OpenNMSBookEnglish The OpenNMS Book in English is located in GIT: ssh://$USER@opennms.git.sourceforge.

net/gitroot/opennms/opennmsbook If you clone this directory you will nd

OpenNMS_Book_English.scriv

Which contains the book. The directory structure underneath is managed by a tool called Scrivener. You do not need Scrivener to help writing the book! All the text content is located in ./OpenNMS_Book_English.scriv/Files/Docs Each Chapter is stored as an individual .rtf in this folder. The text format is RTF, which means that you can edit text in any RTFcapable editor. If you have text in another format, or if you have text of which you dont know where to put, please save it in the ./inbound/ folder. There will be a recent pdf as well for your convenience (which shows the current status of the book).

OpenNMS stands for Open Network Management System. Its Open both because the Software itself is licensed as Open Source under the GNU Public License. A Network as understood by OpenNMS is a number of somehow reachable network elements, called nodes. Its fair to put in the rst bracket at this point already: OpenNMS can in fact manage more than nodes. You can, for example, manage applications. Or whole networks. But as the starting point for the software was the management of network elements, its called Network Management System (rather than anything you can somehow reach and get to tell something about itself Management System (aycsragttsaiMS)).

OpenNMSBookEnglish When it comes to Management we have to clarify straight from the beginning that management is done by people with brains. The role of OpenNMS is to provide information about managed nodes. It does so by receiving information from nodes and by reaching out to them to collect information. Once the information is available to OpenNMS it can apply rules and visualize this information. OpenNMS is organized around events. You will encounter these events as Notications and Alarms in the WebUI (and if you are one of the lucky administrators, by means of personal communication). Besides those visible events, OpenNMS uses events to organize itself: Everything is an event. The different components of OpenNMS, the Daemons, are connected to an event bus. They use this bus to communicate between each other. You can listen in to their conversations if you look into the log of the EventD, the Event Daemon. All these elements together are the system, which is why we call OpenNMS OpenNM-System and not OpenNM-Application. This book is intended both for Users and Administrators of OpenNMS. Users will nd everything they need to know to work with the Web User Interface in the rst part of the book.

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