[opennms-announce] OpenNMS 1.2.4 Released

[Tarus B. <ta...@op...>]

Gang:

It is my pleasure to announce version 1.2.4 of OpenNMS. We are now in  
the process of creating packages for 1.2.4, and they will be  
available for download within the next 24 hours.

This is a maintenance release of OpenNMS, and we have taken great  
care to insure that it doesn't introduce any new issues while  
providing bug fixes and a few, new, small features.

Probably the biggest new feature is the ability to use a URL  
parameter in the HTTP and HTTPS discovery plugins. This way you can  
discover and poll non-root URLs for those services that live in a sub- 
directory from the web root directory. This has been in the poller  
for some time - I'm not sure why it was not in the capsd plugin.

Also, for those of you that generate notifications on SNMP traps, you  
are now able to include the triggering event description in a notice  
- saving a lot of time cutting and pasting. The %descr% tag is all  
you need to put in the notification description now (if you like).

There are a number of new data collection configurations. Some of you  
have been using the 64 bit "HC" counters for those circuits that are  
very active. We now collect on them by default. Note that if you have  
a large number of interfaces, this will add two new .rrd files for  
each interface and may impact polling speed and disk space  
accordingly (only worry about this if you are doing data collection  
on thousands of interfaces). If you don't want them, simply edit the  
datacollection-config.xml file and take them out.

Full release notes are available here:

https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=27506&group_id=4141

We have been invited to host a booth at the .org Village at  
LinuxWorld Expo in the UK this 5-6 October.

http://tinyurl.com/bmt39

This will be our first conference trip outside the US, and I hope  
that those of you in Europe will be able to attend.

<shameless plugs>

If you like OpenNMS and use it in a production environment, please  
consider purchasing OpenNMS commercial support and/or services.

http://www.opennms.com/solutions/pricing

Note that as part of a support contract, we'll upgrade your  
configuration files *for* you. (grin)

We also have a wishlist on Amazon:

http://www.opennms.org/wiki/index.php?page=WishList

In another great open-source tradition, we'd love it if you send us a  
postcard:

http://www.opennms.org/wiki/index.php?page=WallOfCards

</shameless plug>

Thanks again for being a part of the OpenNMS community.

-T

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