I am looking for best practices on how to show details like what DeviceOrganizerStatus shows for a subset of devices, narrowed down by Location and further narrowed down by System.
Background: My company uses Zenoss Enterprise 2.1.3 at eight sites globally. It's a hit. All staff like the DeviceOrganizerStatus overview window. By opening up http://zenoss:8080/zport/dmd/Devices/Server/deviceOrganizerStatus staff get a quick summary of how Linux, HPUX, ESX and Windows servers are doing. Staff really, really like this view, and are abusing Zenoss to force that view from other groups. :( We use the Systems organizer to group devices by function: our compute farm is in System/LSF, web in System/web, Citrix farm in System/Citrix. We group the Locations organizer so each site has a Location. So Bangalore, Allentown, etc each get a Location. The problem I have is that the compute farm manager wants an overview like 'deviceOrganizerStatus' to see Systems sub grouped by Location. Another variant of this problem is that the site administrator for Allentown wants to see Locations sub grouped by System. What this means is that some managers have created: Systems/Citrix/Allentown Systems/Citrix/Bangalore Systems/LSF/Allentown Systems/LSF/Bangalore while the site admin for Allentown has created: Locations/Allentown/Citrix Locations/Allentown/LSF and the site admin for Bangalore has created: Locations/Bangalore/Citrix Locations/Bangalore/LSF I find this complicates Locations, Systems, reports, alert rules, and lots more. :-) I looked at custom reports, but that doesn't show the Event indicator color/count the way admins want to see it, and doesn't link to the specific events. Has anyone found a better way to show a summary of device name | Subs |Devices | Events without creating a location called Locations/Allentown/LSF and without creating a System called Systems/LSF/Allentown ? I searched the forum for Reports and Location but I didn't find any good leads. Thanks, David Sloboda PMC-Sierra, Inc. -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=22335#22335 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
