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As a long time OpenNMS user I've been often impressed with its extensibility and the completeness of its feature set. There is support for lots of data collection techniques: from the old school snmp exec extensions, to the http poller, from the JDBC poller to the XML poller and many others  that I probably forgot to mention. Supporting new probes is therefore just a matter of how,  not  if  , it can be done. And with new monitoring tools popping up every day this is clearly good as it allows OpenNMS to keep up with the competition. So the present looks bright, but what about the future? With OpenNMS 2.0 not yet on the radar I thought I could put together a list of features I would love to have. What do you think of them?

QNAP devices have snmp support out-of-the-box, unfortunately the agent they ship with is almost unusable. At first it seems it supports lots of cool features (like fans, temperature, smart, etc) but if you take a little time to dig deeper you will notice that almost all key entries are, what?!, octetString s. Capacity reported as a String, QNAP what were you thinking? So good luck estimating disk usage when it is reported as a string: '1.8TB'  (I quote exactly as it is shown by mibbrowser) . Without wasting any more of your (and mine) time let's fix that by installing the Optware QPKG and then installing net-snmp from the ipkg web console. The whole process is traightforward, just make sure to have a recent firmware: log in to the QNAP admin web interface open Applications servers and then select QPKG Center from the Available tab install Optware and the enable it from the Installed tab now access the Optware web interface and search for net-snmp, then click th...