This Week in OpenNMS - October 29th, 2018 - Feature Development, Bug Fixin', Alarms & Situations, & More

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS!

Last week we continued work on some outstanding feature development,
fixed a lot of bugs, and made many improvements to alarm and situation
workflows, among other things.


    <#github-project-updates>Github Project Updates

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    *Internals, APIs, and Documentation*

      o Markus worked on tests for the single-port flow feature.
      o Ronny made a fix to the Cassandra/Newts thread pool metrics.
      o Christian fixed script reloading in Telemetryd.
      o Chandra did more work on adding timestamps to alarm/situation
        associations.
      o Ronny did more work on simplified views for SQL reporting.
      o Matthew worked on handling duplicate entities in the correlation
        inventory.
      o David worked on propagating situation and alarm acknowledgements.
      o Jesse continued his work on the OpenNMS Integration API.
      o Ronny did some updates and documentation changes to PRIS.
      o David updated situations so the severity is escalated relative
        to the situation's alarms.
      o Chandra worked on preventing cyclic graphs in situations.
      o Patrick did more work on HTTP proxy support.
      o Jesse did some refactoring of alarm testing.
      o Jesse reimplemented the alarm change notifier (alarms -> ES) by
        implementing the |AlarmLifecycleListener| API rather than
        relying on triggers.
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    *Web & UI*

      o Markus fixed a timing issue with some smoke tests.
      o David made some improvements to the alarm/situation ReST APIs.
      o Markus removed the remote poller map.
      o Antonio worked on some Enlinkd and Topology enhancements.
      o Markus worked on modernizing our Vaadin infrastructure.


    <#upcoming-events-and-appearances>Upcoming Events and Appearances

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    *OSMC 2018 Talk and Hackathon - November 5th through 8th, 2018
    <https://osmc.de/>*

    Tarus will be speaking on Tuesday, November 6th
    <https://osmc.de/schedule/> about the latest features in OpenNMS
    including Minions, Telemetryd (flow support), Sextant (alarm
    correlation), and more.

    Also, some OpenNMS folks will be participating in the OSMC hackathon
    <https://osmc.de/hackathon/>. The hackathon will be on Thursday,
    November 8th and includes dinner Wednesday night and Thursday
    access. More details can be found at the OpenNMS OSMC Hackathon
    meetup page <https://wiki.opennms.org/wiki/Meetups/OSMC2018-Hackathon>.

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    *NETHINKS Asset Topology Provider Webinar - November 14th, 2018
    <https://www.nethinks.com/blog/it-ueberwachung/jetzt-anmelden-opennms-webinar-zu-asset-topology-provider/>*

    NETHINKS will be doing a German-language webinar on the Asset
    Topology Provider on November 14th, 2018. Registration is required,
    you can sign up on the NETHINKS site
    <https://www.nethinks.com/blog/it-ueberwachung/jetzt-anmelden-opennms-webinar-zu-asset-topology-provider/>.


    <#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-1333 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1333>: "Change Icon"
    In Topology Map Fails
  * HZN-1368 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1368>: Link on About
    page in GUI is dead
  * HZN-1396 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1396>: REST v2:
    Filter for situations using greater than operator
    (affectedNodeCount, relatedAlarmCount)
  * HZN-1398 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1398>: Situation
    model - prevent cyclic graphs
  * HZN-1403 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1403>: Acknowledging
    situations
  * HZN-1417 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1417>: Increment
    Severity of Situations
  * HZN-1418 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1418>: OpenNMS
    Integration API
  * HZN-1422 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/HZN-1422>: Remove NCS
    components and tables from source
  * NMS-9710 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-9710>: Be able to
    use Proxy for any Monitor or Collector that uses HttpClient
  * NMS-10379 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10379>: Other
    classes that use Http
  * NMS-10418 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/NMS-10418>: Add SQL
    views to simplify SQL based reporting
  * OCE-15 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/OCE-15>: Handling of
    duplicate inventory objects in the OpenNMS datasource
  * OCE-16 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/OCE-16>: Rename 'incident'
    to 'situation'
  * OCE-18 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/OCE-18>: Race condition on
    engine init
  * PRIS-140 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/PRIS-140>: Maintenance
    dependencies
  * PRIS-147 <https://issues.opennms.org/browse/PRIS-147>: Can't
    provision node with multiple IP addresses with XLS source

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