Based on your description of the first request, now that I understand a bit of the 'under-the-covers', let me ask it a different way. Is there a way for me to add a Map that will be used for extracting information from my device? Can the GUI be extended such that it displays this new information as part of the 'Hardware' tab? Could this GUI extension be dynamic, such that adding a Map would also extend the GUI? Perhaps too much to bite off... As for the second request, I'm looking to have a tab after 'Hardware' / 'Software' to be 'Database', for example. On this tab I would display the information related to the database that runs on this machine. Let's say I had an Oracle database server on a machine, I would have some information about the TNS Listener, 0-to-many instances, and relevant information about the instances. Maybe some information about tablespaces, etc. T
----- Original Message ---- From: Erik A. Dahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Troy Poppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; General discussion of using zenoss system <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 1:45:36 PM Subject: Re: [zenoss-users] Changing/Extending hardware definitions 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 _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
