So, I’ve made some headway on the comparison. I have Hyperic installed and partly configured, albeit without email alerts yet. I’ve found some serious features that I need missing, but I’m going to give it a full run before I move on to another.

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After dinner tonight, I’m going to start setting up my Xen VMs and installing some monitoring software. I’ve decided that Hyperic and OpenNMS will be the first round - mainly because their free versions seem to be the most heavy-weight, and will probably take more installation time. GroundWork Open …