This Week in OpenNMS: August 6th, 2018

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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