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.

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