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January 21, 2007

Lithium Network Monitoring Platform

Lithium-1 Lithium is a cross platform network monitoring tool that can monitor your network components, servers and other appliances. It supports both linux, Mac OSX and Windows, with its core server components running on either OSX or Linux. It is possible to access the core server to access the various graphs and monitoring information either through the Windows and OSX console application or through its web-based user interface. There are also incident management capabilities built-in to provide support when one of the components in the network suffers a break in service.

Links
Lithium Corp Home page

Posted by Egon Kuster at 09:11 AM

December 17, 2006

OmniGraffle Stencil for FFBD

Ffbd-1 After looking around the Internet for an OmniGraffle stencil for creating Functional Flow Block Diagrams (FFBD) without any luck I decided to just create my own, which you can download from here. This stencil contains all the major components of a Functional Flow Block Diagram which is used to outline the control of flow between functions within a functional architecture. FFBD are extremely helpful to try and describe the behavior of a system while being solution agnostic.

Links
Download Functional Flow Block Diagram (FFBD) Stencil
OmniGraffle Home Page

Posted by Egon Kuster at 05:06 PM

April 23, 2006

Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO)

200604231937 In the eclipse plugin feed that I am subscribed to I noticed the WSMO Studio plugin. On further research I have found out that this is an editor for the WSML and related ontologies for use in web services. This seems to be a part of the semantic web research that is occurring around the world for trying to correlate, reason and determine relationships between disparate sources of data. This type of research is extremely important when trying to get multiple service be interoperable within a complete Service Oriented Architecture within an Enterprise.

I still have not got a handle on the details of this but I am going to conduct some more research and potentially applying some of this work to my current job. So expect to see some more information about this in the near future.

Links
WSMO Working Group
WSMO Studio

Posted by Egon Kuster at 08:40 PM


	Category: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) January 21, 2007 Lithium Network Monitoring Platform Lithium is a cross platform network monitoring tool that can monitor your network components, servers and other appliances. It supports both linux, Mac OSX and Windows, with its core server components running on either OSX or Linux. It is possible to access the core server to access the various graphs and monitoring information either through the Windows and OSX console application or through its web-based user interface. There are also incident management capabilities built-in to provide support when one of the components in the network suffers a break in service. Links Lithium Corp Home page Posted by Egon Kuster at 09:11 AM December 17, 2006 OmniGraffle Stencil for FFBD After looking around the Internet for an OmniGraffle stencil for creating Functional Flow Block Diagrams (FFBD) without any luck I decided to just create my own, which you can download from here. This stencil contains all the major components of a Functional Flow Block Diagram which is used to outline the control of flow between functions within a functional architecture. FFBD are extremely helpful to try and describe the behavior of a system while being solution agnostic. Links Download Functional Flow Block Diagram (FFBD) Stencil OmniGraffle Home Page Posted by Egon Kuster at 05:06 PM April 23, 2006 Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO) In the eclipse plugin feed that I am subscribed to I noticed the WSMO Studio plugin. On further research I have found out that this is an editor for the WSML and related ontologies for use in web services. This seems to be a part of the semantic web research that is occurring around the world for trying to correlate, reason and determine relationships between disparate sources of data. This type of research is extremely important when trying to get multiple service be interoperable within a complete Service Oriented Architecture within an Enterprise. I still have not got a handle on the details of this but I am going to conduct some more research and potentially applying some of this work to my current job. So expect to see some more information about this in the near future. Links WSMO Working Group WSMO Studio Posted by Egon Kuster at 08:40 PM