An Interview with Horizon User, Jesus Palacio: Part 2

We're highlighting Jesus Palacio, CTO of Urbalink Networks, and an OpenNMS Horizon user for more than 20 years. In the first part of our interview, we got to know Jesus and how he got started using OpenNMS. In the second, and final, part of our interview, we'll learn how he [...]

By |2024-02-06T16:51:57-05:00October 24th, 2023|

An Interview with OpenNMS Horizon User, Jesus Palacio: Part 1

We're highlighting Jesus Palacio, CTO of Urbalink Networks, and an OpenNMS Horizon user for more than 20 years. In the first part of our interview, we'll get to know Jesus, how he got started with OpenNMS, and why he's stayed with the network monitoring platform after all these years. [...]

By |2024-02-06T16:50:39-05:00October 17th, 2023|

Modern Integration: Event-Driven Ansible & OpenNMS

Integrating systems from two different vendors can be a challenging endeavor. However, these challenges often present unique opportunities for problem-solving. With today's innovative tools such as Red Hat Event-Driven Ansible and OpenNMS, we now have more robust and sustainable solutions at our disposal for such issues. I'd like to share [...]

By |2023-09-26T11:59:40-04:00October 3rd, 2023|

Celebrating International Girls in ICT Day 2023

Happy International Girls in ICT Day 2023! OpenNMS celebrates the importance of girls, women, and non-binary folk in Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Last year, people on our team shared stories about the importance of access and safety in ICT. This year's theme is "Digital Skills for Life." Looking around [...]

By |2023-04-27T11:39:40-04:00April 27th, 2023|

What is Network Segmentation?

Network segmentation is the process of dividing a network into smaller, more manageable pieces (segments) to improve its security posture. Network segmentation creates secure zones (subnetworks or subnets) within your larger network to help mitigate the impact of a security breach. By breaking the network into smaller pieces, you limit [...]

By |2024-04-01T15:21:15-04:00April 19th, 2023|

Security update: Mandatory GPG key rotation for Meridian and Horizon

In the wake of the CircleCI breach, we have been reviewing policies and updating keys and tokens used in our automation for anything that could potentially be affected. While we have no evidence of any of specific credentials being leaked, we've needed to document procedures for rotating keys anyway, so [...]

By |2023-05-03T15:11:11-04:00February 13th, 2023|

How to Monitor Processes With SNMP

SNMP Monitoring Monitoring processes that don't provide network services is a default use case in network monitoring. Because they aren't providing network services, black box testing won't work- you need an agent on your system providing an inside view of your operating system. SNMP monitoring can help. The Net-SNMP agent [...]

By |2024-04-01T15:26:27-04:00January 12th, 2023|
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