GroundWork Monitor 5.3

GroundWork Monitor 5.3 delivers a better monitoring experience from deployment to reporting to help you better manage your systems.

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Increased scalability

GroundWork Monitor 5.3 greatly increases the capacity of a single GroundWork server. In lab testing we measured an approximately 50% increase in the out–of–the–box throughput. In larger distributed environments further increases were measured. This improved scalability was achieved by adopting the improvements in the Nagios® 3 release, numerous performance code fixes and tuning the default configuration of GroundWork Monitor 5.3 to match the needs of larger deployments.

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Improved Packaging and Installation

Release 5.3 greatly simplifies the installation of GroundWork Monitor on a new Linux server. All software prerequisites are now included in a single, Linux distribution agnostic download. When a graphical environment is available the wizard–based installation process walks through the installation and initial configuration process. Console–mode and unattended installations are also supported.

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Updated Open Source Packages

GroundWork Monitor 5.3 includes updates to key Open Source projects including, Nagios, RRDtool, MySQL, BIRT and PHP. These updates add functional improvements and bug fixes and security improvements as part of our ongoing security improvement process.

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Network Service Notifications

The new Network Service feature provides alerts about software updates and patches directly to administrators within the GroundWork Monitor interface. This offering alongside our support portal and knowledge base ensures maximum value from your GroundWork subscription.

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New Top 5 and Performance Reports

Professional and Enterprise subscribers now have new advanced reports for top 5 performance reporting and performance trend reporting. These reports are designed to enable proactive maintenance of IT infrastructure by summarizing performance trends in an easy to read format.

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Updated plug-ins and profiles

Numerous bug fixes to bundled plug-ins and profiles including SNMP checks, VMware ESX, SAR, NTP and MySQL.

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Event Console

The Event Console now supports filtering by service groups, enabling specialists to create a view that shows only the events that apply to them. Service groups can be created using the included Monarch web configuration application.

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