Comments on: Open source network management download comparison

By: People Over Process » Numbers, Volume 24

People Over Process » Numbers, Volume 24 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:36:46 +0000

[...] For historic comparisons, check out Jack Hughes from back in Nov. 2007 on this topic. [...]

By: Joselu

Joselu — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:41:03 +0000

I miss also Osmius (http://osmius.net)
The production version have been released in last July,so the download graphs aren’t very impressive.. let’s see what happen.

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:34:12 +0000

@David – given that many open source projects fold into the various packaging systems it seems reasonable to think that their usage will be broadly the same for each project therefore the download stats do at least provide some insight into the relative mind share for each project.

Oh, and thanks for wishing me good luck with PowerTime. I really appreciate you taking the time to encourage me (grin).

By: David Hustace

David Hustace — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:31:03 +0000

I hope by now that the IT bloggers have stopped using source forge download count as a metric. These numbers can be gamed, they obviously are, and don’t represent actual usage (for too many reasons to post here), and some open source applications actually fold into the packaging systems of the host platform: “yum opennms” ; “apt-get opennms” hits the yum/apt repositories by passing SourceForge. Installing packages by downloading from SourceForge is a system administrator’s worst nightmare. Some of the NMS applications have to be downloaded from SourceForge and then built and installed missing the packaging system all together. They often also include dependency software (i.e. RRD, PostgreSQL) that should be installed by packaging for security and software inventory reasons.

Good luck with your RRD project. Looking forward to seeing that (grin).

By: Jack Hughes

Jack Hughes — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:07:10 +0000

@Axel – If I’d tried to put *every* open source tool on the graph then it would have been very hard to discern any information. I was trying to compare the “new wave” with a couple of the better known “old wave” projects.

By: Axel

Axel — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:16:20 +0000

I’m missing at least three other network monitoring systems:

+ Quest Big Brother (Open Source, but not really free): http://bb4.org/

+ Hobbit (GNU GPL, a enhanced rewite of BB in C): http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/

+ Pandora Free Monitoring System (FMS): http://pandora.sourceforge.net/

By: Zenoss Blog » Milestones

Zenoss Blog » Milestones — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:45:51 +0000

[...] many choices in closed and open source for IT monitoring/management, we are proud that Zenoss has risen to the top. For what our users tell us, the uptake is driven the very real desire in IT for new options to [...]

By: People Over Process » links for 2007-11-07

People Over Process » links for 2007-11-07 — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:21:56 +0000

[...] Open source network management download comparison From SourceForge numbers, Nagios and Zenoss have the top downloads. (tags: itmanagement opensource numbers sourceforge nagios zenoss hyperic opennms groundwork) [...]

By: Open source network management download comparison « FR Test Blog

Open source network management download comparison « FR Test Blog — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:31:43 +0000

[...] source network management download comparison Open source network management download comparison I entered the download data from sourceforge for the last year into a Google Spreadsheet. I then [...]