Open source products continue to flourish and the diversity of tools available continues to grow. For instance, last week at Interop, companies such as Vyatta passed out open source routers to booth visitors and GroundWork Open Source shared its freeware network monitoring software with attendees.
Now this week two open source newcomers, Qlusters (and its openQRM product) and Emu Software (and its NetDirector software), announced Open Management Consortium, or OMC for short. The Consortium also features Nagios (sponsored by Ayamon), openSIMS (sponsored by Symbiot), the Webmin project and the Zenoss project (sponsored by Zenoss).
According to a press release, the OMC "will work to drive open standards for systems management within the industry, assisting IT managers and system administrators to custom-create solutions to best serve their business needs."
The group will initially focus on a project to develop protocols for managing IT infrastructure components, including servers, storage devices, configurations, networks models, middleware, applications and other relevant data, "to create a unified approach to systems management for open source vendors and projects," the press release says. OMC projects will expand upon the available open source monitoring tools and ideally contribute to other vendors developing open source management systems.
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