Welcome to the GroundWork Foundation Developer Toolkit.  This toolkit provides application developers
access to the underlying data in the GroundWork Foundation package.  

Using the toolkit, programmers can use PHP, Perl, Java or third party products to:
      Build custom displays of real-time monitoring information.
      Build custom reports from historical monitoring information.
      Monitor additional devices or systems by feeding monitoring information into the system.
      Consolidate information from disparate systems into a single view.  
      Integrate heterogeneous systems by using GroundWork Foundation as an intermediary system.

The Developer Tookit includes documentation that describes the available APIs and sample applications.

The toolkit is based on a framework developed by GroundWork Open Source Solutions, called GroundWork Foundation.
The intent of GroundWork Foundation is to provide a data model that integrates the components of an 
IT infrastructure that requires monitoring.  Flexible methods of integrating data into the data store
are provided, allowing different tools, applications and databases to feed data into GroundWork Foundation. 
GroundWork Foundation will normalize the data so it can be retrieved in a consistent
manner. GroundWork Foundation then provides various APIs to allow the normalized data to be retrieved.  The GroundWork Foundation package includes Nagios, as the main monitoring
system, integrated with GroundWork Foundation and a set of applications which use the GroundWork Foundation APIs to present real-time views and reports. An architectural diagram of the

For more informationgo to the docs directory