Open Source User Interface For Nagios

Emeryville, CA — August 8, 2005 — GroundWork Open Source Solutions, Inc, a leader in open source IT management solutions, announced today at LinuxWorld the availability of GroundWork Status Viewer, a fast, scalable open source interface tool designed to improve the visualization and manageability of monitoring data from Nagios, a popular open source IT monitoring tool. GroundWork Status Viewer is the company's second open source project after GroundWork Monitor Architect, a configuration tool for Nagios launched in June. GroundWork develops, integrates and enhances best-of-breed open source software to deliver comprehensive open source IT monitoring solutions that improve IT infrastructure availability and performance--at a fraction of the cost of commercial software.

"GroundWork Status Viewer provides substantial enhancements to the robust capabilities of Nagios," said Ranga Rangachari, CEO of GroundWork. "With GroundWork Status Viewer, the thousands of companies that rely on Nagios for IT monitoring now have a highly configurable and scalable user interface."

Nagios and Nagios add-ons have had more than 700,000 downloads since 2001. Until now, Nagios users have been limited to an interface that provides only limited views into monitoring data, and that cannot easily scale to display the status over very large networks. GroundWork Status Viewer complements GroundWork Monitor Architect (Monarch), GroundWork's first open source tool designed to ease the configuration of Nagios.

"After testing GroundWork Status Viewer, we now anticipate deploying it into our production environment of nearly 1,700 hosts and 2,300 managed services," said Craig A. Hancock, a Monitoring Technician at Brigham Young University's Operations Center. "GroundWork Status Viewer offers a much more scalable front end for Nagios, giving everyone from our engineers to upper-management a simple and unified view of our network."

New Views Into the IT Infrastructure

With GroundWork Status Viewer's interface, Nagios users now have access to a number of critical views into their company's IT infrastructure. NetView offers a high level view into the overall network infrastructure so users can see aggregated status of all services, applications, servers, networks and end user performance as they near warning and breach thresholds. TroubleView gives users both at-a-glance and drill-down views into all the hosts and services that require immediate attention. And FilterView gives users the ability to define criteria for custom status views on groups of monitored devices or services.

These features give Nagios users more visibility and control over their IT infrastructure, and faster access to information about problems in the network. For companies with large networks of over 500 managed devices, GroundWork Status Viewer transforms Nagios into a scalable, enterprise monitoring system.

Built on Open Source Technology

GroundWork Status Viewer relies on GroundWork-developed technology that extracts, normalizes and stores monitoring status data in a separate MySQL database, and makes the data available via an application programming interface (API). The interface itself is written using PHP, a widely used open source scripting language, resulting in much higher performance than is possible with Nagios' current interface built using Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts.

Licensing and Availability

GroundWork Status Viewer is currently available under the GPL open source software license at GroundWork's Web site and at SourceForge.

About GroundWork Open Source Solutions

GroundWork Open Source Solutions, Inc. (www.groundworkopensource.com) develops, integrates and enhances leading open source software to deliver comprehensive open source IT monitoring solutions. With GroundWork solutions, enterprises leverage the flexibility and low cost of open source tools to achieve enterprise-level availability, performance and operational efficiency at a fraction of the cost of commercial software. GroundWork is based in Emeryville, Calif. and its investors include Mayfield and Canaan Partners.