I am not a big podcast listener but one of the ones I listen to regularly is the IT Management podcast with Redmonk’s Coté and John M. Willis. Today Zenoss’ Matt Ray and Tarus Balog from OpenNMS were guests and I thought it was a particularly good episode because of the open source angles. Here’s some cool things that I picked up from the show.
Taxonomy of Management
One of my areas of interest is the taxonomy of management partly because I am fascinated about SEO but also because I spend a lot of time discussing systems management and like to use the “best” terminology for that conversation. It seems depending on your point of view you describe what you do in a different way. interesting to hear the taxonomy of management software. For example, Zenoss often talks about network monitoring and systems management. OpenNMS talks about themselves network management. John Willis talks about how he used to refer to everything connected to the network was called NMS. Tarus mentions that the term back in the dot-com days that they used the term ENMS (Enterprise Network Management System). I guess the language you use is informed by your background.
Open Source Integration
OpenNMS is doing a lot of cool things with integration among other projects. They are helping improve the Asterisk MIB, they integrate with both Concursive (a CRM/Ticketing system), and Hyperic an open source systems management application. I thought one of the funniest things is right after you hear a telephone ring Tarus shares his story about moving to Asterisk (an open source phone system). An Pavlovian response or coincidence?
If you are into systems management it’s a particularly good show and I highly recommend it.
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