openQRM Virtual Appliances

a ready to run VMWare Appliance to monitor your datacenter.

Advantages of openQRM

• Maintains efficient data center operations; handles failures smoothly and automatically.
• Customer-proven in critical business environments
• Manages physical servers and virtual machines, seamlessly and automatically
• Open source systems management software:
• Saves money in both the short and long term
• Allows both system administrators and data centers to tailor a solution to fit their needs – as opposed to utilizing a proprietary “one-size-fits-all” product
• Standard user space application runs on any x86 Linux

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Free Network Monitoring with CommandCenter NOC

CommandCenter NOC, agent-less Data Center Network Monitoring System by Raritan.

The award winning CommandCenter NOC is an easy to use agent-less IT operations management system. It easily introduces to your complex network an integrated toolset that will improve overall service availability, network performance, security and asset management at a fraction of the total expected cost and complexity.

The virtual appliance combines the downloadable delivery advantages of a software product with the "ease of deployment" found in a fully configured CommandCenter NOC appliance. The Virtual Appliance is preconfigured and includes all the components to work in a VMware player 1.0.3 environment.

Winner of "Communications Week Editor's Choice Award 2007"

Finalist of "Best of Interop Management, Network Software & Services"

Finalist of "CeBIT Emerging Technology Innovation Award"

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Nagios Virtual Appliances

Network Monitoring System as VMWare Appliance let you easily monitor your networks with ease.

it's a preconfigured VMware appliance for easy use of NagiosOnCD. Nagios,
NagiosGrapher and Apache2 are running out of the box. Start the virtual
machine, find out your ip address (see README.NagiosOnCD-VM (http://www.nagiosexchange.org/fileadmin/featured_projects/nagios_on_cd/README.NagiosOnCD-VM))
how to find out) and connect with your browser: http://your-ip/nagios

The appliance uses "NAT" for virtual networking, so you can only connect
from your host running the VMware installation. If you want to connect
from outside your machine, you have to change to "Bridged" networking
and must configure networking in the running virtual machine.

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