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GroundBreaker News, February, 2008

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GroundWork is proud to announce the general availability of GroundWork Monitor 5.2.

If you are a GroundWork Customer, download the latest release here:

  1. Login to the Groundwork Connect located at http://www.groundworkconnect.com
  2. Select Downloads
  3. Select the appropriate 5.2.0 link and follow the 5 Step Download and Installation process

If you use GroundWork Monitor Open Source, the new version is GroundWork Monitor Community Edition. Please download it here.

GroundWork Monitor 5.2.0 includes the capability to upgrade from version 5.0.x and 5.1.x. If you are on a version of GroundWork Monitor Professional prior to 5.0.x, or if you have extensive customizations in your application, please contact support to determine your migration path to version 5.2.0.

Introducing GroundWork Monitor Enterprise

With the launch of GroundWork Monitor 5.2, we're pleased to introduce a new addition to the GroundWork Monitor product family, GroundWork Monitor Enterprise, designed to meet the needs of enterprise customers who manage distributed network environments.

Utilizing a multi-tier architecture, GroundWork Monitor Enterprise improves upon GroundWork Monitor Professional with a modular design that can be custom-fit to large scale and highly available environments.

To learn more, please see: http://www.groundworkopensource.com/products/enterprise/

Learn what GroundWork Monitor can do for you!

The 5.2 release includes new features such as auto-discovery and auto-configuration; a high speed, low latency event console; new enterprise performance reports, and updates to the dashboard functionality. Additionally, more than 50 user-requested enhancements and contributions have been included.

Additional information about the new features in GroundWork Monitor 5.2 and an online demo is available at: http://www.groundworkopensource.com/products/whatsnew5.2.html

Vote for GroundWork!

GroundWork Monitor Professional has been nominated as Channel Insider System and Network Management product of the year for system and network management.

We're going against some steep proprietary competition — Novell ZENworks, VMWare ACE, HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM), Juniper Networks NSMXpress and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager.

This contest is judged by the community, so your vote counts!

Please vote for GroundWork Monitor here!

Open enrollment for April training classes

Improve your GroundWork Monitor effectiveness and learn how to capitalize on the newest 5.2 functionality in any of the following classes:

GW Connect Toolbox Webcast Series

GW Connect contains hundreds of technical oriented articles and downloads. To better showcase these assets GroundWork Open Source will be hosting live, monthly webcast sessions sharing these best practices referenced in GW Connect. You must be a GroundWork Monitor Professional or Enterprise customer to participate or you may attend a session if you are looking to deploy Professional or Enterprise.

Join our next 30 minute webcast on April 11.
Topic: Utilizing auto discovery and auto configuration
Map discovered servers to services and profiles automatically. Learn how to configure useful monitoring levels in minutes.

Sign up here.