oliverm wrote: > > We currently use Hyperic to monitor a range of client boxes. While its a > great system, the open source feature lacks certain things like group alerts > etc, and adding same 10 alerts to 20 servers is both time consuming and a > pain in the a*** > > Can Zenoss help us setup alerting any quicker ? >
Zenoss has some mechanims for handling groups of devices. Configuration of data collection is done in "templates", which can be attached to any subtree of the tree of managed devices, so it can apply to just one device, all Windows servers, all servers or all devices. oliverm wrote: > > Also, does Zenoss use agents so that we can cross firewalls etc? If so, do > the agents support actions on alerts like running scripts rather than just > emailing people ? > That's a question that already implies an answer (namely that agents are the preferred way to cross a firewall). That is bad discussion style :-). Zenoss can work across firewalls. You must either open ports for SSH or SNMP, or use a tunnel or VPN. If you tunnel SNMP via SSH and use public key authentication, you should be secure. Incidentially, Zenoss plugins are essentially agents which communicate via SSH. ------------------------ Sebastian Leske -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=9218#9218 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
