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Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

  • 1.  Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Jul 21, 2006 11:33 PM

    http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/509

    Free IT Monitoring and SLA Reporting Appliance based on Open Source Software



  • 2.  RE: Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Jul 23, 2006 12:13 AM

    No good. Download is always corrupted. Tried multiple times. When will VMware start hosting these appliances?

    Message was edited by:

    buzzra



  • 3.  RE: Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Jul 27, 2006 01:08 AM

    What is your error message? Does the download timeout or the file cannot be unzipped?

    If it can't be unzipped, what host and zip version do you have?



  • 4.  RE: Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Aug 19, 2006 10:15 PM

    I have tried using both the builtin windows zip program from windows xp sp2 and all future patches avail through windows update. I have also tried using winrar 3.6. Both recognize that there are files, but are unable to actually extract the files. I have downloaded winzip 10.0 and that appears to have no problem with the file format.



  • 5.  RE: Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Aug 22, 2006 05:11 PM

    It was compressed using bzip2, which is supported in Winzip10. For Linux users, make sure you have the p7zip package which also provides support for bzip2



  • 6.  RE: Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Sep 17, 2006 12:38 AM

    Hi,

    http://www.groundworkopensource.com/downloads/ contains information that may be very useful.

    I installed it, no problem, great tool.

    Regards

    Bart



  • 7.  RE: Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Dec 28, 2006 12:53 PM

    I activated notificcations. Since there is no Mailserver running, I'm wondering how to configure it. I'm not confident with sendmail, so I tried to install exim4 and found out, that yum is not working. Any ideas how to modify packages on this appliance without hassle on rpm dependencies?

    Thanks



  • 8.  RE: Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Jan 04, 2007 03:23 PM

    Hi Folks,

    I would like to know why when I try to open the browser with the IP that fedora is giving me, does not show the website or the configuration tool.

    Im using, windows 2000, I've ping to the fedora IP and I have reply back.

    Using the command ifconfig Im getting the IP 192.168.1.128, but does not show anything when i try to log me through the browser on the windows 2000.

    Thanks!



  • 9.  RE: Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Jan 04, 2007 03:38 PM

    It is related because I'm on a diferent network ? My OS has 10.244.25.8

    Should i change the IP RANGE of the VMware?

    Thanks



  • 10.  RE: Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Mar 01, 2007 01:12 AM

    See if you can access by ssh. That will help troubleshoot.



  • 11.  RE: Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Jan 30, 2007 03:15 PM

    It looks like a cook tool but the "EZ Configuration" wizard doesn't seem to let me add new hosts. It acts like it is happy and I select "add" but they never appear anywhere. I am sure I am doing something wrong but the documantation talks about all the cmd line configuretion, etc. I can't see anything that plainly tells you how to use the gui. I even tried modifying the IP of the built in mailserver to one of my own but it seems to keep the old IP. Anybody know how I can add more hosts, create different sites and hosts in that site, etc all using the gui?



  • 12.  RE: Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Mar 01, 2007 01:10 AM

    When you add hosts in ConfigEZ, you then commit the configuration to Nagios. Make sure the commit completes successfully. You should then see new hosts.

    If you do not, then try this via cli

    #/etc/init.d/gwservices stop

    #/etc/init.d/gwservices start

    Run the commit again and see if the new hosts appear



  • 13.  RE: Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Mar 08, 2007 06:40 PM

    Bittorrent is horrible.

    Expect the download to take about 7 days... if it works at all, seriously! I'm not kidding!

    So, I went to the actual Groundwork software website and found this same file burried in their download area. I know it is the same because it is on CentOS and the description is the same. Downloaded in about 2 hours via high speed cable from there.

    You have to get this file to a *nux based system to run it. Not a Windows based VMware system. fun fun... better download it straight to the *nux box or putty the file from Windows.

    UnGZzip the files on the *nux box. Make a new VM folder and copy all VMware files into your new VM folder where all you other VMs are located.

    Now browse to that folder and open it. Then start the new virtual machine.

    After you do all this and log into the Groundwork software you will see it ummm, ok it sucks. Not intuitive at all. Play 'click on everything' to see what the heck does what game. You finally find that the Icon in upper left of screen majicly takes you to other worlds. (just like a cheap video game)

    Now that you find the Nagio world you trot around hoping to find the magic that can add a host to be monitored because Groundwork world was rather empty and did not have that majic.

    No joy... Then you find the 'hosts' view. Now you see that your new machine has RED critical errors. "Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: No/Yes)" You say wtf? Go searching all over the net, no joy. You try on a different computer same error.

    This VM is broke out of the box with critical MySQL connection errors. Does it do anything? Who knows. Let me look for a different network monitoring software now, I am getting very sleepy.



  • 14.  RE: Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Mar 08, 2007 06:59 PM

    Try Cacti,

    Here is the link to install in the Vmware ( more easy )

    http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/603

    http://cacti.net/

    Website



  • 15.  RE: Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Mar 08, 2007 07:00 PM


  • 16.  RE: Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Mar 08, 2007 10:49 PM

    Sorry you're having trouble. Sounds like windows software is what you need.



  • 17.  RE: Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Aug 08, 2007 02:13 PM

    Works great in VMPlayer. Thx.

    Will this work if i copy it to my ESX server?



  • 18.  RE: Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Nov 28, 2008 06:13 PM

    This appliance has been updated with new contributed enhancements. Here is a link to a review published by Network World

    http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/071608-gearhead.html

    Below are screenshots.



  • 19.  RE: Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Mar 29, 2009 01:26 AM

    What is the root password?



  • 20.  RE: Open Source IT Monitor and SLA Reporting Appliance

    Posted Mar 29, 2009 01:31 AM

    Never mind I hacked it. The root password is 'opensource' if anybody cares.