Linux administration tools
GOLD AWARD:
GroundWork Monitor Professional 5.1
The 2007 Gold medal in Linux administration tools goes to GroundWork Monitor Professional 5.1, for its seamless integration and centralization of system management and monitoring.
From the outset, GroundWork impresses with excellent documentation, a clean installation, and an autodiscovery process that works flawlessly. Administrators can quickly map out their network and devices and get right into monitoring.
The professional mashup application includes tools such as performance graphs, executive-level dashboards, and business reports that all work together without conflict. IT managers and company executives will appreciate how quickly they can confirm that their IT systems and network devices adhere to software licensing and operations-level agreements.
While the open source version doesn't support many of the reporting and analysis features, GroundWork's support for MySQL and other open source databases means that these applications can be written simply. GroundWork Monitor Professional 5.1 offers complete IT visibility and control in real time, with clear GUI alerting, top-notch trending reports and support for email and short message service, or SMS.
Licensed per management server, with no restrictions on the number of devices monitored, this affordable alternative to high-cost commercial software is available for Linux, Unix and Windows servers. All in all, it is as good as products from IBM, HP or CA while costing significantly less with one-year subscriptions starting at $16,000.
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