here are some technical features of OpenSMART.

For a detailed description of OpenSMART 1.2 features, look at here.

Key-Benefits of OpenSMART

• Database backend, supported rdbms's: DB2, Oracle, Mysql, Postgres
• Automatic software updates/installation for OpenSMART agent through deployment server
• Nice, ajax enabled webfrontend
• for the OpenSMART server: very few dependencies apart from a perl installation
• for the OpenSMART clients (these are your production servers): just a perl installation is needed
• XML configuration for the client (what to check), of course xml include files can be used
• The possibility to configure "fix commands" for some errors (automatic error correction)
• Simple integration of your own checks (Simple-Adapter), Nagios adapter also present
• Supported Platforms: Linux, HP/UX, Solaris, *BSD, AIX, Windows (only as client) (look at Compatibility List)
• good documentation
• GPL
• Conditional checks: check things only if some conditions like time or directories are given
• Cluster-aware checks: conditional checks run in a High-Availability-Cluster only where the filesystem (and the application) is mounted
• Checks can print operator instructions
• RSS Feeder for state changes of checks, highly configurable
• Very flexible notification rules can be defined
• Flexible reporting frontend which much data to view (OpenSMART V 0.4)
• simple sql interface for accessing reporting data
• frontends in English and German available!
• Many shipped checks with monitoring guides
• multi client- / rights management in frontend
• powerful checks for monitoring logfiles based on regular expressions
• self analyses of OpenSMART Agent by default