This Week in OpenNMS: July 16th, 2018

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS!

Last week we continued development of the Sentinel container, RPC over
Kafka, and Sextant, as well as other bug fixing.


    <#github-project-updates>Github Project Updates

  *

    *Internals, APIs, and Documentation*

      o Markus did more work on the Sentinel container, cleaning up what
        DAOs are accessible and other cleanup.
      o Markus has started work on a health check tool that will work
        across Sentinel and Minion containers.
      o Chandra did more work on support for RPC over Kafka.
      o Jesse and David continued their work on a next-generation Alarmd
        (codename: Sextant) with full rules-based workflow management.
      o Ronny did more work streamlining documentation.
      o Chandra fixed Trapd and SNMP configs to properly validate
        against the XSD.
      o David Hustace fixed a bug in alarm counter incrementing.
      o Cyrille Bollu fixed a path outage documentation bug.
  *

    *Web & UI*

      o Antonio continued his work on fixing the topology UI showing
        enlinkd links properly.
      o Markus and Patrick worked on changes to make dates in the web UI
        consistent, and also configurable.
      o I worked on including the Hawtio webapp in the OpenNMS distribution.
      o David worked on adding Sextant support to Helm.
      o Brynjar Eide added support for overriding time intervals and max
        datapoints in Helm.


    <#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 now 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

  * HELM-100 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HELM-100>: Allow
    specifying default and per query time intervals and max datapoints
    per query
  * HZN-1321 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1321>: Add
    ENTITY-MIB support for the 'entAliasMappingTable'
  * HZN-1322 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1322>: Add hardware
    info the node objects forwarded by the Kafka producer
  * HZN-1341 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1341>: Remove the
    karaf-extender from sentinel
  * HZN-1342 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1342>: Verify that
    all exposed DAOs for sentinel actually run on sentinel
  * HZN-1349 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1349>: Remove
    DemandPollDao and related classes as it is not used at the moment
  * HZN-1350 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1350>: Enhance REST
    API and HELM to allow datasource to be built from Situations
  * HZN-1352 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1352>: Allow any
    Alarm to be a Situation
  * NMS-8295 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-8295>: bridge
    topology is wrong on nodelink.jsp
  * NMS-9925 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9925>: Can't install
    OpenNMS on Ubuntu 18.04
  * NMS-10195 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10195>: MIB2
    interface errors are missing
  * NMS-10230 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10230>: repace
    current formatting in JSPs by custom tag
  * NMS-10231 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10231>: define a
    property in opnnms.properties for date formatting
  * NMS-10243 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10243>: apply
    custom tag to ncs-alarms.jsp
  * NMS-10255 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10255>: Bump
    asciidoctor from 1.5.6 to 1.5.7
  * NMS-10258 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10258>: enlinkd
    prints bridge forwarding table debug messages in output.log

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