This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 30: The World is Your Open-Source Oyster

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS.  This week we worked on the iPhone
app, the SMS API, and other bugfixes.


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 1.7.6

1.7.6 is the current unstable release, tagged August 3rd.  Since 1.7.5,
there have been a ton of bugfixes, as well as updates to the RESTful
interfaces, inventory report updates, syslogd updates, collection
updates, new OpenManage and Cisco IP-SLA monitors, thresholding updates,
provisiond updates, map updates, and probably more stuff I'm missing.  A
1.7.x overview is available in the release notes on the site.

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

- Unstable: iPhone App Development

I made a lot of progress on the iPhone app over the weekend, I've got
about half of it converted to doing asynchronous REST calls and storing
things using CoreData, so it's extremely responsive, even hitting an
OpenNMS server over the Internet, rather than just connecting to my
local test instance. :)

I hope to have that finished up in the next day or two so Tarus can show
it off at OpenSource World.

- Unstable: Bugfixes

A number of bugfixes have gone in this week, including a fix for
Net-SNMP 5.4+ and Linux 2.6, more MIB definitions, and a few other things.

- Unstable: SMS Pinger/Request-Response API

Matt, Donald, and Jeff have gotten a lot more done in the SMS API,
including working on a basic prototype that uses the RXTX and SMS APIs
to send and receive messages.

- Stable: OpenNMS OTRS Plugin 1.1.0

Jonathan Sartin put out an updated version of the OTRS plugin which
should fix issues escalating to OTRS 2.4.

- Unstable: ACL Updates

I've been doing some prep work to review the updates to the ACL code
that's in a branch, including fixing up some of the database upgrade
code.  Hopefully I'll have a chance to look it over this week.

- Unstable: Ackd Updates

Dave did some more work on Ackd this week.  Additionally, I was able to
acknowledge, escalate, and clear alarms through the Ackd RESTful
interface from the iPhone app, so the core is definitely working.
Looking forward to some interesting Ackd plugins. :)


Tarus at OpenSource World
-------------------------

As I write this, Tarus is winging his way to San Francisco for
OpenSource World (and eating free cake, apparently it's the 70th
anniversary of American Airlines' Admiral's Club).  He'll be giving a
talk called "The Open Source Management Stack" on Wednesday -- make sure
you stop by and say "hi."

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


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 19th, 2009:
  Tarus Balog to speak at Atlanta LinuxFest on the topic of running an
  open-source business.

    http://atlantalinuxfest.org/node/52

* 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 OpenSource World secret
handshakes you'd like to share, don't hesitiate to say hi.


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

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