The document summarizes the RapidInsight integration with OpenNMS. RapidInsight is an IT operations management solution that can integrate with OpenNMS to provide additional functionality. The integration populates RapidInsight with alarms and inventory data from OpenNMS. It allows users to access OpenNMS performance graphs and alarms through the RapidInsight UI. RapidInsight provides additional capabilities like dynamic scripting, custom interfaces, notifications, multi-tenancy, topology maps, and visualization when integrated with OpenNMS.

1. RapidInsight OpenNMS Integration
An Overview

2. RapidInsight is ..
RapidInsight is an integration, automation and
presentation solution for IT operations
management.
RapidInsight is designed from the ground up as
an open solution using leading web
technologies to minimize implementation time
and the total cost of ownership.

3. RapidInsight ...
 has an easy to use modelling engine (dynamic,
inheritance, operations, relations, etc.)
 scales up to support hundreds of users and
millions of objects
 has a modern, easily extendible, web based user
interface
 is built on standard technologies
 utilizes a standard, full featured, dynamic scripting
language
 supports multi-tenancy (data segmentation)
 has an integrated full text search engine
 consolidates data from different sources

4. RapidInsight OpenNMS Plugin v0.1
 Extends OpenNMS seamlessly
 Populates RapidInsight repository with alarms and
inventory data from OpenNMS
 Users can access OpenNMS performance graphs and
alarms through RapidInsight UI seamlessly
 Current integration uses JDBC to retrieve data from
the database. In the future, upcoming REST interface
may be used instead.
 HTTP is used to retrieve the performance graphs on-
demand
 Default model in RapidInsight mimics OpenNMS
inventory model, but this can be easily modified
and/or extended.
 Alarm (not events) are retrieved periodically

5. What does RapidInsight provide today for
OpenNMS Users?
 Dynamic scripting language to
extend/modify solution in the field without
having to disturb OpenNMS
implementation
 Custom web based user interfaces
 Self service notifications using OpenNMS
alarms
 Advanced event management
 Multi-tenancy (data segmentation)
 Topology maps & Google maps mashup
 Ad-hoc monitoring and graphs
 Business service management

6. Self Service Notifications
 Users can create filters themselves to specify which
alarms they'd like to be notified using simple Google
search like queries and point & click.
 Users can enable/disable/create/modify filters via
the web interface any time (no system restart
required)
 Notifications are based on OpenNMS alarms
instead of events (by default)
 Users can specify delay for
notifications (send if down
more then 5 minutes etc.)
 Execute custom scripts to
add business logic prior to
sending the notification
(verification, etc.)

7. Multi-tenancy (Data segmentation)
 Users can only access the objects they are
allowed to
 Data is segmented by adding an AND
clause to all queries executed for the users
in the background
 Queries can use any object property. Data
can come from OpenNMS or other data
sources
 Process is seamless to the users

8. Custom Web Interfaces
 RapidInsight uses Grails as the web
development framework
 Highly scalable Ajax web components
(grid, tree, etc.) specifically designed to
handle large data sets
 New web pages can be created using tags
with no disruption to the rest of the system
 Authorization mechanism to control which
users can use which web pages (no
restart, etc.)

9. Advanced Event Management
 Add new properties (fields) to events (alarms)
 Add in-context actions (acknowledge, change
severity, suppress, escalate, etc.) to events
 Integrate events with inventory data
 Add business data
to events from
other sources
(enrichment)

10. Topology Maps
 Flash based network topology maps
 Automatic layouts (hierarchical, circular, etc.)
 In-context launch of maps to show just the relevant
section of the maps
 Support for multiple map
types (layer2, layer3,
services, etc.)
 Can consume map data
from other data sources
(file, database, etc.)

11. Google maps integration
 Store geographic coordinates or address as device properties
 Aggregate devices in same location, and click to see the
device list in the location

12. Visualization
 Tree view and Maps can be used to visualize the
customers, services and their dependencies
 Select an node in the tree to see related info on other
components

13. Ad-hoc monitoring and graphs
 Create and populate time series (rrd) data stores from
groovy scripts easily (uses jrobin)
 Create events when over threshold, etc.

14. Next Steps
 What's missing?
 Tell us what you'd like to see
 Join the project
Project Website: http://www.ifountain.org
Screencasts http://www.ifountain.com/rapidinsight/screencasts
Demo: http://www.ifountain.com/rapidinsight/demo