Enterprise Open Source

GroundWork Open Source combines the most mature and successful open source projects available today into a single package. These amalgamated projects have been downloaded over the last decade more than 4 million times and have a strong codebase and a strong community behind them.

Combining these projects into a single package that is integrated and commercially supported gives you a simplified deployment experience, a single console for managing and monitoring, and a comprehensive view of your IT operations at a low cost.

GroundWork amalgamates and supports established, mature projects in this solution including:

Nagios® - for event handling and notification

SNMP and SNMP–TT - for network management protocol

RRDtool - for underlying data collection and management

JBoss Portal - for portal management

ICEfaces - for user interface controls

MySQL - for data storage

BIRT(1) - for ad–hoc reporting

Ganglia(2) - for grid and cluster monitoring

Cacti(3) - for graphing and trending

GroundWork Monitor has two editions: Enterprise Edition and Community Edition. All editions are based on core codebase so moving from one edition to anther is straightforward.

(1) Included in Enterprise Edition
(2) Add-on to Enterprise Edition for cluster monitoring
(3) Part of the Network Management Suite add-on to Enterprise Edition.

* Nagios is a registered trademark of Nagios Enterprises