Univ. of Utah Center for High Performance Computing Using Groundwork

IT Knowledge Exchange’s Megan Santosus has a new article that interviews Tom Ammon of the University of Utah about how the university’s Center for High Performance Computing is using GroundWork Monitor to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux clusters.

GroundWork augmented the university’s use of Nagios, and also integrated with other open source tools, such as Cacti.

Article excerpt:

‘Tom Ammon, a network engineer at the CHPC said that his organization has used GroundWork for nearly two years. The monitoring tool replaced Nagios, an open source network monitoring tool. “Nagios is really powerful and flexible, but it has an arcane syntax and it’s a hassle to configure,” Ammon said. The university’s switch to GroundWork was made with the hopes of reducing the time spent administering the monitoring system.

While GroundWork has been successful in terms of streamlining administration tasks, Ammon said that the tool has also brought greater functionality than he anticipated. “GroundWork is open enough so that we’ve been able to integrate it with a lot of open source packages,” he said.‘