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NAGIOS?VALUABLE BUILDING BLOCKS FOR AVAILABILITY MONITORING
Nagios is a leading open-source IT monitoring application, designed to alert system administrators when server or network problems happen. With hundreds of thousands of downloads since its inception in 1999, Nagios has a track record of providing value for IT teams. At a time when many companies are seeking an open-source alternative to expensive, proprietary monitoring platforms such as IBM Tivoli and HP OpenView, the momentum behind Nagios continues to grow. While Nagios provides companies with the basic building blocks for monitoring their IT infrastructure, many IT teams have discovered they must invest considerable time and resources to achieve an effective solution. IT managers are looking for a way to utilize the capabilities of Nagios without the hassle and expense of a lengthy deployment process. Equally important, system administrators are looking to lower the risks involved in selecting and integrating the right set of components that are required to create a complete IT infrastructure monitoring solution.
GROUNDWORK MONITOR PROFESSIONAL?EXTENDING NAGIOS
GroundWork Monitor Professional is a comprehensive, fully supported solution for companies with complex IT operations and limited resources for configuration and tuning. It builds on Nagios to create a scalable IT monitoring solution. GroundWork Monitor Professional integrates best-of-breed open source projects including Nagios 2.0, MySQL 5.0, and RRDtool, along with GroundWork-developed components, to create a complete IT performance and availability monitoring and management solution that is easy to install, configure and use. As a fully integrated and supported offering, GroundWork Monitor Professional eliminates the need for companies to go through a lengthy learning curve with open source software or a costly installation and configuration process. More than 100 organizations across a range of industries now rely on Groundwork Monitor Professional.
ENTERPRISE-CLASS FUNCTIONALITY AND OPEN SOURCE AFFORDABILITY
In additional to Nagios, GroundWork Monitor Professional incorporates a number of open source components, including MySQL database and schema, performance trend graphing, web-based configuration that leverages configuration profiles, a centralized console, and extensive documentation and how-to instructions. GroundWork Monitor Professional incorporates a common Foundation platform that integrates all of these elements into a cohesive whole enabling companies to gain the cost and flexibility benefits of best-ofbreed open source tools, along with the usability, support and comprehensive functionality of an enterprise-class solution.
HOW GROUNDWORK MONITOR PROFESSIONAL EXTENDS NAGIOS
By combining a number of robust capabilities that extend the basic availability monitoring capabilities of Nagios, GroundWork Monitor Professional offers an open, centralized solution with all the capabilities essential for a fully functional monitoring system.
SPECIFIC AREAS WHERE GROUND WORK MONITOR PROFESSIONAL EXTENDS NAGIOS
Quick and Easy Instalation All GroundWork Monitor Professional components are delivered in an easy-to-install package. GroundWork Monitor Professional is simple to install because GroundWork has already taken the necessary steps to get the disparate software components to work together. Users get all the capabilities of an extended Nagios-based monitoring solution without the hassle of integrating multiple open source components in-house. System managers do not need to go through extensive installs of numerous prerequisites to get them all to work before installing the core monitoring software. With a simple installation process and easy-to-follow steps, users do not have to be experienced System Administrators in Linux to get through the installation process rapidly. Redesigned Dynami c Interfa ces GroundWork Monitor Professional includes an advanced user interface for Nagios status data and commands. This PHP-based alternative replacement for the Nagios interface, called Guava, is easier to use and presents information faster and in a more intuitive manner. Using Windows Explorer-type drill down navigation, multiple tree views (Summary View, NetView, TroubleView and Filter View) and a pop-up structure of monitoring status screens provide easier, faster troubleshooting so users can identify and address problems faster. This new UI resolves well-known problems in Nagios associated with displaying status data on large infrastructures where constant screen refreshes happen even before previous data is completely displayed. For those who do prefer to also have access to the Nagios interface, it is still available in its original form via Nagios Status Map, Reports and other screens and can be integrated into the interface through the admin controls.
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