This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 13 (Two Releases Too Many)

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS. The big news was four (yes, four)
releases.  We found a blocker bug that affected both 1.6.3 and 1.7.1, so
we did a second set of releases the next day.  Let's just say it was a
busy week. ;)


Project Updates
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- Stable: Current Release is 1.6.4

1.6.4 is the current stable release, released (no kidding!) April 1st.
It fixes a number of bugs, and adds a few features. For a full list, see
the bugzilla 1.6.3 and 1.6.4 milestones.  This is a recommended upgrade
for anyone on OpenNMS versions older than 1.6.4.

  http://tinyurl.com/opennms-163-and-164

- Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.2

1.7.2 is the current unstable release, released alongside 1.6.4 on April
1st as well.  It fixes a whole raft of bugs since 1.7.0, and barring
still not handling newSuspect events, Provisiond is pretty solid.  A
1.7.x overview is available in the release notes on the site.

  http://tinyurl.com/opennms-17x

- Trunk: First RANCID Web Service Release

This week we also put out the first version of the RANCID web service,
developed by our buddies over at OpenNMS.it, Rocco Rionero and Antonio
Russo.  Rocco wrote a great README which you can view in SVN, and the
release is available on SourceForge.

  http://tinyurl.com/opennms-rancid


Want an OpenNMS Shirt? You Can Join the Order of the Blue Polo
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The Order of the Green Polo is an organization of people who have made a
significant contribution to the OpenNMS code base.  However, there are
lots of folks who contribute to OpenNMS by using it and increasing
OpenNMS's exposure.  We'd like to recognize those of you who use OpenNMS
and are willing to give your testimonial by giving you an incredible
exclusive blue OpenNMS polo, *not available in any store.*

One of the things that gave us the idea is a great testimonial we got
out of the blue from one of our oldest OpenNMS support customers, Chris
Rodman from Papa John's Pizza:

  I know this is kind-of out of the ordinary, however, I wanted to email
  you to let you know something that I observed this past Friday.

  This past Friday, our Data Center team and some executives had the
  opportunity to tour [a large healthcare provider]'s brand new 40
  million dollar data center here in town.  If you're not familiar with
  [this provider], it's one of the biggest health insurance providers in
  America and it's headquartered here in town.

  Overall the center was very impressive and kind-of put ours to shame a
  bit.  But one thing that our entire group noticed was that they built
  this new 30,000 square foot Data Center (ours is 3,200) and a nice NOC
  for tons of people.  I mean, they had probably 20-30 people manning
  all their systems just for monitoring.  I asked them what they used to
  monitor their systems and they told me HP Openview and some others,
  but that they could only really monitor Windows servers really well.
  They could barely watch their mainframe systems and their Linux and
  AIX systems.  They were spending money left and right to get things
  monitored.  I mean, we stood in a room full of people watching screens
  and essentially as we called them "screen monkeys" waiting to manually
  catch something.

  What's interesting is that they are 10 times our size with only 4
  times our number of servers, however, we use OpenNMS extensively in
  our IS department and do it only using 3 operators per shift.  Because
  of OpenNMS we can easily use one operator per shift when needed like
  weekends.

  So basically what this boils down to is that it was a real defining
  moment for us when we all kind-of realized how much money and labor
  they were wasting when they could be using your product.  We know that
  you guys know you have a great product, however, it's times like this
  when it's clear just how well you guys have done to set you apart from
  all the other guys.

  Our business relationship along with your product is a recipe for
  great success.  This is one thing that [the healthcare provider] does
  not have on us and one thing that we've got that far outshines them!
  Keep up the good work!

Seems a bit ironic that I'm about to post this just as I see a post
about console monkeys go by on Slashdot. ;)

For full details on how you, too, can get a blue polo of your very own,
please see Tarus's blog post, at:

  http://blogs.opennms.org/?p=750

Thanks to everyone who uses OpenNMS, we appreciate your support!


Upcoming Events
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(Note: April training has been pushed back to May.)

May 4th-8th, 2009: OpenNMS training will be available through The
OpenNMS Group at the OpenNMS training facility in Pittsboro, NC.

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


Thanks for Listening
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As always, if there's anything you'd like me to talk about in a future
TWiO, don't hesitiate to give us a shout.


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

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