Nagios forked by Icinga, GroundWork’s POV

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Since the recent announcement of the Icinga fork of the Nagios project, a number of customers, community members, analysts, and journalists have asked what this means for GroundWork. As most of you are probably aware, Nagios is an important component of GroundWork Monitor, and one of the many valuable pieces of ...

GroundWork Releases Network Management Suite (NMS) 2.1

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Today GroundWork announced the availability of version 2.1 of its Network Management Suite (NMS). The new version of NMS, a part of the GroundWork Monitor Enterprise family, is composed of four modules including: Network Discovery with NeDi, Traffic Graphing with Cacti, Protocol Analysis with ntop and Network Mapping with Network WeatherMap. ...

Cacti Interview on YouTube

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

As you can see from Peter's blog postings below, GroundWork hosted the Cacti project team at GroundWork HQ for their annual meeting. While here, the Cacti guys were gracious enough to submit to an interview in our cool Cacti-decorated lounge area at LinuxWorld. To learn more about Cacti from the developers themselves, ...

Cacti & Ganglia at the Monitoring SIG Banquet

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

At the GroundWork-hosted Monitoring SIG Banquet, the Ganglia Project Team talked to the Cacti Project Team about about enhancing support for using Cacti as a front end user interface for Ganglia –- very exciting!

Cacti “Project in Residence” At GroundWork Open Source

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

GroundWork Open Source was thrilled to host the Cacti Project Team as “Project in Residence” during LinuxWorld Expo last week: this is the the third year in a row that the Cacti team was here fixing bugs, assessing feature requests, and setting priorities for the direction of Cacti. The ...

Monitoring SIG discussion on 10/10/07 was lively!

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

So, what happened at the October 10 Monitoring SIG? Well, nothing dramatic, really. No divorces of celebrities, marriages of movie stars, or brawls between sysadmins. There were, however, a good group of core participants and a few new faces. A deep discussion was generated by Terry Ewing's presentation of what he ...