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Saturday, June 27th, 2009Speaking of Network Management in 2001
Thursday, October 9th, 2008Jack Huges (The Tech Teapot) has been doing an interesting series of posts on network management tools have been used over the years (c. 2001-2008). This started me thinking about an old Tivoli master called Don Mahler, that used to give a presentation called “Enterprise Systems and Network Management (on an Extreme Budget).” [...]
Open Source Management Options
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Jane Curry of Skills 1st Ltd has updated her original open source network management tools white paper. Here is is…
Open Source Management Options
Jane Knows Network Management
Monday, September 8th, 2008Jane Curry is a excellent Tivoli instructor over in the UK and a frequent presentor at Tivoli conferences. She has done an excellent job on a white paper comparing Nagios, OpenNMS, and Zenoss for network management and the bottom line is she picks Zenoss…
OpenNMS and Zenoss are both extremely competent products covering automatic
discovery, availability [...]
Open source network management comparison: Platform
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Jack knows Open Source NMS… A good break down of platform support by the leading Open Source monitoring vendors.
Open source network management comparison: Platform
Why Only Two?
Friday, April 25th, 2008A few people have asked my why only two for my “Mighty Two”. I have been specifically asked why not OpenNMS and Nagios The simple answer is that Hyperic and Zenoss are software companies and OpenNMS and Nagios are projects. Both Hyperic and Zenoss both have software company infrastructures. This means they have full time [...]
Mark Hinkle on Open Source Systems Management
Monday, April 14th, 2008Mark has written a great article for Linux Today summarizing some of the open source activities over the last few weeks. He gives a little history of the “Little 4″ and he also does a good job summarizing some of the recent Gartner analalysis on Microsoft and open source.
The Little “3″ of Open Source Systems [...]
“Adventures” in Open Source
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Tarus is shaking things up a little bit on his blog:
Show Me Da Money (a Cautionary Tale)
Why All the Hate?
Excellent Post on System Management, OSS, and Perfromance
Friday, December 7th, 2007Digging Deeper: Systems Management
Need to add this guy to my rss.
What if I only had a hour to live?
Thursday, December 6th, 2007I was flipping channels this evening in my hotel room and heard a very touching story about a man who wrote a short Xen like essay about all the things he would do if he had only one hour to live. By the way, he dies shortly after completing the essay. Then, I started [...]
Duh… Know Theyself
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007No sooner did I post the “Look Ma no Nines” that I realized that this blog has been on EC2 for over a month. We don’t need no stinking Nagios .
Look Ma no Nines…
Wednesday, December 5th, 20071 Week of EC2 Monitoring
They are using Nagios to monitor their EC2 images and so far 1/week no nines. This will be interesting to circle back an see how long the no-nine streak lasts.
Zabbix Finds a Home in USA
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Zabbix is an interesting open source monitoring product that is primarily developed in Latvia.
About two years ago, I had a venture called OpenESM where we were trying to partner with Zabbix, but, quite frankly, I could not understand a word they said and felt in the end that we were going to have communication/support issues. [...]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Thursday, November 15th, 2007Sergio Leone couldn’t have scripted this one any better.
Nagios Enterprises and GroundWork Open Source Forge Strategic Partnership
Ethan Galstad Launches Nagios Enterprises
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007Ethan Galstad Launches Nagios Enterprises
Wow #1
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007I have been linked from O’Reilly Radar. Cool…
Operations is a competitive advantage… (Secret Sauce for Startups!)
This is a really good article about how to do a WEB 2.0 startup “The WEB 2.0 Way” (i.e., the Secret Sauce).
Here is my comment…
There are some really interesting companies working around S3/EC2. Now you add a little [...]
GroundWork Open Source Selected by …
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007GroundWork Open Source Selected by Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software. There is a big difference between Group 1 Software, a small company based in Maryland, and the mother-ship Pitney Bowes in Connecticut. This is, however, a step in the right direction.
They Might be Giants
Friday, September 21st, 2007Did you ever see the move They Might be Giants with George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward? It is a great movie.
Now you’re either on the bus or off the bus
Saturday, September 15th, 2007“`There are going to be times,’ says Kesey, `when we can’t wait for somebody. Now you’re either on the bus or off the bus. If you’re on the bus, and you get left behind, then you’ll find it again. If you’re off the bus in the first place–then it won’t make a damn.’ And nobody [...]
CMG Call for Late Breaking Papers
Thursday, September 13th, 2007I am going to try to squeeze my ESM Bake-Off into this. If anyone wants to help, please feel free to contact me. I already have a few helpers.
http://www.cmg.org/conference/cmg2007/late-breaking.html
