Just a short note that Ronny Trommer has modernized the OpenNMS VMWare Appliance.
There is a wiki page with details, and it can be downloaded from both the Virtual Appliance Marketplace as well as Sourceforge.
I just wanted to share a site we came across through a response to our survey (which is still open if you haven’t had a chance to check it out). It is called OpenNMS Patterns and Scripts and it is definitely worth a look. It’s subtitled “Implementing OpenNMS in an enterprise IT environment” and it consists of issues that one might face when deploying OpenNMS along with corresponding solutions. Hat tip to Doug Bakewell for making this happen, and I look forward to his future posts.
As I was checking out the OpenNMS iPhone app today, I noticed that it was published on September 1, 2010.
The OpenNMS Group opened for business on September 1, 2004, so happy anniversary to us. We’ve been so busy I almost forgot about it.
One of the traditional gifts for the sixth anniversary is iron, and I have been blessed to work with the best team one could ever hope to put together – they are Iron Men, every one.
For most people, seeing the business behind OpenNMS get another year older is a non-event. But if you had been a part of it, and had to listen to those “in the know” telling you time and time again how you can’t possibly run a business where you give the software away, that you can’t succeed without outside investment and you can’t possibly grow, each year we’re here is more proof that they are wrong.
I love my job, and I just want to thank everyone who makes that possible. Six years down and many more to go.
UPDATE: There have been some people reporting that it does not run on iOS 3. We are working on determining the issue, but it is confirmed to work on iOS 4 devices.
After nearly a year of work, the OpenNMS iPhone App is now available from iTunes.
It costs US$4.99 and folks with commercial OpenNMS support subscriptions should just drop me a note for a free voucher code.
As I know there will be a few questions about this, I’ve tried to anticipate a couple of them.
Q: Hey, OpenNMS is free software. Why you chargin’ me $5?
OpenNMS is 100% free and open source software, and the iPhone app is no exception. The code is hosted in our git repository and there are complete instructions for downloading and building it on your own.
But, it was not a painless or inexpensive process to get this app created. In fact, the main reason it got completed is that we sent Ben off to the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference and he learned what he needed to finish it (as well as to make it iPad compatible). That little junket cost us about $2000 – or nearly 575 copies of the app once Apple takes their cut.
So we decided to charge for the app but make sure than those who want to take the time have full access to the code.
Q: What about an Android app?
I would love to have an Android version of this app, but at the moment no one has stepped forward to own it. We do have a Nexus One at the office so the hope is that it will happen, and happen soon, but no promises.
I am hoping that my three readers will take the time to complete this short, 10 question survey on how they use OpenNMS. We are trying to get a better idea of our users so that we can tailor our work to more closely meet their needs.