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The OpenNMS iPhone App

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Today we had our first IT Management Geeks Marietta chapter meeting #itmgemac.  Jeff Gehlbach @jgehlbach gave us a sneak peek at the new OpenNMS iPhone App.  I have never been a huge fan of phone based IT management tools; however this one seemed pretty interesting.
The outages screen shows all of the node issues.  If you [...]

My God, Their Not Wearing Any Pants!

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Doug’s Jaw Drops at 30K – TL-1 Support in OpenNMS

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

I know Tarus is still mad at me for not including him in my “Mighty Two“, however, he must be doing something correct to make Doug McClure’s, (of BSM, Netcool fame), jaw drop. Doug was really impressed when he heard about OpenNMS 1.6 suppport TL-1 in one of Cote’s recent podcasts. [...]

Speaking of Network Management in 2001

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Jack 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, 2008

Jane Curry of Skills 1st Ltd has updated her original open source network management tools white paper.  Here is is…
Open Source Management Options

Everything is a Freaking DNS problem

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

I freaking love that title for a blog.  Kris Buytaert asks a really good question regarding VC and the “Little 4.”
Systems management, what will happen when the VCs want their money ?

Jane Knows Network Management

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Jane 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 [...]

Will OpenNMS v Netcool be the Getteysburg of IT Management

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

During a recent IT Management podcast, Tarus Balog of OpenNMS was making some bold statements about OpenNMS against the IBM Netcool network management products (formally Micromuse’s Precision).  Tarus claimed that in the Telco industry OpenNMS is having some significant success with recent clients like Telecom Italia and Swisscom. I tried to cut Tarus off [...]

Open source network management comparison: Platform

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Jack knows Open Source NMS… A good break down of platform support by the leading Open Source monitoring vendors.
Open source network management comparison: Platform

OpenNMS – Making Money the Old Fashion Way

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Taurus and gang are the little engine that could… Their business model is structured such that it is hard for them to get VC (as I hear Tarus SCREAM and fear many comments to come).  In fact I am not sure Tarus even wants VC money.  However, with or without VC, they just keep on [...]

An Open Source Point of View

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

No one has ever accused Tarus of not speaking his mind. However, when it comes to Open Source he is a strong voice and he sometimes makes good points
Free Riding in Commercial Open Source Companies?

The Mighty “2.5″

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Let’s say it was all the travel, maybe all the different time zones in 2 1/2 weeks.  Add the “Wrath of Con” Tarus  Balog with his relentless “Mouth of Open Source” might.  I don’t know, I can’t think straight anymore.  Therefore in my wisdom of all things known to be “Mighty” I therefore declare OpenNMS [...]

Mark Hinkle on Open Source Systems Management

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Mark 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 [...]

Botchagalupe Finally Cashes In!

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

For many years poor old Botchagalupe has been cursed with entrepreneurial ADD. However, yesterday’s news that Sun has acquired the OpenNMS Group, has finally provided a cash-out for all the praise and sucking up that Botchagalupe has been doing for that load mouth Tarus Balog. Tarus has been paying Botchagalupe [...]

OpenNMS Going Law 2.0

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

This was probably my worst all time title for a blog entry… ah who cares…
Tarus and gang have retained Moglen Ravicher, LLC (a for-profit law firm organized by the Software Freedom Law Center and run to support their non-profit operations) to represent us with respect to issues relating to GPL license violations of OpenNMS code [...]

The way it is and the way it should to be

Friday, March 21st, 2008

With all this talk about clouds and provisioning, coincidently, yesterday I had a conversation with one of the leading Tivoli provisioning consultants in the world. I have a client that needs to upgrade to the latest Tivoli Provisioning Management (TPM) product and I reached out to this consultant to help me. This consultant [...]

OpenNMS and the Google Summer of Code

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

OpenNMS and the Google Summer of Code
Congrats to Tarus and gang for being a participant in the Google Summer of Code. Now that you have an in over there, maybe you can convince Chris to open up some of that sweet IT management stuff they are running.

IT Management Podcast #009 – Zenoss with Mark Hinkle, OpenNMS & Cittio

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

IT Management Podcast #009 – Zenoss with Mark Hinkle, OpenNMS & Cittio

IMO NMS is not Lost

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

While catching up on my Google reader this morning I stuck one foot in the muck (yuk yuk).  Coté sure knows how to get this internet moving.    He sent Tarus this blog post the other day and Tarus responded with this post.  Here are my thoughts…

Not exactly sure what is lost? 
Micromuse products are [...]

These are a few of my favorite things

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

I guess I am on a Tarus run here, but I can’t resist commenting about the OpenNMS Bug Fest. Maybe it’s because I have had my head buried in close source for 29 years that this sounds fascinating to me. I get the community development aspect of open source, but the idea of [...]

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