Development Documentation

This is a list of available documentation for Opsview. This list is currently under construction and the layout will be changed over time.

Access to the source

Opsview source code is stored in an svn repository at http://svn.opsview.org. To obtain the source use

cd $HOME
mkdir svnroot
cd svnroot
svn co http://svn.opview.org/opsview/trunk

All code commits are emailed to the list opsview-checkins while development discussion is done on the mailing list opsview-devel

Basic Information

• The four parts to Opsview
• Setting up a development server

Development Guidelines

• Submitting patches
• Style Guide
• Validating data

Specific Tasks

• ConfigGeneration
• Localisation
• API
• versioning
• DBIxClassModels
• DatabaseVersioning
• ODW
• Security
• ClusterNodes
• RuntimeDB
• ConfigurationControllers
• WebAuthentication
• TabbedInterface
• NagiosCGIs
• Troubleshooting
• OpsviewPlugins
• WritingViewportTemplates
• UpdatingInitialConfigurationDatabase

Packaging

• Rebuilding RHEL/CentOS packages
• Rebuilding Debian/Ubuntu packages

Porting

• Solaris Builds
• Porting

Limitations

• Slave Playback

External documentation

For software that is used as part of Opsview

• overlib - for drop down menus