Feature Summary
GroundWork Monitor is a comprehensive IT infrastructure availability and performance monitoring system based on integrated and enhanced open source software. GroundWork Monitor leverages the functionality of Nagios, an open source IT monitoring tool, and transforms it into an enterprise-ready IT management solution by adding functional enhancements as well as deployment services and ongoing support.
Monitoring FUNCTIONALITY
Complete IT Infrastructure Coverage
- Applications
- Databases
- Servers
- Network devices
- Network traffic
Advanced Monitoring Techniques
- Event correlation
- Application-specific plug-ins
- Active and passive agents
- Port status checks
- Port-based content requests
- SNMP traps and polled MIBs
- Synthetic transactions
- Log file parsing
Web Portal GUI
- Role-based views
- Single sign-on to access multiple open source tools
Real Time Status Displays
- Active multi-layer, multi-format status maps
- Optional Microsoft Visio UI
- Performance graphs
Operational and Management Insight Reports
- Availability and performance
- Trending analysis
- Capacity planning
- Alert and outage history and analysis
- Ad hoc reports
Alarm Processing
- User configurable warning and critical thresholds
- Trend and statistics-based alarms
- Adaptive thresholds
- Alarm filters for scheduled maintenance, flapping, and other conditions
- Configurable rechecks at variable intervals
- Event correlation to reduce false and spurious alarms
- Event handlers
with auto recovery scripts and auto data collection
- Notification via email, pager, telephone, SMS, IM
- Notification by host, service, or host group
- Configurable escalation and acknowledgement rules
Third-Party System Integration
- Monitoring systems
- Service desk systems
- Configuration management systems
Configuration and System Administration Tools
- Discovery of network typology and server configuration
- Configurable templates for all monitoring functions
- Wizards and GUI for setup and maintenance
- Certified plug-ins (tested, documented)
- Plug-in integration with configuration tools
- Self-monitoring of system health
- Communication path monitoring and
- Out-of-band notifications
- Distributed monitoring system support
Online Documentation library
- GroundWork Design and Coverage Specification
- Installation Guide
- GroundWork System Manager’s Guide
- GroundWork System Operator’s Guide
- Open source software documentation
Open Source Software Modules
GroundWork Monitor includes, but is not limited to, the following integrated and enhanced open source software modules:
- Nagios (monitoring)
- Jetspeed (Web portal framework)
- Ntop (network traffic analysis)
- Syslog NG (log file analysis, consolidation and filtering)
- RRDtool (analytical graphing)
- Cacti (network and systems performance graphing)
- MySQL (relational database)
- Nmap (network discovery)
- (Red Hat) Linux (operating system)
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