Questions[zenoss](server)

I'm pretty new to using Zenoss, so excuse if this is something simple.

I have a bash one-liner that checks a bunch of services are running on certain ports:

for i in {80,443,5009,5010,5020,5030,5040,5050,5060,5065,5066,5070,5080,5098}; do nc -vz localhost $i; done

Is there any way I can tell Zenoss to run this on the remote server over SSH and create an alert if one fails?

I have created a template against the device and added that template to zDeviceTemplates, but I'm not sure where to go from there for it to actually work.

Thank you.

We use Zenoss for system monitoring and few backup servers will use 100% of NIC bandwidth from 17:00 to 22:00 everyday.

I hope there is a setting to allow me to setup different threshold for different time period but did not find any.

Does Zenoss support this feature ?

Thanks

I like Ganglia for its Gmetric function, and I like its multi-layer capability.

But Ganglia does not have healthiness check, alerting and etc. for the server monitor functionality. So it would be great to bring this two species together.

Sure, we can install Ganglia, and then install ZenOSS. But is there a plugin or something that can smoothly integrate them together? At least integration at the presentation level.

Thanks

I've hooked up Zenoss' Zensyslog so that messages from a distributed list of client machines are all conglomerated into events on the Zenoss server. This is all fantastic, and I can bump messages by simply using the logger command:

logger -t webserver_is_down "The web server is down"

What I'd like to be able to do is also post an event that clears for when the webserver comes up.

logger -t webserver_is_up "The web server is up"

I've tried to set this up with Event classes but with no dice. Is there a Syslog level that correlates with Zenoss' clear/0 level? Is there another easy way to do this?

Thanks for any help you can give!

We've got a lot of back-end applications that we need to monitor the performance of (metrics such as orders waiting to be processed, time since last run, etc). Currently, this is done by an in-house watchdog application that fires out emails whenever a threshold is exceeded, but there's no way to acknowledge an issue and squelch these alerts.

Rather than build our own complete alerting system, we'd like to tie in to the Zenoss installation we use to monitor our servers. I've found a few articles on creating events programmatically, but I'd rather Zenoss itself monitors the values that the current watchdog app is looking at (so we get the benefits of graphing and history as well).

Is it possible, then, to programmatically provide a data feed (rather than an event) to Zenoss? Or is there another way to go about this?