This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 35: Gotta Have Priorities

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS.  This week we almost wrapped up the 
SMS work, and did a little bit of cleanup on other projects.  Also, I 
was able to check out the Carolina Hurricanes training camp yesterday, 
so it's time again to decide which is more important: hockey, or work. 
(Hint: it starts with "h.")


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: DNS Import Handler

Dave did a bit more work and cleanup on the DNS import handler this 
week.  Sometime soon I hope to have the time to do a more detailed 
writeup on it.

- Unstable: SMS Pinger/Request-Response API

Matt, Donald, Jeff, and I have been working on wrapping up the SMS 
monitors.  We've successfully pinged back and forth between 2 cell 
phones, and are finishing up support for more complex sequences ala 
PageSequenceMonitor in the next day or two.


Upcoming Events
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* 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

* October 28, 2009:
   Tarus Balog will be speaking at the Open Source Monitoring Conference
   2009 in Nuremberg.

   http://www.netways.de/en/osmc/y2009/referenten/

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 center-ice front row 
hockey tickets you'd like to share, don't hesitiate to e-mail me 
personally.  I swear I'll share them with the others!  <wink>


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


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