This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 51: Maps and More Maps

It’s time for This Week in OpenNMS. In the last week, we spent more time
fixing bugs, and working on maps.

(I technically wrote this yesterday, but I've been moving TWiO out of
hand-generated HTML and into the OpenNMS.com blog software.)


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: Remote Poller Packaging Updates

The remote poller packaging (RPM and Debian) have been updated to use a
unified codebase, and the build system has been cleaned up immensely.
Build from source will now properly include the remote-poller.jar, and
if you install packages, you will get proper init scripts.

- Unstable: More Cleanup

Seth spent more time cleaning up code for 1.8.  If you know of a
particular bug that is vexing you, please vote for it in bugzilla.  We
can’t close everything for 1.8.0, but we can try to get to as many of
the top hits as possible before release.

- Unstable: Reporting Updates

Jay and Jonathan both spent more time updating the reporting engine and
have things much more nicely integrated.  Progress is being made on a UI
for working with reports.

- Unstable: Map Updates

Antonio has done a ton of work on enhancements to the existing maps,
including searching, tooltips, details on links between submaps, and
being able to have multiple maps open in tabs.

- Unstable: Remote Monitor UI

Donald, Matt, and Ben have continued working on the remote monitor UI.
It is getting faster by leaps and bounds, and a lot of refactoring work
has been going on, cleaning up the codebase considerably from the
initial proof of concept.


Bugs Fixed Since Last Week
--------------------------

* #888: Thresholds on calculated fields
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888
* #1273: NullPointerException in
  org.opennms.netmgt.config.NotificationCommandManager.getCommand
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1273
* #3273: Installer did not install plpgsql language
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3273
* #3494: OpenNMS will not start on Windows, missing file / some in
  wrong location
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3494
* #3509: Provisioned nodes without interfaces cause exception to
  mapping preventing maps from updating
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3509
* #3583: Link discovery gets confused by Cisco HSRP Mac Addresses
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3583
* #3625: Please add postgresql 8.4.1+ in Debian package opennms-db
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3625
* #3645: Install on remote windows postgres database fails
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3645
* #3671: Illegal attribute “operation-number-before-sync” in default
  maps adapter config
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3671
* #3674: display critical path on node page
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3674
* #3677: The Snmp Monitor is not able to catch changes made in
  snmp-config.xml
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3677
* #3679: The Snmp Poll Package displayed a “null” string
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3679
* #3680: The Link Node box display the wrong status
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3680
* #3686: The new Maps does not work on Safari and IE
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3686
* #3690: The multilink status of summary link is wrong on Safari and IE
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3690


Upcoming Events
---------------

* 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/

If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know.


Until Next Week...
------------------

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 a magic wand that
finishes refactoring map code that you’d like to share, don’t hesitate
to say hi.


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

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