Archive for the 'Network Management' Category

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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One of the great things about sourceforge, apart from the cool services they provide free to open source projects, is that they provide statistics about the projects they host.
One of the stats that sourceforge provides is a history of project downloads. You can’t compare the stats though. So I thought it would be interesting to [...]

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OpenNMS is one of the original enterprise grade open source network management tools. For the Windows based admin, it has had one huge problem: it only runs on Unix based systems.
Not any more!
After a week of prototyping, the development team now has a prototype running on Windows. Expect to see a full release on Windows [...]

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The most puzzling aspect of the “New wave” network management buzz comparison is the OpenView & NetIQ graph. I find it hard to believe that either OpenView or NetIQ are losing traction in the marketplace. So, how do you explain the fall in their respective number of searches?
Network management vs network monitor
First port of call [...]

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Google Trends is an on-line service for comparing the search volumes for up to five keywords. I thought it would be interesting to compare the relative buzz of the “new wave” open source network management players between themselves, but also between other open source projects and commercial products.
Google Trends doesn’t supply the search volumes themselves, [...]

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CRN Tech put network management solutions up against one another and gave Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Premium v11 first-place for its robust features, strong troubleshooting capabilities and comprehensive reports. Engineers were particularly impressed with its feature set, price/performance and integration capabilities, giving it top marks across those three categories. SolarWinds LANSurveyor 10 came second, with AdRem [...]

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FYI there is an interesting interview with Chris Sanders, author of “Practical Packet Analysis: Using Wireshark to solve real-world network problems”.
If you are new to packet analysis, you can do a lot worse than read the book.
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There does seem to be a lot of heat in whether or not the new wave open source systems management players are going to take on the Big 4 (IBM, CA, BMC & HP). You can get more info here and here. The 451 Group report is here.
If the new wave do end up undercutting [...]

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For a long time non-commercial open source projects had exclusive access to an audience. Sites like Slashdot are very focused on open source, commercial software doesn’t get a look in.
With the emergence of commercial open source players things are a little more complex. The commercial open source players have access to traditional media, but they [...]

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