What's New In GroundWork Monitor 5.2?
GroundWork Monitor 5.2 delivers many new features and customer-requested enhancements to the GroundWork Monitor family. The 5.2 also includes updates to many of the underlying open source components.
Release highlights
- Guided installer - Checks prerequisites and common configuration errors during installation and upgrade.
- Autodiscovery and configuration - Locate and identify systems using nmap and SNMP. Map discovered nodes to service profiles automatically.
- Event Console - Real-time, high volume message viewer.
- GroundWork Nagios™ Event Broker - Closer integration between Nagios™ and Foundation.
- Dashboard enhancements - ‘View-only’ dashboards, more graphing options and a new URL widget for embedding web-applications in dashboards.
- New reports – New Enterprise Performance and Event History reports. Documentation for report data sources eases creation of custom reports.
- SNMP trap handling improvements including MIB validation tool and display of untranslated traps..
- New profiles for AIX, Blackberry Enterprise Server, HP-UX, NMON, VMware ESX 3.
- Updates to open source components including Nagios 2.10, NSCA 2.7.2, Nagios plugins 1.4.10, Eclipse BIRT 2.2.1, syslog-ng 2.0.5, snmptt 1.2.
GroundWork Monitor 5.2 is available for download now.
Webcast
Join us for a live, 30 minute webcast that previews the GroundWork Monitor 5.2 release. Review the ten new features for 5.2, understand the product development and see the release in action.









