Howdy, I manage a small network, only a few servers, I am interested in keeping tabs on some Windows workstation issues.
- I'd like to be alerted if changes are made to the 'autoruns' registry sections. (spyware) - I'd like notices if ClamAV, http://www.clamav.net/ discovered anything suspicious (viruses) - I'd like to associate a power usage rating to devices, and monitor how many watts the network is using, what the energy savings would be realized with laptops, turning off at night. - It would be handy if Zenoss was integrated with a help desk / problem reporting type of application. Thanks, Kent On 8/12/06, Duncan McGreggor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As we all know, this list is mainly dedicated to learning about using Zenoss. But in this thread, I'd like to encourage some wish-list talk :-) I've been pondering web services, mashup applications, and Zenoss... and this got me thinking about the business possibilities potentially available to users. Thus the subject of this email :-) How would you *like* to use Zenoss? By this I mean something along the following lines: * The web views of zenoss represent a MASSIVE investment of your company -- all that hardware and the software running on those systems. * Zenoss provides a view of that investment; in particular, device metadata and event information for your networked hardware and software * In addition to being monitoring software, Zenoss is management software, therefore... * What else to you want to manage? What other information do you want know about your company's networked investment? What related information do you want to be able to manipulate? What related tasks do you want to perform? Let me give some examples to get you thinking along these lines: Example 1: Charlie manages 2000 servers in a low-budget hosting environment. She has been tasked with maintaining the equipment at super-low costs, the preferred method of which is eBay purchases. Since any device failure could be the last, when a device fails, she would like to see the average eBay cost for that same piece of equipment. eBay provides an API for just these kinds of queries. Example 2: On IRC and in a ticket (#259), giesen suggested that Zenoss provide voice alert capability. Admins could then get a phone message for events they were interested in. There is a web service that provides just such a service (subscription-based), and could be integrated into Zenoss as a mashup. Example 3: John manages customer applications in data cetners all over the United States, Europe, and Asia. If something goes wrong with an application, he wants to have a visual representation of its location in an instant so he doesn't have to waste time thinking about where it is. Google maps provides an API to do just this sort of thing. Example 4: Ng has a small monitoring facility in Vietnam with zenoss instances running small virtual servers. However, the hosting company charges a great deal for disk space, and he'd like to save where he can. Particularly, he only needs a few MIB files and doesn't want all of them to be bundled with Zenoss. Ng would like Zenoss to provide a web service for retrieving MIB files automatically and as-needed only. So, with these in mind, what other business processes could Zenoss make easier? Given that you are either already managing your networked resources with Zenoss or are thinking about it, the integration of various useful web services into Zenoss could 1) make your lives that much easier, and/or 2) save your company that much more money. And feel free to post completely off-the-wall ideas -- we want to stimulate creative solutions here :-) Thanks! d _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
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