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Building an open source business (opensource.com)
Over at opensource.com, OpenNMS's Tarus Balog looks at the process of starting an open source business. This article covers much of the same material as his recent SCALE 8x keynote. "You might think that I was motivated by some sort of idealistic love of open source software. Nothing could be further from the truth. At the time, I was still running a Windows desktop. I undertook the OpenNMS project because I believed one thing: in the area of network management, open source represents the best business solution."
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Building an open source business (opensource.com) Posted Mar 13, 2010 11:58 UTC (Sat) by abacus (guest, #49001) [Link]
In the referred article the author does not not only write about building an open source business but does also promote OpenNMS. Does anyone know how OpenNMS compares to Nagios and Zenoss ?
Building an open source business (opensource.com) Posted Mar 13, 2010 19:47 UTC (Sat) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link]
Zenoss is an open core product which as the authors of OpenNMS will
tell you is not full Open Source. Nagios is pretty good for monitoring IP services but IMHO OpenNMS beats it for integration possibilities. It really depends on what your trying to achieve.
Building an open source business (opensource.com) Posted Mar 14, 2010 3:17 UTC (Sun) by jordanb (guest, #45668) [Link]
I tried looking at OpenNMS, and got turned away by its' being a big ball of Java.
Nagios is nice and effective but it's configuration is *incredibly* bureaucratic.
I've also used monit, which has the killer feature of being able to restart services automatically, but it doesn't have a plugin architecture and is pretty limited in what it's capable of doing.
Building an open source business (opensource.com) Posted Mar 14, 2010 6:20 UTC (Sun) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
one thing about the nagios configuration mess.
the documented configuration layout is mostly not a requirement, just a suggestion.
for just about all (if not all) config files, Nagios really just reads them all in before starting to parse them, so the configs could all be in a single file if that's what you want to do.
Building an open source business (opensource.com) Posted Mar 15, 2010 12:57 UTC (Mon) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
This Slashdot thread has some opinions and pointers: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/08/210241
I found OpenNMS quite easy to get going, and it's probably very powerful, but I didn't try it on a very large network.
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