Re: [opennms-discuss] OpenNMS 1.3.7 Released

w00t!

And as for performance, it is a dramatic improvement.

On 9/14/07, Fred Skrotzki <[email protected]> wrote:
> SO SWEET....
>
> We've been running smokeping as a separate tool along with OpenNMS for
> two years as it provides great diagnostic information on path
> performance and packet loss when we start having issues.  We are so glad
> it has become integrated now I have one set of screens to login to and
> use.  A feature request I asked for with smokeping about two months ago
> was to see if it is possible to somehow integrate mtr functionality so
> that when loss occurs (repeated loss mostly) we can locate where in a
> path the issue might be.
>
> The removal of tomcat is also a nice move.
>
> Great work..
>
> I'm off to wipe out and rebuild our internal monitoring system and test
> it all out.  Assuming things are good we'll be rolling it out to our
> production system in 7 days.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Tarus Balog
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 1:27 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: General OpenNMS Discussion
> Subject: [opennms-discuss] OpenNMS 1.3.7 Released
>
> Gang:
>
> OpenNMS 1.3.7 has been released.
>
> Performance is an order of magnitude better than 1.3.6. We've also added
> a new monitor called StrafePing. This is a port of Tobi Oeticker's
> Smokeping application which provides a graphical view of ICMP latency by
> sending out 20 pings every 5 minutes and measuring the time it takes to
> return. The median value is graphed and the deviations show up as grey
> "smoke". This monitor is also useful if you would like to get alerted
> when an interface starts dropping packets. It can be configured to be
> marked as "down" when less than 20 packets are returned.
>
> Check out: http://www.opennms.org/index.php/StrafePing
>
> We have also become a silver sponsor on Tobi's Smokeping page in
> recognition of his work.
>
> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/sponsors.en.html
>
> We also removed the need for tomcat, so no more struggling with that app
> (unless you want to, as it is still supported). OpenNMS comes bundled
> with the jetty servlet container. It runs on port 8980 instead of 8080,
> so be aware of that.
>
> In addition to our CentricCRM Trouble Ticketing plugin:
>
> http://www.opennms.org/index.php/CentricCRM_Trouble_Ticket_Plugin
>
> there is now one for Jira:
>
> http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Jira_Trouble_Ticket_Plugin
>
> In order to make upgrades easier, there are yum and apt based
> repositories to make it easier to stay up to date.
>
> See: http://www.opennms.org/index.php/QuickStart
>
> Note: if you are still on 1.2.9 this is still not the time to upgrade,
> although we are getting close.
>
> We had been planning on calling the next stable release OpenNMS 2.0.
> The 2.0 release is very important to us, and it involves not only new
> code but better documentation, more power in the GUI, and greater ease
> in distribution. But there is so much good stuff in the 1.3 branch we
> didn't want to wait until 2.0 is complete to release another stable, so
> we have come up with the following plan:
>
> 1.3.7 - released today. This represents a very stable development
> release.
>
> 1.3.8 - End of October. This will be the feature complete candidate for
> the next stable release. This will also include the work that was
> started at our Developer's Conference, Dev-Jam, back in August.
>
> 1.7.90 - End of November. Rather than go to 2.0, we're going to 1.8.
> This is the release candidate, and should contain bug fixes for 1.3.8
> but no or few new features.
>
> 1.8.0 - End of December. This will be the next production release, and
> we hope to offer it to you as a holiday present for the end of a very
> successful 2007.
>
> As usual, I hope you enjoy OpenNMS. If you need commercial support for
> it, please check out the OpenNMS Group homepage:
>
> http://www.opennms.com
>
> or if you a just feeling generous, there's the Amazon wishlist:
>
> http://www.opennms.org/index.php/WishList
>
> and as always we love getting postcards:
>
> http://www.opennms.org/index.php/WallOfCards
>
> -T
>
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