This *Cough* Month in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 46: Catching Up

It's time for This Week^H^H^H^HMonth in OpenNMS. In the last month or
so, we did a lot of bug fixes as well as finishing up a whole raft of
new features.


Project Updates
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- Stable: Current Release is 1.6.10

1.6.10 is the current stable release, tagged March 9th.  It adds a few
small features and fixes a few bugs.  For a full list, see the bugzilla
1.6.10 milestone. This is a non-critical but recommended upgrade for
anyone on OpenNMS versions older than 1.6.10.

    http://tinyurl.com/opennms-1610

- Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.10

1.7.10 is the current unstable release, tagged March 9th.  Since 1.7.9,
there have been quite a few bug fixes, and a few new features, including
allowing the remote monitor to phone home over HTTP, pushing data
collection to a TCP daemon, and integration of the Jasper reporting
engine.  A full list of changes is in the release notes.

     http://tinyurl.com/opennms-1710

- Unstable: Reporting

Jason Aras and Jonathan Sartin both completed their reporting work, and
it has all been integrated into the OpenNMS 1.7 series.  The new
reporting engine is available in 1.7.10.

- Unstable: MultiOutputRrdStrategy

Seth's RRD strategy, which will let you write performance data to RRDs
as well as a TCP socket, was released in the 1.7.10 release.

  http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Performance_Data_Exporter_Specification

- Unstable: Remote Poller Updates

The remote poller HTTP RMI work has been completed, and integrated into
the 1.7 series.

  http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Configurable_Remoting_Specification

- Unstable: Hyperic Alarm State Integration

Seth and Jason finished up work on support for pushing Hyperic alarm
state to OpenNMS, expanding upon the existing Hyperic HQ integration.

  http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Hyperic_HQ_Alarm_State_Integration
  http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Hyperic_HQ_Integration

- Unstable: Move to Spring 3.0

We've updated our plumbing to use Spring 3.0.

- Unstable: MMTM Updates

The SMS monitor infrastructure has gone through a lot of bugfixing in
the past weeks, and is solidifying nicely.

  http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Mobile_Sequence_Monitor

- Unstable: Eclipse Updates

A number of changes have been made to make it easier to use m2eclipse
with Eclipse.  Updated instructions on doing OpenNMS development in
eclipse are on the wiki.

  http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Eclipse_and_OpenNMS

- Unstable: Bug Triaging

Seth has spent a bunch of time triaging (and fixing) bugs in preparation
for 1.8.  Yes, seriously, we are actually in the home stretch of
preparing for 1.8.  It would be foolish to give a date, but it will be
soon. :)

- Unstable: Build System Cleanups

We did a bunch of rearranging the build system to speed things up (get
rid of extraneous repositories, etc.)  It trims build time down by a
noticeable amount.

- Unstable: Thresholding Without Storing

Alejandro implemented a long-desired feature, thresholding on collected
data without needing to persist it.

  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2733

- Unstable: New Remote Monitoring UI

I've been working on a new remote monitoring UI.  The current UI we have
for displaying remote monitor status has a rather odd algorithm for
determining status, and it is a time-consuming one which does not scale
to many monitors, as well.

I am instead writing an entirely new UI in GWT which will include a
Google Maps integration.  You will be able to geotag monitoring
locations and use the map to "drill down" into specific areas to view
location status by region.

  http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Remote_Monitoring_Status_UI_Specification


Upcoming Events
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* March 10th, 2010:
    Early bird registration ends for the OpenNMS Users Conference in
    Frankfurt, Germany. Sign up today and save €60.

    http://www.opennms-conference.info/

* March 17th-18th, 2010:
    Tarus will be at the Computerworld Open Source Business Conference.
    Drop him a note if you want to chat. T arus loves to discuss rare
    16th-century vases, I swear!  So, do your homework!  ;)

    https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/index.php?eventid=7578

* April 10th, 2010:
    Jeff Gehlbach will be speaking at the Texas Linux Fest on using
    OpenNMS in enterprise environments.

    http://www.texaslinuxfest.org/

* April 19th-23rd, 2010:
    OpenNMS training will be available through The OpenNMS Group at the
    OpenNMS training facility in Pittsboro, NC.

    http://www.opennms.com/training

* May 6th-7th, 2010:
    The second annual OpenNMS Users Conference will be held in
    Frankfurt, Germany, thanks again to Nethinks.

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

* May 18th-20th, 2010:
    David Hustace, Craig Gallen, and Tarus Balog will be attending the
    TeleManagement Forum's ManagementWorld conference in Nice, France.
    If you use or are interested in OpenNMS and will be at the
    conference, please let them know, they'd love to meet.

    http://www.tmforum.org/ManagementWorld2010/7867/home.html

* June 12th-13th, 2010:
    The OpenNMS Group is a platinum sponsor of the Southeastern
    Linuxfest to be held in South Carolina.  Since it's close, we
    expect a lot of the OpenNMS crew will be able to make it.

    http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/


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 1.8 release date you'd
like to share, don't hesitiate to say hi.

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

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