This Week in OpenNMS: August 6th, 2018

Benjamin Reed <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Aug 2018 14:38:53 -0400
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It's time for This Week in OpenNMS!

Last week we continued work on RPC over Kafka, Sextant, Enlinkd, and
other bug fixes.


    <#github-project-updates>Github Project Updates

  *

    *Internals, APIs, and Documentation*

      o Christian wrapped up his VMware cleanups.
      o Markus wrapped up fixes for a RADIUS authentication bug.
      o Jeff fixed a logging issue in provisioning that could cause
        excess logs relating to "not-polled" services.
      o Christian did more work on handling non-directional SFlow data.
      o Chandra did more work on support for RPC over Kafka.
      o David continued implementing a feedback mechanism for
        training/tuning Sextant correlations.
      o David Hustace did more work on his branch to clean up the
        handling of alarm clearing.
      o Jesse worked added some metric checks to the health check tool.
      o Markus updated the internal service API to support timing out,
        along with some other refactoring.
      o Markus did more work on the health check tool.
      o I worked on implementing a minion status tracker to update the
        minion status in the minion UI.
  *

    *Web & UI*

      o Markus continued his experiment with simplifying our
        Bootstrap-based theme code.
      o Patrick continued work on changes to make dates in the web UI
        consistent, and also configurable.
      o Sebastian did more work on a daemon-reload page in the admin UI.
      o Antonio continued his work on fixing the topology UI showing
        enlinkd links properly.
      o Jesse added MD5 checksum handling to Helm.
      o David worked on Sextant feedback support in Helm.


    <#ouce-is-coming-up-fast>OUCE Is Coming Up Fast!

Don't forget to sign up for next month's OpenNMS User Conference Europe
2018 <https://ouce.opennms.eu/> in Munich, Germany.

A number of folks from the core OpenNMS development team will be there
speaking on a variety of subjects from development to integration to
advanced configuration.

Join us September 20th-21st in Munich! <https://ouce.opennms.eu/>


    <#upcoming-events-and-appearances>Upcoming Events and Appearances

  *

    *UK Network Operators' Forum - September 11th, 2018
    <https://indico.uknof.org.uk/event/43>*

    Tarus will be speaking at the UK Network Operators Forum
    <https://indico.uknof.org.uk/event/43/contributions> on September
    11th, 2018. He'll be giving a talk called "What's Happening with
    OpenNMS" going over some of the recent enhancements to OpenNMS to
    extend scalability.

  *

    *OpenNMS User Conference Europe 2018 - September 20th through 21st,
    2018 <https://ouce.opennms.eu/>*

    OUCE 2018 <https://ouce.opennms.eu/> will be held at the Rilano
    Hotel in Munich, Germany <https://www.rilano-hotel-muenchen.de/>. A
    reception will be held on Wednesday the 19th, with talks and
    workshops the following Thursday and Friday. The call for papers
    <https://ouce.opennms.eu/cfp/2018/> is open for submissions.


    <#until-next-week>Until Next Week…

If there’s anything you’d like me to talk about in a future TWiO, or you
just have a comment or criticism you’d like to share, don’t hesitate to
say hi <mailto:[email protected]>.

- Ben


    <#resolved-issues-since-last-twio>Resolved Issues Since Last TWiO

  * HZN-1329 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1329>: warnings and
    exceptions in telemetryd.log with sflow
  * HZN-1334 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1334>: Streamline
    documentation for installation of OpenNMS and Minion
  * HZN-1339 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1339>: Rework
    features definition for sentinel
  * HZN-1340 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1340>: Get
    DefaultSnmpCollectionAgent to run on sentinel
  * HZN-1348 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1348>: Allow Drools
    rule for Alarmd to be customized
  * HZN-1363 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1363>: Wrong
    descriptions for Quantile in Percentile and Outlier measurement filters
  * NMS-8204 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8204>:
    VMWare-Center-Monitoring make for every virtual machine a login/logout
  * NMS-10213 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10213>: Event
    Search Broken
  * NMS-10215 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10215>: Add support
    for persisting Data Collection to Kafka
  * NMS-10221 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10221>: Supporting
    flow records without direction field (ingress/egress)
  * NMS-10228 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10228>: use user
    defined time zone for date formatting
  * NMS-10269 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10269>: Update
    log4j2.xml with kafka logging
  * NMS-10282 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10282>: Change in
    JMS NBI Date Format
  * NMS-10291 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10291>:
    DefaultProvisionService logs noisily for monitored service having
    state "N"
  * NMS-10303 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10303>:
    ServiceLookup and TelemetryAdapterRegistry don't wait properly
  * NMS-10304 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10304>: Refactor
    timeseries applicationContext xml files with 'timeseries' prefix


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    <p><font face="Helvetica Neue">It's time for This Week in OpenNMS!</font></p>
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    </font>
    <p><font face="Helvetica Neue">Last week we continued work on RPC
        over Kafka, Sextant, Enlinkd, and other bug fixes.</font></p>
    <font face="Helvetica Neue">
    </font>
    <h2>
      <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
          id="user-content-github-project-updates" class="anchor"
          href="#github-project-updates" aria-hidden="true"><span
            aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Github
        Project Updates</font></h2>
    <font face="Helvetica Neue">
    </font>
    <ul>
      <li>
        <p><font face="Helvetica Neue"><strong>Internals, APIs, and
              Documentation</strong></font></p>
        <ul>
          <li><font face="Helvetica Neue">Christian wrapped up his
              VMware cleanups.</font></li>
          <li><font face="Helvetica Neue">Markus wrapped up fixes for a
              RADIUS authentication bug.</font></li>
          <li><font face="Helvetica Neue">Jeff fixed a logging issue in
              provisioning that could cause excess logs relating to
              "not-polled" services.</font></li>
          <li><font face="Helvetica Neue">Christian did more work on
              handling non-directional SFlow data.</font></li>
          <li><font face="Helvetica Neue">Chandra did more work on
              support for RPC over Kafka.</font></li>
          <li><font face="Helvetica Neue">David continued implementing a
              feedback mechanism for training/tuning Sextant
              correlations.</font></li>
          <li><font face="Helvetica Neue">David Hustace did more work on
              his branch to clean up the handling of alarm clearing.</font></li>
          <li><font face="Helvetica Neue">Jesse worked added some metric
              checks to the health check tool.</font></li>
          <li><font face="Helvetica Neue">Markus updated the internal
              service API to support timing out, along with some other
              refactoring.</font></li>
          <li><font face="Helvetica Neue">Markus did more work on the
              health check tool.</font></li>
          <li><font face="Helvetica Neue">I worked on implementing a
              minion status tracker to update the minion status in the
              minion UI.</font></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p><font face="Helvetica Neue"><strong>Web &amp; UI</strong></font></p>
        <ul>
          <li><font face="Helvetica Neue">Markus continued his
              experiment with simplifying our Bootstrap-based theme
              code.</font></li>
          <li><font face="Helvetica Neue">Patrick continued work on
              changes to make dates in the web UI consistent, and also
              configurable.</font></li>
          <li><font face="Helvetica Neue">Sebastian did more work on a
              daemon-reload page in the admin UI.</font></li>
          <li><font face="Helvetica Neue">Antonio continued his work on
              fixing the topology UI showing enlinkd links properly.</font></li>
          <li><font face="Helvetica Neue">Jesse added MD5 checksum
              handling to Helm.</font></li>
          <li><font face="Helvetica Neue">David worked on Sextant
              feedback support in Helm.</font></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
    </ul>
    <font face="Helvetica Neue">
    </font>
    <h2>
      <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
          id="user-content-ouce-is-coming-up-fast" class="anchor"
          href="#ouce-is-coming-up-fast" aria-hidden="true"><span
            aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>OUCE
        Is Coming Up Fast!</font></h2>
    <font face="Helvetica Neue">
    </font>
    <p><font face="Helvetica Neue">Don't forget to sign up for next
        month's <a href="https://ouce.opennms.eu/" rel="nofollow">OpenNMS
          User Conference Europe 2018</a> in Munich, Germany.</font></p>
    <font face="Helvetica Neue">
    </font>
    <p><font face="Helvetica Neue">A number of folks from the core
        OpenNMS development team will be there speaking on a variety of
        subjects from development to integration to advanced
        configuration.</font></p>
    <font face="Helvetica Neue">
    </font>
    <p><font face="Helvetica Neue"><a href="https://ouce.opennms.eu/"
          rel="nofollow">Join us September 20th-21st in Munich!</a></font></p>
    <font face="Helvetica Neue">
    </font>
    <h2>
      <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
          id="user-content-upcoming-events-and-appearances"
          class="anchor" href="#upcoming-events-and-appearances"
          aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon
            octicon-link"></span></a>Upcoming Events and Appearances</font></h2>
    <font face="Helvetica Neue">
    </font>
    <ul>
      <li>
        <p><font face="Helvetica Neue"><strong><a
                href="https://indico.uknof.org.uk/event/43"
                rel="nofollow">UK Network Operators' Forum - September
                11th, 2018</a></strong></font></p>
        <p><font face="Helvetica Neue">Tarus will be <a
              href="https://indico.uknof.org.uk/event/43/contributions"
              rel="nofollow">speaking at the UK Network Operators Forum</a>
            on September 11th, 2018.
            He'll be giving a talk called "What's Happening with
            OpenNMS" going over some of the recent enhancements to
            OpenNMS to extend scalability.</font></p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p><font face="Helvetica Neue"><strong><a
                href="https://ouce.opennms.eu/" rel="nofollow">OpenNMS
                User Conference Europe 2018 - September 20th through
                21st, 2018</a></strong></font></p>
        <p><font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
              href="https://ouce.opennms.eu/" rel="nofollow">OUCE 2018</a>
            will be held at the <a
              href="https://www.rilano-hotel-muenchen.de/"
              rel="nofollow">Rilano Hotel in Munich, Germany</a>.
            A reception will be held on Wednesday the 19th, with talks
            and workshops the following Thursday and Friday.
            The <a href="https://ouce.opennms.eu/cfp/2018/"
              rel="nofollow">call for papers</a> is open for
            submissions.</font></p>
      </li>
    </ul>
    <font face="Helvetica Neue">
    </font>
    <h2>
      <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a id="user-content-until-next-week"
          class="anchor" href="#until-next-week" aria-hidden="true"><span
            aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Until
        Next Week…</font></h2>
    <font face="Helvetica Neue">
    </font>
    <p><font face="Helvetica Neue">If there’s anything you’d like me to
        talk about in a future TWiO, or you just have a comment or
        criticism you’d like to share, don’t hesitate to <a
          href="mailto:[email protected]">say hi</a>.</font></p>
    <font face="Helvetica Neue">
    </font>
    <p><font face="Helvetica Neue">- Ben</font></p>
    <font face="Helvetica Neue">
    </font>
    <h2>
      <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
          id="user-content-resolved-issues-since-last-twio"
          class="anchor" href="#resolved-issues-since-last-twio"
          aria-hidden="true"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon
            octicon-link"></span></a>Resolved Issues Since Last TWiO</font></h2>
    <font face="Helvetica Neue">
    </font>
    <ul>
      <li>
        <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
            href="https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1329"
            rel="nofollow">HZN-1329</a>: warnings and exceptions in
          telemetryd.log with sflow</font></li>
      <li>
        <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
            href="https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1334"
            rel="nofollow">HZN-1334</a>: Streamline documentation for
          installation of OpenNMS and Minion</font></li>
      <li>
        <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
            href="https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1339"
            rel="nofollow">HZN-1339</a>: Rework features definition for
          sentinel</font></li>
      <li>
        <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
            href="https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1340"
            rel="nofollow">HZN-1340</a>: Get DefaultSnmpCollectionAgent
          to run on sentinel</font></li>
      <li>
        <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
            href="https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1348"
            rel="nofollow">HZN-1348</a>: Allow Drools rule for Alarmd to
          be customized</font></li>
      <li>
        <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
            href="https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1363"
            rel="nofollow">HZN-1363</a>: Wrong descriptions for Quantile
          in Percentile and Outlier measurement filters</font></li>
      <li>
        <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
            href="https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8204"
            rel="nofollow">NMS-8204</a>: VMWare-Center-Monitoring make
          for every virtual machine a login/logout</font></li>
      <li>
        <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
            href="https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10213"
            rel="nofollow">NMS-10213</a>: Event Search Broken</font></li>
      <li>
        <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
            href="https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10215"
            rel="nofollow">NMS-10215</a>: Add support for persisting
          Data Collection to Kafka</font></li>
      <li>
        <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
            href="https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10221"
            rel="nofollow">NMS-10221</a>: Supporting flow records
          without direction field (ingress/egress)</font></li>
      <li>
        <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
            href="https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10228"
            rel="nofollow">NMS-10228</a>: use user defined time zone for
          date formatting</font></li>
      <li>
        <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
            href="https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10269"
            rel="nofollow">NMS-10269</a>: Update log4j2.xml with kafka
          logging</font></li>
      <li>
        <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
            href="https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10282"
            rel="nofollow">NMS-10282</a>: Change in JMS NBI Date Format</font></li>
      <li>
        <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
            href="https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10291"
            rel="nofollow">NMS-10291</a>: DefaultProvisionService logs
          noisily for monitored service having state "N"</font></li>
      <li>
        <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
            href="https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10303"
            rel="nofollow">NMS-10303</a>: ServiceLookup and
          TelemetryAdapterRegistry don't wait properly</font></li>
      <li>
        <font face="Helvetica Neue"><a
            href="https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10304"
            rel="nofollow">NMS-10304</a>: Refactor timeseries
          applicationContext xml files with 'timeseries' prefix</font></li>
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