This Week in OpenNMS: Lies, Damn Lies, and Release Dates

So I guess it's been a while since the last TWiO, we've been pretty dang
busy. I'm told I should call it "TQiO" (This Quarter In OpenNMS). Matt
says "Well, you don't call it *Every* Week in OpenNMS, just *this* one."
Touché.

Aaaaanyways, without further ado, here's what we've done since, uh,
well, May 16th. =)


  Dev-Jam 2011

We had a total blast at Dev-Jam 2011. If you're interested in catching
up on what went on, check out Tarus's Dev-Jam blog posts
<http://www.adventuresinoss.com/?cat=10>.

  * Day 1 <http://www.adventuresinoss.com/?p=2159>
  * Day 2 <http://www.adventuresinoss.com/?p=2179>
  * Day 3 <http://www.adventuresinoss.com/?p=2200>
  * Day 4 <http://www.adventuresinoss.com/?p=2208>
  * Day 5 <http://www.adventuresinoss.com/?p=2213>


  OpenNMS 1.10

We've been slowly working our way towards a 1.10 release candidate. The
only things left are to go over the remainder of the IPv6 infrastructure
(which I am spending this week on), and to then spend some time giving
some attention to pending stuff in JIRA.

At the high level, there is a lot of exciting stuff coming in 1.10:

IPv6 Support
    The obvious one: support for IPv6. We have done a ton of work to add
    support for passing around IPv6 addresses in the code at all levels,
    as well as adding specific support for ICMPv6.

    We've actually got 2 different strategies for IPv6 ping:

      * JNA <http://jna.java.net/> -- Uses embedded native code which is
        distributable. This means that ping will be supported from
        remote pollers!
      * JICMP6 -- A port of the our internal JNI ICMP code to support
        IPv6. This will be the default in 1.10 for polling ICMP, as it
        is faster than the JNA implementation.

Reporting
    The new JasperReports
    <http://jasperforge.org/projects/jasperreports>-based reports
    introduced later in the 1.8 series has gone through a ton of
    improvements in 1.10, including a number of new reports, support for
    passing arguments to reports (date ranges, etc.), and other nifty
    stuff. Many other general updates to the reporting infrastructure
    have been added as well.
Installer Updates
    The Liquibase <http://www.liquibase.org/> database upgrade tools
    introduced in 1.8 have been updated to the latest (2.0.1) version,
    which is /considerably/ faster than the 1.9.x version we used
    previously.
New XML Processing Infrastructure
    While we haven't finished converting all of our code to use it, we
    have started moving our Castor <http://www.castor.org/>-based XML
    processing code to use JAXB <http://jaxb.java.net/> instead. This
    provides a speed improvement when processing XML (including events
    posted to Eventd). This includes support for validation of inputs in
    the ReST interface.
Drools Support is Back
    OpenNMS used to have support for using Drools
    <http://www.jboss.org/drools> for doing complex correlation of
    events. Due to dependency conflicts with other things we used in
    OpenNMS, it has been non-functional for quite some time. As of 1.10,
    this facility is working again, and will let you create code or
    scripts to do event correlation. Examples of a simple event
    correlation can be found in the $OPENNMS_HOME/etc/examples/ directory.
UI Updates
    Many new UI changes have been made which give searchable controls
    for reports, nodes, etc., thanks to Donald's new code for embedding
    GWT widgets in the OpenNMS UI.
Instrumentation Log Reader
    Philip's Instrumentation Log Reader
    <http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Instrumentation_Log_Reader_Specification> tool
    has been updated with a number of new features, including sorting.
    It's a great way to investigate data collection issues.
Syslogd Improvements
    The Syslog infrastructure has been retooled to support a wider
    variety of input styles, as well as providing more optimized parsers
    for the most common Syslog formats. Using one of the specific
    parsers (Syslog-NG or RFC 5424) should provide performance
    improvements for handling large amounts of Syslog messages.
Data Collection and Thresholding Updates
    Many improvements to data collection and thresholding have been
    made, including support for using regular expressions against column
    names when determining data to persist
    <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4494?focusedCommentId=24656&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-24656>.
    Also, data collection configuration files have now been split like
    events are.
Many New Detectors
    We're adding detectors for everything that has a Capsd plugin, so
    you should be able to completely migrate to Provisiond.
Provisiond Updates
    The provisioner has had a number of updates, including:

      * UI changes
      * Support for enabling or disabling polling and data collection
        through policies
      * Support for scanning the IP-MIB ipAddressTable, which detects
        IPv6 interfaces on an SNMP-enabled device
      * Updates to the DNS requisition import including IPv6 support,
        support for specifying the default services to apply to
        DNS-imported nodes, and the ability to determine how to compute
        the foreign ID ("ipAddress" or "nodeLabel").

This is not an exhaustive list, but just what I came across doing some
'git diff' magic between the 1.8 and 1.10 trees. For a giant list of all
of the issues closed against 1.10, see this link
<http://issues.opennms.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=10100&mode=hide>.


  Project Updates

  * 1.8: Current Release is 1.8.12 (Black-capped Petrel)
    1.8.12
    <http://www.opennms.org/documentation/ReleaseNotesStable.html#opennms-1.8.12> is
    the current stable release, tagged 10 May, 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_1.8.12>.
    As always, it is recommended that you back up your database before
    upgrading.
  * 1.9: Current release is 1.9.8 (Pulalu)
    1.9.8 is the current unstable release, tagged 10 May, 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_1.9.8>.


  Issues Resolved

  * [JRB-12 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/JRB-12>] -- Vertical
    labels disappear on a certain graphs
  * [NMS-1275 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-1275>] -- eventd
    truncates the length of trap messages to 256 bytes
  * [NMS-2834 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-2834>] --
    Enhancement -- Assets with clean date input
  * [NMS-2895 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-2895>] -- The method
    sanitizeString(String) is undefined for the type WebSecurityUtils
  * [NMS-3164 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-3164>] -- Implement
    PersistenceSelectorStrategy framework
  * [NMS-3322 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-3322>] --
    XMPPNotificationStrategy (or JavaMailNotificationStrategy) does not
    utilise the "Numeric Message" field -nm
  * [NMS-3516 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-3516>] --
    auto-clean="true" suddenly is not working
  * [NMS-3722 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-3722>] -- Link with
    parentifindex -1 are not displayed in jsp pages
  * [NMS-3956 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-3956>] -- allow
    trapd to bind to specific address
  * [NMS-3982 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-3982>] -- Interface
    Deleted with SNMP supported and no ipAddrTable
  * [NMS-3997 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-3997>] -- Provisiond
    Deleting IpAddr On Nodes After Rescan
  * [NMS-4034 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4034>] -- SNAPSHOT
    installer scripts are faulty
  * [NMS-4039 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4039>] --
    provisioning node with NodeCategorySettingPolicy policy in foreign
    source does not work if node has no SNMP available
  * [NMS-4047 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4047>] --
    Win32ServiceDetector fails to detect services
  * [NMS-4106 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4106>] -- We need a
    WmiDetector
  * [NMS-4114 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4114>] -- Support
    relativetime in graph URL
  * [NMS-4208 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4208>] -- Memcached
    graph definitions left out of default configuration
  * [NMS-4244 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4244>] -- threshd
    process wrong counter-type SNMP data after SNMP data collection
    failed or restored
  * [NMS-4261 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4261>] -- In-line
    thresholder ignores scheduled outages
  * [NMS-4295 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4295>] -- JRobin
    VDEFs sometimes do not work
  * [NMS-4339 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4339>] -- Update
    Copyright Notice to include 2011
  * [NMS-4375 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4375>] -- jetty
    allows directory listings
  * [NMS-4376 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4376>] -- Problems
    adding nodes during discovery
  * [NMS-4423 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4423>] -- Provisiond
    NodeCategorySettingPolicy. Nodes lose categorization in subsequent
    Synchronizations
  * [NMS-4463 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4463>] -- SnmpAsset
    Adapter has dependency on Trapd
  * [NMS-4483 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4483>] -- Services
    drop down list not alphabatized
  * [NMS-4494 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4494>] --
    SiblingIndexStorageStrategy does SNMP Queries and makes collection
    VERY slow
  * [NMS-4500 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4500>] -- Collectd's
    ServiceCollector class was erroneously changed to take Map<String,
    String>
  * [NMS-4530 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4530>] -- IPAddress
    class overrides equals but not hashCode
  * [NMS-4545 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4545>] -- Importer
    doesn't log to correct log4j category
  * [NMS-4546 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4546>] -- Provisiond
    silently fails to import an invalid model importer file but reports
    importSuccessful anyway.
  * [NMS-4568 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4568>] -- Policy
    Rule using ipAddress with Match Snmp Policy does not work
  * [NMS-4569 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4569>] --
    ipinterface.jsp and snmpinterface.jsp does not show snmp poller data
  * [NMS-4570 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4570>] -- link.jsp
    does not show interface details for some entries
  * [NMS-4572 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4572>] -- Let the
    Snmp Poller send down event the first time an interface is found "Down"
  * [NMS-4585 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4585>] -- hardware
    asset fields need more space and one more field
  * [NMS-4590 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4590>] -- Node label
    changes ourside requisition editor on nodes with a foreign-source ID
  * [NMS-4623 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4623>] -- Provision
    Groups do not synchronize on startup
  * [NMS-4633 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4633>] -- Add an
    optional services field to the query string of the DNS URL
  * [NMS-4655 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4655>] -- Returns
    directory of "opennms/admin/notification/" when required fields are
    not provided for notification destination paths.
  * [NMS-4657 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4657>] --
    Outstanding notice page not aligning correctly
  * [NMS-4663 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4663>] -- Capsd may
    reparent duplicate interfaces from requisitioned nodes
  * [NMS-4682 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4682>] --
    Permissions on multiple files/directories are poor (allow
    world-write, have setuid)
  * [NMS-4691 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4691>] -- OpenNMS
    GoogleMaps geo-enocder no longer functioning and creates a 503 error
    in UI
  * [NMS-4692 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4692>] -- Email
    Notifications are not properly encoded when the message contains non
    us-ascii characters.
  * [NMS-4694 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4694>] -- Better
    provisiond debugging
  * [NMS-4695 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4695>] -- Provisiond
    allows duplicate nodes
  * [NMS-4697 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4697>] -- Path not
    filtered correctly during build, etc/response-graph.properties
  * [NMS-4698 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4698>] --
    Surveilance part of WEB GUI crashes after all default categories
    were removed and custom ones were created
  * [NMS-4700 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4700>] --
    snmpStorageFlag="all" is being ignored by the threshold procesing
  * [NMS-4701 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4701>] -- Unable to
    add IPv6 address for discovery via web UI
  * [NMS-4703 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4703>] -- Data
    Collection Broken for some nodes in testing
  * [NMS-4705 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4705>] -- Add time
    it takes to persist the data to the ILR
  * [NMS-4706 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4706>] -- Enable
    support for filtering the displayed data
  * [NMS-4707 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4707>] -- Add
    ability for HttpMonitor to use node label as virtual host for HTTP polls
  * [NMS-4708 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4708>] -- MicroBlog
    doesn't support -nm
  * [NMS-4710 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4710>] -- Erroneous
    text on a node resource graph selection page
  * [NMS-4712 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4712>] -- Add the
    possibility to modify eventparms (as text) from Vacuumd
  * [NMS-4717 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4717>] -- race
    condition in Provisiond IPv6 scanning
  * [NMS-4719 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4719>] -- Persist
    and Error Messages do not Take Date into Account
  * [NMS-4721 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4721>] -- DbHelper
    class should use dao's
  * [NMS-4722 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4722>] -- Add new
    opennms mib events definition
  * [NMS-4728 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4728>] -- Sort by Stat
  * [NMS-4734 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4734>] -- When using
    the GoogleMaps remote poller interface, unchecked markers are
    visible on initialization
  * [NMS-4742 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4742>] -- Add Label
    to thresholds for display on "Edit Group" page
  * [NMS-4752 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4752>] -- Event
    Analysis Report should be usable on postgres older than 8.4
  * [NMS-4753 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4753>] -- Event
    Analysis report is missing in default configuration
  * [NMS-4770 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4770>] -- Traffic
    Report for last month returns data from the current month
  * [NMS-4772 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4772>] -- Add
    support for matching syslog messages by process name, severity,
    facility in ueiMatch
  * [NMS-4776 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4776>] --
    Alphabetize group names in the Users/Groups list
  * [NMS-4777 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4777>] -- nodeList
    page fails to pass the foreignSource when "show interfaces" is selected
  * [NMS-4778 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4778>] -- Time zone
    WEST is not able to cast in a postgres date
  * [NMS-4779 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4779>] -- Split
    syslogd-configuration.xml
  * [NMS-4783 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4783>] -- DNS
    provisioning expression matching matches hostname but not record data
  * [NMS-4784 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4784>] -- Warning
    and Critical thresholds in InterfaceAvailabilityReport and
    SnmpInterfaceOperAvailabilityReport
  * [NMS-4785 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4785>] --
    Standardize the time zone format reports
  * [NMS-4801 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4801>] -- DNS
    provisioning needs to allow foreign ID to be a hash of IP address
    instead of nodeLabel if administrator so chooses
  * [NMS-4808 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4808>] -- ICMP
    concurrency issue in JnaPinger, JniPinger, Jni6Pinger
  * [NMS-4809 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4809>] -- collectd
    log entries could be enhanced
  * [NMS-4819 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4819>] -- SELECT tag
    not closed in asset/modify.jsp
  * [NMS-4820 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4820>] -- Reportd
    JavaMailDeliveryService always copies address in sendmail-message
    "to" attribute or root@localhost
  * [NMS-4822 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4822>] -- Trapd
    node-matching should prefer SNMP primary ifaces
  * [NMS-4832 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4832>] --
    AttributeGroup and SiblingColumnStorageStrategy are producing a
    StackOverflowError
  * [NMS-4837 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4837>] -- Add a BSF
    (bean scripting framework) notification strategy
  * [NMS-4846 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4846>] -- Provisiond
    leaks file handles, eventually causing "Too many open files" crashes
  * [NMS-4847 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4847>] -- Upgraded
    to 1.8.12 and I started to recieve an error when I try to see node
    information
  * [NMS-4850 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-4850>] -- Convert
    Linkd to use Hibernate
  * [RANCID-4 <http://issues.opennms.org/browse/RANCID-4>] -- RWS does
    not support inventory for ios-xr devices


  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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