Pres ent ed By,

N. Sant hos h- I I I ,
Sri Ram- I I ,
DCSc E,
C. S. I PTC, Sal em.

ZENOSS CORE
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CONTENT
Introduction
Why Zenoss?
Features
Technologies
Architecture
Pros & Cons
Conclusion
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Introduction
Zenoss (Zenoss Core) is a free and open-source application, server, and
network management platform based on the Zope application server.

Released under the GNU (GPL) version 2.

Provides a web interface that allows system administrators to monitor
availability, inventory/configuration, performance, and events.

Zope Application server: An object-oriented web server written in
Python.
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Why Zenoss?
Open Source Monitoring Solution
More features including WMI performance monitoring
Powerful plugins (ZenPacks)
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Features
Monitoring availability of network devices using SNMP, WMI
Monitoring of network services (HTTP, POP3, NNTP, SNMP, FTP)
Monitoring of host resources (processor, disk usage).
Time-series performance monitoring & Windows monitoring via WMI
Automatically discovers network resources and changes in network
configuration
Alerting system provides notifications based on rule sets and on-call
calendars
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Technologies
Zope Application server
Python
Net-SNMP
RRD tool
MySQL
Twisted
Lucene
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Architecture
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Dashboard
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Advantages
Open Source
Full Lifecycle Visibility
Physical and Virtual IT Infrastructure
Scalable for the Enterprise
Open, Flexible Architecture
Affordable
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Annoyances
Web interface feels slow
Limited open-source version. Full version needs to be paid for.
Performance
Complexity
Opaque operation
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Conclusion
Zenoss is a good choice for open source network and systems
management. The Zenoss system provides full stack coverage of
networks, servers, applications, services, and virtualization.

Hence I conclude by saying that, using Zenoss will not only
prove effective but also economic.
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