Free and Enterprise Network Monitoring Software

July 23, 2008 – 1:42 pm by David Dennis

Another review of GroundWork Monitor Community Edition, this time at Bauer-Power.

Article excerpt:

There are a lot of Network Monitoring tools out there and some of them are pretty good. Other not so good. The one that seems to offer the most power and ease of use is GroundWork.

They offer Free, Pro and Enterprise levels of Network Monitoring solutions. Even the free one they’ll give you a one time full support ticket and community forum support. Most other free sources either have no support or just forum support. Even the free version has an Unlimited number of monitoring Nodes. They even have a Community Edition VMWare Instance and a GroundWork Monitor Bootable ISO. It runs on a Linux environment so for a small shop you can set it up quick, easy and all Free!

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TechWorld Reviews GroundWork Monitor Virtual Appliance

July 18, 2008 – 12:00 pm by David Dennis

Mark Gibbs, also of Network World, has posted a mini-review of the GroundWork Monitor community edition virtual appliance on TechWorld.

Article excerpt:

Bottom line: Groundwork Monitor Community Edition (particularly in its virtual appliance form) is a powerful, flexible and comprehensive network monitoring and management solution. Definitely worth a serious look if you’re running a serious network.

You can get a copy of the reviewed virtual appliance here.

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Integrating a Wiki with GroundWork Monitor

July 17, 2008 – 2:04 pm by David Dennis

Once again, Xavier at rootshell.be has written another interesting article on projects that can be integrated with GroundWork Monitor. This time, he follows up his earlier work on WeatherMap integration with a piece about how to integrate a Wiki with GroundWork Monitor.

To quote Xavier:

Added to a monitoring tool, a Wiki can provide a valuable knowledge base:

  • Information about hosts and services: location, owner, config, installed base, support contract number
  • Emergency procedures: how to restart the system, what action to take in case of incidents
  • History of changes and maintenance

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Optimizing .gov IT Monitoring Webcast - July 17

July 10, 2008 – 5:56 pm by Tara Spalding

Join Carahsoft and GroundWork Open Source on Thursday, July 17th 11am PT/ 2pm ET during a complimentary, one-hour live webcast about Systems And Network Monitoring for government organizations. The GroundWork experts will highlight best practices, tips and tools utilized in Federal and Local governments.

Click here to register.

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GroundWork Named a 2008 CRN Emerging Tech Vendor

July 2, 2008 – 10:57 am by David Dennis

CRN Channel Web has named its 2008 CRN Emerging Technology Vendors, and GroundWork is proud to be among them.

Vendors who make the CRN Emerging Tech list must have an established solution provider program and formal guidelines for recruiting channel partners. They must demonstrate that its direct sales mix is trending down as evidenced by the company’s revenue history, a channel positive or channel neutral strategy for internal sales compensation, and not be a dominant market share player. Final selection to the Emerging Technology list was made at the discretion of the CRN editorial team after a review of the submitted information and conversations with current or targeted partners.

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CNET’s Matt Asay Interviews GroundWork CEO Dave Lilly

July 1, 2008 – 3:32 pm by David Dennis

Live today: Matt Asay of CNET and Alfresco fame interviews Dave Lilly in his blog, The Open Road.

Dave gives an update on recent happenings at GroundWork Open Source, as well as shares some of his thoughts on GroundWork’s amalgamation strategy.

Article excerpt:

“In the same way that Red Hat integrates the Linux kernel and more than 500 open-source components to deliver Red Hat Enterprise Linux, GroundWork packages, integrates, and documents more than 80 best-of-breed open-source network and systems management projects. This gives our customers the most tested, reliable and best performing IT operations management solution. The benefits of this approach to our customers is accelerated by enabling both community and commercial technology partners to build products and services as part of the amalgamation.”

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