Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, ...

As the name suggests, system monitoring is the continuous monitoring of an information technology (IT) system by a system administrator. It includes the monitoring of applications, bandwidth, switches ...

Touted as frameworks for component-like network software tools, they were theoretical successes but practical failures. All too often, customers discarded NMS, in favor of management software bundled ...

Open-source software tools are increasing in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...