I'm somewhat new to Zenoss; but for the most part I've figured it
out and am quite impressed so far. I work for a web hosting company
and we're looking at using this as a replacement for aging cacti/
mon.cgi monitors that we use now.
My question is this; is there some way to disable IP service
monitoring for multiple hosts at once? For example, we have several
machines that run SMTP but only for localhost connections. Zenoss
sees that SMTP is there and automatically enables the SMTP
monitoring; however, it's constantly producing error events because
port 25 denies external connections. I figured out how to disable
it on individual machines through the Device -> OS -> IP Services
section. However, it's a huge pain in the but to have to do that on
50+ machines. Is there some way that it can be changed for a
specific device group or something like that, instead of disabling
the service on a per device basis? Keep in mind that we do still
want it on most of the machines; so globally disabling the check
isn't an option either.
We're going to move the service and process monitoring to the device
hierarchy in the future, but for now it is configured either at the
global or device level as you have found. However, you can script
large changes like these to ease the burden.
Run zendmd as the zenoss user to enter the interactive shell. The
following script could be used to set all of the smtp services within
the /MyGroup group to not be monitored.
for device in dmd.Groups.MyGroup.getSubDevices():
for port in device.os.ipservices():
if port.name() == 'smtp':
port.monitor = False
commit()
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