The document provides an overview of OpenNMS including its history and versioning, architecture with a focus on its data model and event bus system, discovery methods including automatic, directed, and policy-based approaches, and provisioning capabilities including CLI and RESTful interfaces. Useful resources for getting OpenNMS and support are also listed.

1. Kickstart
Thursday, October 7, 2010

2. Kickstart
indigo@blinky:~$ whoami && locate
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Ronny Trommer
:: OpenNMS OGP member
:: ronny@opennms.org
:: Student at University Fulda
:: ronny.trommer@informatik.hs-fulda.de
:: Co-worker at NETHINKS GmbH
:: ronny.trommer@nethinks.com
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Fulda in Germany
:: irc://irc.opennms.org/opennms
indigo@blinky:/usr/bin$
Thursday, October 7, 2010

3. OpenNMS
Intro
U nder The Hood
A Bunch Of Nodes
The Art Of
Provisioning
Useful Resources
Thursday, October 7, 2010

4. S Intro
Op en NM Elevator pitch
“World’s first enterprise-grade
network management platform
developed under the
open source model.”
GNU GPLv2 Tarus Balog, OpenNMS Maintainer since 2002
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5. S Intro
Op en NM History
Name Registered Sourceforge ID
Netsaint 10.01.2000 1.323
OpenNMS 29.03.2000 4.141
Nagios 03.05.2001 26.589
RRDTool 13.01.2003 71.544
Groundwork CE 21.02.2006 160.654
Zenoss Core 20.03.2006 163.126
Hyperic 17.07.2006 172.556
Icinga 21.04.2009 260.128
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6. S Intro
Op en NM Version numbers
Minor versions
stable (even)! ! ! ! 1.0 / 1.2 / 1.6 / 1.8 / 2.0
unstable (odd)!! ! ! 1.1 / 1.7 / 1.9
Build versions
Bugfixes and small!! 1.8.4
enhancements! !
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7. S Intro
Op en NM Build with
OpenJDK or Oracle Java based
Jetty Webapplication Server
PostgreSQL
JRobin or RRD
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8. S in tro
Op en NM
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9. S in tro
Op en NM
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10. Under The Hood
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11. Thursday, October 7, 2010

12. Thursday, October 7, 2010

13. he Hood
nd er T
U Data Model
Node IP Interface(s) service(s)
Non-IP Interface(s)
Asset Informations
Routing / STP / Link Informations
Events
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14. Thursday, October 7, 2010
A Bunch Of Nodes

15. fN odes
Bunc ho
A Auto Discovery
“I have no idea about my network devices. You
told me something about discovery?!”
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16. he Hood
nd er T
U Event Bus
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17. he Hood
nd er T
U Event Bus
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18. he Hood
nd er T
U Event Bus
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19. he Hood
nd er T
U Event Bus
message identified by UEI:
uei.opennms.org/internal/discovery/newSuspect
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20. he Hood
nd er T
U Event Bus
message identified by UEI:
uei.opennms.org/internal/discovery/newSuspect
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21. he Hood
nd er T
U Event definition
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22. he Hood
nd er T
U Event definition
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23. he Hood
nd er T
U Event definition
Eventd configuration and logs
$OPENNMS_HOME/etc/eventconf.xml
$OPENNMS_HOME/etc/events
$OPENNMS_HOME/logs/daemon/eventd.log
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24. fN odes
Bunc ho
A Auto Discovery
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25. fN odes
Bunc ho
A Auto Discovery
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26. fN odes
Bunc ho
A Rescan for ne
Auto Discovery
w devices
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27. fN odes
Bunc ho
A Auto Discovery
... or discover a single IP address
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28. fN odes
Bunc ho
A
“I hate discovered print servers and services.
I want full control about provisioning!”
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29. vis iond
Th eP ro Directed Provisioning
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30. vis iond
Th eP ro Directed Provisioning
C hange scann
ing
behavior
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31. vis iond
Th eP ro Directed Provisioning
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32. vis iond
Th eP ro Directed Provisioning
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33. The Art Of
Provsioning
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34. vis iond
Th eP ro Enhanced Directed Discovery
“I need full control about provisioned nodes ...
... and service discovery.”
In-House developed inventory
Stand-alone provisioning system
Discover interfaces and services
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35. vis iond
Th eP ro Enhanced Directed Discovery
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36. vis iond
Th eP ro Enhanced Directed Discovery
Define scan be
havior
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37. vis iond
Th eP ro Enhanced Directed Discovery
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38. vis iond
Th eP ro Enhanced Directed Discovery
Rescan ever y
day
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39. vis iond
Th eP ro Enhanced Directed Discovery
Rescan ever y
day
Cus to mize d d
etectors
w ith paramete
rs
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40. vis iond
Th eP ro Enhanced Directed Discovery
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41. vis iond
Th eP ro Enhanced Directed Discovery
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42. vis iond
Th eP ro Enhanced Directed Discovery
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43. vis iond
Th eP ro Enhanced Directed Discovery
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44. vis iond
Th eP ro Enhanced Directed Discovery
Provisiond configuration and logs
$OPENNMS_HOME/etc/provisiond-configuration.xml
$OPENNMS_HOME/logs/daemon/provisiond.log
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45. vis iond
Th eP ro Policy Based Discovery
“I need full control about provisioned nodes ...
... and a controlled discovery.”
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46. vis iond
Th eP ro Policy Based Discovery
Three Types of policies
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47. vis iond
Th eP ro Policy Based Discovery
Three Types of policies
IP based “monitoring” policy
SNMP data collection policy
Node category policy
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48. vis iond
Th eP ro Policy Based Discovery
IP based “monitoring” policy
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49. vis iond
Th eP ro Policy Based Discovery
SNMP data collection policy
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50. vis iond
Th eP ro Policy Based Discovery
Node category policy
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51. vis iond
Th eP ro Policy Based Discovery
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52. vis iond
Th eP ro Policy Based Discovery
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53. vis iond
Th eP ro Policy Based Discovery
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54. vis iond
Th eP ro Policy Based Discovery
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55. vis iond
Th eP ro Policy Based Discovery
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56. vis iond
Th eP ro CLI provisioning
p rovis ion.pl
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57. vis iond
Th eP ro RESTful interfaces
http://172.16.23.19:8980/ope
nnms/rest/nodes/17
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58. s ou rc es
U sefu l re
Whitepapers http://www.opennms.org/wiki/White_Papers
Virtual Appliance http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Vmware-evaluation
Get OpenNMS http://www.opennms.org/get-opennms/
Get Support http://www.opennms.org/get-support/
Slides OUCE http://www.opennms.org/wiki/UCE
Thursday, October 7, 2010