OpenNMS 1.3.3 Released

Gang:

Once again it is with great pleasure that I get to announce the  
availability of OpenNMS 1.3.3, the next step down the long path to  
OpenNMS 2.0.

Most of the packages should be uploaded to Sourceforge by now,  
although we are still working on Solaris, Debian and Ubuntu versions.  
We hope to have those out in the next 48 hours or so.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4141

One of the problems with releasing OpenNMS is that despite the fact  
that we are mainly written in Java, there is some C code required for  
OpenNMS to be able to send pings, create graphs (with RRDtool) and  
use the "iplike" function in PostgreSQL. While these don't change  
very much, due to the differences in each distro we have to build  
distro-specific packages for OpenNMS.

We hope to change that, starting with this release.

The "iplike" function has been moved to its own package:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? 
group_id=4141&package_id=235604

If you are upgrading OpenNMS, there is no need to install this  
package since the "iplike" function should already exist. With new  
installations, however, it is strongly recommended that you install  
this package. If you are building from source, please check out the  
iplike source tarball and follow the instructions there. Once it is  
installed, you do not have to install it again, as the OpenNMS  
installer will check for its existence. If it doesn't exist, OpenNMS  
will install a PL/pgSQL version of the function that will work,  
although not with the same level of performance as the C-based code.

Also, we have changed the default storage method for data collection.  
We used to store as polled data for two months, and MIN, MAX and  
AVERAGE data per hour for a year. This created very large RRD files  
and often stressed the disk I/O of the server. For comparison, MRTG  
stores as polled data for one day.

So now by default we store as polled data for a week, hourly data for  
two months, and MIN, MAX, AVERAGE data per day for a year. Feel free  
to change this to fit your needs, and if upgrading be careful with  
the .xml file merge.

This is a pretty exciting release. Check out the new features here:

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

We have a number of new features, including a Trouble Ticketing API  
that we hope will allow OpenNMS to integrate with a number of other  
applications. The first plugin we created was for CentricCRM (also a  
Java product), and we plan to add others in the future.

We also have a Dashboard user interface built using the Google Web  
Toolkit. Web 2.0 here we come (grin)

It was over a year from 1.3.1 to 1.3.2, and five months to 1.3.3. We  
are hoping to get 1.3.4 out much more quickly. We will continue to  
document and improve on what we have in 1.3 already, and add features  
such as an XML data exporter and Smokeping integration. The next bit  
of C code will be to make RRDtool optional (although we plan to  
always support it) with JRobin being the default (as it is now).

We are also expecting great things from the third annual OpenNMS  
developer's conference: Dev-Jam:

http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Dev-Jam_2007

At the moment we have people from four countries attending and there  
are still some spots left (although the price discount is no longer  
in affect). We also have sponsorship opportunities available (those  
never run out).

 From all of us at the OpenNMS Project, I hope you enjoy using this  
as much as we enjoyed making it.

-T

_______________________________________________________________________
Tarus Balog, OpenNMS Maintainer             Main:   +1 919 533 0160
The OpenNMS Group, Inc.                     Fax:    +1 503 961 7746
Skype: tarusb                               Direct: +1 919 647 4749
Email: [email protected]                    URL: http://www.opennms.org
PGP Key Fingerprint: 8945 8521 9771 FEC9 5481  512B FECA 11D2 FD82 B45C



-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express
Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take
control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now.
http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/
_______________________________________________
Please read the OpenNMS Mailing List FAQ:
http://www.opennms.org/wiki/index.php?page=MailingListFaq

opennms-announce mailing list

To *unsubscribe* or change your subscription options, see the bottom of this page:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opennms-announce