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This Week in OpenNMS: There and Back Again

by Benjamin Reed: July 12, 2010

It’s time for This Week in OpenNMS. In the last week, we did a bit of bug fixing and a few small remote poller changes.

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.

Tags: dev-jam, mapquest, maps, openstreemaps, oscon, remote poller, sotm, spectrum, twitter