This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 7

Welcome to This Week in OpenNMS for Friday the 13th. It's yet again time
to take a look at what's been going on in the world of OpenNMS development.


Project Updates
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- Stable: Current Release is 1.6.2

1.6.2 is still the current release, and while there are a few fixes
pending since it's release, there are no immediate plans for a 1.6.3 yet.

- Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.0

Trunk has been moving fast still, and I hope we'll get a 1.7.1 release
out soon-ish, but we're still trying to get provisiond up to a demoable
state first. In the meantime, feel free to try the nightly snapshots (if
it's not on a production system, of course).

- Trunk: Javamail Updates

Dave's been working on refactoring our javamail support into it's own
module, to make it easier to reuse in different portions of OpenNMS.

- Trunk: RANCID Integration

Guglielmo continued work on the RANCID integration; the API has stopped
changing much and most of the work has been going on in the UI at this
point.

- Trunk: Provisiond

Matt has most of the provisiond code working, some simple scanning is
possible now, there are just a few loose ends to tie up before there's a
working prototype.

- Trunk: Node Page Updates

Donald's spiffy new ajaxy node page is active, and lets you page through
data related to the node directly in the node page.

- 1.6 Testing: Minor Updates

Jeff, Bill, and a few others have done some minor updates to 1.6-testing
(which of course are forward-ported to trunk as well) including IE
rendering issues, additional MIBs, read-only KSC report support, and more.

- Trunk: Map Updates

Antonio has continued work on the new trunk map code, which includes
support for all modern SVG browsers (Safari, Firefox, and IE with the
Adobe SVG plugin).

- Trunk: RESTful Support for Map Data

Matt Raykowski submitted RESTful API support for map and related data
(map elements, linkd data, etc.) which will be useful for future map work.

- Trunk: XMP/Cartographer Support

Jeff merged Bobby Krupczak's Cartographer agent support for OpenNMS to
trunk.

Cartographer "implements a novel approach to managing distributed
systems by automatically discovering and tracking the relationships
between its component systems and applications. Cartographer does so via
specially designed agents -- residing on clients, servers and
(potentially) network devices -- that detect, identify, and track the
inter and intra-system dependencies or relationships. Dependencies
include network level services like DNS, DHCP, and SMTP as well as
higher-level application abstractions like filesystems, databases,
directory services, telephony, and middleware."

For more information on Cartographer, see:
  http://www.krupczak.org/index.php/Cartographer


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

April 6th-10th, 2009: OpenNMS training will be available through The
OpenNMS Group at the OpenNMS training facility in Pittsboro, NC.

June 14th-19th, 2009: OpenNMS Dev-Jam 2009, the annual OpenNMS
developers conference, will be in Minneapolis-St. Paul this year.

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

For more information on Dev-Jam, see:
  http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Dev-Jam_2009

If you have anything to add to the events list, or you wish to be a
Dev-Jam sponsor, please let me know.


If You Can't Love the Source You've Opened, Open the Source You Love
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That's all for this week. I hope you all have a wonderful valentine's
day if you're into that kind of thing. As always, feel free to drop me a
line if you have any questions, comments, or if you wish to know my
address so you can send me some mysterious white powder through postal mail.


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

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