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Attribute / Project
OpenNMS
Nagios
Zenoss
Hyperic
Zabbix

Peer Support

Forum

Mailing list

Commercial Support

Support contract

Training

Consulting

Learning resources

Blog

Book(s)

Update 1: Zenoss has a forum / mailing list system. Both interoperate together so a post to one goes automatically into the other

Attribute / Project
OpenNMS
Nagios
Zenoss
Hyperic
Zabbix

General

Licence
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL

First released
2000
1998
2006
2006
2001

Development languages
Java
C
Python / Zope
Java / C
C / PHP

External dependencies
RRDTool / JRobin
Net-SNMP / RRDTool
RRDTool
SNMP4J
Net-SNMP

Configuration
XML files
Text files
Web based
Web based
Web based

Extensible

User interface
Web
Web / WAP
Web
Web
Web

Reporting

Update 1: Added C to the Hyperic development languages

One side effect of the increased competition in open source network management is that it is becoming increasingly hard to choose which tool is right for you.
With that in mind I intend to create a comparison featuring the best known open source tools to make the process of choosing the right tool a little bit [...]

I wish I’d found this a few months ago … an open source object database. Absolutely perfect for PowerTime.
I’ve managed to wring a lot better performance out of the SQL persister. The office unit test runtime is now down to ~11 seconds from over 40 seconds.
Things will get harder from now on… all of the [...]

One of the things I’ve been busy with over the last two weeks has been to re-write the backend to PowerTime. Binary files are a nightmare to program, debug and maintain. With that in mind I’ve re-coded the backend to use SQLite through ADO.NET.
In due course, through the joys of ADO.NET, this will mean that [...]

A couple of weeks ago BASEC (The British Approvals Service for Cables) issued a 6 point checklist pre-empting the release of the 17th Edition Wiring Regulations in July. They are alerting cable installers that the need to ensure the correct specification of cables for major projects has now become critical.
Dr Jeremy Hodge, BASEC’s Chief Executive, [...]