Okey dokey - my sflow/netflow request is unlikely to make it to 2.3 so I've 
compiled a list of things that as far as I'm aware I can't do now but would 
like to be able to do. Hopefully I'm not getting too ambitious. Some have been 
mentioned already and some may be in trac but here goes anyway (in no 
particular order).

1. A systray/widget for windows/mac/linux to show a simple overview - clicks 
take you to the relevant page on the web gui. Could be a simple RSS feed type 
thing.

2. Manual editing and overrides of the discovered network topology and fix the 
duplicate network issues (subnet is a subnet of itself)

3. Ability to add templates and zProperties to a product or manufacturer class

4. Where a product class is not detected by SNMP but the manufacturer is, why 
not add the device to the manufacturer class as unknown.

5. Ability to email people that do not necessarily have accounts on the zenoss 
server - for instance, I want to send an email to a non-technical manager when 
toner is low on a laser printer or mail a group of users if some other 
device/system is down.

6. Ability to drill down from the network map.

7. Notifications via XMPP/IM etc or a transport-independent abstraction layer 
for notifications that is as easy as possible to build notification plugins for.

8. A bit more point and click for basic customisation - I'm amazed that the MIB 
browser Zenpack was not part of core a long time ago (I reckon that the MIB 
browser should be available for selecting custom perf monitors too). This kind 
of thing would also be great for syslog data mapping and classification.

9. Consistent, up-to-date documentation that is in one place and goes into more 
detail for those that want to do a bit of customisation but who haven't a clue 
about python and can't read source code.

10. Grabbing properties from SNMP that are not necessarily performance or 
availability metrics such as serial number, firmware version, again, selectable 
via the gui using the mib browser zenpack. At the very least, being able to 
view custom properties that are manually edited on the main view for a device 
(or network or device class or location etc etc).

11. Use of textual conventions from manufacturer MIB files - this could also be 
used to automatically populate the products and for adding other fields as 
described in point 10.

While I'm here, and I know this is only going to make v3000 if at all, but 
think of all the MSPs that you could please by having a probe/agent/proxy that 
could be installed at a customers site (windows), which reports back to a NOC 
using one-way ssl connections. It's what many of the big MSP platforms do and 
could win Zenoss a lot of business by capturing startup MSPs with core before 
they get big.




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