New GroundWork Monitor 5.3 Community Edition VMware Appliance

GroundWork is excited to announce that the recently released GroundWork Monitor 5.3 Community Edition is now available as a VMware Virtual Appliance. The is a perfect opportunity for new users to try out the latest version of GroundWork Monitor Community Edition without the hassle of configuring a dedicated machine.

Why the GroundWork Monitor Community Edition 5.3 VMware instance? Compared to the earlier version of the virtual appliance, users get:

• Increased Scalability: Approximately 50% increase in out-of-the-box box throughput compared to GroundWork Monitor 5.2
• Nagios 3 Support: GroundWork Monitor Community Edition 5.3 now includes Nagios 3 built-in.
• Updated Open Source Packages: GroundWork Monitor 5.3 includes updates to key Open Source projects including, RRDTool, MySQL, BIRT and PHP. These updates add functional improvements and bug fixes and security improvements as part of our ongoing security improvement process.
• Network Service Notification: The new Network Service feature provides alerts about software updates and patches directly to administrators within the GroundWork Monitor interface.

And there’s more: check out the complete range of GroundWork Monitor Community Edition features.