OpenNMS 1.2.8 Released

Gang:

It is with great pleasure that I get to announce the availability of  
OpenNMS 1.2.8, the next release in the stable branch of OpenNMS.

There are a lot of nifty features in this release, but in keeping  
with the philosophy of the production version of OpenNMS, they should  
not impact any of the current functionality. What will impact the  
current functionality is a number of bug fixes that should make  
OpenNMS even more stable. Most of the new features were back-ported  
from the development branch.

Probably the biggest news is support for Nagios plug-ins, both  
through the Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) and the Net-Saint  
Client (NSClient) for Windows. We get the question "how do you  
compare to Nagios" at pretty much every conference we attend, so we  
are happy to be able to provide access to the great work Ethan  
Galstad and his team have done with that application. Remember, while  
in some cases we may compete with Nagios, they are not our enemies,  
and if anything they drive us to build a better product.

Speaking of other open source projects, if you like the RRD "zoom"  
feature in Cacti, we've implemented it in OpenNMS (specifically,  
"Bonsai: A more user friendly zoom function for Cacti", by Eric  
Steffen - Eric, if you read this, drop me a note and I'll send you an  
OpenNMS shirt). Now when you look at a graph or a collection of  
graphs for a device, you should see that the graph is a link (it will  
probably have a blue border around it).

Click on the graph and it will bring up a new page. Now you can click  
and drag your mouse over an area of the graph and it will "zoom" in.  
You can repeat the process. To zoom out, just hit the "back" button  
on your browser. Thanks to the folks at Cacti for the code we  
borrowed for most of this.

We also now support Tomcat version 5. Some of you, especially those  
on SuSE or Debian, can now use the version of Tomcat that ships with  
your distribution. Personally, I have had a hard time trying to  
install Tomcat5 from RPMs, so I usually stick with Tomcat4, but we  
now support both.

It's all about choice (grin).

We also support some new parameters in events and notifications. % 
assetdescr% will include the description and %assetcomment% will  
include the comment field. %logmsg% did not actually work, so we  
fixed that.

Finally, there is now a way to monitor ISDN backup links (or other  
links) that are in a "bad" state when they respond to a ping, and are  
"good" when they are down. We added an option to the IcmpMonitor to  
invert the response.

For more details, see the release notes here:

http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Official_Documentation

In other news, we are having our yearly developer's conference in  
Minnesota at the end of July. It's a week long code-fest that should  
move us closer to OpenNMS 2.0. For information see:

http://www.opennms.org/index.php/DevJam2006

I will also be teaching a one day seminar on Monday, August 14th in  
San Francisco. This is the day before LinuxWorld Expo, although we  
are not planning on having a booth this year. Drop me a note if you  
are interested and I'll let you know when the details are finalized.

Finally, if you haven't gotten enough of me running my mouth in these  
e-mails or in support, check out the blogs:

http://blogs.opennms.org

and thank you once again for your support of OpenNMS.

-T

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