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Contents 1 Features in OpenNMS 1.6 Stable Release Train 1.1 Core Features 1.2 Event Management Features 1.3 Notification Features 1.4 Integration Features 1.5 Reporting Features 1.6 Trouble Ticketing / Help Desk Plugins 1.7 User Interface Features 2 Features in OpenNMS 1.7 Unstable Release Train 2.1 Core Features 2.2 Integration Features 2.3 Notification Features 2.4 User Interface Features

Features in OpenNMS 1.6 Stable Release Train

Core Features

• Automatic Layer-2 and Layer-3 link discovery
• Automatic Network / Node Discovery and Provisioning
• Automatic Service Discovery and Provisioning
• Manual Node and Service Provisioning Groups
• Path Outage support
• Performance Data Collection Protocols:
  • HTTP
  • JMX (JSR-160 and JBoss connection methods)
  • NSClient, NSClient++
  • SNMP

• Service Availability and Response Time Monitoring
  • BGP sessions
  • Citrix Metaframe
  • Database: catalog retrieval, stored procedures (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, others)
  • Distributed monitoring available for most protocols
  • DHCP, DNS
  • FTP
  • General Purpose Monitor for small-scale monitoring via arbitrary commands
  • HTTP, HTTPS Response Code and Page Content Verification (on standard and non-standard ports)
  • HTTP / HTTPS Page Sequence Monitoring (user simulation)
  • ICMP Ping, StrafePing (similar to and inspired by SmokePing)
  • LDAP, LDAPS
  • Mail: SMTP, POP3, IMAP, Lotus Domino IIOP
  • Mail Transport Monitor (round-trip SMTP - POP3/IMAP delivery test)
  • Nagios Plugins (via NRPE), NSClient, NSClient++
  • Network Time Protocol (NTP)
  • Passive (non-IP) services
  • RADIUS authentication
  • Remote CLI: SSH, Telnet
  • SNMP (any OID, scalar or tabular)
  • Trivial time protocol (Unix, Windows)
  • Windows services status

• Thresholding of collected performance data or service response latency data

Event Management Features

• Alarm subsystem with automations, acknowledgement, auto-clearing, and escalation
• Event Correlation via pluggable correlation engines
• Event Translation via customizable rules
• Reduction (de-duplication) of events according to customizable reduction keys
• SNMP Trap receiver
  • Over 12000 different traps from over 100 vendors recognized out of the box
• Syslog event receiver
• TL1 (Transaction Language 1) event receiver
• XMLRPC forwarding of events to external systems

Notification Features

• Automatic acknowledgement (configurable) of self-clearing problems
• Notification methods:
  • E-mail
  • Pager
  • XMPP
  • Growl
  • Any command that can be run on a command line
• Duty Schedules for users and groups
• On-call calendars (roles)

Integration Features

• Import of nodes, interfaces, and services from external provisioning systems
• Integration with Hyperic HQ
• Performance Data Export via simple XML Schema

Reporting Features

• Charting support
• Multi-Resource Performance Reports
• Resource Graphs of performance and latency (centralized and distributed) data
• SLA-based Availability Reporting

Trouble Ticketing / Help Desk Plugins

• Atlassian JIRA
• Best Practical Solutions RT (Request Tracker)
• Concursive ConcourseSuite (formerly Centric CRM)
• Intuit QuickBase
• OTRS (Open Ticket Request System)

User Interface Features

• Built-in web server
• Dashboard (read-only interface configurable per-user or per-group)
• Distributed Status View
• Pluggable user authentication methods
  • Local users
  • LDAP
  • RADIUS
• RSS Feeds for Events, Alarms, Outages, Notifications
• Topological maps (limited browser support)

Features in OpenNMS 1.7 Unstable Release Train

All features present in the Stable release train are also present in the Unstable release train.

Core Features

• Improved thresholding of service response latency data
• New performance Data Collection Protocols:
  • WMI
  • XMP

• New provisioning subsystem for nodes, interfaces, and services
  • Fine-grained control of interface data collection policies at time of provisioning
  • New service detection framework using Scalable Event-Driven Architecture (SEDA) principles

• New Service Availability Monitoring Capabilities:
  • memcached monitoring
  • WMI object monitoring

Integration Features

• Integration with Asterisk telephony platform
• Integration with RANCID configuration management platform
• Provisioning adapters for updating external systems when new nodes are provisioned
• ReSTful interface for reading, updating, and creating model objects

Notification Features

• New Notification Methods:
  • Asterisk call origination
  • IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

User Interface Features

• Large improvements in web UI navigation with large numbers of nodes and interfaces
• Topological maps with broad browser support