Zenoss Core 3.x Network and System Monitoring -- Table of Contents -- Zenoss Core 3.x Network and System Monitoring -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Network and System Monitoring with Zenoss Core -- Device management -- Availability and performance monitors -- Event management -- Plugin architecture -- System reports -- Custom device reports -- System architecture -- User layer -- Data layer -- Collection layer -- Device management daemons -- Performance and availability daemons -- Event daemons -- Summary -- 2. Discovering Devices -- Zenoss Core installation -- Preparing devices for monitoring -- SNMP -- SNMP versions -- Configuring SNMP on Linux -- Configuring SNMP and WMI on Windows -- Zenoss Plugins -- Installing Zenoss Plugins -- Port scan -- Opening monitoring-specific ports -- Configuring Linux firewalls -- Configuring Windows firewall -- Zenoss Core setup wizard -- Step 1: Setting up users -- Step 2: Specify or discover devices to monitor -- Adding devices -- Manually find devices -- Autodiscover devices -- Our device inventory: A job well done -- Reviewing device creation job log -- Adding a single device -- Entering device attributes -- Importing a list of devices with zenbatchload -- Command line discovery with zendisc -- Summary -- 3. Device Setup and Administration -- Organizing devices in Zenoss Core -- Locations -- Systems and Groups -- Organizer details -- Editing organizers -- Moving organizers -- Classes -- Viewing a list of device classes.

Assigning devices to a class -- Modeling devices -- Modeler plugins gather device information -- Assigning modeler plugins -- Troubleshooting data collection -- Troubleshooting SNMP problems -- Running snmpwalk -- Is the SNMP daemon running on Linux servers? -- SNMP problems on Windows -- Troubleshooting WMI problems -- Zeneventlog-unable to connect to Windows -- Zenoss Core does not collect WMI data -- Troubleshooting Zenoss Plugins -- A class of its own -- Device administration -- Locking or unlocking a device -- Renaming a device -- Resetting the IP address -- Push changes -- Deleting devices -- zProperties defined -- Summary -- 4. Monitor Status and Performance -- Collectors collect -- Configuring the performance collector -- Monitoring components -- Interfaces -- OS Processes -- Add Process -- Viewing or editing the process details -- Configuration properties -- Monitoring OS Processes -- Services -- Enable monitoring for a service -- Configuration properties -- Monitoring exceptions for services -- Interactively monitor IP services -- File Systems -- Ignoring File Systems with zProperties -- Network Routes -- Networks -- Add Components -- Viewing and editing component details for a device -- Performance Graphs -- Interface template -- Performance Graphs -- Working with graphs -- Monitoring performance thresholds -- Summary -- 5. Custom Monitoring Templates -- Monitoring Templates -- Monitoring SNMP data sources -- Overriding templates -- Editing the /Server/Linux template -- Find OIDs for SNMP monitoring -- Monitoring with Nagios plugins -- Working with Nagios plugins -- Nagios return codes -- Nagios performance data -- Adding the Nagios plugin to Monitoring Templates -- Adding a Data Source -- Adding a Data Point -- RRDtool Data Point configurations -- Defining monitoring thresholds -- Graph definitions -- RRDtool Graph Point configurations.

Binding templates to the device class -- Adding a device to monitor using the Bogo template -- Monitoring with Cacti plugins -- Data Source parser -- Summary -- 6. Core Event Management -- Event Console -- Event severities defined -- Event statuses defined -- Acknowledging an event -- Viewing an event log -- Events consoles are everywhere -- Closing events -- Displaying historical events -- Event Manager -- Event Fields -- Event commands -- Creating a command -- Working with events -- Simulating an event -- Clearing the event -- Event mapping -- Event Classes -- Event class zProperties -- Mapping an event -- Event mapping sequence -- Event de-duplication -- Turning off event de-duplication -- Summary -- 7. Collecting Events -- Routing syslog messages to Zenoss Core -- Collecting Cisco router syslogs -- Testing syslog configuration with Logger -- Monitoring Windows event logs -- Windows event log severities -- Testing the event log configuration with Eventcreate -- Incorporating event reporting into third-party scripts via zensendevent -- Simple backup script with zensendevent -- Creating events by e-mail -- Zenmail -- Zenpop3 -- Configuring alerting rules -- Alert filters -- Alert escalations -- Schedule -- Alert messages -- Event transformations -- Some event transformation examples -- Programming in zendmd, an interactive shell -- Summary -- 8. Settings and Administration -- Managing Zenoss Core users -- Administered Objects -- Event Views -- Groups -- Creating custom User Commands -- Adding a User Command -- System settings -- Configuring Zenoss Core's Monitoring Dashboard -- Locations portlet with Google Maps -- Device Issues portlet -- Zenoss Issues portlet -- Watch List portlet -- Root Organizers portlet -- Production States portlet -- Portlet permissions -- Meet the Zenoss Daemons -- Maintenance Windows -- Adding MIBs.

Backing up and restoring monitoring data -- Automating backups with zenbackup -- Restoring backups with zenrestore -- Updating Zenoss Core -- Summary -- 9. Extending Zenoss Core with ZenPacks -- Installing community ZenPacks -- Monitoring websites with HttpMonitor -- Viewing a list of installed ZenPack objects -- Configuring HttpMonitor -- Configuring HttpMonitor settings -- Creating a ZenPack -- Adding files and objects to the ZenPack -- Adding a new data source to the monitoring template -- Adding objects to a ZenPack -- Packaging the ZenPack -- ZenPack development mode -- Developer resources -- Summary -- 10. Reviewing Built-in Reports -- Report overview -- Device Reports -- New Devices -- Device Changes -- Model Collection Age -- Software Inventory -- Manufacturers and Products -- SNMP Status Issues -- Ping Status Issues -- All Devices -- All Monitored Components -- Event Reports -- All Event Classes -- All Event Mappings -- All Heartbeats -- Graph Reports -- Multi-Graph Reports -- Adding Collections -- Adding Graph Definitions -- Adding Graph Groups -- Performance Reports -- Aggregate Report -- Availability -- CPU Utilization -- Filesystem Utilization -- Interface Utilization -- Memory Utilization -- Threshold Summary -- User Reports -- Notification Schedules -- Summary -- 11. Writing Custom Device Reports -- Creating Custom Device Reports -- Custom Device Report fields -- Building Custom Device Report queries -- Using zendmd to test report queries -- Exploring data in Zope -- Using Python expressions in the columns -- Convenience functions -- convToUnits -- Scheduling reports for e-mail delivery -- Sending a CSV report -- Scheduling a cron job -- Summary -- A. Event Attributes -- B. Device Attributes -- C. Example snmpd.conf -- Index.