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BMC to acquire ProactiveNet

May 29, 2007 in Monitoring by admin | No comments

Today, BMC Announced the acquisition of ProactiveNet :

ProactiveNet provides a very pragmatic approach to root cause analysis by guiding the user along the process, reducing the knowledge required to diagnose events or alarms raised by various systems.

ProactiveNet’s patented Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is unique in its approach to data and event correlation. In the heart of this approach is the automatically learned and continuously refined understanding of what is normal and abnormal in the environment. ProactiveNet “learns” the normal operating behavior of an environment and creates dynamic “intelligent” baselines of the normal operating mode. The product then captures and correlates baseline abnormalities and dispersed data points that occur outside of that baseline.

On top of that, the integration of this product with BMC Service impact Manager, the Atrium CMDB, as well as other BMC products, is opening a wide range of exciting capabilities.

Open Source Network & Systems Monitoring survey results

January 5, 2007 in Monitoring by admin | No comments

Zenoss published the LISA 06 Survey Results on Open Source Network & Systems Monitoring:

The survey results included responses from over 100 LISA attendees both on paper surveys and via an electronic survey mechanism. Surveys were offered in the Zenoss exhibition booth, at the LISA Birds of a Feather Session: “Solving IT Management Headaches with Open Source Software “.

My main takeaways of this survey are:

  • Most pressing issues faced by administrators are monitoring, configuration, Patching & provisioning.
  • 65 % of the respondents plan to use OSS tools in the monitoring space and 36% for configuration.
  • the most popular tools are Nagios, MRTG/RRDTool, Snort and Nessus, of which none are for configuration management.

Compuware acquire Proxima Technology

January 3, 2007 in Data Centers, ITIL, Monitoring by admin | No comments

Compuware announced yesterday that it has acquired Proxima Technology.

Proxima is the maker of Proxima Centauri, a Service Level Management tool with interesting capabilities, specially in the way they aggregate key performance indicators into business service metrics.

Proxima has also a unique way to combine Six Sigma methodology and ITIL, to, for example, normalize the events generated by the monitoring of KPIs into Defects Per Millions of Opportunities, rolling them up into service metrics as Sigma numbers.

I don’t know how Compuware is going to use this technology, but one issue with the Proxima approach is that the service impact relationships, defining how IT components are contributing to a service, is defined within Centauri, using rules instead of model relationships .

Without a tight integration with a CMDB, SLM/BSM tools are required to duplicate the CMDB items and relationships, sometimes using two different models, providing a weak synchronization.

As a comparison, BMC Service Impact Manager is using the BMC Atrium CMDB as the model repository, adding service impact relationships on top of the exiting items, making sure that there is a tight synchronization between assets and business services. And since Compuware does not have a real CMDB, or a discovery solution (they use the Collation/IBM solution), it’s unlikely that they will be able to provide this level of integration.

Hyperic HQ goes Open Source

June 6, 2006 in Data Centers, Monitoring by jc | No comments

Today, Hyperic announced the open sourcing of their HQ product.

Hyperic HQ is a management solution based on J2EE providing the following features :

  • Discovery
  • Monitoring
  • Inventory

They support an extensive list of platforms and applications.

This announcement is to put in perspective with the recent announcement of the OpenManagement consortium bringing together the following OSS projects :

  • OpenEMS : Open Source Enterprise Management Services
  • OpenQRM : QLusters’ management solution
  • OpenSIMS: Security Infrastructure Management System
  • Enomalism: Xen Virtualized Management Console
  • Webmin : Operating System Management solution
  • NetDirector: Configuration management for network services
  • NodeDirector: User and Host management
  • Nagios : Host and Network Monitoring program
  • Zenoss: IT infrastructure monitoring software

The space of open source management products has really changed.