[rt-users] Google Summer of Code

[Les Mikesell]

Tomasz Wlodek wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>> Jesse Vincent wrote:
>>> I'd love to submit RT to Google's Summer of Code this summer.  It's 
>>> probably time to start brainstorming projects.
>>>
>>> What would you like to do/see done as part of a RT summer of code 
>>> project?
>>
>> It might take more than a summer, depending on how close-coupled you 
>> try to make it, but I'd love to see a connection between RT and 
>> opennms (http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Main_Page) so that network 
>> problems could open RT tickets automatically (that could probably be 
>> done by email now), and from the ticket you would have a link to the 
>> opennms node and asset info and history. One complication would be how 
>> to do this in a way that would still make sense if you delete network 
>> nodes or start over again with a new opennms database.   A link to a 
>> twiki page using some convention for naming would be nice too.
> 
> We have started on working on such system, but instaed of opennms we are 
> integrating RT-AT-Nagios.

If you haven't looked at opennms recently, it is evolving very rapidly. 
   Can you, for example, have Nagios automatically discover your UPS and 
maintain graphs of line and battery power?  Build maps automatically? 
Discover the devices connected to each port of your switches?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com