To Extend Junos Space, Juniper Networks Enters Into Agreement with OpenNMS

Juniper Networks (News - Alert) recently announced that the OpenNMS Group has entered into a "Powered by OpenNMS" licensing agreement with them to add fault and performance management capabilities to the Junos Space software platform.

A special and disruptive platform, Junos Space unites the management of disparate devices that run the Junos operating system. It has the ability to not only control all of those devices through the Network and Security Manager (NSM) but it can also allow applications to be built to fully automate the management process across devices which further helps to reduce the time and cost involved of administering a network to meet real business needs.

In a release, Tarus Balog, CEO of The OpenNMS Group, said, "We saw a common need among equipment manufacturers and other companies for a powerful platform that they could use to showcase the capabilities that they had built into their products. Building an enterprise scale management system is hard, and by leveraging OpenNMS, companies can focus on providing the most features for their clients and their products, while leaving the rest to us."

OpenNMS offers highly scalable provisioning, event handling, as well as fault and performance management features across a number of devices such as routers and switches, through servers, virtual machines and applications.

Usama Anqud, Senior Director of Engineering at Juniper Networks, stated, "After evaluating several products, we found that OpenNMS was best-in-class, complimenting Junos Space by providing a highly scalable, full featured and customizable fault and performance management capabilities."

Under an open source license (the GNU GPL, version 3), OpenNMS will currently be available to everyone. However, those companies that can't use that license without exposing either proprietary features or trade secrets to competitors, purchasing the "Powered by OpenNMS" program will provide them with greater licensing options.

OpenNMS is one of the world's first enterprise-grade network management application platforms that has been developed under the open-source model. An alternative to commercial products such as HP Operations Manager, IBM Netcool and Tivoli, and CA (News - Alert) Unicenter, OpenNMS is a 100 percent free software.