This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 4

The holidays are over, the hangovers have been recovered from, and in
the meantime, a flurry of activity has been happening in the OpenNMS
world. It's time for another This Week in OpenNMS!

Project Updates
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- Stable: 1.6.2 Coming

The goal is to release version 1.6.2 next week. There have been a number
of bugs fixed (and a few small features added) since 1.6.2.

For the list of changes due, see:
  http://tinyurl.com/opennms162-bugs

- Trunk: Provisioning

Work continues on the new provisioning code at a frantic pace. We're not
yet at a milestone where people can use it, but lots of pieces are
coming together.

- Trunk: Acknowledgement Daemon

Dave has begun work on Ackd, the OpenNMS acknowledgement daemon. This
will allow API and user-interactive access to acknowledging alarms. The
goal is to be able to acknowledge alarms through jabber, email, etc.
upon receiving a notification of an issue.

- Trunk: Alarm Daemon

Dave also worked on Alarmd, a daemon for managing persistence of alarms
to improve event persistence performance and reduce delay in forwarding
events to listeners.

This immediately began discussions with a large Telco in Europe about
their contributing a 3GPP compliant alarm strategy. Cool.

- Trunk: IRC Notification Strategy

DJ committed a notification strategy that can notify you of events and
outages through IRC chat.

- Trunk: Event Code Updates

Antonio committed some updates to the event code allowing expanding
varbinds in an event log message, as well as some changes to the event
proxy.

- Trunk: Cross-Browser Map Support

Antonio also committed a first-blush update of the OpenNMS map support
that works with Safari and Firefox. It still needs some work, but is in
a usable state now.

- Trunk: WMI Has Landed

WMI support has landed in trunk! Thanks to Matt Raykowski for the hard
work in implementing this much-requested feature!

It supports polling and datacollection, and through the magic of
j-Interop, it is completely platform-independent. You do not need to be
running OpenNMS on Windows or have any kind of special proxy to collect
WMI information from remote hosts, it's a pure-java client
implementation using native DCOM to Windows hosts.

- Trunk: 1.7.0 Coming

Alongside 1.6.2, we're looking forward to putting out our first unstable
release in the 1.7 series. Considering all of the great work that has
happened since 1.6 was branched, it was deemed time to make a release
and get it out there for people to test. Look for it soon!

Order of the Green Polo Nomination: Matt Raykowski
--------------------------------------------------

In honor of his awesome WMI contribution, Matt Raykowski has now been
added to the ranks of the Order of the Green Polo. The OGP is an
organization of folks who have made a significant contribution to OpenNMS.

Welcome, Matt, and thank you!

Upcoming Events
---------------

February 2nd-6th, 2009: OpenNMS training will be available through The
OpenNMS Group in Milan, Italy.

February 9th-13th, 2009: OpenNMS training will be available through The
OpenNMS Group at the OpenNMS training facility in Pittsboro, NC.

March 14th, 2009: OpenNMS User Conference Europe 2009 will be held in
Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

There has also been discussion of a user conference during the February
training dates in Italy, but it's not yet been finalized. Stay tuned to
the opennms-announce list for details when we have them.

For more information on training, go to:
  http://www.opennms.com/training.html

For more information on the conference, see:
  http://www.opennms.org/index.php/OpenNMSUCE2009

If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know.

Whew
----

That's it for this week. Tune in next week for another exciting installment.

Will we get 1.6.2 and 1.7.0 out on time? Will we create a provisioning
system that can take down the Internet? Will we find out how Jeff was
able to grown an extra set of hands to answer support tickets on two
computers at once? Find out next Friday on This Week in OpenNMS!

-- 
Benjamin Reed
The OpenNMS Group
http://www.opennms.org/

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