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Reasons for selecting RiverMuse PRO for Real-time Consolidated Operations Part 2

RiverMuse PRO includes a Reusable Business Logic (RBL) engine to streamline the creation of all configuration components in a single reusable package. The configuration is loaded through a text file; it is then parsed and converted by a back-end engine that updates the configuration of multiple components within the RiverMuse product. This is a vast change from traditional Manager of Managers (MoM) solutions as configurations from... read more

Reasons for selecting RiverMuse PRO for Real-Time Consolidated Operations Part 1

RiverMuse PRO provides the facility to consolidate your Data Center Operations in a single pane of glass, and achieve Operational Excellence by automating tasks and streamlining processes. RiverMuse Core, the first enterprise-class open source Real-time Consolidated Operations Console system ideally collects information via SNMP traps and Syslog messages out-of-the-box. Additionally it supports 8 standards-based APIs to obtain data from virtually any source (gSOAP, Perl, Java, C++,... read more

What is a MoM (Manager of Managers) in an IT Environment?

The concept of Manager of Managers (MoM) has existed for many years but does it mean the same today as it always has? MoMs were introduced to overcome the problem where lower order management systems e.g. Element Management Systems (EMS) gave a very fragmented view of the network, leaving it up to operations staff to piece together the puzzle to form a picture of the complete... read more

Driving Disruptive Innovation in IT Event & Fault Management

On this community page you can view the latest RiverMuse slide set offering an overview of the company, the event & fault management landscape,  our objectives, architecture and key benefits.  This is in Slideshare format and can be shared and copied.  You can also post comments and questions directly on the page. ... read more

Your IT Infrastructure…… Under New Management

Thursday November 5th 2009, a landmark for RiverMuse – so for those of you who are in the UK today, you may see fireworks and bonfires, as we celebrate the commercial launch of RiverMuse.  So from today we have a shiny new website www.rivermuse.com and a commercial support and professional services side to our opens source software (OSS).  The core software has undertaken a major... read more

Another RiverMuse integration benefit example

Step One: Monitoring free space in a file system Let’s assume your key corporate documents are all stored on a file system that is on a disk in the corporate SAN. A process is in place to monitor the free space on the file system at regular intervals. When the monitoring process recognises that there is less than 10% (of space) available, it posts an event... read more

Failing silently

Twice last week I sat in a meeting where there was a casual remark that seemed trivial in nature.  The remark went something like this – “I have to look at my spam folder, I registered for the community but didn’t get the confirmation email”.    Two people saying this within days of each other caught my attention.  After a little investigating (helped by the fact... read more

The hypothetical bird table

We’re running a competition at the moment to come up with the most novel use of RiverMuse, see here . This got me thinking back to some of the early uses of the web, such as ensuring a good supply of coffee. I was wondering what I could come up with, on these lines, to demonstrate the flexibility of the system. So here goes… In... read more