Open Source Network Monitoring System

Introduction

GroundWorks is a professional company that deliver commercial open source based IT management and network monitoring solution. From the start, GroundWorks solutions are prepared as an extensible, scalable and cost-effective alternative to HP OpenView, BMC Patrol, IBM Tivoli and CA Unicenter.

The power of GroundWorks solutions are the capability to combine great solution from open source community. GroundWorks solutions is combining the following open source great product: Cacti, Ganglia, MRTG, Nagios, NeDi, Network Weather Map, Nmap, RRD Tool, SendPage and SmokePing.

In term of scale of network monitoring, GroundWorks has three products:

1. GroundWorks Monitor Enterprise
2. GroundWorks Monitor Professional
3. GroundWorks Monitor Community

You can find here the full GroundWorks products comparison.

Quick Howto

GroundWorks provide Community editions and Evaluate Editions (for professional and enterprise). To install the community edition here is the quick howto:

1. You will need Perl, MySQL, Java JDK 1.5.0 Update 6,Web Server/Apache
2. Choose your distribution from SUSE, RedHat, Ubuntu, Debian, Live CD (Using Cent OS) or VMWare Package
3. Download your chosen distribution
4. Login as root user.
5. Un-tar package you downloaded with the command: tar -xzvf *.tar.gz
6. Change the directory to groundwork: cd groundwork-installer
7. Start the Installer: ./run_install.sh
8. Verify the installation http://yourhostIPAddress
9. Apply service pack for Groups Contact Issue

Screen Shots

GroundWorks Dashboard

GroundWorks Event Console

Download and Resources

1. GroundWorks Open Source Website
2. GroundWorks Download and Installation
3. GroundWorks Forum
4. GroundWorks Screen Shots