sam wrote: > > ratm355 wrote: > > sorry, i must not have been very clear. Zenoss actually does alerting much > > better in my opinion. the answer to your question is yes if you want it to > > and no if you dont want it to. it can do anything you want as far as > > dependencies goes. i really couldnt say that for most monitoring programs > > out there. Nagios uses service and host dependencies applied to devices. > > Zenoss allows you to configure "dependencies" based on pretty much anything > > and these policies are applied for each user, not by the device....i don't > > want to go into too much detail, because you would understand it best by > > just trying it out. it's real easy to do and is a lot more flexible than > > Nagios or anything else I have seen. keep in mind, i thought nagios was one > > of the most flexible out there before i used zenoss. > > > Hmmm. Ok. From your description it sounds like I have to do a lot of manual > labor to set up the host dependencies that Nagios would do automatically, and > which could turn out to be a lot of work if there are many devices. I can do > "anything" I want, but it's not automatically done by the software in an > intelligent way. What I mean is: if a router goes down, I would like the > software not to report that the servers have gone down, and it should do that > without any configuration on my part. Or at least not require me to manually > configure that setting for each and every device and each and every router, > and have to figure out what the relationships are. This is a feature that > Nagios has, apparently. I am still in the process of learning about both of > these software packages and I am not an expert.
This is possible ! And without any manual configuration. Device dependencies are build upon the route table. So if your router goes down what will happen is: - Zenoss Reports a Router down with a critical state en a new event - Zenoss will detect that the servers behind de router are unreachable and may seem down, but based on the route table zenoss knows they aren't down but unreachable, for that reason zenoss reporst but with a suspended event. Now you have o configure the allerts: Do you want only an allert from the router and not from the servers? Ok that you can match with a new event state instead of something else. ------------------------ Wouter DHaeseleer -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=9070#9070 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
