Network Monitoring Tools

SAN FRANCISCO—September 30, 2009—MonitoringForge (www.MonitoringForge.org), the epicenter of all open source projects that relate to IT monitoring, announces its 1,000th registered member in the first six days after the public launch of the beta Web site. In addition to its expanding membership base, the community is now invited to participate in the largest publicly contributed documentation project, focused around the deployment and enhancement of open source monitoring tools. This project is appropriately dubbed “WTFMM” for Write The Flippin’ Monitoring Manual, and is located within MonitoringForge’s wiki: http://monitoringforge.org/plugins/mwiki/index.php/Www

Since the launch, MonitoringForge has added several hundred new projects and plugins, bringing the total projects to more than 1,900. According to site traffic, WMI agentless plugins has been the most active project.

“We are excited about MonitoringForge’s open invitation to members for participation in the largest, living, how-to-guide covering any monitoring tool available,” said Tara Spalding, vice president of Marketing for GroundWork Open Source (GWOS, www.gwos.com). “With the rapid congregation of members from various backgrounds and preferences, we know the contributed documentation will be detailed, expansive and accurate, further helping the members contrast and compare solutions.”

To participate, visit http://monitoringforge.org/account/register.php and register as a member. Once logged in, you can contribute copy or link to external areas that contain knowledge information about the following topics:

• How to use popular monitoring tools such as Zenoss, Hyperic, GroundWork Monitor, MRTG, Nagios®* and more
• How to integrate monitoring tools with Puppet or Splunk
• How to develop plugins on different platforms such as Zenoss, Nagios and Hyperic
• How to build and customize platforms such as GroundWork Monitor and others

MonitoringForge Beta September Statistics:

• Members: 1,200
• Total Active Projects and Plugins: 1,982
• Top Most Visited Projects: WMI agentless Plugins, Opsview, NagVis, GroundWork Monitor Architect, Zenoss Core
• Top Most Active Projects: WMI agentless Plugins, GroundWork Monitor Community Edition, RedHat-Nagios-Plugins, Lighttpd Gmetric Script, Zenoss Core
• Top 5 Releases by Download Count: check_cpu.sh 2, Check Oracle status & health without, check_xen 2, Business Objects XI r2/3, check_mssql_sproc

MonitoringForge is designed to appeal to IT administrators who want to compare and understand the differences between various open source monitoring tools and plugins available today, facilitating the selection of open source monitoring software over proprietary offerings.

MonitoringForge also provides the opportunity for system integrators and VARs who have experience with open source monitoring to show their knowledge and share theirexperiences with the community by participating in the open documents and connecting with the members.

About MonitoringForge.org

MonitoringForge.org (www.monitoringforge.org) is the epicenter of all open source projects that relate to IT monitoring. Any participant, project or company is welcome to contribute to the MonitoringForge community. As the first website to provide a common community for core developers of IT monitoring, MonitoringForge believes users can inspire an open standard and cross platform integration, so that network and systems monitoring tools becomes more efficient and less expensive.

* Nagios is a registered trademark of Nagios Enterprises