Zenoss Core
Zenoss (Zenoss Core) is an open source application, server and
network management platform based on the Zope application server.
It provides an integrated product for monitoring availability,
performance, events and configuration across layers and across
platforms.
This software provides a web interface that allows system
administrators to monitor availability, inventory/configuration,
performance and events.
Besides being built upon the Zope Application Framework,
Zenoss Core also relies on MySQL,
RRDtool, Net-SNMP, and Twisted.
Features include:
- Easy to use browser-based graphical user interface:
- Customized Dashboard that summarizes active events by
business system and severity
- Rich AJAX-Enabled customized user interface with portlets
- Role-based permissions
- Application, Network and Systems Monitoring and Management
- Inventory via CMDB:
- Modeling of entire environment including networks,
servers, software, and applications
- Mapping of IT elements and cross-platform information
into a normalized data schema
- Logical and physical grouping and mapping to business
systems, locations and responsible parties
- Population through auto-discovery, web services API, XML
import/export, and manual user input
- Monitors the availability of network devices using:
- ICMP response testing
- SNMP response testing
- Testing of standard TCP/IP services (HTTP, SMTP, etc.)
- Testing of specified TCP/IP ports with regular expression
matching
- Monitors network services (HTTP, POP3, NNTP, SNMP, FTP)
- Monitors host resources (processor, disk usage) on
most network operating systems
- Time-series performance monitoring of devices
- 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
- Virtual and Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring and Management
- Enterprise-ready architecture
- ZenPacks Framework - packaging system for Zenoss plugins,
skins, etc
- Core ZenPacks include Amazon Web Services, Apache, Dell
Monitor, Dig, DNS, FTP, Glocal Device Search, HP, HTTP, IRCD, Jabber,
Linux, LDAP, MySQL, NNTP, Ntp, RPC, Xen Virtual Hosts, Virtual Host
Monitor, VMware Infrastructure ESX Server, Zen JMX Collector
- 200+ community extensions
- Web Services API's (XML-RPC and REST)
- XML Import/Export
- Python Scripting Shell
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