Zenoss
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| Zenoss | |
 Zenoss running under GNU/Linux |
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| Developer: | Zenoss Inc |
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| Use: | Network management system |
| License: | GNU General Public License |
| Website: | www.zenoss.com |
Zenoss is an open source network monitoring and systems management platform released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. Zenoss is a monitoring platform that provides availability, inventory and configuration, performance monitoring, and event management. Zenoss has the ability to provide automated discovery, agent-less data collection, reporting, and real-time information access through its AJAX-based web portal.
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[edit] History
The Zenoss project was founded by Erik Dahl and released as a project on SourceForge in March 2006.
Zenoss is backed by the Zenoss Inc. one of the Little 4 open source systems management companies (along with Groundwork Open Source, Hyperic, Qlusters). Zenoss a co-founding member of the Open Management Consortium.
[edit] Technology Overview
Zenoss is an all inclusive monitoring technology. Zenoss is built on the python-based Zope Application server. Zenoss also takes advantage of many other open source technologies like NetSNMP, data is stored in MySQL, and data is logged by the popular RRDtool. Zenoss can collect data via SNMP or for Windows servers through Windows Management Instrumentation WMI.
[edit] Primary Features
Zenoss can monitor most anything with an ip address: network devices, applications, operating systems, environment, etc. The four primary functions of Zenoss are:
- Inventory and Configuration - Ability to inventory all devices in your network and relate them to groups.
- Event Management - Provide centralized collection, correlation, and management of events through syslog, WMI, SNMP trap, and custom events as defined by the Zenoss web services API.
- Availability Monitoring - Active monitoring of device, application, an service availability through scheduled execution of simple tests.
- Performance Monitoring - Collection of server, network, and application performance metrics, time series graphing by devices or groups.
[edit] Secondary Features
The following features are helpful additions to the primary monitoring capabilities:
- Discovery - Zenoss can build and maintain a detailed model of your complete IT environment using several collection protocols, SNMP, WMI, SSH, and telnet.
- Web Portal - The single integrated, browser-based console gives secure, role-based access to views and controls from any web browser.
- Collection - Zenoss uses an agentless collection engine that can collect data from common standard protocols and commonly deployed agents (SNMP, SNMP Trap, Ping/ICMP, SSH/Telnet, Syslog, WMI, Nagios Agents, XMP/RPC Interface)
- Reporting - choose from a library of reports or create your own custom or ad-hoc queries.
