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Linux-Announce Digest #68
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Thu Mar 10 23:13:05 2005
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Linux-Announce Digest #68, Volume #5 Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:13:03 EST
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OpenSMART 0.2 available (Ulrich Herbst)
Politics of FLOSS ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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From: Ulrich Herbst <ulrich.herbst@gmx.de>
Subject: OpenSMART 0.2 available
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 03:35:28 CST
OpenSMART 0.2 (The Open (System|Source) Monitoring and Reporting Tool)
is released.
OpenSMART is a monitoring (and reporting)
environment for servers and applications in a network.
Main Features are:
- Nice Webfrontend
- for the OpenSMART server: very few dependencies apart from a perl
installation
- for the OpenSMART clients (these are your monitored servers):
just a perl installation is needed
- it's easy to write more checks
- XML configuration for the client (what to check)
- OpenSMART's main target is application monitoring
- Supported Platforms: Linux, HP/UX, Solaris, *BSD, AIX, Windows (only as
client)
- good documentation
- Database backend (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle are supported)
- GPL
- Demo-Installation at sourceforge available.
- you can monitor an oracle database without DBI - Installation
- scripts for error notification by email are included. You can easily
write your own notification scripts (in any language you want)
For download and demo, see
http://opensmart.sourceforge.net/
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Politics of FLOSS
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:32:11 CST
POLITICS OF OPEN SOURCE CLASS:
Sweden's University of Go"teborg is offering a class on the politics of
free / open source software. The course will run from April to June. It's
online, it's free, and it's in English. Applications are due March 15.
For more information, visit
http://www.informatik.gu.se/eng/education/politicalscience.xhtml
[Thanks to Michael Gurstein for posting this to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers list --FN]
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