One of the lists that I read, and occasionally post to, is asterisk-dev. I usually don’t have time to follow the discussion closely, but this morning Russell posted (and blogged) about the possibility of the Asterisk project getting involved with Google’s Summer of Code this year. Russell solicited input from the list on projects that people would be interested to see worked on and, more importantly, willing to mentor. The OpenNMS project (which my employer sponsors and helps maintain) was a mentoring organization in the 2008 GSoC, so I sat up and paid attention.
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Geeky, OpenNMS, Software, VoIP
Asterisk, community, diaf, digium, ecosystem, foad, OpenNMS, opensource, stewardship, troll
This lovely turd is courtesy of NexTone Communications (Update: whose newer MIBs are much better — see Scott’s second comment below). I have personally never seen a worse MIB in my life — it consists of a single OID that is just a string and is used by the solitary generalTrap to convey who-knows-what when some unknown thing happens.
Update: NexTone’s more recent MIBs are much better written and convey much more useful and deterministic information. If you’re selecting a vendor based on SNMP support, and NexTone is in the running, I’d say that NexTone looks pretty good now. I’d still like to see more than just traps, but as trap-only MIBs go, the new ones aren’t bad at all. See Scott’s second comment below.
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Geeky, Rants, SNMP, VoIP
A large customer with exacting standards has seen some voice quality problems lately. The WAN guys set up a pair of IP SLA VoIP Jitter tests on the routers at either end of one of the customer’s critical links, and I spent a weekend hacking away at OpenNMS collection groups and graph definitions so that we can do historical reporting and, ultimately, thresholding on the stats. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was, all thanks to the new “resource types”, (support for generic indexed tables) in the 1.3.2 release. I blame DJ for my having any time to relax this week, since he did the bulk (all?) of the resourceType work.
Here’s the write-up on what’s needed (no code changes, w00t!) as well as some eye candy.
Update: This work is included in OpenNMS releases since 1.3.6.
Cisco, Geeky, OpenNMS, QoS, SNMP, Software, VoIP
