There were a few bugs that had crept into the site over the past few iterations. For example, some of you reported seeing a scrollbar at the bottom of your browser that didn't actually go away; ever. Well, today I spent a few moments going through all of the reported bugs and squashing them. So far I'm fairly certain that everything reported has been fixed. That doesn't men there isn't more work to be done. So, if you're using the website, and you're experiencing issues please report them in a comment to this post. I will keep a close eye on it over the next few weeks and will fix any issues as quickly as possible.

I'll also be adding a few new features. As these become available I'll make sure to announce them so that everyone can check them out (and help test them out). In the meantime, if there's something you'd like to see on the site that would make it more useful please comment and let me know so that tlockney and I can see what we can do to improve the features for you.

Hey Everyone,

Reuven has just let me know that the latest release of Enomalism (2.0) is now available for download. They are also seeking beta testers. Here are the details from his email:

Enomaly, Inc. is pleased to announce the Alpha release of the Enomalism Elastic Computing Platform. The Enomalism v2.0 Alpha has been completely redeveloped from the ground up and further builds on the concept of " Elastic / Cloud Computing".

Over the coming weeks there will be ongoing developments as we continue to improve the application. We hope to move to a stable "BETA" within a couple weeks. The current release is considered "Alpha" and should be used at your own risk.

New Enomalism Features include:

Web Services API - RESTful

Automated VM Deployment with Elastic Valet

Multi-Server Support

Virtual Cluster Engine

Extensible system monitoring integration

Flexible business process management with SOA (jBPM)

Integrated appliance / module repository

Extended User / Group Management

Elastic Dashboard / Portal Framework

System Metering (Utility / Chargeback)

Increased Virtual Machine / Hypervisor Support

Xen, KVM, Qemu, OpenVZ, Amazon EC2 * (Ec2 Module)

Support for installation in Linux & Windows

New Open Source License (AGPL)

For installation Documentation and core distribution download, please visit

http://trac.enomalism.com/enomalism/

BETA TESTERS

We are currently seeking BETA testers to assist with the following tasks:

Interface Debugging CSS, JS (IE7,Firefox)

Platform Testing (Linux,Windows,BSD,OSX)

Cluster Testing

Amazon EC2 Testing

Repository / Appliance Testing

Module Testing

User Management Testing

REST API Testing

Anything else that needs fixing.

If you are interested in lending a hand, please visit the Enomalism forums at

http://www.enomalism.com/resources/community-center/

Congratulations to the Hyperic crew for landing CNET as a client. (http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9865828-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpe nRoad)

Hyperic Inc., a leading open source web infrastructure management software provider, today announced that CNET Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNET), a leading interactive media company, will standardize its systems and application management on Hyperic HQ Enterprise across all its web properties. When the CNET implementation is complete, Hyperic will be deployed across thousands of live Linux servers throughout CNET's data centers.

Nice to see open source management for open source systems:

Hyperic will replace CNET's homegrown management platform which was based on several other open source technologies. Hyperic gives CNET more functionality than its previous solution, including scalability, usability, and virtualization management capabilities that help the company to stay on top of its highly customized web application infrastructure that includes large deployments of Linux, MySQL, Apache, and Resin Application Servers.

There was an article in NetWorkWorld today titled,"[Open Source Management Continues to Thrive|http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/nsm/2008/0204nsm1.html]." It mentions Zenoss and Hyperic both OMC members.

If you want to get the play by play from BarCamp today follow our Twitter feed at : http://twitter.com/barcampESM

BarCampESM kicked off with a roll call of the attendees. More will be coming throughout the day. These guys get credit for getting here early.

Instigators

• whurley - Chief Open Source Architect OpenNMS

• John M. Willis - Tivoli expert, ESM Fanatic

• Mark R. Hinkle - Zenoss, VP of Commmunity, open source groover

The Attendees

• Tarus Balog - Founder of the OpenNMS project

• David Winter - Manager Services Manages - Coleman Technologies

• Alex Horner - Control Tier Software

• Bill Karpovich - Founder and CEO of Zenoss

• Eric Dahl - Founder CTO of Zenoss

• Heath Newburn - Worldwide product manager Tivoli Monitoring

• Kartick Suriamoorthy- Community Manager Ziptie, for Alterpoint

• Michael Nels - Alterpoint

• Michale Cote - Analyst, RedMonk, former BMC developer

• Doug McClure - IBM Tivoli

• John Mick

• Damon Edwards - Control Tier

• NTS Solutions

• Lee Thomas - eTrade Financial

• Steve Carl - Manager of R&D Support, BMC Software

Hey Everyone,

A couple of people asked me what would be happening to the OMC on LinkedIN now that we have the new web infrastructure in place. Well, I see no reason to stop using the LinkedIN group at this point. So, we'll do everything here and if someone wants to join on LinkedIN then the join link will still be available. What's that link you ask? Excellent question:

http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/2177/7B49AA043016