The future of virtualization
is written in the stars?
We have alternatives to the license mumbo-jumbo.
At Thomas-Krenn, we have long held an interest in the open source concept. Sharing open source software, knowledge and know-how has become an essential part of our company’s profile. We develop open source software and make it freely available to the public. We also share our knowledge in various portals and support promising open source projects with the Thomas-Krenn Award and its corresponding hardware prizes. Furthermore, our company was among the first to supply tested Debian-Linux servers – and we continue to test our servers with various Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian and Red Hat.
TKperf, a tool for speed measurements, was developed by our technicians and is regularly reviewed and updated. It is available on the web-based service GitHub. Interested parties can contribute to the further development of the software and improve it or add new features via this portal.
Alongside of this open source program, we also develop various plugins for the monitoring software Icinga. For instance, to monitor the hardware status of a system, we have developed an IPMI plugin that can be downloaded via GitHub. Users can control various values, such as temperature, voltages or fan speeds, via Icinga or Nagios and quickly respond in problematic cases.
In addition to our IPMI plugin, our experts have also developed tools for monitoring Adaptec RAID controllers, SMART attributes on hard drives and SSDs, NVIDIA GPUs and other server components. A complete list of our Icinga open source plugins can be found in our Thomas-Krenn wiki.