I was listening to a recent IT Management Guys podcast and Tarus Balog mentioned that the upcoming OpenNMS 1.6 would include TL-1 (Transaction Language 1) support. My jaw hit the ground (floor of the airplane).
An open source, free software solution for TL-1! I seem to recall the MUSE acquisition of Lumos Technologies was pretty significant as a key vehicle for integrating eventing/messaging from telco environments. In turn, these “probes” were sold for $$$$$$$ within large telco environments to bring in information from Class 4/5 Switches, DACS, SONET ADMs, etc. Not sure if this is a big seller for us or not still, but it was at one time.
I pinged Jeff Gehlbach and he confirmed this news and pointed out their focus on support for autonomous messages, turning them into openNMS events. He mentioned these would also be easy to relay as traps. They’re looking for test gear to continue to develop and improve their TL-1 support (obviously a challenge to find or get access to). Ping Jeff here if you’ve got any leads.
If OpenNMS is able to execute here and provide this capability, their position is likely to grow as a solid open source/free software alternative in service provider environments. They’re already winning and displacing incumbent Netcool installations in Italian service providers.
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And I should say that I pooched both “Telephony Language 1” and “Abstract Symbolic Notation” in that podcast. The correct terms are Transaction Language 1 (as you state) and Abstract Syntax Notation.
(sigh)
Thanks to our friends at Hitachi for helping us with this work. They provided the TL/1 events for us to use to implement the new feature.