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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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Introduction to SNMP monitoring

I've been tasked with writing a monitoring program for my company's server software that integrates with zenoss via snmp. To be brief, I can't get anything up off the ground. I think my first goal is to figure out the correct way to write an snmp…
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MySQL Innodb Deadlock - how to remove old event?

My monitoring tool, Zenoss, is reporting a 'LATEST DETECTED DEADLOCK' event from a MySQL Innodb engine. When I run 'show engine innodb status\G' I get the following information about the deadlock: ------------------------ LATEST DETECTED…
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SNMP - Getting information from a process

I need to setup a process monitor on a number of servers using a monitoring tool called Zenoss. The problem I'm facing is how can I get information on a specific process via SNMP? I'm not familiar with SNMP at all and I'm having trouble finding out…
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Increase RRD step

We have situation with Zennos that collecting cycle was 30s and we have a lots of data already collected. Now we need to increase collection period to 300s. Problem is that zenoss stop rendering graphs it you do it just like that. So we need to…
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Reliably get Latest Event Log Record with WQL

I have written an application which collects windows logs from linux, via the Zenoss wmi-client package. It uses WQL to query the Event log and parses the return. My problem is trying to find the latest entry in the log. I stumbled across this…
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How to POST data from Zenoss to a URL using a python script

With the risk to be a little off-topic I'll give it a try: I have a small script written in python, which is supposed to POST some data on a specific URL. The problem is: I am integrating this script in zenoss: Here is the path from zenoss…
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How to install ZENOSS 4.2.5 on ubuntu 12.04?

I want to install/setup ZENOSS 4.2.5 on ubuntu 12.04. But i have no idea how to achieve this. Can anyone please tell me how can i do this? Your reply will be helpful for me.
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How to get device uid based on host name in Zenoss API

I am new to Zenoss. I would like to know if there is any way to get the UID based on the device name. For example, in vCenter i have a VM with name 'MyTestVM' and i can see that in Zenoss Infrastructure section. I am developing a portal to show the…
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What is the typical workflow for development of a Zenoss ZenPack?

ZenPack development seems to involve the creation of a variety of persistent state. There are model classes which represent explicitly persistent state. There are skins which are associated with model objects. There are organizers and instances…
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Zenoss - Device Access Control Lists for Customers

We're evaluating Zenoss and are interested in Device Access Control. We would like to set up the system so that our customers could access Zenoss and only see their devices and status. This feature apparently only exists in the enterprise version as…
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Zenoss - Create Application Based Alert

I am attempting to monitor a java-based application for running/not running status and alert based on that monitor within Zenoss. The process class I have created works and correctly identifies the java processes is running, however, I seem unable…
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How to get device names based on group name in zenoss?

Is there any API to get all the device names under the same group in zenoss? Please point me in the right direction.
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What is "serviced" in the context of configuring Zenoss dev?

I am following Zenoss Development Environment Guide to configure Zenoss. When I get to the part about mounting z directory into container, I cannot find the file mentioned - I've tried "find" and it's just not there. I can't find anything on Google…
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Integrate in Zenoss remote data

I need to monitor several Linux servers placed in a different location from my farm. I have VPN connection to this remote location. Internally I use Zenoss 4 to monitor the systems, I would like to use Zenoss to monitor remote systems too. For…
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Zenoss MySQL Query - Events per hour

I am working on some trending/analysis tools, and would like to query the events MySQL database for an events per hour metric so that I can send the metric out as a datapoint in graphite. Because some events will be in the status table, while others…
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