Guide to SNMP
An explanation of what SNMP is and how it can fit into your broader environmental monitoring efforts.
Network Management
Network management is the art and science of managing an enterprise network.
Network Configuration Management Introduction
An exploration of the reasons why you should be interested in network configuration management.
Network Mapping Introduction
Beyond a certain size networks become difficult to visualize without graphical aids. There are a number of tools to aid in the production of network maps. This article provides reasons why you should be interested in network mapping, as well as an overview of the available tools.
Network Simulation Introduction
Network simulation is a much underestimated tool in the network managers arsenal. When used properly they can help take some of the guesswork out of network planning.
Network management's new wave six years on
How time flies.
It has been six years since I wrote about Network management’s “new wave” and thought it would be interesting to go back and see what has happened. We are now at the outer envelope of the VC funding cycle so things should be sorting themselves out one way or another.
The new wave was Hyperic, Zenoss and Groundwork Open Source VC funded, open source network management companies.
Open source wasn’t new to the network management scene in 2007, there had been well known projects, like Nagios, MRTG and OpenNMS, around for a number of years prior to that.
Why Monitoring Sucks
Found an interesting old post by John E. Vincent, Why Monitoring Sucks tweeted by MonkChips. What is interesting is what John did next. He created a GitHub account so that he could collaborate with people to rectify the problem.
The most interesting part (to me anyway) is the tools-repos repository in which all of the different monitoring tools are listed.
Enjoy! 😄
PS: as a counter point, read this post entitled #monitoringlove - a true story by Ulf MÃ¥nsson.
Musings upon the open core functionality ceiling
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. Does a lack of growth imply that there is a functionality ceiling imposed on open core software?
An exploration of open core licensing in network management
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.
Ipswitch acquires Dorian Software Creations Inc
Ipswitch, the people responsible for creating What’s Up Gold, have acquired Dorian Software Creations. Dorian Software are publishers of event log management software.
Dorian’s event log management solutions for Windows and Syslog environments include:
- Event Archiver for automated collection, centralization and secure storage of log data;
- Event Analyst for event examination, correlation and comprehensive reporting for audit and compliance;
- Event Alarm for monitoring, alerting and notification on key defined events;
- Event Rover for on-the-fly forensics and log data mining.
Dorian products are scheduled to be available from Ipswitch in March.
Open source network management buzz comparison 2009
I did a comparison of the buzz for the leading open source network management tools in 2008 so I thought it would be interesting to do the same comparison for 2009 and see what’s changed.
As I did last year, I’ve compared the number of searches for the project name using Google Trends. As always, this post is not intended to be indicative of the usefulness of a particular tool to your requirements.