Archive for the 'Network Management' Category

Almost as a doodle I thought I’d create a graph depicting the dependencies between a selection of open source network management projects.
Once I’d done it, it occurred to me how much just about everything depends on just a couple of projects or project variants of, RRDTool & Net-SNMP.

The main conclusion I draw from the [...]

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John Willis over at IT Management and Cloud Blog posted an interesting post I’d like to reply to.
The key question is will “Enterprise” customers make an investment in companies like OpenNMS and Nagios with out the warm and fuzzy that “Software Companies” provide.
That’s certainly an interesting perspective John…
It isn’t that Nagios/OpenNMS aren’t hitting enterprise customers. [...]

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The folks over at TweetVOLUME have produced a tool for counting the mentions of words or phrases on the Twitter micro-blogging platform.
I thought that it would be an interesting, though not especially significant, metric for comparing open source projects.

The graph above shows the number of twits in which Zenoss, Nagios, Hyperic, OpenNMS or MRTG were [...]

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How can a network & systems management Value Added Reseller (VAR) benefit from offering open source solutions and what are the potential problems?
Any VAR not offering genuine added value is going to be left out in the cold. A “SKU” VAR, a company that expects to take orders with the minimum of fuss, are [...]

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Sometimes you fall over a product and it blows you away. Network taps have until now been exotic hardware affordable only by large IT departments with the budget to match.
Not any more! nmon have brought out a range of low cost network taps and network traffic analysers with NetFlow support. Looks like network taps just [...]

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As a follow up to the Comparing OSS NMS meta post, the following hierarchy represents the criteria I’ve researched so far. I’ve concentrated upon the non-functional areas first because I can finalise that quite quickly. I will, as a first pass, and assuming that no major additions need adding to it, create the first comparison [...]

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One of the problems with a competitive market like the network management market is the difficulty of finding good comparative information about the various offerings.
One post I know would be useful is something that compares the various open source network management tools. People are searching for exactly that information and are hitting this website. They [...]

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This is a reply to Tarus Balog’s Show Me Da Money (a Cautionary Tale) post.
Tarus has labelled the business model of giving away an open source core but selling proprietary extensions as shareware open source.
It’s a great term, but I don’t think it’s wholly appropriate.
If the Hyperic & Zenoss communities have a problem with the [...]

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Mark Hinkle from Zenoss sent me a link to an interesting document he prepared yesterday.

I think Mark may be over egging Zenoss “clear market leadership” but without any doubt their growth over the last year has been impressive.
Perhaps the most impressive thing to take away is that all of the projects featured have grown over [...]

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As promised in the OpenNMS coming soon to Windows post, OpenNMS 1.3.8 has now been released with Windows support & an installer.
Tarus Balog announced the release and the developer too.
You can download the release from the OpenNMS site.
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