So. The answer is "it depends". Primarily on how you want to do the monitoring. Out of the box, it is easiest to use SNMP, but there is some support for using SSH + Zenoss plugins if you don't want to use SNMP.
In either case, the servers you want monitored need SNMP or the Zenoss plugins running. SNMP is pretty standard, and net-snmp is easy to install from RPM or your repository, and you can at least get started with a simple snmpd.conf file with: rocommunity public However, there is a LOT to learn about SNMP - there are books about it etc... If you do use SNMP (which I recommend), you'll need the ports open for it to work, 161 if I recall correctly. Alternatively, if you want to get IP monitoring (that is, is a port working, say port 80) you'll also need those ports open to the Zenoss server. You'll also want Ping working and appropriate ports open for that, that is how Zenoss does status (up or down) monitoring. There's no easy step by step, you have to figure out what you want to monitor, how you want to monitor it (SNMP, ssh, syslog, something else), and then work out how to configure Zenoss to do that. -- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell University centos52 wrote, On 1/16/2009 10:31 AM: > I am new to this and I have been reading the documentation, I installed the > additional packages do I have to have snmp running on all of the Linux > servers I want to monitor or any additional packages? > > I am very confused on what I need to have installed or ports open on other > Linux servers to monitor them. > > Also, do additional ports need to be opened on the firewalls for monitoring? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, [Idea] > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=30131#30131 > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
