links for 2007-06-26

Zenoss Core wins test of open source tools with a great GUI, accurate discovery and excellent monitoring

(tags: OSS networkmanagement systemsmanagement monitoring)

I’m not sure I’m in “alignment” with their BSM Maturity Model and “tight” alignment with ITIL/CMDB and process orientation. Same with BMC’s BSM strategy…

(tags: bsm business-service-management bsm_value itil-value)

Mike Odusami, product manager at CA Wiley Technology, explains how forward-thinking organizations can deploy powerful, closed-loop systems to establish service level agreements, monitor compliance, and quickly diagnose and resolve service problems

(tags: CA Wiley appmgmt servicemgmt user-experience qos)

The results were quite impressive. I can’t divulge details of who did what, but the consortium members were able to successfully combine configuration information in a pre-agreed format using a common query implementation.

(tags: CMDB CMDBf cmdbfederation IBM BMC)

AlterPoint fulfilled a commitment to the ZipTie community by contributing Milestone 3 of the open source network management software. … the biggest news of the week was the availability of the ZipTie Development Environment

(tags: alterpoint ZipTie nccm discovery networkmanagement)

CA’s Spectrum collects configuration info and stores it for historical purposes. The new release makes the information accessible to the console operator, so they don’t have to look elsewhere to answer the question as to whether a change caused the fault.

(tags: CA Spectrum networkmanagement monitoring nccm)

(tags: BMC Atrium commondatamodel cmdb cdm)