This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 45: Strategies and New Looks

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS.  In the last few weeks, we've been
busy with a number of projects, including a funky multiplexing RRD
strategy, a rework of our remote poller code, an upgrade to GWT 2.0, and
a number of bug fixes.


Project Updates
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- Stable: Current Release is 1.6.8

1.6.8 is the current stable release, tagged December 10th.  It adds a
few small features and fixes a few bugs, as well as adding a new
web-based "easy installer" UI.  For a full list, see the bugzilla 1.6.8
milestone.  This is a non-critical but recommended upgrade for anyone on
OpenNMS versions older than 1.6.8.

    http://tinyurl.com/opennms-168

- Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.8

1.7.8 is the current unstable release, tagged December 8th.  Since
1.7.7, there have been quite a few bug fixes.  A 1.7.x overview is
available in the release notes on the site.

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

- Unstable: Reporting

Jason Aras and Jonathan both are in the final stages of getting their
reporting branches ready for release.

- Unstable: MultiOutputRrdStrategy

Seth has been working on an RRD strategy which will let you write
performance data to RRDs as well as a TCP socket, using the Google
protobuf format.

- Unstable: Remote Poller Updates

The remote poller has gone through a number of changes in the last few
weeks.  First of all, the build system has been cleaned up to no longer
have intermittent issues with unsigned artifacts.  Second, the remote
poller code no longer requires RMI to phone home to the OpenNMS server,
it can now do so over HTTP instead.  Support for this still needs to be
added to the webstart version of the remote poller, but the command-line
jar can do this in current 1.7 snapshots.

- Unstable: Dashboard Upgraded to GWT 2.0

The dashboard has been updated to use GWT 2.0, which should provide more
speed and better browser support.


New OpenNMS.com Site Live
-------------------------

While this newsletter is primarily about the project, and not the
commercial OpenNMS company, I wanted to add a quick note about the new
OpenNMS.com web site, which is purty and has all kinds of enterprise-y
features like "case studies" and "graphics." Crazy, I know. ;)

  http://www.opennms.com/


Upcoming Events
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* February 11th, 2010:
   Benjamin Reed will be shaving his head for charity at a Carolina
   Hurricanes game.  Totally off-topic, but you can look forward to
   amusing pictures.

   http://www.raccoonfink.com/2010/01/for-a-good-cause-shave-here.html

* February 19th-21st, 2010:
   OpenNMS will be attending the Southern California Linux Expo.
   Additionally, Tarus Balog will be the keynote speaker.

   For more information, go to:
     http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/
     http://tinyurl.com/opennms-scale-keynote

* May 6th-7th, 2010:
   The second annual OpenNMS Users Conference will be held in
   Frankfurt, Germany, thanks again to Nethinks.  The call for papers
   ends January 31st, if you are interested in presenting.

   For more information, go to:
     http://www.opennms-conference.info/
     http://www.opennms-conference.info/call-for-papers/

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 warm winter hats you'd
like to share, don't hesitiate to say hi.

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

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