This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 18: Lights Out in Pittsboro

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS. In the last week we did some
training, worked on thresholds, cleaned up the database, and did some
other updates.


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 1.7.3

1.7.3 is the current unstable release, released May 3rd.  It fixes a
number of 1.7.2 bugs, and is the first public release including the new
ACL code.  A 1.7.x overview is available in the release notes on the site.

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

- Unstable: Thresholding Rework

Alejandro popped by the OpenNMS offices last week (you know, just a
quick jaunt from Venezuela) to hang out and do some codin'.  He's been
spending a little time refactoring the thresholding code.

- Unstable: Database Schema Management

As mentioned previously, I'm working on converting our schema to
LiquiBase -- a very spiffy database-agnostic tool for not only creating
databases based on a schema definition, but transitioning databases
migration-style to new versions.  This will let us get rid of a lot of
cruft in our current "install" code.

- Unstable: WMI Work

A number of bugfixes have gone into the WMI code, including a fix for
some socket leak issues.

- Unstable: Plumbing Updates

Our database backend code was converted to the latest version of
Hibernate.  In the process, we fixed a long-standing issue in the way
our JMX MBean server was set up which should now allow proper monitoring
of JMX data in the OpenNMS server JVM itself.

- Unstable: RANCID Updates

Rocco released an update to the RANCID web service code.  I will be
putting together a 0.93 release on SourceForge this week when I get the
chance.

- Unstable: ACL UI

Massimiliano has been continuing his work on the ACL (Custom Views) UI
he created, refactoring it to work with the final hibernate-based
implementation we ended up with in 1.7.x.


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

August 12, 2009: Tarus will be giving a talk at OpenSourceWorld: DM4:
The Open Source Management Stack.

  http://tinyurl.com/open-source-network-stack

September 21st-25th, 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

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


Lights Out for This Week
------------------------

As we were having lunch today, the power went out.  Luckily, they were
cooking with gas.  Being the geeks we are, we immediately checked if our
office was down by going to the OpenNMS demo site.  Apparently the
office building didn't get the generator going before the UPSes ran out. ;)

So, I came home instead.  Here I am, working on TWiO, and I can see that
things are back up.  Such is life.

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 hilarious LOLcat photo
you'd like to share, don't hesitiate to say hi.  Also, we've still got
room for more Order of the Blue Polo members if you'd like to send your
own testimonial.  (Of course you would!)

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


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

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