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Zenoss is an open-source application, server, and network management platform that allows system administrators to monitor availability, inventory/configuration, performance, and events over a web interface.

Zenoss is an open-source application, server, and network management platform that allows system administrators to monitor availability, inventory/configuration, performance, and events over a web interface.

Zenoss Core is built upon the following open source technologies:

  • Zope Application server: An object-oriented web server written in Python.
  • Python: Extensible programming language.
  • Net-SNMP: Monitoring protocol that collects systems status information.
  • RRDtool: Graph and log time series data.
  • MySQL: A popular open source database.
  • Twisted: An event-driven networking engine written in Python.

Zenoss Core provides the following capabilities:

  • Monitoring availability of network devices using SNMP, SSH, WMI
  • Monitoring of network services (HTTP, POP3, NNTP, SNMP, FTP)
  • Monitoring of host resources (processor, disk usage) on most network operating systems.
  • Time-series performance monitoring of devices
  • Extended Microsoft Windows monitoring via Windows Management Instrumentation using SAMBA and Zenoss open source extensions
  • Event management tools to annotate system alerts
  • Automatically discovers network resources and changes in network configuration
  • Alerting system provides notifications based on rule sets and on-call calendars
  • Supports Nagios plug-in format

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ZENOSS - Custom page with custom graphs

In zenoss we are trying to evaluate if it is feasible to build a custom page that allows a user to graph data such as: requests per minute response time filter based on type of request, http status, os, os version. Zenoss would read in a log file…
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Push monitoring data from Nagios/Zenoss to another system

I have built a system which does various types of time-series analysis and now I would like to feed it data from a monitoring tool. Since I have Nagios set up already in my test environment, I prefer to get it from there. But as a second choice I…
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Zenoss Monitoring Templates, clearing events

I have a monitoring template set up on Zenoss to run a database query and use Nagios to check that the output of the query, which is a number, is within an acceptable range. When it's not, a CRITICAL level event is generated. My question is: How can…
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How to configure Zenoss to list devices by name instead IP address automatically?

I've set Zenoss 4.2.3 to get devices from our entire network from all subnets (INFRASTRUCTURE -> DEVICES). But it returns me the device list only with the IP address, it doesn't obtain the hostnames from both Windows and Linux machines. How can I…
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Monitor trap is received from agent

I have an agent that monitors windows event log and looks for service up/down messages, and sends these messages as trap to zenoss. The agent is set to be run in windows scheduler. The agent is deployed in client device. How can I monitor the agent…
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Zenoss modeling localhost

Immediately after installing it, Zenoss appears to try to model the server it's installed on. That's fine, but I only understand how to configure Zenoss to model a server via snmp, ssh, or some other network-bound service. Since ssh/command modeling…
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Filter Zenoss Alerting Rules for certain Data Source only (or certain Data sources active only at a given time)

We're working to monitor a couple of services with Zenoss over SNMP and have implemented the SNMP part. We have configured data sources (to various OIDs) and thresholds for these values and hosts to monitor. For alerting rules, some of the data…
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How to make Zenoss stop monitoring SMTP?

The title says it all. We use Zenoss in a midsize network with lots of different Linux boxes. A lot of them have SMTP on by default, but we don't use it for anything; not on a single box. The Zenoss monitoring template "Status/IPService" keeps…
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Zenoss MySQL database backups are huge after multiversion upgrade

The Context: We ran Zenoss 2.2 for way too long, and decided it was time to upgrade to the current version, 3.2. I followed the upgrade steps here, and checked to make sure everything was working after each incremental version upgrade. I made sure…
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Debian Testing - SNMPD Configuration for Zenoss

Linux server1.xen.prgmr.com 3.0.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Sat Aug 27 16:41:03 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux snmpd 5.4.3~dfsg-2.3 zenoss-stack 3.2.1-0 I have installed Debian Testing, Zenoss and smpd on the same server. I am having a hell of a time trying to…
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Zenoss with Apache Rewrite subdirectory

I'm trying to set up Zenoss to work with https://server/zenoss instead of https://server. Here's my rewrite rule: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/zenoss($|/.*) http://localhost:8080/VirtualHostBase/https/server:443/VirtualHostRoot/zenoss$1…
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Zenoss: Getting SNMP stats over SSH

I have the SSH connection working. I have it successfully modeling the device (Ubuntu Server, in this case). What I can't get to work is the SNMP portion. It sounds like I have to custom add the snmpwalk command when doing monitoring over SSH - in…
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OSS Server Monitoring Software -- Which is right for me?

I'm trying to plot the course for my organization and am currently looking at (not exclusively so, but so far research leads to these): Zenoss Nagios OpenNMS Our requirements is that this must be freely licensed, support SNMP/WMI monitoring, as well…
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Zenoss No space left on device Error

Site Error An error was encountered while publishing this resource. Sorry, a site error occurred. Traceback (innermost last): Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 231, in publish_module_standard Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 165, in publish Module…
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Zenoss 3 adding custom properties

I could not find how to do it. The latest Zenoss 3 documentation http://community.zenoss.org/docs/DOC-6006 mentions about a section titled "Adding Custom Properties". But I could not find it. Any hints?
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