Related CategoriesAdvanced Desktop User | Administration | Community Contributed Virtual Appliance | Developer/Tester | Production | Security | System Administrator Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting ApplianceFree IT Monitoring and SLA Reporting Appliance based on Open Source Software Description
This virtual appliance enables instant Open Source-based IT monitoring for small and medium size organizations. Built on the Groundwork Open Source Guava framework, a collection of open source tools like Nagios, RRDTool and NMAP are integrated with MySQL, Apache and Java to provide a simple, yet powerful availability monitoring solution with a common data model. Power on the appliance and Groundwork Monitor Open Source will immediately begin to monitor public Internet hosts and services. Use the configured items to expand monitoring to your IT infrastructure beyond simple ping requests and network scans. Key Open Source projects integrated in the appliance are: - Nagios for great availability status correlation, event handling and accurate alerting Visit http://www.nagiosexchange.com/ to explore freely available plugins for Nagios that can be used to monitor a variety of IP devices. Use NMAP in the Groundwork portal to discover hosts and assign monitoring profiles. Generate basic SLA reports showing uptime or downtime. The appliance was built on a custom install of CentOS v4.4 with only required components installed. IPTables restricts access to ssh, http and https. SE Linux is disabled and only Xwindows is installed. Use ssh and http to access the virtual machine when powered on. It was built with VMware Server running on a WindowsXP host and tested on a RH host. Security Warning: This virtual appliance assumes there is only a single admin/operator that requires CLI access. If you need more than 1 person logging into the appliance's operating system (CLI), it is *STRONGLY* recommended that you further secure the appliance by installing SUDO and avoiding use of the root account. Don't let your monitoring system become a vulnerability for hackers to exploit! Security Warning: The MySQL password is not set. Free training tips now on You Tube! Setup: Power on with VMware Player and then: - Login to the console as "groundwork" password "monitor" #su - This will show you the IP address assigned by VMWare on boot. (Note you can also run firefox from console) This starts xwin session for you. - From your host OS, open a browser to the appliance using the IP address determined above. Note that this virtual appliance is configured to use VMWare NAT and that CentOS is configured to use DHCP from the VMWare network device. http:// Last updated: 06/10/2008 Operating system: CentOS 5.1 Applications installed: VMware Tools installed: Yes
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1600MB MB Primary account Memory allocated: 1512MB MB License: GPL, Mozilla, other Submitted by: nycguy Download link provided by the submitter, not VMware. Report broken downloads here. « BACK... |