Currently as a part of my internship I'm working on developing, implementing, and documenting a (hopefully) successful open source network monitoring system to monitor thousands of network devices globally. It's my first project of this scale and magnitude and requires a lot of learning and high level thinking. I'm half way through it and already had to bypass quite a few hurdles. As this summer finishes I'm hoping to wrap up with a post that would describe my adventure while implementing OpenNMS and my opinion about it.
Also I should add that I come from a non open source background with basic experience in Linux (Ubuntu) and this entire project has been an eye opener for me. Something I've learned about open source in short time is that it's usually full of bugs and lack of easy to understand documentation. This is not because the application is ineffective but rather the lack of funding for open source initiatives.
So a word of advice: These developers and programmers who spend night and day don't get paid for this. So go easy if you encounter issues with open source applications and always remember that best way to get help is to ask not complain, because you aren't paying for these applications.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
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