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This Week in OpenNMS: Waterfallin’

by Benjamin Reed: April 13, 2010

It’s time for This Week in OpenNMS. This week some of the regulars were out of town, but somehow we got some code committed anyways…

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: ACL UI Work
  Massimiliano Dessì has continued his work on a GUI for the ACL plumbing that has been implemented in OpenNMS.
• Unstable: Provisiond Bugs
  The provisiond bug we were working on last week has been fixed, and imports (as well as the quick Node Add) are working again.
• Unstable: Monitor Updates
  Jason Aras got his Bean Scripting Framework monitor working last week, and was able to create a test monitor in Groovy.
• Unstable: Code Cleanup
  My code cleanup work in a branch was merged back into trunk alongside the provisiond fixes. We’re now down to under 2000 Eclipse warnings instead of over 3000. Some of those come from Castor-generated code, so it’s actually looking quite a bit better, but there’s still plenty to fix up.
• Unstable: Build System Fixes
  Somewhere along the way, the java.net maven repository changed URLs, and some of the dependencies we are using in Maven were pointing to their old URL. The java.net folks put a 301 redirect from the old host to the new, but Maven doesn’t actually honor it, and was writing HTML files to the .pom and .jar files in the local build directory. This has been fixed now in trunk.
• Unstable: Modularizing the Web Build
  Donald has been continuing his work on breaking up the webapp build.

TMForum Team Action Week

TMForum is the TeleManagement Forum, a consortium of telecom and other vendors who work together on standards of integration.
This week Matt and Craig went to Baltimore to meet up with the other TIP folks at Team Action Week. The goal was to try to hammer out a bit more of the specification for TIP, the TMF Interface Program. The idea is to have a standard interface for various management components like trouble-ticketing tools, fault detection systems, performance monitoring, etc. OpenNMS hopes to develop the reference implementation for these protocols, once they get finalized.
A lot of politics were involved, but we’re hoping that the process will move forward enough for us to start an actual implementation. Although the process isn’t great, the concepts are interesting, and should give us a good basis for modularizing OpenNMS in the future, as well as a tighter way to interact with other systems than we do even now. Keep your fingers crossed, and feel free to add toes if you think it will help.

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

I posted this last week, but it’s so gosh-darn important, I thought I’d repeat.
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.

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 XML configuration file obfuscator 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, castor, cca, groovy, janitor, opensourceworld, provisiond, sourceforge, tip, TMforum, training