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 measurement. The APIs and the existing feeders are backward compatible with previous versions.
The Foundation data model allows the integration of any state, event, and performance data, independent of the Monitoring Application that produces it. This offers the possibility to store data for additional systems, including open source and commercial monitoring systems, databases, and even hardware, such as detectors or sensors. It also allows the integration of Application Monitoring data known as MBeans.

GroundWork Foundation Milestone 2 (M2) Release

The current release includes the following enhancements and features:

• Binary distribution for Java 1.4 and Java 1.5. No need to compile from source; just install configure and use it! For detailed instructions see the BINARY-INSTALL.txt included in the package.
• Administration Adapter that allows configuration of the system at run time through data feeds
• Event message consolidation. Similar messages are consolidated depending on criteria set by the user instead of creating a new entry for each event.
• Upgrade to version 3.1 of Hibernate, an Object/relational persistence tool. The latest version improves the performance over previous releases, and is EJB 3.0 compliant
• Better integration into the Spring framework. All adapters are now configurable through Spring assemblies.
• Tutorial on how to create an adapter that plugs into the Foundation Framework. The tutorial shows how to create an adapter for SNMPTrap messages. The tutorial is available at: Tutorial

We plan to roll out the final release of Foundation 1.1 by mid March 2006. We are still looking for contributions from the Open Source community, so if you are a Foundation developer, please consider contributing your code for inclusion in the final release.
Below is a list of features under development (ToDos):

• JMS Listener — Embedded topic server that would accept feeder messages from any JMS subscriber.
• Adapters for any type of Monitoring data (JMX, log4j) or from other Open Source or commercial tools
• Support for PostgreSQL, Derby, MS-SQL, Oracle, or other databases.

If you are interested in contributing to Foundation please contact Foundation development team

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