jwitherspoon wrote: > ....I agree that the documentation is not complete and the GUI is not > polished, but I think you are evaluating and viewing this software as though > it were a Microsoft product.
/Shudder Nope, not even close. I expect much more from a package like this. I donât want to EVEN go into the garbage that uSoft has foisted on the public, called an OS and has even had the audacity to charge money for! Crap, they should pay US for the beta testing! /Kicking the soap box back into the corner Did I say anything about NOT wanting to work and learn? Hmmm.. Perhaps a bit of background is in order. I'm an hourly schmuck, an electronics tech by trade. I work on everything from PBX systems, fiber optics, microwave radios on mountain tops, SCADA, Wifi, 2 way radio, process controls... You name it, I've probably messed with it, but I am NOT a programmer or systems analyst. Most of my knowledge has been gained by running into a problem and learning how to fix it. I'm in an odd position at our company. I do about 95% of the work on our network and Cisco gear, and I'm one of the folks that the IT department calls when they either want to modify, add to the network or have a problem and want me to packet sniff and see what is going on. However, I am -not- in IT. I do work closely with our IT department, and they've actually been the ones to foot the bill for my network analysis and CCNA training. Why are they paying for me to get training? Because I have the background in networking and familiarity with Cisco gear that most of the other folks in IT did not. I was the logical choice until they could get some more folks in IT âup to speed.â Our current network monitoring system is pretty rudimentary, as weâre using the Kiwi tools stuff. (Cat tools, and their syslog monitoring utilities.) I've been looking for the last few years at all kinds of different netmon packages, and when I first read about Zenoss, I had all kinds of bells going off! Man, this looks COOL! What is ânot- said in all the nifty screenshots of networks, charts and other cleanly packaged reports can be boiled down to this: Zenoss is the kind of package that needs the administrator to be trained in Linux/Unix, scripting, Python, etc. and pretty much requires that individual to work on it full time for at âleast- a few days straight to get the kinks out. To someone that HAS the programming background, they can just dig right in and with a few keystrokes say âAha! Gotcha! Somebody flipped a comma and a bracket in this query..â (or whatever. You get the idea.) Like I said in my other message, itâs pushing me to learn. (And thatâs a good thing.) -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=18096#18096 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
