Troy,
On Aug 15, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Troy Poppe wrote:
All,
First, let me say I find Zenoss to be a nice merging of
functionality for monitoring resource utilization and organization
of systems in the data center.
Thanks!
I've got a question regarding how data is collected about devices.
It appears that currently there is a default set of information
that is gathered for each device as it is added. I would like to
be able to extend the information to be gathered. For example, I
would like to add in some hardware elements to represent my RAID
controller channels. Or, I'd like to re-define what SNMP OID is
used for Hard Drives.
The "real world" is mapped to the zenoss model using plugins. These
plugins can collect information using SNMP, SSH or Telnet (also
portscan for services). The first request about the RAID controller
might require an extension of the model (not trivial as it also
requires extension of the UI). The second is just a new HardDiskMap
plugin (see $ZENHOME/Products/DataCollector/plugins/zenoss/snmp/
InformantHardDiskMap)
Additionally, I've got 'types' of servers like web servers,
application servers, citrix servers, database servers, etc. I'd
like to setup a template of data to gather for each of these types
of servers. I've currently got some additional SNMP OID's being
polled based on my performance tab for a particular path (/Servers/
Windows/Database, /Servers/Windows/Citrix,etc.) But this seems a
little odd to me, and I wonder if it might not be better to have
the ability to add a tab to the machine view ('Status', 'OS',
'Hardware', ...) which would represent some of the attributes about
'Oracle', or 'IIS', or 'Citrix'.
Not sure I understand. You are doing performance monitoring
(RRDTemplate) correct? These can have customized data points down to
a specific device. But you want to bind a template for IIS to a
device (instead of adding it to the "Device" template. This seems
like a good idea might take a bit to get to it.
-EAD
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