Features in OpenNMS 1.10 Stable Release Train

Core Features

• Automatic Layer-2 and Layer-3 link discovery
• Automatic Network / Node Discovery and Provisioning
• Automatic Service Discovery and Provisioning
• IPv6 support throughout (new)
• Manual Node and Service Provisioning Requisitions
• Path Outage support
• Performance Data Collection Protocols:
  • 3GPP SSH / XML performance data
  • HTTP
  • JDBC (new)
  • JMX (JSR-160 and JBoss connection methods)
  • NSClient, NSClient++
  • SNMP
  • WMI
  • XML (new)
  • XMP

• Service Assurance and Response Time Monitoring
  • Beanshell integration for creating custom monitors in JVM scripting languages
  • 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 (protocol-level 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)
  • Memcached monitoring
  • Nagios Plugins (via NRPE), NSClient, NSClient++
  • Network Time Protocol (NTP)
  • Passive (non-IP) services
  • Process liveness (via SNMP or WMI)
  • RADIUS authentication
  • Secure Shell (SSH)
  • Server Message Block (SMB / CIFS)
  • SNMP (any OID, scalar or tabular)
  • Telnet
  • Trivial time protocol (Unix, Windows)
  • Web page and web application monitoring from recorded user scripts, via Selenium integration (new)
  • Windows service status (via SNMP or WMI)
  • Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

• Thresholding of collected performance data or service response latency data

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

Event Management Features

• Alarms subsystem with automations, acknowledgement, auto-clearing, and escalation
• Event Correlation via pluggable correlation engines (JBoss Drools Expert included by default)
• Event Translation via customizable rules
• Reduction (de-duplication) of events according to customizable reduction keys
• SNMP Trap receiver
  • Over 15000 different traps from over 100 vendors recognized out of the box
• Syslog event receiver (enhancements)
  • Modular style of configuration (new)
  • Default rules for a handful of commonly encountered applications (new)
    • Apache HTTPD
    • Linux kernel 2.6+
    • OpenSSH
    • POSIX and other common UNIX-like utilities (su, sudo, etc.)
• TL1 (Transaction Language 1) event receiver
• XMLRPC forwarding of events to external systems

Notification Features

• Automatic acknowledgement (configurable) of self-clearing problems
• Notification methods:
  • Asterisk call origination
  • Beanshell integration for custom notifications in JVM scripting languages
  • E-mail
  • Growl
  • IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
  • Pager
  • SNMP trap
  • Twitter-compatible microblogging APIs (e.g. Twitter, Status.Net)
  • XMPP
  • 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
• Import of nodes directly from DNS zone transfer (enhancements)
  • IPv4 A record and IPv6 AAAA record support
• Integration with Hyperic HQ
• Performance Data Export via simple XML Schema
• Performance Data Export in real time via TCP socket interface
• Integration with Asterisk telephony platform
• Integration with RANCID configuration management platform
• Provisioning adapters for updating external systems when new nodes are provisioned
  • DNS (create, update, delete records in a zone according to node operations in OpenNMS)
  • Links (model layer-2 network links based on node-naming conventions)
  • Maps (add nodes to topographical maps automatically according to rules)
  • RANCID (add, change, remove nodes automatically in a RANCID instance)
  • SNMP assets (automatically set or update node asset metadata based on values retrieved for arbitrary SNMP OIDs)
• ReST web service interface for reading, updating, and creating model objects

Reporting Features

• Charting support (JFreeChart integration)
• 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 (now with far broader cross-browser support)