Monitoring the status of NFS shares with Zenoss
I frequently get asked how one would go about monitoring the status of NFS shares with Zenoss. I recently came up with a solution. For starters, you may have to remove "networkDisk" from...
View ArticlePost-2.4.5 Patches
If you are running a 2.4.5 install you will notice that there are still a few bugs (most of which have been patched at this point). The patches that I recommend for any 2.4.5 Zenoss users are the...
View ArticleZenoss Primary Server / Data Collector Daemon Overview & Configuration Set Up
After research, I summized the following regarding which Zenoss daemons should run on the Primary Server and Data Collector(s). Zenoss Primary Server and Data Collector Daemon Configuration Set Up User...
View ArticleZenoss vs. Nagios
One of the most common questions we get from open source users is what's the difference between Zenoss and Nagios. While Nagios has one of the largest installed bases of any monitoring solution it's a...
View ArticleZenoss Users Forum FAQ
Please Note: A second extended version of this FAQ is updated here#: Zenoss Users Forum FAQ part 2 Be sure to check both. #ZenossUsersForumFAQNew UsersWhat should I know before using Zenoss?What...
View ArticleZenoss Users Forum FAQ part 2
Why is there a second page of FAQ?New UsersI have a question about Zenoss Enterprise. Where should I ask it?Zenoss ConfigurationHow do I completely disable the Performance Monitoring of Network...
View ArticleFix Zenoss Permissions
If you mess up your Zenoss permissions you can use the following commands (as root) to restore them: chown -R zenoss:users /usr/local/zenoss chown -R root:mysql /usr/local/zenoss/mysql chown -R...
View ArticleHOW TO CONFIGURE WMI ACCESS ON WINDOWS FOR A NON ADMIN USER
Hi,If you, like me have to configure WMI access on Windows servers for a non admin user in order for Zenoss to read the eventlog etc, read on...IntroductionZenoss is able to read & query Windows...
View ArticleSimple backup to ftp script
## Note, this is a fist guide and i know can be enhanced removing hardlink a using variables First of all install "curl", then create a file under /opt/zenoss/backupmyzenoss.sh like this...
View ArticleTransforms based on time
In some cases, you may want to have certain actions kick off based on the time that the event comes in. Here are some quick examples of how you could do this... In the following example, we want to...
View ArticleWMI - WBEM Error Codes and Meaning
If WMI returns error messages, be aware that they may not indicate problems in the WMI service or in WMI providers. Failures can originate in other parts of the operating system and emerge as errors...
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