Virtual Appliances are pre-built software solutions, comprised of one or more Virtual Machines that are packaged, updated, maintained and managed as a unit. Unlike a traditional hardware appliance, these software appliances let customers easily acquire, deploy and manage, pre-integrated solution stacks. This speeds up time to value and simplifies software development, distribution, and management To learn more about virtual appliances, watch this informative tutorial...
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This is a basic Suse 9.3 Minimal install, with Groundwork Opensource Monitor installed and ready to go. The target audience is for time poor small IT companies and small business in general to be able to monitor their systems and network devices in a way which is quick and reliable. Nothing truly amazing here, but just has the hard work taken out of it so that within about 10 minutes including vmware player installation time, you will be up and running with a monitoring system based on NAGIOS by Groundworkopensource.com.