OpenSMART 1.0.1 review

OpenSMART is a monitoring (and reporting) environment for servers and applications in a network. OpenSMART's main features ar

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: OpenSMART Team

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OpenSMART is a monitoring (and reporting) environment for servers and applications in a network.

OpenSMART's main features are a nice Web front end, XML configuration, monitored servers requiring only a Perl installation and good documentation.

It is easy to write more checks. Supported platforms are Linux, HP/UX, Solaris, AIX, *BSD, and Windows (only as a client).

Here are some key features of "OpenSMART":
Database backend
Automatic software updates for OpenSMART agents
Nice Webfrontend
for the OpenSMART server: very few dependencies apart from a perl installation
for the OpenSMART clients (these are your production servers): just a perl installation is needed
XML configuration for the client (what to check)
The possibility to configure "fix commands" for some errors
Simple integration of your own checks (Simple-Adapter)
Supported Platforms: Linux, HP/UX, Solaris, *BSD, AIX, Windows (only as client) (look at Compatibility List)
good documentation
GPL
Demo-Installation at sourceforge available
Conditional checks: check things only if some conditions like time or directories are given
Cluster-aware checks: conditional checks run in a High-Availability-Cluster only where the filesystem (and the application) is mounted
Checks can print operator instructions
RSS Feader for state changes of checks
Very flexible notification rules can be defined
Flexible Reporting frontend which much data to view (OpenSMART V 0.4)
frontends in English and German available!
Many shipped checks whith monitoring guides

What's New in This Release:
bug #1499609: swap-check was broken on hpux.
bug #1555244: installation error 'cause of missing servdoc.