Jarmila wrote:
> 
> 1) Try ping to machine, if doesn't reply, send e-mail.
> 2) Check if process is running, if not, send e-mail.
> 
> Many thanks for any help.


Zenoss alerts are event based.  By default ping monitoring should be enabled, 
and should a device fail to return a ping it will trigger a /Status/Ping 
critical error.

So to notify someone that a machine is unpingable, all you need to do is go to 
the User's page (/Zenusers /Someuser, reachable from the Management/Settings 
option on the left bar), make sure they have a vliad email address then go to 
the User's "Alerting Rules" tab, and set up an alerting rule that send out (at 
least) critical errors.  However, because you also want process monitoring, you 
probably want to send error level or higher (which includes critical).

Fortunately, the default options are set up to mail out errors and critical 
errors, so all you need to do is change the Enabled tab from false to true.

For monitoring processes, you'll have to go into the processes section and 
choose which processes should be monitored.   If I remember correctly, the 
processes section starts off empty.  You'll need to add a process definition 
for each process you want to monitor, which includes a regular expression that 
identifies the process by name, by default it's the same as the name you 
configured.  During the next reconfiguration (every 6 hours) Zenoss will pick 
up the list of processes that are running from your server, use the regular 
expressions you've set up to create a list of monitored processes and generate 
an event if any of them disappear*.

* Unless you lock the processes on your servers they can disappear during the 
modelling process without triggering an event.  To lock the processes you have 
to go to each device and use the lock feature on the processes block.




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