Does anyone know of any good open source alert management software packages?
I would recommend looking at Zenoss as an option. This article provides some details on their business. If your question pertains to a midsize to large enterprise, I can also say that from personal experience using things like Tivoli and OpenView, this option is worth looking at from one perspective alone: the consulting rates for implementing this tool are likely cheaper. Professional Services teams from IBM and HP generally command hefty hourly fees (plus travel and expenses) to help implement these tools. I don’t know very much about the context you’re working in, but if you’re doing a major implementation, I’d highly recommend stepping back and spending a little time thinking about why you’re doing this. “Writing Effective Use Cases” by Alistair Cockburn (available on Amazon.com) is probably the single best crash course I’ve seen in functional decomposition. From there, you can
Hi Nystocks88, A company I used to work for developed software which was incorporated into Netcool, we were later acquired by Micromuse, which later was acquired by IBM. So, I have seen a very good amount of Network Management Systems (NMS) which are, in essence, alert management systems. Nagios is the leading Open Source NMS. By definition, it is a NMS which can perform active checks to create and disseminate alerts. It can also receive passive alerts (via SNMP traps, and custom scripts) from enabled devices. It is intended to monitor standard network devices and hosts. It does not have native support for other management protocols such as TL1 or CORBA ORBs. We currently exclusively use Nagios to send alerts via e-mail and SMS text messages when a network event occurs. It has worked well for us and has never failed. That being said, Nagios does have a few short comings. Being a web based application, it’s a bit behind the times. The entire UI could use a rewrite to take advantage of a
Open-source software is rapidly creeping into all aspects of the corporate infrastructure, and management tools appear to be the most recent entrants. An Emeryville, Calif.-based start-up called GroundWork Open Source Solutions has launched an updated open-source software package for monitoring corporate networks. The company’s offering, dubbed GroundWork Monitor version 3, includes a product called Nagios, as well as a number of ancillary tools to ease installation. Those tools include improved Web-based configuration and monitoring software, as well as a set of prepackaged reports for gathering data on network performance, according to company executives. GroundWork, which secured $3 million dollars in initial funding, has mimicked a popular open-source business model, in which customers pay for services for a freely available open-source product. Red Hat, which sells a subscription service around the base Linux operating system, is the most prominent company that uses the model. Gro
