Intro to Zenoss by Andrew Kirch

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Build a Cloud Day

Introduction to Zenoss

January, 2015

Andrew D Kirch

Community Manager

[email protected]


Agenda

• Intro to Zenoss

• Why Zenoss?

• Demonstration (30-40 minutes)

• The Community

• Where do you get it?

• Questions and Answers


What is Zenoss

• Built on a single platform, Zenoss Core is a Unified Monitoring

solution that delivers the quickest and most precise insight into

potentially affected services so you can address issues before

your business and users are impacted.

• Zenoss will monitor anything that supports standards compliant

agents like SNMP, SSH, and WinRS/WinRM to monitor all the

things.

• Zenoss will also leverage target API’s for cloud and converged

infrastructure such as CloudStack, OpenStack, AWS, and UCS.

• Zenoss also supports a wide variety of other open source plugins,

scripting languages, and applications


Frankenmonitor


Unified Monitoring

• Unified monitoring for legacy, physical, virtual and cloud

• Agentless deployment leverages standard protocols

• SNMP

• WMI

• SSH and Local command plugins

• SNMPv2 MIBs

• Supports most major operating systems out of the box

• Zenoss and Community documentation available


• ZenPacks - Use the target’s API or existing agent to monitor it

• 394 total ZenPacks Created by Zenoss and Zenoss User

Community

• Rapid Development via Open Source ZenPack Generator

• Notable Open Source ZenPacks:

• CloudStack

• OpenStack

• AWS

• Windows

• Linux

394 ZenPacks currently available on the

ZenPack Catalog

http://wiki.zenoss.org/Category:ZenPacks


Install Zenoss Core – Small Footprint

You will need:

• VM or server with 2 cores, and 4gb of ram (for up to 100 devices)

• Minimal Install of Centos 64bit (Ubuntu support coming)

• Community Script:

• http://wiki.zenoss.org/Install_Zenoss#auto-deploy_Installation

• Untar the script and run it as root

• Takes about half an hour

• Guaranteed to take 3-6 weeks on hotel wifi!

(I highly recommend a good beer while waiting)

http://wiki.zenoss.org/Install_Zenoss


Demo


Support

• Zenoss has an active support community

• Places you can go to find us:

• Wiki: http://wiki.Zenoss.org

• ZenPack directory:

• Forums and Blog: http://www.Zenoss.org

• IRC: irc.freenode.net #zenoss

http://wiki.zenoss.org/

http://www.zenoss.org/


What can be found on the Wiki?

• Wealth of Community

sourced docs

• Over 400 ZenPacks

• Getting Help section on the

front page

• Tips for creating

transforms and templates

• Development guide for

ZenPacks including four

two-hour videos

• Wealth of Community

sourced docs

• Over 400 ZenPacks

• Getting Help section on the

front page

• Tips for creating

transforms and templates

• Development guide for

ZenPacks including four

two-hour videos


The Community Website – www.Zenoss.org

• Forums

• Great for more in-depth

questions

• Patrolled by Zenoss employees,

other customers, and the

Community

• Community Blog -

http://www.zenoss.org/blog

• Updated several times a month

• Contains the Dev Hours

schedule


IRC irc.freenode.net #Zenoss

• Active Community support

• Dev Hours twice a week

• A Zenoss Engineer from our solutions, platform, or professional

services team will be available to answer your Transform,

Template, or ZenPack related questions.

• Schedule is posted quarterly The current schedule is available

here: http://www.zenoss.org/blog/201410/q4-dev-hours

It’s IRC folks, did you really expect a screenshot?

http://www.zenoss.org/blog/201410/q4-dev-hours


Questions?

Contact info:

Andrew Kirch

Community Manager @ Zenoss

Email: [email protected]

IRC: Trelane in #zenoss

Twitter @trelane99

Thank You!

Questions & Answers

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Intro to Zenoss by Andrew Kirch