OpenNMS Reporting - Enhancement
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User Conference Europe 2009 OpenNMS Reporting-Enhancements Ronny Trommer Development and Consultant irc-nick: _indigo
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OpenNMSReporting-Enhancements
Ronny Trommer Development and Consultant
irc-nick: _indigo
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Introduction
• Status quo reporting
• Why a reporting engine?
• How does it work?
• Realworld examples
• Alternatives
• Conclusion and perspectives
• Resources - Q&A
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Status quo reporting
• A lot of data in OpenNMS
• Performancedata in RRD/JRB-Flatfiles
• Nodes, events, alarms, notifications, outages, thresholds, assetsstored in SQL-Database
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Status quo reporting
• Performancedata
• KSC Reports
• Customized Resource Graphs
• Statistics Reports
• Outages
• Availability Reporting
• SLA-Reporting
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Status quo reporting
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Why a reporting engine?
• Easier customized availability reports
• Providing scheduling, history, mail
• Easier deployment and maintaining
• Easier to keep OpenNMS up-to-date
• A lot of use cases in the realworld
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Why a reporting engine?
• Good tools - Rich Client Application
• Playing within boundaries
• Build and maintain report-packages
• It´s easy to deploy reports to customer
• Report other applications with SQL(OTRS, RT, CMDBs ...)
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How does it work?
• We use JasperServer with iReport(Hybrid license model Shareware/OpenCore)
• We use JasperServer community edition (GNU Public License)
• We use JasperServer Webservice API
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How does it work?
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How does it work?
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How does it work?
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Practical Example
• Show me ... in OpenNMS
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Alternatives
• OpenReports
• BIRT
• Pentaho
• ...
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Conclusion and perspectives
• It´s the entering wedge
• It would be nice to put the basic reporting stuff to the OpenNMS webapplication
• Provide a platform for reporting
• Create report-packages in the community
• Cool stuff for reporting in the pipelineWMI-Support, RANCID, Inventory scanner
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Resources - Q&A
• OpenNMS Wiki - Integration
• Bugzilla sourcepatch for 1.6.2
• JasperServer 3.0 Web-Services guide
• OpenNMS SVN - feature-jasper
• OpenNMS Mailinglist
• IRC: irc://irc.freenode.org/#opennms
