August 2008
About Opsview | opsview.org
by camel & 1 otherOpsview is enterprise network and application monitoring software designed for scalability, flexibility and ease of use. Opsview has been in development since 2003 and is released under the GNU GPL license. Current version is 2.12.
Opsview is a fully integrated monitoring tool that incorporates popular Open Source software including Nagios, Net-SNMP and RRDtool. The Catalyst web framework provides an extensible monitoring and configuration user interface.
Opsview software is supported on Linux (Debian, CentOS, RHEL and Ubuntu) and Solaris 10. It will monitor all common operating systems including Windows.
Opsview extends the capabilities of Nagios in the following ways:
* Distributed monitoring with high availability and fail-over
* Much improved SNMP support with trap processing with rules engine
* API supporting automation of Opsview configuration
* Data warehouse for storage of historical performance and event data
* Opsview Reports customisable reporting
* Powerful configuration and management UI
* Extended monitoring UI
* Extensible architecture based on Catalyst Web Framework and Altinity middleware software
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