Open Source Management - Commercial or Libre

Hyperic

Sam Ramji — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:41:28 GMT

Javier - congratulations on your launch! I'm looking forward to trying out Hyperic in the lab here.

re: Open Source Management - Commercial or Libre

cronos — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:17:20 GMT

"While nagios is impressive, the fact that it has been used to manage 5,000 node systems alone does not make it enterprise-class".

What is "enterprise-class"? I use nagios to monitoring critical production servers, for a company listed in Fortune.

Is "enterprise-class" something that everybody could use, even if don't understand it? At least in this case, I don't know why someone could want to delegate monitoring of critical servers, to an engineer that isn't capable of understand nagios.

Is "enterprise-class" something that is commercially supported? Nagios is supported in this way:

http://www.findopensourcesupport.com/services/support/search.php?search=1&province_id=0&have_region_country=0&city=&zip_code=&zip_code_radius=10&software_lock=0&geographic_search_method=worldregion&worldregion_id=0&country_id=0&provider_types=2&find_recommended_providers=0&recommended_provider_type_match=0&support_options_type_match=0&features_type_match=0&min_hourly_rate=1&max_hourly_rate=300&software_type_match=0&software%5B%5D=1&records_per_page=25&btnSubmit.x=24&btnSubmit.y=10

Anyway, I don't understand what are the competences of an engineer that cannot resolve problems without commercial support.

What is the meaning of "enterprise-class"?

re: Open Source Management - Commercial or Libre

jsoltero — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 02:56:30 GMT

Hi Sam,

Nice post. It's important to call out the difference between Open Source Management, and Management of Open Source. The majority of solutions that support the former are usually tailored for the latter, leaving customers with highly heterogeneous or completely proprietary out of luck.

As you may have heard, our company Hyperic is a week or two away from releasing the code to our management platform HQ as open source. This code contains agent, plugin (what you call adapters), as well as a web based portal that implements management support for both Microsoft environments, as well as everyone elses' stuff. I encourage you and everyone else to check out the product and to download the code when we release it.

-javier
CEO, Co-Founder Hyperic Inc.
http://www.hyperic.com