Community Choice Awards. These annual awards provide a chance for the larger open source community to recognize the projects that they get the most out of. The OpenNMS project has made a strong showing in past years in the “Best Project for the Enterprise” category: a crowded field to be sure, but we think the most appropriate for a product that spans so many of the other categories.
If you use and love OpenNMS, you can help by nominating the project yourself — just click below, then select “Best Project for the Enterprise” from the drop-down list. Thanks in advance!

Upcoming Events

• August 12, 2009: Tarus will be giving a talk at OpenSourceWorld: DM4: The Open Source Management Stack.
• September 21st-25th, 2009: OpenNMS training will be available through The OpenNMS Group at the OpenNMS training facility in Pittsboro, NC.

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

See Ya

That’s it for this 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 crazy and/or embarassing dream you’d like to share, don’t hesitiate to say hi. Also, we’ve still got room for more Order of the Blue Polo members if you’d like to send your own testimonial. (Of course you would!)

Tags: ackd, acls, alarms, cca, liquibase, opensourceworld, provisiond, rancid, sourceforge, thresholding, training