Planet Network Management Highlights 2010 Week 10

March 12, 2010

Highlights from Planet Network Management for Week 10. New Stable and Unstable Releases – new OpenNMS releases are now available for download RiverMuse Core 4.2 Released and Available for Download – RiverMuse Core 4.2 has now been released WhatsUp Gold Wins Again! Named 2010 Network Management Product of the Year – What’s Up Gold were [...]

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Automated install comes to open source .NET projects

March 10, 2010

One of the nice things about Linux is the ability to install apps (and dependencies) very easily using apt-get or similar. Windows users have been missing a similar tool for a long time. Never fear, the Scottish Alt.Net group have written Hornget, a tool for installing open source .NET projects. Quite a few projects are [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights 2010 Week 9

March 5, 2010

Highlights from Planet Network Management for Week 9. Wireshark Quick Tip: Using the Expert Info (by Chris Greer) – why comb through hundreds of thousands of packets, looking for a problem, when Wireshark can point out issues for you? Community works! – A simpler way to manage Orion email alerts – instead of configuring static [...]

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Musings upon the open core functionality ceiling

March 2, 2010

One of the things you’d expect from an active open source project is that the code base is likely to grow as more and more features are added. In An exploration of open core licensing in network management I mentioned that one possible side effect of open core software is the creation of a functionality [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights 2010 Week 8

February 26, 2010

Highlights from Planet Network Management for Week 8. Nagios Voted Monitoring Application Of The Year – the members at LinuxQuestions.org have voted Nagios network monitoring application of year! Different Views for Different Devices – an exploration of Solarwind Orion’s ability to drill-down from high-level info into more detailed information Understanding When to Deploy a Distributed [...]

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An exploration of open core licensing in network management

February 25, 2010

Open core refers to a business strategy employed by some commercial open source companies. The open core strategy is popular amongst companies within network management. The open core strategy is largely defined by creating an open source community product that is freely given away, and another product, the enterprise edition, that is sold as a [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights 2010 Week 7

February 19, 2010

Highlights from Planet Network Management for Week 7. Icinga Core – More Enhancements – Michael Friedrich announces an enhancement and a possible enhancement for Icinga IBM Tivoli Pulse 2010 : Where Business Service Management Plays Huge Role – Doug McClure believes this weekend marks the start of what has to be the single biggest service [...]

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Review of the Quicktest 500 ADSL Tester

February 17, 2010

Quicktest 500 is reviewed by Brendan Mulvaney of Sentinel Information Systems. Brendan also blogs as Sentinel – the fix is out there. For a busy technician out in the field the Quicktest 500 is a great tool for the quick and detailed testing of adsl lines. Without resorting to a laptop with adsl modem attached [...]

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Planet Network Management Highlights 2010 Week 6

February 12, 2010

Highlights from Planet Network Management for Week 6. How Does Orion Mark a Node as Down? – an explanation of what’s going on behind the scenes when a node goes into warning status, or when it’s actually down with Solarwinds Orion Zenoss code_swarm Source Visualization – an interesting visual representation of the evolution of Zenoss [...]

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Cool video graphically showing the development of Wireshark

February 10, 2010

Loris Degioanni over at CACE Technologies has produced an uber geeky animation showing the 11 year history of the Wireshark project. The video was produced with the aid of Codeswarm.

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