Process

Zabbix

rob — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:32:44 -0600

monitoring of your applications, network and servers. ZABBIX supports both polling and trapping techniques to collect data from monitored hosts.

Puppet

rob — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:30:41 -0600

The Puppet framework provides a means to describe IT infrastructure as policy, execute that policy to build services then audit and enforce ongoing changes to the policy.

GroundWork

rob — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:27:02 -0600

GroundWork Monitor Community Edition is a single server deployment that leverages the strengths of 15 other open source projects such as Nagios, rrdtool and nmap.

openQRM

rob — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:22:53 -0600

deployment, monitoring, high-availability, cloud computing and especially on supporting and conforming multiple virtualization technologies. openQRM is a single-management console

Hyperic

rob — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:18:02 -0600

Acquired by SpringSource

manage web applications and infrastructure. automatically discover and monitor software and network resources, regardless of type or location,

SpaceWalk

rob — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:14:01 -0600

open source (GPLv2) Linux systems management solution. It is the upstream community project from which the Red Hat Network Satellite product is derived.

OpenNMS

rob — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:11:22 -0600

distributed, scalable platform for all aspects of the FCAPS network management model, and to make this platform available to both open source and commercial applications.

Nagios

rob — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:48:29 -0600

(formerly NetSaint)

Network monitoring
Automated restarts
Multi-Tenant/Multi-User Capabilites

http://www.nagios.org/

Zenoss

rob — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:32:18 -0600

full lifecycle visibility, integrated coverage of your physical and virtual infrastructure, enterprise scalability, open architecture and affordability.

http://www.zenoss.com/

Automate user security provisioning

rob — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:27:27 -0600

We are skeptical of the value of many automation tools but one area where the savings are pretty clear is user security provisioning