Snark, I'm not a linux guru, but I started with an Amiga 1000 in 1985-86ish so I'm not exactly ignorant either. (I am an electronics tech by trade, and have been trained as a Novel 4.11 CNE, plus I have my CCNA and have about half of the stuff done to go for my CCNP. Iâve been messing with networks since the mid 1980s and I can thrash around in the bowels of Windows without too much trouble.)
snarkout wrote: > To be fair, you should at least have a decent understanding of the underlying > os to expect to run zenoss or any software of this caliber/magnitude on top > of it, especially in an enterprise situation. Sure, if you have to support/fix/tweak a product like this to make it work right in the first place. I've evaluated other netmon packages (like the one from Fluke that came out several years ago,) and it was pretty much a 'push button' operation. (Also âWhats Up Goldâ comes to mind..) Yes, they have some glitches, but not to the point where you have to be intimate with the OS and fluent in whatever backend database is used to support the product. What I'm trying to say is that in my world, I'm having to run this in a VM, and that adds another layer of stuff to deal with on top of the Zenoss idiosyncrasies. I had our IT department look at Zenoss after I got it up and running on my desktop. The first âhitâ was that the IT department does NOT allow Firefox/Mozilla on our networked machines, and so a lot of the displays donât work right. By the time that they had thrashed around for a bit, they were pretty disappointed and it pretty much killed any possibility of using Zenoss. Theyâve allowed me to use Firefox on my desktop to manage/display it locally, so I do see everything working correctly, and Iâm continuing to work with it in hopes that when we do migrate over to IE7 that Iâll have an installation that is functioning well that I can demo again. Steve -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=17692#17692 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
