Opsview

Opsview

Opsview Web User Interface
Developer(s)	Opsera Limited Ton Voon: Architect & Lead Developer Duncan Ferguson: Developer & Release Maintainer James Peel: Project Lead
Initial release	2003 (2003)
Stable release	Opsview Enterprise 3.14 / October 27, 2011; 0 days ago (2011-10-27)
Preview release	Opsview Community 3.13 / July 27, 2011; 2 months ago (2011-07-27)
Written in	Perl, C
Operating system	Linux, Solaris
Type	Network and application monitoring
License	GNU General Public License
Website	http://opsview.com/

Opsview is an open source network, server and application monitoring tool. It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.^[1] Opsview uses Nagios Core as its monitoring 'engine' and incorporates Nagvis, NagiosGraph, MRTG, NMIS into a single tool. Opsview provides a web user interface that allows system administrators to access monitoring views and configure monitoring settings. Opsview 3.0 was released in February 2009^{[2] [3]}

James Peel began development in 2003 and Ton Voon joined the project as lead developer in 2005.^[4] Neil Ferguson joined the project in 2006 and Duncan Ferguson joined the project in 2007. Opsview development was sponsored by Altinity Limited until the company was acquired by Opsera Limited in October 2008.^[5]

Opsera sponsors the Opsview Community edition and sells an enterprise version as part of a subscription service. Opsera announced on the 14th September 2010 that it would be focused entirely on Opsview^[6] following the sale of its Enterprise Services division to Ixxus.

Technology

Opsview is built with the following open source technologies:

• Perl: The primary programming language used for Opsview
• Catalyst: A MVC Web application framework used for building the web application
• MySQL: A relational database used for configuration, runtime and data warehouse databases
• Nagios Core: Provides the core monitoring capabilities
• Net-SNMP: Provides SNMP support
• RRDtool: Provides lightweight graphing

Opsview runs on Linux with official support for the following distributions: CentOS, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu. It also runs on Solaris 10.^[7]

Project History

• 2003 - Project started as collection of extensions to Nagios Core developed by Altinity Limited.
• 2004 - Opsview 1.0 released
• 2005 - Ton Voon joins as Opsview's lead developer, Opsview 1.5 released
• 2006 - Opsview 2.0 released incorporating Catalyst web framework and Opsview middleware.
• 2007 - Opsview made freely available for download, community established. Development continues on Opsview 2.x
• 2008 - Opsview voted Best System Management Tool at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco. Opsview acquired by Opsera Limited.
• 2009 - Opsview 3.0 released. Community and Enterprise editions launched. Opsview Community 3.5 released
• 2010 - Opsview Enterprise 3.6 released (May); Opsview Community 3.7 released (June); Opsview Enterprise 3.8 released (July); Opsview Community 3.9 (September); Opsview Enterprise 3.10 (November)
• 2011 - Opsview Community 3.11 released (January), Opsview Enterprise 3.12 (April), Opsview Community 3.13 (July), Opsview Mobile (August)

Awards

• Opsview won the 2008 LinuxWorld Product Excellence award for Best System Management Tool.^[8][9]

• Opsview Enterprise 3.10 won the 2011 Techworld One to Watch award at their annual awards ceremony^[10]

Reviews

• Opsview Community Edition review at Techworld.com^[11]

Conferences

• Opsview 3 was presented in a Lightning Talk at FOSDEM 2009^[12]
• Ton Voon spoke about Opsview at the The Open Source Monitoring Conference on Nagios in October 2009^[13]

External links

• Official Opsview Website
• Techworld Monitoring the pulse of IT Blog
• ohloh

References

1. ^ "Opsview Project at Sourceforge". Sourceforge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/opsview/. Retrieved 2009-08-21. 
2. ^ "Opsview 3.0 released". The H. http://www.h-online.com/news/Opsview-3-released--/112606. Retrieved 2009-09-02. 
3. ^ "Opsview 3.5.0 with Improved Web User Interface". Linux Pro Magazine. http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/Opsview-3.5.0-with-Improved-Web-User-Interface?category=13404. Retrieved 2009-02-12. 
4. ^ "Project History". Opsview Project. http://www.opsview.org/history. Retrieved 2009-02-13. 
5. ^ "Opsera acquires Altinity Limited. Joint team to drive Opsview to next level of success". Opsera Limited. http://www.opsera.com/news/news_6.html. Retrieved 2008-10-06. 
6. ^ "Opsera now focussed on Opsview". The H. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Opsera-now-focussed-on-Opsview-1079033.html. Retrieved 2010-09-14. 
7. ^ "Supported Platforms and Software (Opsview 3.1)". Opsview Project Team. http://docs.opsview.com/doku.php?id=opsview3.1:platforms. Retrieved 2009-07-28. 
8. ^ "LinuxWorld 2008 Product Excellence Awards". Linux Magazine. http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/LinuxWorld-2008-Product-Excellence-Awards. Retrieved 2008-08-06. 
9. ^ "LinuxWorld 2008: LinuxWorld.com and IDG World Expo Announce Product Excellence Award Winners at LinuxWorld and Next Generation Data Center Conference & Expo". Techshow Wire. http://www.techshowwire.com/2008/08/05/linuxworld-2008-linuxworldcom-and-idg-world-expo-announce-product-excellence-award-winners-at-linuxworld-and-next-generation-data-center-conference-expo/. Retrieved 2008-08-05. ^{[dead link]}
10. ^ "Techworld Awards winners announced". Techworld. http://news.techworld.com/networking/3288763/techworld-awards-winners-announced. Retrieved 2011-06-30. 
11. ^ "Opsview Community Edition (Techworld.com)". Techworld.com. http://review.techworld.com/virtualisation/3237940/opsview-community-edition-review/. Retrieved 2010-09-02. 
12. ^ "Opsview: Network monitoring made easy". FOSDEM. http://archive.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/opsview. Retrieved 2009-02-07. 
13. ^ "Open Source Monitoring Conference on Nagios". Netways. http://www.netways.de/en/osmc/y2009/uebersicht/. Retrieved 2009-08-21.