Network Monitoring With Zenoss

摘要

Zenoss fits pretty well into the two fundamental roles: availability monitoring and performance monitoring, and also provides the facility of inventory tracking. Zenoss, written in Python, uses MySQL as backend for storage. For enterprises, it is important for a system administrator to monitor services and check that hosts are up and running. Also, once a decent monitoring solution is in place, you also ought to get time-based information. For instance, for memory and CPU usage, it gives you timely alerts. It has an option that allows you to chart pretty RRD graphs of system statistics like RAM or disk space.rnThe key features that Zenoss integrates are inventory tracking, availability and performance monitoring, and event monitoring. Zenoss provides flexibility in use as it is capable of monitoring hosts with SNMP, SSH, Windows WMI, Nagios agents, etc. The web interface is pretty decent and includes a customizable dashboard for monitoring.