Open Source Solutions

Save time, money, and your sanity. Nagios is the industry standard in enterprise-class monitoring for good reason. It allows you to gain insight into your network and fix problems before customers know they even exist. It's stable, scalable, supported, and extensible. Most importantly, it works . What does Nagios provide? Comprehensive Network Monitoring o Windows o Linux/Unix o Routers, Switches, Firewalls o Printers o Services o Receive immediate notifications of problems via email, pager and cellphone o Multi-user notification escalation capabilities o See detailed status information through the Nagios web interface Problem Remediation o Acknowledge problems through the web interface o Automatically restart failed applications, services and hosts with event handlers Proactive Planning o Schedule downtime for anticipated host, service, and network upgrades o Capacity planning capabilites through usage monitoring Reporting Options o SLA availability reports o Alert

Server Virtualization with the Xen Hypervisor Enterprises looking to increase server utilization, consolidate server farms, reduce complexity, and decrease total cost of ownership are embracing server virtualization. The Xen® hypervisor is the fastest and most secure infrastructure virtualization solution available today, supporting a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows®, Linux®, Solaris®, and various versions of the BSD operating systems. With Xen virtualization, a thin software layer known as the Xen hypervisor is inserted between the server's hardware and the operating system. This provides an abstraction layer that allows each physical server to run one or more "virtual servers", effectively decoupling the operating system and its applications from the underlying physical server. The Xen hypervisor is a unique open source technology, developed collaboratively by the Xen community and engineers at over 20 of the most innovative data center solut

Amanda: Open Source Backup Amanda is the most popular open source backup and recovery software in the world. Amanda protects more than half a million servers and desktops running various versions of Linux, UNIX, BSD, Mac OS-X and Microsoft Windows operating systems worldwide. The Key Reasons for Wide Adoption of Amanda are: Amanda simplifies the life of a System Administrator who can easily set up a single server to back up multiple networked clients to a tape- or disk-based storage system. Amanda is well documented and can be set up very rapidly . Amanda provides the unique capability of writing backups to tape and disk simultaneously. The very same data could be available on-line for quick restores from a disk and off-site for disaster recovery and long-term retention. Since Amanda does not use proprietary device drivers, any device supported by an operating system works well with Amanda. The System Administrator does not have to worry about breaking support for a device when upgrad

ZABBIX is all-in-one 24x7 monitoring solution without high cost. ZABBIX is software for monitoring of your applications, network and servers. ZABBIX supports both polling and trapping techniques to collect data from monitored hosts. A flexible notification mechanism allows easy and quickly configure different types of notifications for pre-defined events. New in ZABBIX 1.4 Installation Wizard Installation Wizard automatically checks pre-requisites, database connectivity and generates configuration file for WEB front end. Support of new database engines Support of SQLite has been implemented. It allows use of ZABBIX in embedded environments. WEB interface improvements Speed and usability of WEB interface has been improved very much. New notification methods Native support of Jabber messaging has been introduced. Distributed monitoring ZABBIX distributed monitoring is made for complex environments consisting of different locations. ZABBIX supports monitoring of unlimited number of nodes.