Opsview

Opsview

Opsview Web User Interface
Developer(s)

Opsera Limited
Ton Voon: Architect & Lead Developer
Duncan Ferguson: Developer & Release Maintainer

James Peel: Project Lead
Initial release 2003 (2003)
Stable release Opsview Enterprise 3.14.1 / December 15, 2011; 2 months ago (2011-12-15)
Preview release Opsview Community 3.13.2 / November 30, 2011; 2 months ago (2011-11-30)
Written in Perl, C
Operating system Linux, Solaris
Type Network and application monitoring
License GNU General Public License
Website http://opsview.com/

Opsview is an open source network, server and application monitoring tool. It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.[1] Opsview uses Nagios Core as its monitoring 'engine' and incorporates Nagvis, NagiosGraph, MRTG, NMIS into a single tool. Opsview provides a web user interface that allows system administrators to access monitoring views and configure monitoring settings. Opsview 3.0 was released in February 2009[2] [3]

James Peel began development in 2003 and Ton Voon joined the project as lead developer in 2005.[4] Neil Ferguson joined the project in 2006 and Duncan Ferguson joined the project in 2007. Opsview development was sponsored by Altinity Limited until the company was acquired by Opsera Limited in October 2008.[5]

Opsera sponsors the Opsview Community edition and sells an enterprise version as part of a subscription service. Opsera announced on the 14th September 2010 that it would be focused entirely on Opsview[6] following the sale of its Enterprise Services division to Ixxus.

Contents

Technology

Opsview is built with the following open source technologies:

Opsview runs on Linux with official support for the following distributions: CentOS, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu. It also runs on Solaris 10.[7]

Project History

Awards

Reviews

Conferences

External links

References

  1. ^ "Opsview Project at Sourceforge". Sourceforge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/opsview/. Retrieved 2009-08-21. 
  2. ^ "Opsview 3.0 released". The H. http://www.h-online.com/news/Opsview-3-released--/112606. Retrieved 2009-09-02. 
  3. ^ "Opsview 3.5.0 with Improved Web User Interface". Linux Pro Magazine. http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Opsview-3.5.0-with-Improved-Web-User-Interface?category=13404. Retrieved 2009-02-12. 
  4. ^ "Project History". Opsview Project. http://www.opsview.org/history. Retrieved 2009-02-13. 
  5. ^ "Opsera acquires Altinity Limited. Joint team to drive Opsview to next level of success". Opsera Limited. http://www.opsera.com/news/news_6.html. Retrieved 2008-10-06. 
  6. ^ "Opsera now focussed on Opsview". The H. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Opsera-now-focussed-on-Opsview-1079033.html. Retrieved 2010-09-14. 
  7. ^ "Supported Platforms and Software (Opsview 3.1)". Opsview Project Team. http://docs.opsview.com/doku.php?id=opsview3.1:platforms. Retrieved 2009-07-28. 
  8. ^ "LinuxWorld 2008 Product Excellence Awards". Linux Magazine. http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/LinuxWorld-2008-Product-Excellence-Awards. Retrieved 2008-08-06. 
  9. ^ "LinuxWorld 2008: LinuxWorld.com and IDG World Expo Announce Product Excellence Award Winners at LinuxWorld and Next Generation Data Center Conference & Expo". Techshow Wire. http://www.techshowwire.com/2008/08/05/linuxworld-2008-linuxworldcom-and-idg-world-expo-announce-product-excellence-award-winners-at-linuxworld-and-next-generation-data-center-conference-expo/. Retrieved 2008-08-05. 
  10. ^ "Techworld Awards winners announced". Techworld. http://news.techworld.com/networking/3288763/techworld-awards-winners-announced. Retrieved 2011-06-30. 
  11. ^ "Opsview Community Edition (Techworld.com)". Techworld.com. http://review.techworld.com/virtualisation/3237940/opsview-community-edition-review/. Retrieved 2010-09-02. 
  12. ^ "Opsview: Network monitoring made easy". FOSDEM. http://archive.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/opsview. Retrieved 2009-02-07. 
  13. ^ "Open Source Monitoring Conference on Nagios". Netways. http://www.netways.de/en/osmc/y2009/uebersicht/. Retrieved 2009-08-21.