On 03/09/2013 08:42 PM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Corey Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: >> Still using Zenoss and still loving it. Haven't really looked at >> recent alternatives, but then I haven't needed to either. > > Last time this came up I asked, "Why do you loved it"? Would you also > share what you might *not* like about it?
It's supposed to automatically detect which nodes connect to which other ones. I think that mostly depends on a IP subnet calculation, which for my network just doesn't work. Consequently the alert suppression also doesn't work and the map is a huge mess. Writing native Zenoss plugins has thus far been beyond my skill. I'm not actually a Python hacker, so that may not be Zenoss's fault. Instead I typically roll a Nagios-style check script and it works fine but it pains me to see all those forks. The way alert management is handled seems backwards. Instead of creating an alert and then assigning it to users or groups, you create the alert on the user or group. That means you can't re-use it for another user. Some of mine are rather complicated with escalations and what-not so that's an annoyance. Apparently this has been improved in version 4. > Have you upgraded to the 4.2.x version? No, and that's another gripe. I installed it on Debian, but they dropped support for anything except RHEL and clones so now I'm kinda stuck. I really wanted the IPv6 support too. > Do you use the "Open Core" exclusively, or do you use the commercial > offering too? I know the "Open Core" thing it supposed to make me feel > secure, but I what I read is, "Not All Open". I use only the open source version. Maybe I just don't know what I'm missing, but I review the list of closed-source zenpacks every now and again and so far none of them have seemed to be a must-have for my environment. Corey /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
