From: "Shane O'Donnell" <shane@www.opennms.org>
To: <general@opennms.org>
Subject: OpenNMS: OpenNMS Update v1.11
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 22:38:28 -0400

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   OpenNMS Update
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  Vol 1., Issue 11
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In this week's installment...

 - Project Status
   - Coding Projects Underway
   - JSNMP testing nears completion
   - +ACI-Services+ACI- Discovery Defined
   - Slight Changes to CVS
 - Turn on, Pitch in, Help Out
 - Road Shows Update

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Project Status
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Coding Projects Underway:

  - icmpd/FreeBSD port -- Underway. No status available.
  - icmpd/Solaris port -- No update on status this week.
  - Event Subsystem -- Underway.
  - SNMP Trap Receiver -- Underway. In ALPHA testing...
  - JSNMP SNMPv2 +ACY- Trap PDU support -- Complete and in testing. See below.


JSNMP Testing Nears Completion:

Just like it says, our home grown Java SNMP libraries are slowly nearing
production grade. Later this week, they will be bundled and available for
download from the web site as well as via CVS. As a practice, we will not
release components outside of CVS, but as this is a significant piece of
work which can benefit a number of projects outside our own, we'll make an
exception.

Watch for the announcement on Freshmeat.net.


+ACI-Services+ACI- Discovery Defined:

With a cloud of dust and a hearty +ACI-Hi-ho, Silver+ACI-, a flurry of email
postings to the 'general' list helped us through some core design issues and
led us to a statement of our informal stance on what constitutes existence
of a service, for discovery reasons.

In short, we decided that anything listening on the appropriate (yet
configurable) port, and responding with the right banner/thumbprint, we
consider it a discovered service. Per our discussion, this applies to a 220
response to FTP/SMTP, an +ACI-HTTP+ACI- response for HTTP, and some lower-level work
to be done for our UDP counterparts in DNS and SNMP.

For those of you that missed the discussion, let's sum it up by saying that
several incredibly intelligent bit-twiddling propeller heads who know way
too much about protocols have slight differences of opinion as to what
constitues a service being +ACI-up+ACI-. So we all agreed to disagree and build
configurable components. And then we all hugged and sang +ACI-Kum-bay-ah+ACI-. I can
still taste those +ACI-s'mores+ACI-...


Slight Changes to CVS:

  +ACI-Again? That trick'll never work+ACEAIg- - Rocky

Just a note for your configuration reference. The hostname of the machine
hosting our CVS tree has been changed to +ACI-cvs.opennms.org+ACI- from
+ACI-www.opennms.org+ACI-

Now before you get your undies in a bundle trying to figure out why you
didn't notice the change, here's the secret -- they are the same machine. So
why the name change? Just a simple preparation for eventually splitting the
CVS instance off of the web server. No big whoop.

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Turn on, Pitch in, Help Out
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First off, a hearty +ACI-Thanks+ACI- to everyone that rose to the call last week on
the documentation front. Currently, my main man Chris in Dayton, OH
(+ACI-Dayton? No, we barely know each other.+ACI-) is dusting off his VBA skills and
turning out a script that will convert our M+ACQ- Word docs to DocBook format.
Assuming that this goes as planned (I've got faith in ya, man+ACE-), we should
soon be able to announce a closure to that aspect of the documentation.
Woo-hoo+ACE-

But alas, that just means that the conversion piece is out of the way and we
can get on to generating some REAL doc+ACE- The first pieces we're ready to take
a swing at include:

  - The JSNMP libraries
  - ICMPD (Cross-platform)
  - The EUIs (Admin and Operator Panels)

If you're handy with the language (or willing to translate to anything
non-English), let us know. We'll get you set-up so you can figure out the
innards and can get access to the authors if need be. For those of you that
aren't scared to RTFM, maybe it's time for you to take a crack at WTFM (W +AD0-
Writing).

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Road Show Update
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It seems like the more talks we do, the more we schedule. That either means
that we put on a good show, or that groups are hard-up for speakers. I'm
guessing that Steve falls into the former category, while I prove out the
latter. Anyway, check out the web site for more info, including details on
the following:

  - Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts (ALE) (6/8)
  - RTP Chapter of AITP (6/8)
  - Linux BBQ in Alexandria, VA (6/13)
  - OpenView 2000 (User's group and conference) (6/21)
  - LinuxFest 2000 (6/22)
  - TriLUG (7/13)
  - JUST ADDED+ACE- SIGUCCS 2000 in Richmond, VA+ACE-

And in the immortal words of Jon Stewart, +ACI-Rock on+ACEAIg-,

Shane O.
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Shane O'Donnell
Open Source Coordinator
OpenNMS
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It's Revolution, not Evolution
at http://www.opennms.org +ACE-
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