This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 52: Slipping Is the New On-Time

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


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 Maps

More work going on in the remote poller maps this week.  We polished up
a few loose ends in the specification, and have been doing a lot of
optimization work.  Startup is now very quick and can push even 3000
locations to the map in a very short amount of time without a lot of drag.

- Unstable: Bug Fixing

Seth did some more bugfix work, cleaning up Ackd, Alarmd, Vacuumd, some
detector issues, and some test infrastructure.

- Unstable: Map Updates

Antonio did more work finishing up his map work, including work on
status colors on map icons, and support for navigation and history using
the browser back and forward buttons.

- Unstable: Failover Examples

Dave added some sample configurations and scripts for implementing a
failover configuration for OpenNMS, in the contrib directory.

- Unstable: Reporting Updates

Jonathan added some of Ronny Trommer’s canned reports into the new
reporting configs.

- Unstable: Provisiond

Matt has started working on the last of the Provisiond work that is
blocking 1.8, which will let it fully replace Capsd’s behavior.


1.8 Still On The Way
--------------------

We’ve slipped a little with our original 1.8 release candidate to try to
get the new mapping code and provisiond changes in before we bother to
“bless” it as an RC.  In the meantime, as work is progressing, we’ll be
pushing changes to master, so if you want to keep up with what will be
in the release candidate, feel free to give the nightly snapshots a try.
 Current thinking is to try to get the release candidate out on May 3rd
and to do a final 1.8 build the week of the 17th.


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

* #2856: Percent sign in trap varbind causes wacky expansion when used
  with %parm[#N]%
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2856
* #3668: Canned early-morning report
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3668
* #3700: javax.servlet.UnavailableException when clicking dashboard
  http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3700


Upcoming Events
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* 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...
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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 a calendar with more
days in the month 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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