Zenoss
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| developer | Zenoss Inc. |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| category | Network monitoring |
| License | GPL ( Free Software ) |
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Zenoss is on the Zope application server based network monitoring - Software under the GNU General Public License is available. System administrators can use it to monitor the availability and performance of servers and network components via a web interface in the browser.
Erik Dahl started Zenoss development in 2002 and founded Zenoss Inc. in 2005, which finances open source development and markets a commercial version of Zenoss.
technology
In addition to its own code, Zenoss uses a number of open source packages:
- Zope Application Server
- the Python programming language
- SNMP : network monitoring protocol
- RRDtool : Package for logging and creating diagrams of time-based data
- MySQL database
- Twisted: event-based network library in Python
Zenoss Core includes the following functionality:
- Monitoring of the availability of network devices via SNMP, SSH and WMI
- Monitoring of network services ( HTTP , POP3 , NNTP , SNMP , FTP )
- Monitoring of host resources
- time-based performance monitoring
- Extended Windows monitoring via Windows Management Instrumentation using Samba (software) and open source extensions
- Management of system events for automated notification
- Discovery of network components
- Support of the Nagios plug-in format
- Event management that enables alarms to be commented on
Platforms
Zenoss Inc. lists the following operating systems for Zenoss Core on the download page:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS (4, 5)
- Fedora (9, 10, 11)
- Ubuntu (6.06, 8.04, 10.04)
- Debian (5)
- SuSE (10.X)
- OpenSUSE (10.3, 11.1)
- macOS (10.5 Intel, PPC from source, 10.6)
- VMware Appliance
- FreeBSD (6.x and 7.x from source)
- Solaris (10 from source)
- Gentoo (from source)
The stack installer and the source code can be installed on other Linux and Unix systems.
ZenPacks
ZenPacks are a plug-in architecture that extend the core functionality of Zenoss. There are both community ZenPacks and those that are only available to enterprise users (see below).
Enterprise
In addition to the core version, the enterprise version includes commercial support and some features such as "Synthetic Web Transactions" and "global dashboards". According to Sean Michael Kerner, there is also application monitor for Microsoft SQL Server and Exchange for enterprise users.