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This Week in OpenNMS: We Be (Dev) Jammin’

by Benjamin Reed: July 20, 2010

It’s time for This Week in OpenNMS. In the last week, we released 1.8.1, among other things.

Project Updates

• 1.8: Current Release is 1.8.1
  1.8.1 is the current stable release, tagged July 12th. The second stable release in the 1.8 series, it adds a ton of bugfixes and a number of enhancements since 1.8.0. For a complete list, see the “New and Noteworthy” page on the OpenNMS wiki. As always, it is recommended that you back up your database before upgrading.
• 1.8: Windows Installation Fixes
  More work on WIndows installation has been going on this week, with an overhauled launcher setup which works properly on 32- or 64-bit Windows, as well as a possible fix for the installation of PL/PgSQL on systems that don’t have it enabled in their template1 databases by default.
• 1.8: Remote Poller Updates
  When the remote poller fires events, it now includes the location monitor ID, so alarms can be processed based on the monitor reporting issues. Also, Philip updated the legend on the Distributed Status page to better reflect the various statuses shown. A few other UI bugs were fixed as well.
• 1.8: Instrumentation Log Reader
  Philip wrote a handy tool for debugging collection issues called the Instrumentation Log Reader. It’s in the opennms-tools/ directory of the OpenNMS source (as of what will be 1.8.2), and allows you to analyze your collectd.log to get statistics on how long collections take for various services. You can see a sample output in the source tree here.
• 1.8: SNMP Asset Adapter
  Seth has been working on a Provisiond adapter for pulling SNMP data into asset records. He’s still working on documentation, so I don’t have a ton of details, I’ll try to give a pointer to it next week. =)

Bugs Fixed Since Last TWiO

• #3836: Unable to delete nodes with capsd disabled.

Count Down to Dev-Jam 2010

Everyone is humming in anticipation with Dev-Jam 2010 just around the corner. People will start arriving in Minnesota at the end of the week, and we’ll be kicking off the festivities with the ritual hazing initiation welcoming our new OGP members and OpenNMS Group employees. We’ve got the monkeys, duct tape, leather straps, pomade, pitchforks, and belt sander ready, so listen for the screams of excitement about becoming part of the fold, you’ll be able to hear them wherever you’re at!
Traditionally Dev-Jam is accompanied by a flurry of activity in the OpenNMS codebase, so expect the next few weeks’ TWiOs to be way cooler than this one.

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 hazing rituals that you’d like to share, don’t hesitate to say hi.

Tags: bugs, capsd, collectd, dev-jam, distributed status, installer, oscon, postgresql, remote poller, snmp, windows