OpenNMS

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OpenNMS

Developer:	Tarus Balog
Latest release:	1.2.8 / June 7, 2006
OS:	Cross-platform
Platform:	Java
Use:	Network management System administration
License:	GNU General Public License
Website:	www.opennms.org

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OpenNMS is an enterprise grade network monitoring platform developed under the open source model. It consists of a community supported open-source project as well as a commercial services, training and support organization.

The goal is for OpenNMS to be a truly distributed, scalable platform for all aspects of the FCAPS network management model, and to make this platform available to both open source and commercial applications.

All code associated with the project is available under the GNU General Public License.

OpenNMS is currently maintained by Tarus Balog.

1 Features
2 Supported Platforms
3 Award
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Features

Service Polling - determining service availability.
Data Collection - collecting, storing and reporting on network information .
Event and Notification Management - receiving events, both internal and external

[edit] Supported Platforms

As OpenNMS is written mainly in Java, it can theoretically run on any system that supports a 1.4 SDK.

Currently, the following operating systems are supported:

Linux
Solaris
Mac OS X

No Windows support, as of yet, but with OpenNMS 2.0 it should be available.

[edit] Award

On August 11, 2005, OpenNMS won the Product Excellence Award in the category Best Systems Management Tools at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo [1].

The other 3 nominees were:

Userful DiscoverStation 4.0
IBM Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator
Novell ZENworks 7 Linux Management

OpenNMS beats out Hewlett-Packard's OpenView and IBM's Tivoli in Product Leadership Awards for 2007 announced by SearchNetworking.com to take Gold home in Network and IT Management Platforms category.