Well - Zenoss uses MIBs to translate SNMP Traps, so users if they use SNMP Traps like getting MIBs imported. Also, if you get the MIB Browser Zenpack working, getting MIBs in to figure out the OIDs can be a big help when building your Templates for perf monitoring.
Nagios plugins are useful if you just want to "plug" something in, and don't want to figure out the OIDs yourself, but you do end up needing to still define graphs... For your Ricoh printer, you'll want to read up on Templates. You would indeed create a subclass, then a new template, and bind it to the subclass. In your template, you'll need data sources (SNMP probably, with OID...), Graph definitions, and thresholds if desired. There's no real step by step because it's a huge amount of variables, but the Admin Guide is great for getting started, and the Zenoss Book, while targetted at 2.1.2 is still very useful for understanding basic Templates. It sounds like you're currently just thinking SNMP, but Zenoss is *A LOT* more than that. Don't forget WMI, SSH, syslog, and your own custom scripts/commands for data gathering. So people are doing all sorts of interesting things with various plugins etc. Zenpacks are what members or Zenoss have bundled up for easy install and setup of their customizations. -- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell University HercuLeeZzz wrote, On 2/12/2009 1:12 PM: > Hi James, > > It was a problem on my end. However, I've got things sorted out, and > everything I enter into the /Devices/Network/Router/Cisco/Internal/ Class is > providing memory and cpu utilization graphs!!! Thats awesome! Thanks James! > > I'm just curious as to what we would do about mapping a Ricoh printer or > something like that? I'm assuming we would create a class, and then assign a > template to it? Would we need to create MIB's? > > Why are people adding MIB's and Nagios plugins if ZenOSS doesn't need them? > > Thanks a million for your help!! > > Herc > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=31239#31239 > > -------------------- 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
