I have been asked to turn "Open for Business" into a monthly column, focusing on applying the open source way to business. Let the reader beware that I am not a millionaire. I…
When it comes to running an open source business, the question I’m asked second most often is "How do you market your services?" (The first is "How do you make money selling…
In 2002 I was working for Oculan, a company that founded an open source network management application platform called OpenNMS. Oculan used this platform as the basis for a…
I'm curious as to why you left off OpenNMS? If you google "open source network monitoring" it tends to be close to, if not the first, hit.
OpenNMS has been around since 1999 and is used to monitor some of the world's largest networks. It is also 100% free and open source software, with no "enterprise" closed-source version.
If you haven't seen it, check it out. If you want to see what is currently being worked on see this presentation from last November's Open Source Monitoring Conference:
"NoScript Security Suite is not for the faint of heart."
Heh, I recently installed NoScript and it broke the Internet. Seriously, everything uses JavaScript and almost all pages simply wouldn't load. But after a month or so I've got it tuned pretty well and I like it. It also opened my eyes to simply how much of my web usage was being shared with sites like facebook.com.
Now, with NoScript, I can get the functionality I need from the sites I use without loading code from tracking sites or other sites I distrust. It's worth the effort.
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I'm curious as to why you left off OpenNMS? If you google "open source network monitoring" it tends to be close to, if not the first, hit.
OpenNMS has been around since 1999 and is used to monitor some of the world's largest networks. It is also 100% free and open source software, with no "enterprise" closed-source version.
If you haven't seen it, check it out. If you want to see what is currently being worked on see this presentation from last November's Open Source Monitoring Conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqZ2eG0PrPc
which include a discussion of using unsupervised machine learning to correlate alarms.
"NoScript Security Suite is not for the faint of heart."
Heh, I recently installed NoScript and it broke the Internet. Seriously, everything uses JavaScript and almost all pages simply wouldn't load. But after a month or so I've got it tuned pretty well and I like it. It also opened my eyes to simply how much of my web usage was being shared with sites like facebook.com.
Now, with NoScript, I can get the functionality I need from the sites I use without loading code from tracking sites or other sites I distrust. It's worth the effort.