On 6/21/2010 10:01 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>
>> Did you consider opennms - and if so was there a reason for not using
>> it? It has some integration for provisioning, but I'm not exactly sure
>> how it works and the latest release made some changes.
>
> its on the list of things I want to get to one day, not quite there yet.
> Although, higher on the list at the moment is the whole flapjack stack
> and how it integrates with cucumber!
I didn't know about that, but the first googled hit says you are
supposed to be able to write reusable tests in a human-readable language
which sounds way too unrealistic to ever work. And I want a tool that
understands network equipment natively, not just it's own clients on
only the hardware/OS's where you are able to run them.
I can understand putting off testing OpenNMS back in the day when you
had to get your own Sun JVM which was particularly painful on CentOS,
but it has been bundled in the yum repo for a while now. And maybe
someday enough bugs will be shaken out of the version of openjdk in
Centos that it won't be needed...
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