Re: [opennms-devel] Google Summer of Code -- We Need Ideas! What features would you like to see?

Ben,

Regarding WBEM/WMI monitoring and data collection... I would first like to
say that I've put a lot of work into this (and need to start committing) but
I simply don't have the free time to make it usable. If someone comes in
from Google Summer of Code I'd be willing to work with them on this,
providing them the code I've already put together as well as what guidance I
can provide regarding pollers and collectors.

I would like to add one more thing on the list that I've been envisioning as
being part of my WMI work.

Asset and Inventory Collection:
* Rewrite the Asset page.
   - Rather than having a fixed table for assets, have a keyed table so that
as asset data is collected and classified for a node, custom (hardware or
device type specific) fields appear.
   - I had planned on using collectd but brozow had suggested cloning
collectd to allow multi-protocol collection. Antonio has written a telnet
collector whose goal is to collect switch/router details, for example.
   - Using WmiClient - collect important Windows system information.

Again - these are things that I've been experimenting with and even in some
cases have a game-plan for but I simply do not have the free time in my
personal life to sit down and code them...

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Benjamin Reed <[email protected]> wrote:

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> So I'm going to be submitting an application for Google Summer of Code,
> and there's a lot of great things we could do, but I'd like to know --
> what are things *you're* interested in seeing OpenNMS do?
>
> Things I can think of that would be good to add, and a reasonable
> project size for a summer project:
>
> * WBEM monitoring and data collection (this has come up over and over
> ~  again, lots of people would like to see it happen)
> * Better support for distributed systems
> ~  ie, real support for multiple OpenNMS instances to coordinate
> ~  configuration, node information, etc. -- especially being able to
> ~  have multiple systems doing data collection
> * UI work
> ~  "web 2.0", ie with dynamic querying of data, better controls for
> ~  drilling down into information whenever related stuff is displayed,
> ~  etc.
>
> I know there's more interesting stuff out there, but that's things
> people have talked about in the past that I could think of off the top
> of my head.
>
> What are your ideas?  What features do you wish OpenNMS had?
>
> - --
> Benjamin Reed
> The OpenNMS Group
> http://www.opennms.org/
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