Open Source IT Monitor

Instant IT Monitoring
Description
This virtual appliance enables instant Open Source-based IT monitoring for small and medium size organizations. Built on the Groundwork Open Source Guava framework, a collection of open source tools like Nagios and NMAP are integrated with MySQL, Apache and Java to provide a simple, yet powerful availability monitoring solution.
Power on the appliance and Groundwork Open Source Monitor will immediately begin to monitor public Internet hosts and services. Use the configured items to expand monitoring to your IT infrastructure beyond simple ping requests and network scans.
Visit http://www.nagiosexchange.com/ to explore freely available plugins for Nagios that can be used to monitor a variety of IP devices. Use NMAP in the Groundwork portal to discover hosts and assign monitoring profiles. Generate basic SLA reports showing uptime or downtime.
The appliance was built on a custom install of Fedora Core 4 with only required components installed. IPTables restricts access to ssh, http and https. SE Linux is disabled and only Xwindows is installed. Use ssh and http to access the virtual machine when powered on. It was built with VMware Server running on a WindowsXP host.
Dowload and unzip the appliance and power on with VMware Player.
- Login to the console as "root" password "opensource"- Inside the Xwindows screen shell, determine the IP address assigned to your virtual machine by VMware player.
#ifconfig -a eth0
- From your host OS, open a browser to the appliance with the IP address determined above. This is the Groundwork Portal. There are 2 logins configured
admin - admin (full access)joe - joe (operator access)
With either login, you can view the status overview or map view of the hosts configured for monitoring. Provided your PC running VMWare has Internet access, the system will begin monitoring Internet DNS/FTP/SMTP/HTTP hosts. You can even monitor your Windows VWMare host using the Open Source plugins developed by Groundwork. See
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/NRPE_Plugins.66.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1[p_view]=235for instructions.
Also review the Evaluating Groundwork Monitor Open Source PDF to familiarize yourself with the capabilities.
All installed components are freely available and most included are released under GNU General Public License. Other Open Source licenses may apply.
Last updated: 06/05/2006
Operating system: Fedora Core 4
Applications installed:Groundwork Opensource Guava v1.x, MySQL v5.x, Apache, Java v1.5, Nagios v2, NMAP, IPTables, Xwin (for VMware tools), Syslog-NG, Xpdf
VMware Tools installed: Yes
Size: 980 MBTorrent available: Yes

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