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OpenNMS 1.6.0
By John | November 8, 2008
The last production version, 1.2.0, was aimed to compete squarely with Hewlett-Packard’s OpenView Network Node Manager product. This release builds upon that work to expand the reach of OpenNMS to other parts of the OpenView family as well as to provide an open source alternative to products such as Tivoli’s Netcool.
What’s New?:
- OpenNMS now runs on Windows, in addition to most flavors of Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X.
- OpenNMS 1.6.0 contains a new “model importer” feature that allows node, interface and service information to be imported directly into the system using data in an XML format.
- New Alarms subsystem
- OpenNMS is able to collect over one million data points every five minutes.
- New Event Translator feature allows for the creation of “passive services”. Passive services are those that are driven strictly by events versus an active poll.
- Remote monitoring. Using a small Java webstart application installed on a remote system.
Sometimes I am a little tough on these guys; mainly for their business model vs. their competitors. However, their technology has never been a question in my mind. The more and more I look at where Tivoli is going vs. where these guys are going, I would say their future looks bright.
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