GroundWork Foundation is an IT management data abstraction layer and development platform. Foundation 1.1 has been enhanced to integrate more diverse data sources into a single data store. This was achieved by introducing properties for describing the data points instead of using database fields for each measurements. The API’s and the existing feeders are backward compatible.

The Foundation data model allows the integration of any state, event and performance data independent of the Monitoring Application. This offers the possibility to store data for other hardware like detectors or sensors and it allows the integration of Application Monitoring data known as MBeans.

Other enhancements include:

• Adapters (data normalizers) can be added dynamically to the feeder framework
• An Admin feeder was added so that enhancements to the data store (adding application types, properties) can be achieved by feeding xml to the admin feeder.
• Tutorial: How to write an adapter (Data Normalizer) and integrate it into Foundation

The M1 release is available at SourceForge.

We at GroundWork have released a few open source tools, and we plan to release more in the future. As such, we realized that we needed somewhere on the web where folks could learn about all of our open source doings. Now you can do just that on our DevZone page.

Come learn about GroundWork Open Source Solutions and our flagship software product, GroundWork Monitor, the leading open source-based solution for managing your IT infrastructure. Currently, we have two scheduled events in this series:

Washington, DC
San Francisco, CA

GroundWork will host two birds-of-a-feather sessions at Lisa in December. The first will be a Nagios 2.0 BoF on Tuesday, December 6, 8pm and the second will be a GroundWork vendor BoF introducing GroundWork Monitor 4, the latest edition of our flagship software product. Also, look for GroundWork representatives in booth #22 at the Lisa expo on December 7th and 8th.

GroundWork has partnered with the USENIX Association as a supporting member. USENIX has a long history of providing the nuts and bolts for pushing innovation in computer engineering and IT administration. Look for GroundWork at all the major USENIX events!

Ranga Rangachari, GroundWork CEO, will be participating in a panel at OSBC East in Boston. The panel is titled “Living with Finland and Redmond: Mixed Use or Going Native?” and will be held on November 2, 2005 at 3pm EDT. For more details, see osbc.com