This Week in OpenNMS: World IPv6 Day Is Coming

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS <http://www.opennms.org/>. In the
last couple of weeks we did a bunch of bugfixing and some more IPv6 work
in preparation for a 1.10 release candidate.


  Project Updates

    * 1.8: Current Release is 1.8.11 (Bald Eagle)
      1.8.11
      <http://www.opennms.org/documentation/ReleaseNotesStable.html#opennms-1.8.11> is
      the current stable release, tagged 11 April, 2011. For a complete
      list of changes and updates, see the "New and Noteworthy" page on
      the OpenNMS wiki
      <http://www.opennms.org/wiki/New_and_Noteworthy#New_in_OpenNMS_1.8.11>.
      As always, it is recommended that you back up your database before
      upgrading.
    * 1.9: Current release is 1.9.7 (Naqara)
      1.9.7 is the current unstable release, tagged 11 April, 2011. This
      release is not recommended for production use, but for developers
      and users who want to try out the very latest features. For a list
      of changes and updates, see the "New and Noteworthy" page on the
      OpenNMS wiki
      <http://www.opennms.org/wiki/New_and_Noteworthy#New_in_OpenNMS_1.9.7>.


  Issues Resolved

    * [NMS-1112 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-1112>] -- Ping
      behaviour for outage on remote network
    * [NMS-1158 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-1158>] -- deleted
      interfaces are included in polling package ip lists
    * [NMS-2692 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-2692>] --
      nsclient-datacollection-config.xml only collects on 1st attribute
      in wpm group
    * [NMS-2777 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-2777>] --
      Concurrency issues on multiprocessor systems cause collection outages
    * [NMS-2868 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-2868>] --
      spring-mock is included in distribution
    * [NMS-3411 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-3411>] -- Debian
      Startup Script hides important Debian Specific Error Output
    * [NMS-3500 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-3500>] -- DemoUI
      -- Leaving the search field blank causes an "Unexpected Error"
    * [NMS-3933 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-3933>] --
      archive_events.sh still uses the old lib/scripts/* style
      initialization
    * [NMS-4069 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4069>] -- Need to
      be able to acknowledge notifications through the ReST service
    * [NMS-4110 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4110>] -- prevent
      automatic start after installation / upgrade
    * [NMS-4168 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4168>] -- Rescans
      Not Happening for Default Nodes
    * [NMS-4172 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4172>] -- 'some'
      matchType for WMI Poller matches 2 or more, not 1 or more as
      docuemented
    * [NMS-4211 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4211>] -- Failed
      to load the required jicmp library
    * [NMS-4230 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4230>] -- No
      services are registered in the database
    * [NMS-4445 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4445>] -- HTTP
      Collector throwing exception "Host must be set to create a host URL"
    * [NMS-4454 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4454>] -- Reports
      throughin Exception when doing traffic based reports and
      store-by-group
    * [NMS-4509 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4509>] --
      FilterDao calls need to return InetAddresses
    * [NMS-4558 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4558>] -- Page
      Sequence Monitor (PSM) doesn't appear to do retries
    * [NMS-4578 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4578>] -- Debian
      init script not LSB compatible
    * [NMS-4579 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4579>] -- [patch]
      add new asset fields for hardware configuration data
    * [NMS-4580 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4580>] -- The
      attribute "totalCount" for OnmsNodeList is not well calculated
    * [NMS-4583 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4583>] -- Filter
      rules tend to get all IP addresses, even if they are deleted
    * [NMS-4593 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4593>] -- Report
      Issue -- Surveillance Category Not Correctly Chosen
    * [NMS-4595 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4595>] -- eventd
      cannot parse events which are missing an XML namespace
    * [NMS-4596 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4596>] --
      send-event.pl errors on IPv6 addresses
    * [NMS-4597 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4597>] -- Primary
      keys are not set to not null
    * [NMS-4603 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4603>] -- make
      ICMP implementation configurable
    * [NMS-4604 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4604>] -- Add
      script execution, response times, logging, more to BSFMonitor
    * [NMS-4605 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4605>] --
      MailTransportMonitor POP3
      javax.mail.AuthenticationFailedException, but without connection
      to host at all
    * [NMS-4608 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4608>] -- Changing
      the default password in 1.9.7
    * [NMS-4610 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4610>] -- Node
      Rescan -> node.jsp not found
    * [NMS-4614 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4614>] -- Problem
      accessing /opennms/KSC/KSC/customGraphEditDetails.htm. Reason: Not
      Found -- 404
    * [NMS-4615 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4615>] -- add a No
      SNMP checkbox to the Node Quick-Add web page
    * [RANCID-1 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/RANCID-1>] -- Updated
      RANCID patch for opennms-rancid


  OpenNMS User Conference America: Is You Is or Is You Ain't My
  Constituency?

We got a ton of folks expressing their interest in the OUCA, but so far
it appears we haven't had a lot of people confirm for the actual event
yet. If you are interested, *please* sign up at the OUCA event page
<http://ouca2011.eventbrite.com/>.

Current topics include:

    * Monitoring Layer-2 port status with SnmpPoller
    * JasperReporting with iReport and OpenNMS
    * OpenNMS Remote Execution (Net-SNMP, SSH, CGI)
    * Demonstration of OpenNMS IPv6 capabilities
    * How to use provisioning
    * How to manage events
    * How to gather data and poll services

You will have access to many of the developers of OpenNMS to ask those
"what if" and "how does" type questions. We are also open to suggestions
as to what topics we should add. This is YOUR conference make it what
YOU need it to be. Do we need more advanced or basic topics?


  World IPv6 Day -- Can You Manage It?

One of our goals in getting OpenNMS 1.10 out the door is to have IPv6
support ready for the masses, since IPv4 addresses are soon to become
scarce. To help get the word out about being able to monitor IPv6
resources with OpenNMS, we're working with the ISOC to provide
management of the participants in World IPv6 day. Dave recently sent out
a notice about needing volunteers
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.opennms.announce/235> to help
us run remote pollers, but I wanted to reiterate it here, since the more
monitors we're running, the better.

    Hello OpenNMS fans! We're looking for volunteers to help us monitor
    the participants in World IPv6 Day with OpenNMS Remote Pollers
    connected to your IPv6 networks. If you are interested, please read
    on. If you're not interested or can't participate, it might be a
    good read for you anyway ;)

    As you may or may not be aware, a lot of work is being completed in
    the development branch (master, tagged as 1.9) right now to add
    support for IPv6 to OpenNMS. The key feature for the 1.10 release is
    IPv6 along with significant updates to Provisiond so that we can
    deprecate Capsd (or at least make Provisiond a more complete
    replacement). In other words, IPv6 is the impetus for making a 1.10
    release and World IPv6 day, June 8th, 2011, is our target date.

    There is still a significant amount of work to be completed in order
    to just tag our next stable release (1.10) and we're making our best
    efforts. But, it could be that there just isn't enough time to fully
    vet all the code changes for a release on that actual day. A release
    for that day would mean tagging fairly soon. More on that later...

    In the meantime and more to the point of this message, we're very
    excited to be actively supporting the World IPv6 Day participants
    and the ISOC. OpenNMS' participation means that we will be providing
    a monitoring service that, by way of our remote pollers, will be
    monitoring the status of each hosting participant's website. This
    will also help ISP participants better understand if there are
    location specific IPv6 issues.

    There will be a status summary page on the ISOC's website that links
    back to an OpenNMS server's a page on the OpenNMS server, possibly
    the Distributed Status Map, showing the status of the IPv6 sites
    from all the remote monitoring locations that we're able to define,
    based on the locations of volunteers from this community. So, we are
    asking for volunteers to run OpenNMS remote pollers on IPv6
    connected hosts. I suspect that the polling intervals will be
    configured to about every 15 minutes and the polls will be HTTP
    service checks for each of the participant's IPv6 and IPv4 address.
    We will probably also use the PSM and configure the 'host' attribute
    so that we can verify that IPv6 DNS checks are working, too. I'll be
    creating a sample configuration and will solicit your feed back.

    If you are interested in volunteering, please contract me directly
    (david <at> opennms.org <mailto:david%20%3Cat%3E%20opennms.org>) and
    we'll start coordinating with you with respect to installation and
    testing (we still have a lot of setup to do on the backend). I
    suspect that we will be making OpenNMS 1.10 T-shirts to celebrate
    our 1.10 release. For your participation in World IPv6 Day, you'll
    receive a special addition shirt "OpenNMS Fanatic" 1.10 T-shirt.
    (Something a long those lines... I leave the savvy slogans to
    "rangerrick" :) . I wanted to get this solicitation out to you, now,
    so that we can better plan the server side configuration (remote
    monitoring locations, server resources, etc.).

    As far as getting 1.10 tagged and released around the time of World
    IPv6 day, we hope that as many of you as possible can begin running
    test a instance for the 1.9 snapshot code so that you can update
    frequently to the latest code and give us feed back in Jira
    (http://issues.opennms.org <http://issues.opennms.org/>). Install
    OpenNMS via the snapshot yum/apt repos and let's get 1.10 vetted for
    release ASAP.

        * http://yum.opennms.org/#snapshot
        * http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Installation:Debian#Unstable_.28Nightly_Snapshots.29

    Thank you for this brief interruption and I return you to your
    regularly scheduled programs.


  Upcoming Events

    * 26th through 27th of May, 2011: OpenNMS Users Conference Europe
      <http://www.opennms.org/wiki/UCE#OpenNMS_User_Conference_Europe_2011>
    * 6th through 10th of June, 2011: Ben will be at WWDC 2011
      <http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/>. drop a note
      <mailto:[email protected]> if you'd like to meet up and say 'hi.'
    * 17th through 18th of June, 2011: OpenNMS Users Conference Americas
      <http://ouca2011.eventbrite.com/>
    * 19th through 24th of June, 2011: OpenNMS Dev-Jam 6
      <http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Dev-Jam_2011>


  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 or criticism 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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