crosse wrote:
> I get kind of tired of having to wade through
> 10,000 messages in my System logs about the winexesvc service being
> successfully started, entering the running state, and being
> successfully stopped. 

Similar kind of problem (= event log full with "License successfully acquired" 
message) different solution:  The Zenoss guides should do a better job in 
explaining things like event transformation.

Things like event transformation are a wonderful thing, because they can  help 
you doing stuff automaticly. But configuring them is a daunting task because 
all the Admin guide has say about them  are explanations like: Enter a python 
expression to match to the event. This expression will be evaluated with the 
variable name “evt” bound to the current event. A detailed list of fields 
can be found in the Event Database Dictionary Appendix of the Admin Guide.

Which sound nice at first place till you find out that the Appendix is totally 
outdated and is giving no examples at all (=say goodbye to documentation, say 
hello to zendmd and Python dir() introspection).

This could be easily be fixed by updating the Admin Guide. But it could be 
worth a thought if it would make sense to split the current Admin / Developer 
Guide into an User / Admin / Developer Guide.

The User Guide could focus on things like handling the Web Gui. While the Admin 
Guide could focus more strongly on topics like debugging, backup & restore, 
zendmd, Thales expressions, event transformations which have little importance 
in the current Admin Guide.

Making the life easier for both for end users (who love screenshots) and admins 
(who love code they can modify).




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