In This Issue:

Monitor Your Windows Network More Effectively

• May special—50% off subscription to Windows Child Server
• Attend 5/16 Toolbox session: Tips on Windows Child Server with WMI discover

GroundWork Open Source Blog

• Follow @GroundWork on Twitter
• Sign-up for blog updates

GroundWork Community

• Where is your monitor deployed? Post it on our community map
• Available May training classes

Participate

• Industry research on IT management—participate in survey to win
• Introduction to GroundWork Monitor with RedMonk
• 5/28: Sponsors of Educause Enterprise 2008—Chicago, IL

Monitor Your Windows Network More Effectively

Open standards and interoperability are paramount in an increasingly heterogeneous systems management space. Monitor your Windows network more effectively using GroundWork Monitor Enterprise with Windows Child Servers.

SPECIAL OFFER: 50% off subscription of a Windows Child server if ordered by May 31, 2008.

Learn more about the Windows Child Server now.

GW Connect Toolbox Session:

Tips and Tricks on Windows Child Server with WMI discovery

Understand how to set up Windows monitoring without installing agents or plugins directly on the Windows devices. Also learn about the increased polling capacity and native Windows auto discovery capabilities achieved by deploying a Windows Child server.

Attend the live 30 minute webcast on Friday, May 16th and be able to get your questions answered. The archive will be available shortly afterwards.

Click here to register.

The GroundWork Blog is Back

Keep up with GroundWork Open Source activities by reading our blog. Just updated content includes screencasts, survey links, technical tips & tricks and open source projects in residence.

• Read more here.
• Follow @GroundWork on Twitter.

Where is Your Monitor Deployed?

Where is your GroundWork Monitor deployed? Thank you Google for this fun interactive mashup. Add your location and deployment information for a GroundWork across the globe view.

Available GroundWork University Course

Get more information on any of the posted course dates here.

5/5, 5/9, 5/30

Online four hour course—Getting Started with GroundWork Monitor ($49 per student)

5/6-5/8

Online three day course—System Administrator Course

5/13-5/15

San Francisco, CA—System Administrator Course

Survey: Benchmarking Today’s IT Monitoring Expectations

GroundWork Open Source would like your help in understanding your IT monitoring expectations and how you use GroundWork Monitor.

We have launched an survey that takes about 15 minutes to complete which captures your monitoring utilization. To thank you for your opinions and time, you will be entered to win one of many prizes (up to $200 in Amazon gift certificates or a GroundWork training session).

Click here to complete the survey.

Webcast: GroundWork Monitor 5.2 Screencast on RedMonk

Michael Cote from RedMonk, Rich Trezza and David Dennis from GroundWork Open Source do a 3 part webcast series that goes through the basics of IT monitoring and what’s new in 5.2. It’s a great screencast that shares an analyst perspective on a product demo.

View screencast now.

In Chicago on 5/28? Attend Educause Enterprise 2008

GroundWork Open Source is a proud sponsor of Educause Enterprise 2008. The key panel is headed by Andrea Di Maio, VP Distinguished Analyst from Gartner Inc. on the topic of “Community Source Software: Beginning of the End or End of the Beginning?”

Email us if you are interested in attending the event.