I work for GroundWork Open Source. At a recent company meeting, our CEO Ranga Rangachari gave an analogy regarding open source that was unique, a little humorous, but right on the mark...
"One could argue that hippos are a useful metaphor for large, ungainly, incumbent, legacy, monolithic proprietary software vendors.
There ...
Now that GroundWork has a full complement of GroundWork Monitor Open Source (GWMOS) versions to download from SourceForge, the question becomes: "Which version of GroundWork for me?" This document reviews the various incarnations of GWMOS and how choose among them.
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GroundWork Monitor Open Source is available four ways:
1) Bootable ISO
2) ...
In addition to:
1) the updated Red Hat / CentOS rpm,
2) the new SuSE 9 and SuSE 10 rpms, and
3) the updated bootable ISO,
a new VMWare edition, also based on GWMOS 5.0.5, is now downloadable from SourceForge at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=160654
It's a LARGE download (>700MB) but if you're looking to monitor through a VMWare ...
This article does a great job (IMO) of explaining SNMP to a newbie:
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsysm/article.php/3660916
Wish I'd had this when I started working here, the descriptions of acronyms are particularly useful. Looks like a series: the author writes: " In future articles we'll dig into how to use SNMP with Linux-based network management ...
Taylor Dondich, one of our developers and the Project Lead for Fruity, Guava, and Status Viewer, was interviewed and gives some insights into effective use of Nagios:
http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1232888,00.html?track=sy520
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