Great, now, we are going down along the stack :-) The idea of the Open Management Consortium is to enable the collaboration between different Open Source projects of systems management for servers runnning open source software stacks.
The projects which are participating are already quite exciting (we are using nagios in ecenter solutions):
The Consortium is comprised of leading open source projects that are developing and shaping the technologies used to manage IT infrastructure, particularly open source infrastructure such as that hosted on Linux. The initial committee members represent community leaders and firms that are central to open management technologies. Specific objectives of the Open Management Consortium include:
- Create awareness of open source management tools in the market
- Provide education and resources to help end users make informed decisions regarding open source
- Establish conventions and standards that enable integration and interoperability
- Enable collaboration and coordination on common development projects
- Promote collaborative open source systems management solutions
The Consortium will work to drive open standards for systems management within the industry, assisting IT managers and system administrators to custom-create solutions to best serve their business needs.
That remembers something else, umh…. :-)