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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

See also:

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MySQL Error: (2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on '2001:db8:81:2c::2' (-9)")

I'm trying to set up Zenoss 4.2.0 on CentOS 6.3 to monitor a remote MySQL 5.5.25a server via IPv6. The firewall is open for the monitoring server and I can connect fine from the command line: [root@zenoss ~]# mysql -u zenoss -p -h…
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How do I remotely install, configure and maintain SNMP?

I'm looking to remotely install the SNMP and SNMP WMI Provider services on Windows Server 2008 R2, configure specific options for the Agent, Traps, and Security tabs, then make sure these services and settings aren't removed or turned off. This goal…
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How to add an event/alert on Zenoss for a string type SNMP OID?

I have the status of a particular application being reported as string over SNMP. When everything is working as expected, that monitoring reports an empty string and when some of the data sources have problems, it reports back an string with the…
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Zenoss time based monitoring

We use Zenoss for system monitoring and few backup servers will use 100% of NIC bandwidth from 17:00 to 22:00 everyday. I hope there is a setting to allow me to setup different threshold for different time period but did not find any. Does Zenoss…
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Zensyslog Clear Events

I've hooked up Zenoss' Zensyslog so that messages from a distributed list of client machines are all conglomerated into events on the Zenoss server. This is all fantastic, and I can bump messages by simply using the logger command: logger -t…
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Monitoring bespoke software with Zenoss

We've got a lot of back-end applications that we need to monitor the performance of (metrics such as orders waiting to be processed, time since last run, etc). Currently, this is done by an in-house watchdog application that fires out emails…
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Monitoring ports with netcat on a remote server and Zenoss

I'm pretty new to using Zenoss, so excuse if this is something simple. I have a bash one-liner that checks a bunch of services are running on certain ports: for i in {80,443,5009,5010,5020,5030,5040,5050,5060,5065,5066,5070,5080,5098}; do nc -vz…
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Zenoss SMS missing text

I've set up a Xenserver hosting a Debian VM with Zenoss Core 4.2.4. The Xenserver has a Siemens T35 GSM Modem attached to its serial port COM1. I used ser2net + some Xenserver configuration to get it working. (COM1 binding, SELinux, ...) I created a…
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Can ZenOSS integrate Ganglia smoothly?

I like Ganglia for its Gmetric function, and I like its multi-layer capability. But Ganglia does not have healthiness check, alerting and etc. for the server monitor functionality. So it would be great to bring this two species together. Sure, we…
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SCOM 2007 versus Zenoss (or other open source)

I've taken the liberty to test both SCOM 2007 and Zenoss and found the following: SCOM 2007 Pros: Great MS Windows server monitoring and reporting In-depth configuration and easily integrates into a "MS datacenter" Cons: limited network device…
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How can I configure Zenoss to send an SMS or Voice alert

Has anyone successfully configured Zenoss to send an SMS or Voice alert? Googling only comes up with a service called TeamTILT for Zenoss. Is this the only alternative available? Has anyone solved this without using this service? Thanks.
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Zenoss multi-graph reports for a location or group of servers

we are using ZenOss with the HP server zenpacks to monitor our servers. I want to create a multi-graph report for the thermal monitors in the servers. I can successfully create a report when using "specific device/component" and selecting a server…
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Monitoring LAN with Zenoss

How can i monitor LAN with zenoss in RHEL5? My server is RHEL 5 My client machines are Windows xp Using 10.0.0.0/24 serious for LAN connection. Have modem for internet Have switch for connecting to LAN machines What all are the steps i want to…
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Create xfs system with mfks

I'am following a guide to install Zenoss which asks me to create a xfs system. To do this I need to run the following command: mkfs -t xfs Partition The guide says as follows: 'Replace Partition with the path of the target primary partition' What…
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Push monitoring data from Zenoss to another system

We have built a system that does time-series analysis on real-time streaming data. We would now like to be able to push events from monitoring solutions into our system. We have figured out how to get Nagios to push the data into our system from…
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