About RangerRick

Principal Software Engineer. Manages the release process of OpenNMS Horizon and Meridian, and a bunch of other stuff.

Security update: Mandatory GPG key rotation for Meridian and Horizon

In the wake of the CircleCI breach, we have been reviewing policies and updating keys and tokens used in our automation for anything that could potentially be affected. While we have no evidence of any of specific credentials being leaked, we've needed to document procedures for rotating keys anyway, so [...]

By |2023-05-03T15:11:11-04:00February 13th, 2023|

OpenNMS On the Horizon – October 3rd, 2022

Since last time, we worked on documentation (SNMP poller, Trapd, Enlinkd, requisitions, quick start guide), Enlinkd refactoring, Docker container scanning, Horizon Stream (Keycloak integration, operator config, port forwarding, metrics, PostgreSQL auth, CI, Minion gateway, Kafka, docs, PagerDuty, ignite tests, Helm charts, UI navigation), event improvements, Sonar and code coverage, ALEC (API, test coverage, UI), tests (CI improvements, device config backup, logging), time-series off-heap support, provisioning, cookies and CSRF, JavaScript dependencies, Helm (AngularJS to React transition), and UI preview integration.

By |2023-03-09T15:37:56-05:00October 3rd, 2022|

OpenNMS On the Horizon – September 26th, 2022

Since last time, we worked on pyroscope profiling, CircleCI improvements, documentation (Grafana dashboard, Quick Start guide, Trapd, graphQL notification query, requisition REST), Horizon Stream (Minion gateway and heartbeat, operator improvements, JMX, Helm charts, PagerDuty, discovery), Sonar bug fixes, OPA (Poller Config and time-series offheap persistence), SNMPv3 traps, Enlinkd, Graphite time-series, smoke tests, flow classification, Provisiond config validation, SNMP metadata provisioning, Helm improvements, ALEC UI, startup progress bar, and web form fixes.

By |2023-03-09T15:37:59-05:00September 26th, 2022|

OpenNMS On the Horizon – September 19th, 2022

Since last time, we worked on Horizon Stream (Minion RPC and gateway, operator improvements, hashicorp vault support, device UI and events), documentation (quick start guide, grafana, flows), OpenTelemetry, VNC integration, Sonar (CI workflow, bug fixes), Enlinkd scheduling and OSPF area support, and hashicorp vault SCV integration (including REST).

By |2023-03-09T15:38:04-05:00September 19th, 2022|

OpenNMS On the Horizon – September 6th, 2022

Since last time, we worked on ALEC (situation datasource, UI timeline), CircleCI config improvements, device config backup telemetry, Horizon Stream (Minion gRPC, Minion gateway, ICMP/SNMP polling, traps, PagerDuty integration, operator and Skaffold, Sonar code coverage, Spring Boot, maps, and UI), Documentation (style guide, doc-writing guide, quick start, events, DCB, Cortex time-series), offheap queueing for time-series, Docker image publishing and ARM improvements, Sonar CI fixes, publishing to Maven Central, Helm queries and flows, web UI fixes, DCB analytics, partial updates for config REST.

By |2023-03-09T15:38:20-05:00September 6th, 2022|

OpenNMS On the Horizon – August 29th, 2022

Since last time, we worked on documentation (cortex time-series, quick start guide, style guide, Helm entity datasource), Horizon Stream (operator/skaffold/platform updates, Grafana integration, Minion, PagerDuty and notifications, Ignite, maps, UI widgets), datachoices telemetry, SCV, Docker, Cortex time-series plugin, datacollection/thresholding, 3rd-party license reporting, ALEC APIs, system IDs, Helm, UI event parameter handling, and DCB REST updates.

By |2023-03-09T15:38:26-05:00August 29th, 2022|

OpenNMS On the Horizon – August 23rd, 2022

Since last time, we worked on documentation (notifications, daemons, "deep dive", Helm), Horizon Stream (Skaffold/operator/gateway infrastructure, Minion, graph API, metrics, containers, device UI), ALEC (situation REST and UI), CircleCI improvements, Docker improvements, datachoices/telemetry, JICMP6, off-heap improvements, SNMP4J, location, config manager, and interface REST, and Helm (entity and flow datasource improvements).

By |2023-03-09T15:41:25-05:00August 23rd, 2022|

OpenNMS On the Horizon – August 15th, 2022

Since last time, we worked on documentation (Plugin API, daemons, Minion, Helm), Horizon Stream (Minion, build system, Keycloak, operator/Skaffold improvements, notifications, metrics, maps, and device UI), CircleCI, Enlinkd, datachoices telemetry, SNMP provisioning policy handling, ALEC situations, the location REST service, regex node filters in Helm, web validation.

By |2023-03-09T15:41:22-05:00August 15th, 2022|

OpenNMS On the Horizon – August 8th, 2022

Since last time, we worked on documentation (Minion, plugin API, events), Horizon Stream (monitoring, time-series storage, Kubernetes operator, notifications, PagerDuty, Skaffold/Tilt config, device/appliance UI and maps), Enlinkd scheduling, datachoices telemetry, CI dynamic config, build assembly, ALEC (situations backend and UI), JMX collection, time-series off-heap storage, and password complexity checks.

By |2023-03-09T15:41:13-05:00August 8th, 2022|
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