September 2007 Archives

First of all, I want to point out that OpenNMS 1.3.7 is out, and it's full of awesomeness. Big speed improvements, my SmokePing clone, and lots of other cool stuff. I finally finished up the last of the packaging updates today; 1.3.7 is now in Fink, has Debian packages, and RPMs. I also spent a lot of time updating the installation instructions (Yum, Debian) so please, try it out, and if you run into any issues, let me know, and I'll make sure the docs get fixed.

In other news, I've actually started spending some time getting Fink stuff up-to-date again. PostgreSQL has bugfix releases coming up for all supported releases, and I have some KDE updates coming as well.

In addition, I need to catch up on the KDE/Mac stuff, I'm going to start working on a new build this week.

So I know I've been quiet, but I've been busy as a bee, mostly with OpenNMS.

First of all, I've been spending time prepping for the 1.3.7 release, closing bugs, documenting, and writing code. 1.3.7 is ramping up to being an awesome release.

First of all, brozow found a pretty major performance issue in the way we're scheduling and writing RRD data. It is now an order of magnitude faster to collect the data and get it queued for writing, so once again we're I/O bound. ;)

Second, we spent some time completely reworking the ICMP (ping) code, it is crazy efficient now, and the code is considerably easier to understand. No more 2-pages-of-code-to-do-a-simple-ping. Discovery is way faster, and overall ICMP handling is much improved.

That paved way to the new MultiICMP monitor, a clone of Tobi Oetiker's wonderful SmokePing tool. I wrapped that up this week, and it's happily chugging away in the new codebase.

Also, we've embedded Jetty into OpenNMS, so we no longer require Tomcat for our Web UI (although we still offer the option if you need to split things out, or already have a servlet container.) This will simplify installation immensely, to the point where you'll be able to yum/apt-get/rug install opennms, edit the discovery conf, and have a working system out of the box.

Trunk is pretty solid at this point, the only work to do really is documentation and fix a few older bugs that need to be cleaned up. Woot!