Opsview

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Ton Voon: Lead Developer
Duncan Ferguson: Release Maintainer
James Peel: Project Lead
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Opsview is an open source network, server and application monitoring tool. It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. Opsview uses Nagios 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 and the latest release is Opsview Community 3.5.2.

James Peel began development in 2003 and Ton Voon joined the project as lead developer in 2005. Opsview development was sponsored by Altinity Limited until the company was acquired by Opsera Limited in October 2008. Opsera sponsors the Opsview Community EDition and sells an enterprise version as part of a subscription service.

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: 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.

Awards

Opsview won the 2008 LinuxWorld Product Excellence award for Best System Management Tool.

Conferences

  • Opsview 3 was presented in a Lightning Talk at FOSDEM 2009
  • Ton Voon spoke AbOUT Opsview at the The Open Source Monitoring Conference on Nagios in October 2009