GroundWork Systems Management

Professional enterprise level monitor and alerting software for the entire I.T. estate.

GroundWork is a Comprehensive Enterprise Network and Systems Monitoring Solution. As a solution that provides a single pane of glass covering every facet from network, server, various databases to anything with an IP address. Comprising best of breed components including Nagios - made easy with Groundwork’s dash board front end interface.

SO GOOD we adopted GroundWork across all of our support services. As a provider of Managed Services for Oracle and Microsoft technologies, DSP supports numerous mission critical business applications and the various technologies that underpin them utilising GroundWork.

GroundWork Open Source, is the fastest growing provider of open source IT management software, and combines all the advantages of open source software with superior functionality, documentation, and professional support to give you unprecedented visibility and control of your entire IT infrastructure

Building on innovative open source architecture, GroundWork delivers enterprise-ready systems and network management software more quickly and cost-effectively than expensive, inflexible traditional alternatives. By unifying best-of-breed open source projects, GroundWork offers all the capabilities of high-end proprietary closed source software in a solution that is affordable, highly flexible and configurable to accommodate varied and rapidly changing environments.

GroundWork Monitor Professional provides centralised management and monitoring of your entire IT infrastructure, including Linux, Unix, and Windows servers, applications, databases and network equipment. 

It can be quickly deployed to achieve 100% coverage while giving you unparalleled flexibility, and employs a wide array of monitoring and management techniques to match your specific requirements for efficiency, speed, overhead and maintenance. Active and Passive monitoring, agent or agent-less methods, combinations of synthetic polling, log file monitoring, and automated actions based on policies and thresholds that you set are all integrated into a single product that can be configured quickly to achieve rapid time to value at the lowest total cost of ownership.

GroundWork Monitor Professional also includes tools to analyse and record the performance of your overall environment with features such as performance graphs, executive-level dashboards, and SLA business reports. Unlike most other software that is priced on a per-device monitored or per-agent basis, GroundWork Monitor Professional is licensed per management server, with no restrictions on the number of devices monitored.

An annual subscription to GroundWork Monitor Professional includes access to knowledgeable support professionals via telephone or email, guaranteed response times, patches, upgrades, and major releases. 24x7x365 support is also available

For further information Contact DSP and ask for one of our IT Infrastructure Monitoring and Management specialists. The benefits are many - here are just mentioned a few:

• Can be scaled to environments from tens to thousands of servers.
• Manages operating systems (Linux, Unix, Windows, others), applications, and networked devices.
• Avoids vendor lock-in and enhances flexibility by being open source.
• Unifies proven open source with existing legacy management systems in an extensible SOA-based architecture.