This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 26: Phone Home

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS.  This week we did more 1.8 work,
released 1.7.5, and made progress on an OpenNMS iPhone application.


Project Updates
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- Stable: Current Release is 1.6.5

1.6.5 is the current stable release, released May 16th.  It fixes a
number of bugs, and adds a few features.  For a full list, see the
bugzilla 1.6.5 milestone.  This is a non-critical but recommended
upgrade for anyone on OpenNMS versions older than 1.6.5.

    http://tinyurl.com/opennms-165

- Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.5

1.7.5 is the current unstable release, tagged July 13th.  Since 1.7.4,
there have been a ton of bugfixes, as well as updates to thresholding,
RANCID, upgrades, maps, provisiond, and other juicy stuff.  A 1.7.x
overview is available in the release notes on the site.

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

- Unstable: Modularizing the Web Build

Donald has been continuing his work on breaking up the webapp build.  A
first blush of the infrastructure work needed to chop things up is in
trunk now, although it still needs some polishing.

- Unstable: REST Updates

In the process of working on an iPhone app, I have been cleaning up some
of our REST APIs to be a bit more intuitive to parse.

- Unstable: RANCID Updates

Rocco made a few more bugfixes to the RANCID code, including one that
should fix the single-quote issue that's been discussed on the mailing
list for a while now.


iPhone Application
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In my spare time, I've been fiddling around with Xcode and learning my
way around Objective C with the goal of making an OpenNMS iPhone
application.  This weekend, I managed to get it somewhat working, so I
thought I'd post a preview.  Here are some screenshots:

* http://bit.ly/onms-iphone-settings-menu
* http://bit.ly/onms-iphone-settings-config
* http://bit.ly/onms-iphone-outages

Now that I've got the basics worked out (learning Objective C, figuring
out Interface Builder, parsing the REST XML) I hope I can have something
useful put together in the next few weeks.  It's been a fun learning
experience, Objective C is not as scary as I'd feared... ;)


SourceForge Community Choice Awards: OpenNMS is a Finalist - Vote Now!
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There's still time to vote for OpenNMS in the SourceForge Community
Choice Awards. If you haven't already, please vote for OpenNMS here:

  https://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/vote/?f=424

We put together a video[1] featuring some members of the OGP introducing
themselves and discussing the reasons why OpenNMS should win this award.
 Have a watch!

If you don't have ten minutes to spare, check out the one-minute
trailer[2] instead.

Either way, don't forget to vote for all of your favorite projects!

  1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96a8gyxEOSw&fmt=18
  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ev6GbZ8vE&fmt=18


Upcoming Events
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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.


Until Next Week...
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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 Objective C tutorials
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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