This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 15: This Week in Gubblecote

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS. In the last week we continued work
on the ACL overhaul.


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: DAO Updates and Spring Security

Much of the work going on this week was related to the overhaul of web
UI access to the database.  Almost everything in the UI has been moved
to Spring-loaded repositories and Donald finished up the work of
creating DAO implementations of the repositories to replace the
"reference" JDBC versions.

In addition, Matt got our ACEGI bits converted over to the latest
version of Spring Security and it's in-place for the web UI now.
There's still some work to do, but we should hopefully have have a basic
working model of ACL support in the UI this week.

- Trunk: Availability Report Manager

Jonathan Sartin has been working on the ability to save and access
historical availability reports.  More on that below.

- Stable: A Few Bugfixes

A few other minor bugfixes have gone into 1.6-testing and trunk,
including an fix from Jeff for an annoying duplicate-label issue, and a
fix for a java exception in Linkd.  Also, Vacuumd cleans up stale nodes
from the topology maps.  These will be part of future 1.6.x and 1.7.x
releases.

- Stable: SNMP Debugging Helper

I added some scripts to the "contrib" section which allow you to create
an SNMP walk file that is compatible with our unit test framework's mock
SNMP server, to aid in debugging SNMP issues.


Availability Report Manager
---------------------------

Jonathan Sartin was kind enough to send a short note (titled, "This Week
in Gubblecote") describing his recent work on an availability report
manager:

  I've been working on the availability report persistence feature.
  This will allow you to save availability reports on the OpenNMS server
  and download them later as HTML, PDF or PDF with embedded SVG.
  There's some new views that render the reports on the fly, and you
  will be able to remove saved reports when you no longer need them.  A
  lot of this code has been hanging around in trunk for a while, I've
  just not had the opportunity to get it finished up.  Should be ready
  for trunk and unstable consumption in a couple of weeks.

  Gubblecote is our village BTW.


The Order Keeps Growing
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We keep getting more Order of the Blue Polo testimonials.  Thanks so
much, everyone!  Tarus ordered the first round of polos, and they're on
their way to The OpenNMS secret lair (located deep inside a volcano in
the middle of Pittsboro, NC).  We'll be sending them out as soon as we
get 'em.

Thanks to everyone who has submitted a testimonial, we're publishing
them on the wiki as we have a chance to go through them and set aside
polo orders.  Remember, it's not too late to send us your own
testimonial and become a member yourself.

  http://www.opennms.org/index.php/OBP


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


That's It
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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 creative knitting
technique you'd like to share, don't hesitiate to say hi.


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

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