Open Source support, coherent joint software development and packaging is a very important initiative for ensuring strong integration, network survivability and transfer of technology developed within the network. In the management community, many Open Source components have been produced over the years, some of them being widely used today for several purposes. Recent evolutions in management and networking technologies however did slow the use of these very valuable software components and the rhythm of new productions has decreased drastically. From the very beginning, EMANICS partners did recognize the need to support the Open Source initiatives in the area of management to foster their use and acceptance on large scale.

In June 2007, two calls have been issued to the EMANICS community: one for software development and one for Open Source software packaging. Four initiatives have been selected in the first call : SMIng support in LibSMI, P2PFastSS, ISMS implementation and VoIPbots. Two proposals have been selected in the packaging part: Open Diameter packaging and NDPMon distribution standardization and integration in standard distributions.

In addition, the work on Management software categorisation, annotation and referencing did continue.

This report provides the details of the two calls that have been issued since June 2007 and for every selected project, a detailed description of the software package together with the achievements made so far are presented. The work on the software inventory database is also reported in this document.

A revised version of this document is expected to be provided at the end of phase 2 of EMANICS in December 2008.