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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 agent (in any language to start, although it will eventually be in java). Are there any g...

How can I make Zenoss recognize skin changes?

I'm writing a ZenPack for Zenoss which includes a new DataSource. The DataSource has a ToOne relationship with another persistent object and I'm trying to construct the user interface to allow a user to specify the value of this relationship. I've given the DataSource a factory_type_information attribute with an "immediate_view" key ma...

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 of persistent classes (data sources, graphs, etc). Considering that during development, ma...

How can I access Zenoss via URL Authentication

So I've read all the documentation on how you are supposed to do this. It says to pass the parameters below. http://serveraddress:8080/zport/dmd/Dashboard?__ac_name=admin&__ac_password=password However, when I do this, (with a valid uname/pw and the right server address), I get a half loaded page, with just a couple sidebar menu o...

Zenoss need to get freespace threshold and alerts on windows "mount points"

I have a WMI query that will give me all the data I need to do this but I can't figure out how to get this working in Zenoss. I know I need to set data points and a threshold, and optionaly a graph. The problem is examples of how to do this with WMI are few and very confusing. Could anyone atleast point me to documention on how to do thi...

Reliably get Latest Event Log Record with WQL

Hi All, 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 which tells me to use the NumberOfRecords column in a query such as this Select ...

LDAP bind with Zenoss 3

Any hints to allow Zenoss 3 to authenticate via LDAP? ...