OpenNMS Reporting Enhancement

Presentation on the first OpenNMS User Conference in Frankfurt about JasperReporting enhancement in OpenNMS

Transcript

1. User Conference Europe 2009 OpenNMS Reporting-Enhancements Ronny Trommer Development and Consultant irc-nick: _indigo
2. User Conference Europe 2009 Introduction • Status quo reporting • Why a reporting engine? • How does it work? • Realworld examples • Alternatives • Conclusion and perspectives • Resources - Q&A
3. User Conference Europe 2009 Status quo reporting • A lot of data in OpenNMS • Performancedata in RRD/JRB-Flatfiles • Nodes, events, alarms, notifications, outages, thresholds, assets stored in SQL-Database
4. User Conference Europe 2009 Status quo reporting • Performancedata • KSC Reports • Customized Resource Graphs • Statistics Reports • Outages • Availability Reporting • SLA-Reporting
5. User Conference Europe 2009 Status quo reporting
6. User Conference Europe 2009 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
7. User Conference Europe 2009 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 ...)
8. User Conference Europe 2009 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
9. User Conference Europe 2009 How does it work?
10. User Conference Europe 2009 How does it work?
11. User Conference Europe 2009 How does it work?
12. User Conference Europe 2009 Practical Example • Show me ... in OpenNMS
13. User Conference Europe 2009 Alternatives • OpenReports • BIRT • Pentaho • ...
14. User Conference Europe 2009 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 pipeline WMI-Support, RANCID, Inventory scanner
15. User Conference Europe 2009 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