This is cool IMO: A forum member (Dave Evans) posted detailed instructions on the forums on how to set up Groundwork to send notifications via Asterisk (VOIP). It will:
1) convert the status message into a .wav file,
2) call the appropriate phone number and
3 read the message to the user
A community-contributed ...
Another testimony to the scalability of open source from a big enterprise.
Steve MacQuiddy, Director, Server Farm Operations at Cadence Design Systems sent a pretty cool e-mail to the Ganglia Developers e-mail list the other day.
Cadence uses a combination of the open source projects Ganglia, Nagios, and Cacti via GroundWork Monitor ...
Ethan Galstad, Nagios®* Project Lead, has posted a soundfile with him pronouncing "nagios":
http://www.nagioscommunity.org/2007/02/20/nagios-pronunciation/
That's the way I've always heard it pronounced here at GroundWork.
*Nagios is a registered trademark of Ethan Galstad.
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
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 ...
January '07 Monitoring SIG: Ganglia to Nagios: Bridging the Gap
Ganglia Project Lead Matt Massie will be on hand to share how he's seeing Ganglia being used and what new functionality he envisions. Peter Loh and Mayank Patel from GroundWork will show how to unify the best features of Nagios ...
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