[opennms-announce] This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 33: Dear future readers...

[Benjamin R. <ra...@op...>]

I've traveled from the year 1976 to say this: it's time for This Week in
OpenNMS. This week we worked on the SMS bits more, cleaned up Statsd
configuration reloading, and did more bugfixes.


Project Updates
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- Stable: Current Release is 1.6.5

1.6.5 is the current stable release, released May 16th.  It fixes a
number of bugs, and adds a few features.  For a full list, see the
bugzilla 1.6.5 milestone.  This is a non-critical but recommended
upgrade for anyone on OpenNMS versions older than 1.6.5.

    http://tinyurl.com/opennms-165

- Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.6

1.7.6 is the current unstable release, tagged August 3rd.  Since 1.7.5,
there have been a ton of bugfixes, as well as updates to the RESTful
interfaces, inventory report updates, syslogd updates, collection
updates, new OpenManage and Cisco IP-SLA monitors, thresholding updates,
provisiond updates, map updates, and probably more stuff I'm missing.  A
1.7.x overview is available in the release notes on the site.

    http://tinyurl.com/opennms-17x

- Unstable: SMS Pinger/Request-Response API

Matt, Donald, Jeff, and I worked more on the SMS pinger APIs.  The
configuration for SMS sequences is finished, and work has begun on
scheduling query/responses, as well as looking into packaging/build
issues for final inclusion into a release.  The goal is to have a
working demo of sequences this week.

- Unstable: Service Registry

Matt worked on creating an API for a "service registry" -- this is an
under-the-covers, architectural API that makes it easier to track
plugins of various type, register them with OpenNMS, and share and sync
them between the OpenNMS, Spring, and OSGi sides.

- Unstable: Miscellaneous Updates

A few other interesting updates have happened in trunk, including fixes
for TL1, the XMP collector, notifications, and error messages in the web UI.

- Unstable: Statsd Updates

Dave did some work on the statsd codebase, fixing it up so that it
starts up and shuts down cleanly, and can reload configuration without a
restart.


Upcoming Events
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* September 10, 2009:
  Tarus Balog will be giving his talk, "So, You Think You Want to Start
  an Open Source Business" at the Triangle Linux Users Group.

    http://www.trilug.org/node/95

* September 19th, 2009:
  Tarus Balog to speak at Atlanta LinuxFest on the topic of running an
  open-source business.

    http://atlantalinuxfest.org/node/52

* September 21st-25th, 2009:
  OpenNMS training will be available through The OpenNMS Group at the
  OpenNMS training facility in Pittsboro, NC.

  For more information on training, go to:
    http://www.opennms.com/training.html

* October 28, 2009:
  Tarus Balog will be speaking at the Open Source Monitoring Conference
  2009 in Nuremberg.

  http://www.netways.de/en/osmc/y2009/referenten/

If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know.


Until Next Week...
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As always, if there's anything you'd like me to talk about in a future
TWiO, or you just have a comment, criticism, or XKCD fanfic you'd like
to share, don't hesitiate to say hi.


-- 
Benjamin Reed
The OpenNMS Group
http://www.opennms.org/