Open Source Network Monitoring
GroundWork Integrates Powerful Open Source
Network Monitoring Technologies at Interop
INTEROP, Las Vegas, NV—May 2, 2006— GroundWork, the leader in open source-based IT operations management, today debuted the integration of additional open source monitoring technologies with its flagship GroundWork Monitor Professional product. With the responsibility of monitoring large mission critical infrastructures as well as InteropNet's extreme interoperability requirements, Interop servesas the ultimate proof-of-concept venue for GroundWork's open source network management system.
GroundWork Monitor Professional is a fully-integrated IT infrastructure and network monitoring solution that is built on top of best-of-breed, open source systems and network monitoring and management tools. GroundWork Monitor Professional provides all the framework and stability required for mid-sized companies and enterprise-line-of-business customers at a fraction of the cost of traditional offerings.
As the official "Open Source Network Monitoring" provider for this year's InteropNet, the event network for Interop Las Vegas 2006, GroundWork is showcasing the power of their network management system and ease of integrating additional open source networking tools including Network Weathermap, NTOP (Network Top), MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher), RRDtool (Round Robin Database), Cacti, and NeDi (Network Discovery). These tools interoperate with other open source network tools and protocols supported by GroundWork Monitor Professional -- such as ARP, Netstat, Route, Telnet and SSH -- and together provide a comprehensive network management system.
"Open source is disrupting the economics of IT operations management tools," said Ranga Rangachari, CEO of GroundWork. "With GroundWork Monitor Professional, companies can access these open source technologies in a plug-and-play architecture that makes the installation and configuration easier than it is for most off-the-shelf proprietary monitoring solutions. You no longer have to be a technical whiz in open source to enjoy the innovation that's being driven by the community. And the cost savings are tremendous."
- Network Weathermap (http://netmon.grnet.gr/weathermap/) is an open source technology that provides outstanding visual representations of the network and where usage patterns are occurring.
- NTOP (http://www.ntop.org/) is an open source protocol analyzer that watches packets go by on the network, describes what individual users are running, and makes it easy for network professionals to display this information on a web browser.
- MRTG (http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/index.en.html) is an open source network SNMP collector.
- RRDtool (http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/index.en.html) is an open source report generation tool.
- Cacti (http://www.cacti.net/) is an open source discovery tool that excels at extracting values out of RRD databases with SNMP, and allows organizations to present information in their own defined way, leveraging a very user-friendly GUI.
- NeDI (http://nedi.sourceforge.net/about.html) is an open source network discovery and configuration tool which provides network topology discovery and backup / restore of network node configurations.
"People describe open source innovation as a new phenomenon in networking, but really it's been in the deep engineering parts of the network for a very long time," said Harper Mann, Senior Technical Engineer at GroundWork. "By providing an integrated and extensible platform that takes care of all the heavy lifting usually associated with open source installation, configuration and management, GroundWork is allowing organizations to tap directly into the power of open source, with all the enterprise-class performance and functionality that they would expect of an expensive proprietary solution."
More than 125 customers today use GroundWork as their IT operations management platform, taking advantage of the latest open source innovations in a framework architected specifically for mid-market and enterprise line-of-business customers.
About GroundWork
San Francisco-based GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (www.groundworkopensource.com) is the leader in the fast-growth market for open source IT operations management software. The company integrates, enhances and develops leading open source software to deliver comprehensive IT monitoring solutions at a fraction of the cost of traditional software. With GroundWork solutions, enterprises leverage the flexibility and low cost of open source tools to achieve enterprise-level availability, performance and operational efficiency. GroundWork customers represent a variety of industries, including manufacturing, government, financial services, education, and high technology. The company is privately held, with investments from Mayfield and Canaan Partners.
