HP OpenView Alternatives

HP openview is a network management system of Hewlett Packard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_OpenView

Here are few alternatives for this...

Nagios: Open source monitoring system for mac, linux and unix platforms.

http://www.nagios.org/about/overview

OpenNMS: Open source monitoring system for linux platform.

http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Main_Page

Few more

http://www.zenoss.com/

http://www.nedi.ch/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pandora/

Network operations center (NOC)

Network operations center is a centralized management, monitoring and control over IP based networks, broadcasts and telecommunication networks.

NOC continuously examines/monitors the networks and raise automated alarm to specific users and modules as mentioned in configuration. IP based networks are monitored by using SNMP protocol (http://www.net-snmp.org/),but it also supports CORBA and other protocols.

For power and environmental devices, a middle layer device is required to let NOC communicate with these devices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_operations_center

On the go changing network profile settings for different adapters

When you have to use different network adapters at home, office or other locations, you change network adapter settings manually.

Netsetman is a great utility to perform this task instantly, with this you may change adapter settings with a single click.

http://www.netsetman.com/index.php?s=nsm