Microsoft just announced “Cross Platform Extensions” for “System Center Operations Manager 2007″. (I just got carpal tunnel from typing the name of that thing!) These extensions bring SCOM (scam?) into the real world of heterogeneous management, which may provoke an all-out existential crisis for the company.
So they admitted that cross platform functionality was [...]

A couple of weeks ago I was down at the barcampESM in Austin with a bunch of other monitoring and management dweebs. Tarus from OpenNMS was down there as well and we got to sit on a pannel with some guys from the “big 4″ (in this case BMC and Tivoli). It was [...]

We have been thinking about how we build and release software, and have decided that we will try implementing a more “agile” based approach than we have to date. Specifically, this means is that we will be releasing the Zenoss Core software every 30 days. The term for these iterations is “sprint”. [...]

We just released Zenoss Core 1.1.1. This is a minor bug fix release that includes the following:

Corrected failure to send messages in the presence of errors.
Corrected zenprocess so it does not grow when it cannot communicate with the remote SNMP server.
Clarified command, executable, and permission error messages.
Put migration choice back into install.sh so you [...]

No not that one… the liquid kind. Several years ago I got an ulcer. The reason why is really another story… Anyway the result, which is more relevant, is that I no longer drink coffee, hard liquor or soft drinks. As we have brought more people into the company we [...]