the_jaymz wrote:
Though the Zenoss documentation is better than some of the other
packages I've looked at, I'm having a hard time finding a clear answer
to some questions. Can you help?
I need to monitor about 500 HP ML350 servers which are all on different
networks and behind firewalls. The firewall configurations can't be
altered. Is there a way to push the reports from my customers' servers
to Zenoss?
In Zenoss the means of monitoring systems is client-less, so they are actively
polled by the monitoring server itself (via SSH/SNMP/Nagios plugins) as you've
read. This removes the option of agent-push-driven alerts/updates (ala
Hyperic), unless you/someone writes a passive monitoring plugin (ala Nagios NRPE).
In response to the "could I make it work?" thought that would be inevitable for
me...
There "seems" to be some support for remote monitoring systems, splitting off
performance/availability monitoring into remote systems... that you could
"potentially" place at the remote sites to do this job, and "maybe" get
reporting back to the primary host. Sorry for the sarcasm, but I haven't seen
that anyone has successfully achieved this since (at least) 1.x versions, and
even though docs indicate this is somehow possible, and there are options in
Zenoss for it... it seems non-functional to me. Maybe just "right now" and will
be fixed, maybe until you buy the enterprise product.
All of the servers have either the SmartArray 641 or E200i raid
controllers. Can I monitor the status of the drives?
If the above terms are tenable, I'd first check for a Nagios plugin for this,
or whether there is support in the vendor's enterprise MIB for these.
Thanks!
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