gmane.network.opennms.announce

Final Reminder: Early Bird Discount Ends Fridayfor OUCA

Tarus Balog — 2012-05-23T12:50:44

The first ever OpenNMS Users Conference Americas will be held the last
week in June at the University of Minnesota:

http://www.opennms.org/wiki/OUCA2012

The cost for three days of intense OpenNMS discussion is $300, and if
you register before Friday it's only $250. We also have discounted dorm
rooms available which makes this one of the least expensive ways to get
OpenNMS training available.

Click on the link above to see the current agenda, and hope to see you
there.

-T

OpenNMS 1.10.2 on Hold,OpenNMS 1.10.3 Coming Soon

Tarus Balog — 2012-05-18T16:59:23

Gang:

We've discovered a nasty bug in provisiond in 1.10.2. It's so nasty that
we need to release a 1.10.3 with the fix, but we want to do some further
testing, so 1.10.3 will be out on Monday, Tuesday at the latest.

If you have already upgraded and you are experiencing issues with
synchronizing provisioning groups, you can active the "testing"
repository and upgrade to a 1.10.3-0 version that contains the fix.

http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Tutorial_Choosing_a_Release

For those of you who detest detail, you can skip this next part.

The problem arose from an attempt to fix an issue at a client with a) a
large network and b) a lot of provisioning changes. They were
experiencing file handle leaks, and we believe we have found an issue
with a library that we import into OpenNMS. We applied the fix and this
leak disappeared.

Unfortunately, the fix allowed a deadlock condition. A deadlock is a
nasty little loop which occurs when one part of the code is waiting on
another part of the code to finish, and that se

OpenNMS Users Conference Americas Agenda

Tarus Balog — 2012-05-16T12:23:42

Gang:

Having just returned from the fourth OpenNMS Users Conference Europe we
are heads down preparing for the first OpenNMS Users Conference Americas
to be held in Minneapolis, MN, USA at the end of June.

http://www.opennms.org/wiki/OUCA2012

The Call for Papers is still open, but below is a list of talks we've
already approved. Remember that the early bird discount ends on 25 May.

-T

==== Planned Talks ====

Keynote: OpenNMS Futures by Matt Brozowski

Matt is the chief architect of OpenNMS and this presentation will
highlight some of the new features currently under development, from a
new user interface, topology discovery and the distribution of collected
data as we make our slow and careful way toward OpenNMS 2.0.

Project Management of OpenNMS Installations by Alex Finger.

This presentation will focus on the best practices for deploying OpenNMS
in a large scale environment. The necessity of good project management
techniques can not be overstated in order to create a successful
solution. Alex was

Upcoming OpenNMS Events

Tarus Balog — 2012-05-03T10:58:27

Gang:

We have a lot of great events coming up in the next two months.

Next week is our fourth annual OpenNMS Users Conference Europe. There is
still time to sign up (until Friday) if you want to join us in Germany
for four days of classes and presentations:

http://www.opennms-conference.info/

We have also announced our next week-long training class to be held at
company headquarters in Pittsboro, NC, USA the week of 4-8 June:

http://www.opennms.com/training/

Next, our seventh (wow) annual developers conference, Dev-Jam, will be
held in Minneapolis, MN, USA the last week in June.

http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Dev-Jam_2012

If you develop on OpenNMS, this is a great way to spend a week with most
of the major contributors and to sharply hone your skills with respect
to the OpenNMS code.

And now for the big news, we are also announcing the first ever OpenNMS
Users Conference Americas to be held for three days starting 26 June:

http://www.opennms.org/wiki/OUCA2012

Modeled on the European conference, the f

OpenVND - The Open VeNDing Project

Tarus Balog — 2012-04-01T14:11:09

Gang:

Here at OpenNMS we like to say we can use the management application to
monitor just about anything you can put on a network.

So how about a drink machine?

We set out to do just that, and the result is the OpenVND project:

http://www.openvnd.org

This is how we manage the soda machine in the office, and we hope it
give you some ideas on solving some of your more complex management
problems.

-T

OpenNMS User Conference - May 2012

Tarus Balog — 2012-02-29T16:08:04

Registration is now open for the OpenNMS User Conference in Europe this May:

http://www.opennms-conference.info/

This is one of my favorite events of the year, and this year we are
making available two days of training - "bootcamp-style" accelerated
lectures that are the fastest way to come up to speed on OpenNMS.

Hope to see you there,

-T

OpenNMS iOS App 40% Off Until February 26th

Benjamin Reed — 2012-02-15T14:59:00

In case you missed it on Twitter, we are celebrating the release of
OpenNMS 1.10 by offering the iPhone/iPad app for 40% off ($2.99 US) now
until February 26th.

You can get it here:

  http://itunes.apple.com/app/opennms/id389479744?mt=8

OpenNMS 1.10 Released

Tarus Balog — 2012-02-13T16:15:17

Gang:

I am happy to announce that we have officially released OpenNMS 1.10 -
the first new stable release since June of 2010. A lot of work went into
this release, and although the web user interface has not changed much,
this version of OpenNMS should be more stable and better performing than
any version before it.

We delayed the release by 10 days in order to document a lot of the
changes. You can visit the new documentation here:

http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Docu-overview

and the full release notes can be found here:

http://www.opennms.org/wiki/What%27s_New_in_OpenNMS_1.10

We hope you find it useful.

-T

* What's New in OpenNMS 1/10 *


** Architectural Changes

*** IPv6 Support

The OpenNMS core was completely refactored in 1.10 to deal with IP
addresses in a consistent manner, including adding complete IPv6
support. You should now be able to use IPv6 addresses anywhere you would
use IPv4 addresses in 1.8. Additionally, Provisiond can scan the newer
IPv6-capable IP-MIB to detect IPv6 interfaces on

The First OpenNMS Training Courses in 2012: USAand UK

Tarus Balog — 2012-02-08T13:19:39

Gang:

I am happy to announce that we have scheduled the first two training courses for the new year, and these will be the first ones taught on OpenNMS 1.10 (the latest major stable OpenNMS release).

There is one week-long course being taught at our company headquarters in Pittsboro, NC, USA the week of 26 February, and another week-long course being held at the University of Southampton in Southampton, Hampshire, UK the week of 27 March. 

These courses are the fastest, most cost-efficient way to get up to speed on OpenNMS quickly and I hope to see you there. Space is limited, so please register early:

http://www.opennms.com/training

-T
_______________________________________________________________________
Tarus BALOG, OpenNMS Maintainer             Main:   +1 919 533 0160
The OpenNMS Group, Inc.                     Fax:    +1 773 345 3645
Email: tarus< at >opennms.org                    URL: http://www.opennms.org
PGP Key Fingerprint: 8945 8521 9771 FEC9 5481  512B FECA 11D2 FD82 B45C


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OpenNMS iOS Client Update

Benjamin Reed — 2012-02-01T23:29:59

Just wanted to send a quick note that the OpenNMS iOS client, version
1.0.4, was accepted to the app store and is now downloadable.

Changes since 1.0.2:

* add graphical representation of alarm state, for color-blind users
* better handling of user configuration errors
* works with self-signed certificates
* better error messages on authentication issues
* fix a bug where node display would be cached too long
* add support for URL schemes to open the app

The URL scheme change is especially handy, since it lets you open the
iOS client to a particular page by clicking an onms:// URL from an email
or SMS (or anywhere else, really).  For details on this feature, see:

  http://www.opennms.org/wiki/iOS_Client#Using_URL_Schemes

You can buy or update it from the iTunes Store:

  http://itunes.apple.com/app/opennms/id389479744?mt=8

New RPM and Debian Signing Keys

Benjamin Reed — 2012-01-20T18:56:58

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As you may or may not recall from previous messages, our package signing
keys were technically OK, but because of re-signing to extend the
expiration date, they were in a format that some tools (notably YUM)
could not handle.

Despite doing a bunch of work attempting to get the GPG key signature
happy with all supported platforms, I've been unable to find a solution
that works everywhere, so I've gone ahead and created a new signing key:

pub   2048R/CE0FF0F0 2012-01-20 [expires: 2015-01-19]
      Key fingerprint = 1F94 B8B7 BA2D 26A6 206A  655C DC1A 1B59 CE0F F0F0
uid                  OpenNMS Signing Key 2012 <opennms< at >opennms.org>

== Importing to GnuPG ==

You should be able to import it from the public keyservers:

  gpg --recv-keys CE0FF0F0

== Importing to APT ==

  wget -O - http://debian.opennms.org/OPENNMS-GPG-KEY | sudo apt-key add -

== Importing to RPM ==

  rpm --import http://yum.opennms.org/OPENNMS-GPG-KEY


...once you have added the key to the r

YUM repository updates

Benjamin Reed — 2012-01-10T14:00:01

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We have been working on cleaning up our release and
repository-management process.  A bug was recently introduced in the
scripts that update the YUM repository RPMs which could cause you to see
errors like this:


  http://yum.opennms.org/common/common/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14]
HTTP Error 404: Not Found
  Trying other mirror.
  Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
repository: opennms-common-common. Please verify its path and try again

If you are experiencing this issue, it can be fixed by installing the
latest repository RPM from http://yum.opennms.org/.

For example, if you are running OpenNMS stable on RHEL5, you would
browse to yum.opennms.org, look for "Stable", and download the RPM
linked by the text, "RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.x and CentOS 5.x".

Then install it, using:

  rpm -Uvh opennms-repo-stable-rhel5.noarch.rpm


Sorry for the inconvenience.

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

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OpenNMS Training in the US: 27 Feb - 2 Mar

Tarus Balog — 2012-01-04T15:41:59

Gang:

Just a quick note that we'll be hosting our week-long OpenNMS training in the US at the end of February:

http://www.opennms.com/training/

We are hoping to have one in the UK in March - I'll let you know as soon as the dates are firm.

-T
_______________________________________________________________________
Tarus BALOG, OpenNMS Maintainer             Main:   +1 919 533 0160
The OpenNMS Group, Inc.                     Fax:    +1 773 345 3645
Email: tarus< at >opennms.org                    URL: http://www.opennms.org
PGP Key Fingerprint: 8945 8521 9771 FEC9 5481  512B FECA 11D2 FD82 B45C


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OpenNMS Training in the US: 27 Feb - 2 Mar

Tarus Balog — 2012-01-04T15:41:59

Gang:

Just a quick note that we'll be hosting our week-long OpenNMS training in the US at the end of February:

http://www.opennms.com/training/

We are hoping to have one in the UK in March - I'll let you know as soon as the dates are firm.

-T
_______________________________________________________________________
Tarus BALOG, OpenNMS Maintainer             Main:   +1 919 533 0160
The OpenNMS Group, Inc.                     Fax:    +1 773 345 3645
Email: tarus< at >opennms.org                    URL: http://www.opennms.org
PGP Key Fingerprint: 8945 8521 9771 FEC9 5481  512B FECA 11D2 FD82 B45C


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Training in London, UK and Pittsboro, NC, USA

Tarus Balog — 2011-10-24T18:48:15

Gang:

We are happy to be able to announce that we are bringing our week long
training course on OpenNMS back to the UK - this time in London.

Thanks to the Girl Guiding Association we have a place to hold training
in London, right near Buckingham Palace. The course will run from 28
November through 2 December:

http://www.opennms.com/training

The room is smaller than the one we had in Reading earlier in the year,
so space is limited.

In addition, the week after that we will be holding training at the
OpenNMS HQ in Pittsboro, NC. We already have a number of students
confirmed, so there are only four seats left. The next training probably
will not be until March of 2012.

Hope you can make it.

-T

This Week in OpenNMS: Who Bugs the Reporters?

Benjamin Reed — 2011-09-19T16:24:02

It's time for These Weeks in OpenNMS. (See what I did there? <g>) In the
last couple of weeks we fixed a lot more bugs in preparation for 1.10,
and released 1.8.14 and 1.9.91. Seth also did a HUGE triage of the JIRA
database, cleaning up a lot of duplicates, as well as un-closed issues
that have actually been resolved in the past.

Speaking of triaging the JIRA database, I'd like to re-post an article I
wrote on my personal blog
<http://www.raccoonfink.com/blog/2011/08/23/schrodingers-bugs/> about
reporting issues. The TL;DR version is: don't be afraid to open an
issue! Here it is in it's entirety:


  Schrödinger's Bugs

Working on an open-source project <http://www.opennms.org/> teaches you
a few things about dealing with software developers, and reporting bugs.
I've been in the open-source world for a long time, and I remember when
I first started out as a user of software, I felt glad to even have
access to these tools at all, and I felt a reluctance to "bother" the
developers with issues if I wasn't su

Yum Repository Repaired for Fedora 15 and RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux 6

Benjamin Reed — 2011-09-14T01:17:14

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There is a bug in the way yum handles PGP keys that cause OpenNMS
installation through yum to fail on Fedora 15 and RHEL6 (and it's
derivatives).  The key we've been using to sign our RPMs contained
multiple old self-signatures, which were created as part of extending
the expiration of our PGP keys over the years.  The key has now been
updated to clean out the old expired signatures, but if yum has already
imported the older version of the key, you will continue to see this error:

  Invalid GPG Key from http://yum.opennms.org/OPENNMS-GPG-KEY:
  first PGP packet should be a public-key packet, not signature packet

To fix it, you will need to re-import the key.  To do so, run:

  rpm --import http://yum.opennms.org/OPENNMS-GPG-KEY

...and yum will work as expected when installing OpenNMS packages.

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

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Towerstream and OpenNMS

Tarus Balog — 2011-08-30T11:41:19

One of our clients, Towerstream, a large ISP in New England providing 4G wireless services, was kind enough to share some of their experiences using OpenNMS and working with the OpenNMS Group.

If you are interested in such things, check out their story on our website: http://www.opennms.com/towerstream/

-T
_______________________________________________________________________
Tarus BALOG, OpenNMS Maintainer             Main:   +1 919 533 0160
The OpenNMS Group, Inc.                     Fax:    +1 773 345 3645
Email: tarus< at >opennms.org                    URL: http://www.opennms.org
PGP Key Fingerprint: 8945 8521 9771 FEC9 5481  512B FECA 11D2 FD82 B45C



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This Week in OpenNMS: Release Candidate WantsYour Votes!

Benjamin Reed — 2011-08-22T20:33:22

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS. In the last couple of weeks we
worked on smoke tests, fixed more bugs, and released 1.8.13 and 1.9.90.


  New Releases

It's been a bit since we last did a release, we pretty much put all
releases on hold until we could put a 1.10 release candidate out. That
said, we found a couple of reasonably important bugs (in both 1.8.x and
1.9.x) and decided it was time to take the plunge. 1.9.90 is the first
release candidate for the 1.10 series, meaning that we are
feature-complete and plan only on fixing important bugs before 1.10.0
gets released. That said, Linkd should be still considered beta for this
release. It's gone through a significant refactor, but still has not
reached parity with 1.6 (or even 1.8) Linkd. We will not release 1.10.0
until we have that parity, but for now, if you're relying on Linkd,
stick with 1.8. If you have the ability to help us test the new Linkd
code against your devices, bug reports would be helpful, however.


  Podcast

Jeff has been planning o

OpenNMS Training in the USA and Europe

Tarus Balog — 2011-08-15T13:08:54

Gang:

Just a reminder that we have two training courses scheduled in September.

The first course will be held at OpenNMS HQ in North Carolina the week of 12 September:

http://www.opennms.com/training/

The second course will be held in Europe, specifically Fulda, Germany, which was the site of our Users Conference back in May. This is done in conjunction with our partner, NETHINKS. While the registration page is in German, the course will be taught by me and David Hustace in English:

www.nethinks.com/opennms-schulung

Hope to see you there.

-T
_______________________________________________________________________
Tarus Balog, OpenNMS Maintainer             Main:   +1 919 533 0160
The OpenNMS Group, Inc.                     Fax:    +1 773 345 3645
Email: tarus< at >opennms.org                    URL: http://www.opennms.org
PGP Key Fingerprint: 8945 8521 9771 FEC9 5481  512B FECA 11D2 FD82 B45C



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This Week in OpenNMS: Testing and Bugging (Not Necessarily in That Order)

Benjamin Reed — 2011-08-08T21:58:43

It's time again for This Week in OpenNMS. In the last week we did some
testing and bugfixing in preparation for 1.10.


  IPv6 Testing

I spent the first half of the week testing IPv6, making sure that the
packaging is ready and that you can have a system with only an IPv4 or
IPv6 stack (but not both) and have everything still come up correctly.
Also, if you need to enforce the availability (or not) of either stack,
some options have been added to $OPENNMS_HOME/etc/opennms.properties to
take care of that.

|# By default, OpenNMS will start up if either ICMPv4 *or* ICMPv6 are
# available and initialize properly. If you wish to force IPv4 or IPv6
# explicitly, set one or both of these properties.
#
#org.opennms.netmgt.icmp.requireV4=true
#org.opennms.netmgt.icmp.requireV6=true|


  Smoke Tests

We've had pretty good unit test coverage in general, but we've been
lacking a few things, namely, UI testing, and a "smoke test" which makes
sure that OpenNMS snapshots come up properly, don't have nasty
exceptions, and