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CIOs Urged to Break Free from Expensive, Closed-Source Network Management Software

June 11, 2010 By: NCTechNews Category: Software

opennms_logo_thumbnail (Pittsboro, N.C.) The OpenNMS Group, Inc is pleased to announce the general availability of OpenNMS v 1.8, code-named “Cardinal.” Source code and installable binaries are available now at the OpenNMS project’s Sourceforge site (http://sourceforge.net/projects/opennms/).

“We want the discussion to move from “Why use OpenNMS?” to “Why aren’t you using OpenNMS?” said Tarus Balog, CEO of The OpenNMS Group and project maintainer. “Version 1.8 (Cardinal) represents the next step towards that goal: making OpenNMS the de facto standard for enterprise network management platforms. By creating a powerful, flexible, and scalable application platform that is 100% free and open-source, we’re saying that everyone can break free from OpenView and Tivoli without losing functionality. In fact, OpenNMS users typically gain considerable control over their management solution and their IT environment,” Balog said.

Key features in OpenNMS 1.8 (Cardinal) include:

•A completely redesigned, massively parallel and policy-based provisioning system.
•Enterprise reporting, including a new availability reporting facility and JasperReports integration.
•ReST API support.
•New HTTP(S) based Remote Poller.
•Geographical Map Interface for Remotely Monitored Applications.
•SMS and USSD service monitoring.
•RANCID integration.
•Notification response listener (Ackd).
•Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) support.
ABOUT OPENNMS

OpenNMS is the world’s first enterprise-grade network management application platform developed under the open-source model. It is a 100% free software alternative to commercial products such as Hewlett-Packard’s OpenView, IBM’s Netcool and Tivoli, and CA Unicenter.

Because OpenNMS is open source software, there are no license costs. Since the software code can be freely modified, OpenNMS can also be changed to fit the way the organization works, instead of having to change processes and procedures to fit the software.

The OpenNMS Project went live on SourceForge (as project number 4141) in March 2000. We recently celebrated our tenth anniversary as an open source community. Project contributors live all over the world; there are OpenNMS installations now in 24 countries and on six continents.

ABOUT THE OPENNMS GROUP

The OpenNMS Project is maintained by The OpenNMS Group (www.opennms.com), who also provide commercial support, services and training for the OpenNMS platform.

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