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This Week in OpenNMS: Pants Optional

by Benjamin Reed: April 13, 2010

It’s time for This Week in OpenNMS. This week, we’ve continued work on what will become OpenNMS 1.8, and gone pants-optional.

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 1.7.4
  1.7.4 is the current unstable release, released June 8th. Since 1.7.3, more work has gone on in the Provisiond code, as well as ACLs, RANCID reports, thresholding fixes, enabling maps by default, and an entirely new way of creating the OpenNMS database under the covers. A 1.7.x overview is available in the release notes on the site.
• Unstable: Modularizing the Web Build
  This week Donald did more work on chopping the webapp build system into little tiny pieces. Progress has been made (in a branch) but it’s not finished yet.
• Unstable: Code Cleanup
  I’ve gone on a janitor kick this last week, and spent a ton of time cleaning up old warnings in the code, fixing stuff to use generics, and other tedious-but-nice-when-it’s-finished work. Some of it is in trunk, but most of it has been going on in a branch. I hope to merge it sometime this week.
• Unstable: Monitor Updates
  Jason Aras did a bit more work on his JDBC monitor, as well as a refactoring of the HTTP and HTTPs plugins and a monitor that will let you use the Bean Scripting Framework for creating custom monitors.
• Unstable: Provisiond Bugs
  We’ve found some issues in the scheduling of provisiond threads. One was a Maven issue that gave us 2 different (incompatible) versions of Apache MINA in the OpenNMS library directory. With that fixed, we’ve seen a few other issues with the new import architecture that we’re working through. Donald and Matt did some work last week on figuring it out, and I’ve been tinkering with it still this week.
• Unstable: RANCID Updates
  A few more fixes have been made to the RANCID integration. We are up to release 0.96 of the full integration tarball on SourceForge.
• Unstable: ACL UI Work
  It wouldn’t be a TWiO without talking about Massimiliano Dessì’s work on a GUI for the ACL plumbing that has been implemented in OpenNMS. Work is still ongoing, but he’s committing at a furious pace.
• Unstable: SMS API
  Jeff started work on a low-level SMS API which we’ll use for future SMS integrations, in a branch.

SourceForge Community Choice Awards: OpenNMS is a Finalist – Vote Now!

Thanks, everyone, for helping to nominate OpenNMS for the Community Choice Awards!
Now that we are a finalist in the Best Tool for the Enterprise category, it’s time to vote!
As Tarus mentions in his blog, they asked us finalists to do a little extra and create a video talking about the project and why we feel we should get your vote — I mean, besides the obvious reasons, like that our users are the best, most wonderful, handsome, beautiful, and successful people in the IT and open-source world, and obviously they deserve recognition for that…
Ahem, anyways, as I was saying, they asked us to do a video, the results are up at YouTube — or if you just want the funny bits, we’ve got a short trailer.
Anyways, thanks again everyone for your nomination. All that’s left is to go back and vote on the finalists.
Good luck to everyone not in the Best Tool for the Enterprise category! <grin>

Vote Now!

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.

Bye for Now

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 HOWTOs on rigging SourceForge voting systems 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: acls, bsf, build system, cca, http, https, janitor, jdbc, obp, opensourceworld, provisiond, rancid, sms, sourceforge, training