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Revision as of 10:44, 18 April 2012
Installing OpenNMS
Current Releases
- Released versions
- Stable: 1.10.9
- Download: source, binaries
- Release Notes: HTML
- Installation Instructions: The OpenNMS Tutorial
- Development: 1.11.90
- Download: source, binaries
- Release Notes: HTML
- Installation Instructions: The OpenNMS Tutorial
- Stable: 1.10.9
- Nightly snapshots
- Future Stable: 1.10.10-SNAPSHOT
- Download: ZIP and source, YUM, Debian
- Installation Instructions: The OpenNMS Tutorial
- Development (trunk): 1.11.91-SNAPSHOT
- Download: ZIP and source, YUM, Debian
- Installation Instructions: The OpenNMS Tutorial
- Future Stable: 1.10.10-SNAPSHOT
Features
Get Started With OpenNMS
- QuickStart: The most basic guide to getting OpenNMS up and running quickly.
- OpenNMS Tutorial: The OpenNMS tutorial is intended to give you an overview of the steps necessary to set up your OpenNMS system
- How-To Guides: This set of configuration How-To guides is intended for the new user to OpenNMS:
Database installation
Frequently Asked Questions
If you have questions after reading the how-to guides, some of them might be answered by reading the FAQs.
Configuring OpenNMS
Basic Information
Jetty
Tomcat
Running the OpenNMS webapp under Tomcat is no longer supported in OpenNMS 1.8+.
- How-To use Tomcat5 with OpenNMS
- Running OpenNMS with a Dedicated Tomcat Server
- Running Tomcat on a port other than 8080
Users
- Configuring Users
- Configure Roles and Duty Schedules for Users
- Configuring OpenNMS 1.3.2 to 1.6.X to use LDAP Authentication
- Configuring OpenNMS 1.7.0+ to use LDAP Authentication with Spring Security
Provisioning Nodes and Services
- Provisioning
- Legacy Automatic Discovery
- Other Discovery Methods
Polling / Monitoring
- Polling Configuration HowTo
- List of built in pollers
- Create a custom poll, a service that should be monitored
- Passive Status Keeping for things that cannot be polled
- DHCP Monitor
- SNMP Monitor
- HTTP Monitor
- Page Sequence Monitor (PSM) Setup
- Process Monitoring and Collection
- Distributed Monitor
- Remote monitoring / Remote poller
- Monitoring Microsoft standard services
- Scheduled Outages
- Path Outages How-To
- The Page Outages page
- Poller configuration with upper and lower bound: Using regular expressions to monitor for a range of values such as voltage
- Monitoring GDataAntiVir Services
- Monitoring services listening on local ports remotely
Events and Alarms
- Events
- Event Configuration How-To
- What are the different severities that OpenNMS-events have?
- Event substitutions: What can you do with the incoming events?
- Event Translator
- Adding new types of events like new SNMP traps
- Calling scripts triggered by events
- Integrate RequestTracker for events
- Forward events to a server via XML-RPC
- Automatically do something with events from the database
- Correlating Events using Drools
- Alarms - The really important events
Other sources of events besides SNMP traps
- Using e-mail to create events
- Use syslog messages as a source for events
- Integrate NESSUS as an event source
- Integrate SNORT as an event source
- Integrating OpenNMS and EMC/SMARTS InCharge by forwarding events
- Configure JMX
- Create traps from Windows event log entries
Notifications
- Configuring notifications
- Notification Enhancement article - includes a detailed description of the switches used in the notificationCommands.xml
- Defining different ways of notification
- Using jabber2 as notification target
- SMS Notifications via a GSM modem
SNMP
- Getting OpenNMS to use SNMPv3
- Converting SNMP MIBs using mib2opennms
- MIB Study - A more general view at SNMP MIBs and types of things found there
- Create custom reports with gathered SNMP data
- SNMP Tables with arbitrary indexes
- Collect CPU data with NetSNMP, lots of options
- Monitoring disk space with NetSNMP
- SNMP-Informant HowTo, analyze your MIBs and make them available to OpenNMS
3rd party devices
- Integrating Cisco class based QoS
- AKCP Sensors HowTo
- Colubris devices HowTo, incl. Reports
- Redline TX data collection and reporting
- Dell OpenManage Storage (a.k.a. Dell PERC RAID controller) monitoring
- How to use Dell OpenManage/DRAC with OpenNMS
- How to monitor Novell Netware disk resources
- Configure OpenNMS to monitor NetBotz V2 devices
- How to monitor lm_sensors environmental sensors with NetSNMP
- Alvarion Walkair 3k 10.5GHz PtM Monitoring
- How to monitor HAProxy
- APC Ambient Temperature
Data Collection
SNMP Data Collection
SNMP Data collection is available in all versions of OpenNMS, but only 1.3.2 and above have the ability to collect data on arbitrary indexes.
- Data Collection Configuration How-To
- Debug Data Collection with Instrumentation Log
- An SNMP datacollection how-to using SNMP Informant as an example
- A fairly involved discussion on collecting CPU statistics using OpenNMS and Net-SNMP
- Collecting SNMP data from tables with arbitrary indexes
- An example of arbitrary index collection to collect disk IO statistics
- JVM Monitoring using SNMP
- Monitoring the Java Virtual Machine with SNMP (external link).
- Additional Data Storage and Display Options for Interfaces
- SNMP Monitor - using SNMP to monitor services
- Collecting Data from Cisco Netflow using SNMP
HTTP Data Collection
HTTP data collection is available in OpenNMS 1.3.2.
- Using the HTTP collector
- An example of using the HTTP collector with the apache web server
- An example of using the HTTP collector with the nginx web server
JMX Data Collection
JMX data collection is available in OpenNMS 1.3.x.
- Configuring JMX data collection using Tomcat 5.5 as an example
- Configuring JMX data collection using Tomcat 6 as an example
- Configuring the JMX collector to collect from a JSR160 Agent (a more generic guide on the JMX collector).
- JMX Based JVM Monitoring How-To: Configure the target JVM (Sun) to be monitored & OpenNMS to monitor it via JMX.
JDBC Data Collection
JDBC Data Collection is a feature that has to be compiled separately as of 1.8.3.
Nagios / NSClient / NSClient++ Data Collection
- Data Collection Configuration How-To #NSClient
- Data collection from Windows Performance Counters with NSClient++
- Using and configuring NSClient (Nagios)
View / Export / Debug / Convert collected data
- View / Debug collected data
- Performance Data TCP Export
- Export collected data to XML file
- JRobin Converter
- rrd2csv: Convert RRD data into CSV format
Thresholds
Reporting
Jrobin graphs
Most data collected and written to JRB (previously RRD) files can be used to create jrobin graphs.
- KSC Reports
- Prefabricated Standard Graphs
- SNMP Reports How-To (Customized Graphs)
- JRobin Spike Hunter
- Jasper Reports using RRD as Datasource
- Graph Gallery: more samples
- How to present data sources from n Nodes
Jasper reports
You can generate paper-like reports by using the OpenNMS/JasperReports integration. These reports can then be sent by email or generated on-demand using the web interface.
- Jasper Report Integration Specification
- Availibility reports
- Statsd: The statistics daemon
- Extended Reporting
- Database Reports
- Tutorial of how to create a jasper report from A to Z (you probably shouldn't ever need to do this. But this tutorial contains interesting information anyway).
Charts
Asset Tracking System
- How to use the Asset System
- How to add attributes
- How to import/export
- SNMP Asset Provisioning Adapter
Maps in OpenNMS
- A topology map in OpenNMS
- Automatic Map Creation
- Save your automatically generated maps
- Link Monitoring
Access Restrictions / ACL's
- User Restriction Filters
- ACL Access Lists still missing in documentation...
Customize OpenNMS
Customize the OpenNMS GUI
- Configure availability categories table of the main window
- Different Places to define categories used in the GUI
- Create custom categories for grouping elements
- Filters that can be used in custom categories
- Configure Dashboard / Surveillance view
- Add sound to the webUI
- Change page refresh
Integrate OpenNMS with Other Systems
- HP OpenView Forwarding traps to OpenNMS
- Integrating OpenNMS and EMC/SMARTS InCharge
- Integrating OpenNMS with IBM/Micromuse Netcool OMNIbus and Webtop
- Integrating OpenNMS with System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2
- Rancid Device Configuration Management
Trouble Ticket Integration
- Best Practice Solutions Request Tracker (RT) Trouble Ticket Plugin
- Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) Trouble Ticket Integration
- Hyperic HQ Integration
- Atlassian JIRA Trouble Ticket Plugin
- Concursive ConcourseSuite (formerly Centric CRM)
- Intuit QuickBase Trouble Ticket Plugin
Maintain Your OpenNMS Installation
Performance
- Performance tuning: Please take a look at the Performance Tuning Guide to avoid basic performance pitfalls in the way your system is set up.
Security
Database backup and restore
Hacks and other improvements
- Performance tuning
- Storing Java GC statistics to an RRD file
- ForceRescan
- How to write scripts using OpenNMS with groovy
- Repeated Notifications Using Automations
- Flap detection
Upgrading and Configuration Management
Additional Information
Useful things to read
Success Stories
The OpenNMS Book
The rumours about a book written in German are true. As of 04 June 2010, OpenNMS: Netzwerkmanagement mit freier Software is available for purchase from Amazon.DE.
There is mounting interest in an English-language book. As of June 2010, there is an effort underway to organize this effort.
Special needs, new technology
- Making OpenNMS highly available
- Network topology discovery (talking: RIP, OSPF, 802.1q, 802.3ad, 802.1ab - LLDP)
- Severe Weather Alerts with opennms (How to get opennms to report severe weather)
