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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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Install RRDtool 1.4.7 on CentOS 6

I'm trying to install Zenoss core 4.2.3 which requires RRDtool 1.4.7. CentOS 6 comes with RRDtool 1.3.8 So, I've downloaded the RPM rrdtool-1.4.7-1.el6.rfx.x86_64.rpm and tried to install it, which gave me the following…
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Configure Zenoss login screen for SSL URL

I'm trying to configure Zenoss 4.2.X to use an SSL-enabled URL in the login form. I have nginx as an SSL reverse-proxy sending requests to Zenoss listening on port 8080. This works. However, the login form uses…
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Zenoss - install.sh doesnt ask for mysql password

i'm trying to install zenoss on a ubuntu-14.04 virtual machine. I followed the following guide "https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Zenoss". After some errors with dependencies, I have the following error ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user…
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Running Zenoss from VirtualBox in OSX - Login Fails

I downloaded the OSX version of Zenoss to trial it. Unpacking the .zip results in virtual hard drive files (.vdmk etc). I spun it up in a VirtualBox machine, and after a bunch of stuff loaded I'm presented with a screen... To access the Zenoss…
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Integrating Zenoss (mail data Logs) with MySql database table?

I have installed Zenoss monitoring tool on my pc and I want to store every outgoing email from the zenoss to a database. Does any one know how I can achieve this. FYI I just use this server to send emails and I use google Apps to receive emails. And…
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How can I get event details in a transform with Zenoss 3.x

I need to get the event details from a trap in an event transform. The traps come with oids in the event details. The problem is that the OIDs are not predictable because the last digit is the event number on the SAN itself. For example, the two…
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install zenoss on ubuntu, raise No valid ZENHOME error

I've added an user with name zenoss, and set export ZENHOME=/usr/local/zenoss in ~/.bashrc under /home/zenoss, and when using echo $ZENHOME, it could show /usr/local/zenoss When install zenoss, I switched to zenoss and then run install.sh under…
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Configuring ZenOSS to monitor CPU load

I'm trying test out monitoring tools for a network at work with a coworker but neither of us have ever used an sort of monitoring tools before. Currently we are experimenting with ZenOSS and having some difficulties. We want to populate our CPU load…
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Monitoring a tcp port using Zenoss

it's possible to monitor a general purpose service, listening on port 5896, i.e.: tcp://production.enterprise.com:5896 I just want know if this service is alive or offline, like a fast "nc -zv " command. Regards, And Past
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Monitoring iptables status

Anyone have a good solution for doing checks on iptables to ensure that the appropriate rules are applied (and the service is running)? I am using Zenoss to monitor my environment. Also, some of the rules in my chain that I want to check block…
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Zenoss - Performance issues with captured events

The problem I'm manually inserting events into Zenoss through the zensendevent command line tool. The events are successfully inserted into Zenoss. The problem is that I can just insert about 8 events per second. I have also experimented with…
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SNMP set up for Zenoss server

I've setup snmpv2 for communicating with Zenoss server. It's working. But now I have some question. 1. Is SNMPv2 client broadcasting its data all the time? Is there any way to prevent that? Through configuration file? Can I use SNMP configuration…
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ZenOSS webinterface connecting

I'm having a problem with ZenOss. I installed the centos stack installer on Centos 5.5 x64. De installation succeeded and no errors where displayed. But when I tried to surft to the ip address it doesn't respond. Then I added an exception to the…
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Zenoss need to get freespace threshold and alerts on windows "mount points"

I have a WMI query that will give me all the data I need to do this but I can't figure out how to get this working in Zenoss. I know I need to set data points and a threshold, and optionaly a graph. The problem is examples of how to do this with WMI…
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Zenoss - rename device from terminal

I have aproximately 100 switches that need to be renamed in zenoss and a csv file with the IP address and corresponding name. Is there a way to rename a device from the terminal so that I can knock up a quick script to parse the csv and rename the…
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