Originally Posted in InfoWorld Open Sources:
On Open Source IT Systems Management - Q&A with Nora Denzel (formerly of HP OpenView fame)
I recently had a chance to chat with Nora Denzel, former Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Software Global Business Unit of Hewlett Packard, to talk shop about ...
As our monitoring SIG on Nagios and Ganglia was starting, Back Bay LISA in Boston was wrapping up a Nagios and SEC (Simple Event Correlator) presentation. The notes to their meeting are here:
<a title="http://www.bblisa.org/pipermail/bblisa/2007-January/001116.html" href="http://www.bblisa.org/pipermail/bblisa/2007-January/001116.html">http://www.bblisa.org/pipermail/bblisa/2007-January/001116.html</a>
Lots of great info about configuring Nagios and upcoming features in Nagios 3.
And the slides from ...
The Network Security Toolkit people include Groundwork Fruity in their toolkit. Funny: we don't think of monitoring as a security function, at least in the traditional sense, and have never considered positioning our open source monitoring products that way. Should we?
http://www.networksecuritytoolkit.org/nst/index.html
From their site:
"The main intent of developing this ...
Jennifer Davis at BayLISA has posted these to the BayLISA site at:
http://www.baylisa.info/?q=node/110
Is this a good place for them to be? Do people think they can comment on and interact with them, or does the resource have to be more dynamic?
In the meantime, here they are here too:
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Thomas Stocking's SIG ...
Our CEO, Ranga Rangachari, made me aware of the following web page where Stanford Linear Accelerator lists the IT Monitoring (mostly, Network Monitoring) tools they use. It's a great summary page for anyone looking to get a start in this area, but I don't see any evaluation or assessment:
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf-tools.html ...
Here's a great Ganglia How-To Wiki put together by Nigel Griffiths at IBM in the UK:
http://www-941.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WiKiPtype/ganglia
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