Appendix D. Useful Management & Evaluation Tools - 4IPNET WHG315 User Manual

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Appendix D. Useful Management & Evaluation
Tools
Useful Management Tools
Here are the top six open source IT management products that do a solid job of
replacing the big suites from HP, IBM, CA and BMC. Each offer low-cost professional
services and free software downloads. They differ primarily in the features they
offer and in the operating systems they support.
QUEST BIG BROTHER
This Web-based systems and network monitor supports most Windows, Unix and Linux OSes, plus a
repository of user-contributed scripts allow you to easily customize Big Brother to your network. Its
GUI features a universally understood color code, where red means bad and green means good.
GROUNDWORK MONITOR PROFESSIONAL
Launched in 2004, it's one of the first enterprise-scale open source network management offerings.
It integrates more than 100 best-of-breed open source projects, including Nagios, Apache and
NMap, onto one framework with additional features, such as a Web-based interface. Monitor
Professional provides centralized management and monitoring of your enterprise network, including
Linux, Unix and Windows servers, apps, databases and network boxes.
HYPERIC HQ ENTERPRISE
Aimed at the datacenter, Hyperic's software is built to manage and monitor all layers of Web
infrastructures, including hardware, middleware, virtualization and Web and open applications. It
also offers trending and analysis. It supports Apache, JBoss, Linux and more.
OPENNMS
This Java-based network management tool focuses on service polling, data collection and event and
notification management. It currently supports a variety of open operating systems, including Linux,
Mandrake and Solaris, as well as Mac OS X; Windows support is planned for OpenNMS 2.0.
OPENQRM
Also targeting datacenter management, OpenQRM can manage thousands of Linux and Windows
servers as well as track your datacenter's usage and utilization. It also does automatic, policy-based
provisioning. It, too, integrates Nagios for monitoring.
ZENOSS CORE
Written mostly in Python, this management platform offers events management and availability and
performance monitoring of servers, network devices, OSes and applications. Zenoss runs on Linux,
FreeBSD and Mac OS X; it will run on Windows with a VMplayer and the Zenoss Virtual Appliance.
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