Ganglia

San Francisco, Calif.—October 24, 2007— GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (www.groundworkopensource.com), the leader in open source systems and network management software, and the Ganglia Project have announced the release of a Ganglia integration module that enables GroundWork Monitor's visualization, notification, and configuration tools to be used with data generated by the Ganglia system. "The Ganglia-to-GroundWork Integration Module enables a rich set of added functionality to standalone Ganglia," said Matt Massie, Ganglia project lead and principal architect. "The ability to combine data from Ganglia with data from other monitoring tools is a tremendous boon to IT staff everywhere."

The Ganglia-to-GroundWork Integration Module allows Ganglia, an IT monitoring system for large clusters and grids, to integrate and interface easily with the output of Nagios, RRDtool, Cacti and other popular open source tools through GroundWork Monitor. With a unique threshold management utility that essentially creates a Ganglia event stream, the new module contains all the elements to feed Ganglia events into the operator views, dashboards, reports, notifications, and configuration tools of GroundWork Monitor.

"Keeping to our commitment to unify open source IT monitoring tools into a comprehensive package, the Ganglia-to-Groundwork Integration Module fills an enormous need," said Peter Mui, GroundWork's community director. "As even pedestrian IT deployments grow larger, scalability is becoming more of an issue. Because it hails from a grid-and-cluster environment, Ganglia provides the headroom to scale as the number of nodes being managed increases."

As with GroundWork Open Source's entire suite of open source plugins and add-ons, support for installation, configuration, and deployment are available through the community forums at http://www.groundworkopensource.com/community/forums/, and through Ganglia's mailing lists at http://www.ganglia.info/. For those requesting it, GroundWork Open Source also offers subscription-based, paid support available by emailing [email protected].

The Ganglia-to-GroundWork Integration Module is available for download at http://www.groundworkopensource.com/products/components/ganglia.html.

About Ganglia

Ganglia is an open-source monitoring system that grew out of research at the University of California, Berkeley to monitor large-scale computing environments such as clusters and grids. Designed from the ground up for scalability and interoperability, Ganglia has evolved to be appropriate for many small-and-mid sized sites as well, and is in active use by hundreds of corporations, academic institutions, and research facilities world-wide.

About GroundWork

San Francisco-based GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (http://www.groundworkopensource.com) is the fastest growing provider of open source network and systems management software, delivering enterprise-class IT management solutions that offer unprecedented network, system and application availability at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions. An integral part of GroundWork’s “Just Right IT management” philosophy is to ensure that its software and services seamlessly integrate with a customer’s management solutions – thus preserving their existing investment while simultaneously providing value. GroundWork’s solutions are in use at organizations like AOL, SAIC, Seton Hall University, Siemens, and World Bank. GroundWork’s solutions are available from GroundWork, its partners including Redhat, Unisys, Fujitsu, and a worldwide network of channel partners. The company is privately held, with investments from Canaan Partners, Mayfield Fund, JAFCO Ventures and SAP Ventures.

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