This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.8, Episode 3: 1.8.1 and Fixing Bugs

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS <http://www.opennms.org>. In the last
week, we did some more work in preparation for 1.8.1, worked a bit more
on the iPhone/iPad app, and did a huge amount of bugfixing.


  Project Updates

    * *1.8: Current Release is 1.8.0*
      1.8.0 is the current stable release, tagged June 7th. The first
      major stable release in the 1.8 series, it adds a whole slew of
      new features compared to 1.6. For a high-level overview, see the
      "New and Noteworthy" page on the OpenNMS wiki
      <http://www.opennms.org/wiki/New_and_noteworthy#New_in_OpenNMS_1.8>.
      While we consider this release to be stable, a ton has changed. It
      is recommended that you back up your database, and test an upgrade
      on non-production hardware before moving to 1.8 in production.
    * *1.8: Inline Thresholding Regression*
      Inline thresholding was enabled in the default configs late in the
      1.6 series, but it was never enabled by default in the 1.7 branch,
      so 1.8.0 was released */without/* inline thresholding enabled.
      This was changed with the fixing of bug #3912
      <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3912>, so be aware
      when merging configs when 1.8.1 comes out!
    * *1.8: Remote Poller Maps Updates*
      Matt, Donald, and I did a bunch of work on the remote poller maps,
      doing a huge amount of optimization of the queries used to pull
      poller data into the UI, adding support for Mapquest's click and
      double-click behaviour (center, and center+zoom), and adding
      support for multiple map types in the OpenLayers implementation.
      OpenLayers Maps
    * *1.8: Tons of Bug Fixes*
      I did a bunch of work going through Bugzilla this week, trying to
      close out bugs in preparation for 1.8.1, which will go into code
      slush next monday, and be released on the 12th.


  Bugs Fixed Since Last TWiO

    * #1181 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1181>:
      Collectin Windows disk space, trying to poll the CD drive
    * #1920 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1920>: javamail
      using authentication encodes the username and password twice
    * #1959 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1959>: Too many
      calls to getlocahost()
    * #2922 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2922>:
      PSQLException in poller backend: DB field length exceeded on
      remote location monitor status update
    * #2944 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2944>:
      java.lang.NullPointerException on KSC Graphs
    * #3124 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3124>:
      HttpMonitor doesn't check JSON repsonses for response-text
    * #3192 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3192>: New
      Feature: allow syslogd to bind to specific ipaddress
    * #3280 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3280>:
      Equallogic iSCSI array performance data
    * #3283 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3283>:
      Reparenting of iLO interface on HP servers not working with ESX4
    * #3291 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3291>:
      provisiond : snmpinterfaces not created
    * #3296 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3296>: running
      the installer without the database running throws an exception
      about "The database server's error messages are not in English"
    * #3306 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3306>: 1.7.svn
      (fresh today) does not show service, availability on node page
    * #3514 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3514>: default
      datacollection-config.xml breaks alias length limit
    * #3536 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3536>: Unable
      to use the "percent sign (%)" in a notification text message
    * #3576 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3576>: Fix
      send-event.pl script to encode time in DateFormat.LONG
    * #3578 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3578>:
      Incorrect http content-type header for svg request
    * #3589 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3589>: Advanced
      Alarm Search some of the Sort by options don't work properly
    * #3598 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3598>: An
      Exception occurs when you try to create a surveillance category
      that already exists.
    * #3622 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3622>: Bugs
      with Hyperic servlets
    * #3624 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3624>: Rename
      from Import to Synch(cronize) in Prov Groups
    * #3632 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3632>: admin
      role is negated for users also in readonly role
    * #3637 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3637>:
      JasperException PWC6033
    * #3644 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3644>: trying
      to add list of ip range to discover
    * #3656 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3656>:
      mib2opennms does not install in Debian Lenny
    * #3675 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3675>: Events
      missing page counter
    * #3722 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3722>: Debian
      Packages: opennms-contrib missing dependency for libxml-twig-perl
    * #3847 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3847>: Page
      Sequence Monitor still submitting multiple 'Cookie:' response
      headers even with BROWSER_COMPATIBILITY is enabled
    * #3869 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3869>: Data
      Collection Failed Event (dataCollectionFailed) not informative
    * #3871 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3871>: linkd
      not showing links between nodes and cisco switches
    * #3899 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3899>: Patch:
      allow per node filtering in notifications list
    * #3900 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3900>:
      dashboard user has security issues
    * #3901 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3901>: add
      support for click/double-click handlers
    * #3910 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3910>: Patch:
      display First Next Previous links in events list at the bottom of
      the page
    * #3912 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3912>: inline
      thresholding is no longer enabled by default
    * #3915 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3915>: regular
      expression "pattern"s in XSDs are not evaluated
    * #3923 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3923>: Stale
      location specific status change events should be deleted
    * #3924 <http://bugzilla.opennms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3924>: NPE
      handled too gracefully by MailAckProcessor in Ackd


  Goof-Up of the Week

Jeff relayed this tale of the importance of having priorities in scrum
this morning... :)

    I spent last week helping a telecoms industry client implement
    OpenNMS. Toward the end of the second day we decided to switch from
    Capsd discovery to Provisiond requisitions, so I wrote a small
    script that
    reads an inventory dump from their old NMS (CA Spectrum) and creates
    an OpenNMS requisition describing the same nodes. The database was
    full of junk events from before we'd put in place some new SNMP trap
    definitions, so I went about removing all that stuff manually before
    importing the new requisition. Several folks were going out for a
    beverage and invited me along, so I hurried in order not to hold them
    up. The next morning there were over 600 nodes in the system instead
    of the 391 I was expecting. I double-checked that Capsd was turned
    off, that Provisiond was not handling newSuspect events, and that
    there were in fact no such events in the database, then contacted
    the development team about my suspicion of a bug. After nearly an
    hour, the client mentioned that he was seeing some duplicate nodes
    that didn't have any events, alarms, or notifications associated
    with them. Only then did it dawn on me that, in my haste to get my
    hands on some suds, I had forgotten to delete the old nodes
    themselves before importing the new requisition!


  Upcoming Events

    * July 7th-9th, 2010: Ben will be speaking at OpenStreetMaps' State
      of the Map 2010 <http://stateofthemap.org/>, in Girona, Spain.
    * July 21st, 2010: Tarus will be giving his "So, You Think You Want
      to Start an Open Source Business?" talk at OSCON
      <http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/detail/13160>
    * July 26th-30th, 2010: OpenNMS Dev-Jam 2010
      <http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Dev-Jam_2010> will be held at the
      University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN

If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know
<mailto:[email protected]>.


  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 blocking bug closing
machines that you'd like to share, don't hesitate to say hi
<mailto:[email protected]>.


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

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