On the commercial stuff, you might be well served contacting zenoss sales staff directly. I know they do offer generic WMI queries via an Enterprise zenpack. Remember that this is a community list, so you'll get lots of Core users (like myself), some Enterprise users, and some dev's, but not really commercial sales staff (I don't think).
For WebInject, if it outputs in Nagios format like: Site OK|loadtime=5 size=1024 foo=0 Then you can plug it into Zenoss via a command datasource. Pretty much any Nagios plugin can be used this way. I believe you can also use Cacti plugins, but I'm not sure how with that. As to why you should use Zenoss via Groundwork... use whatever fits your budget and needs. The main reason I went with Zenoss Core was that Zenoss uses OS plugins that are already there much of the time (SNMP + WMI + SSH) as opposed to needing a custom agent installed. If the agent isn't an issue, that might well be a good way to go for you. -- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell University mlist wrote, On 3/30/2009 3:59 AM: > Ok maybe I'm wrong about Zenoss core... anyway I still have some question: > > 1) How do commercial plugins work? Snmp or wmi is default? > I mean: I know that Zenoss use snmp as default but you can force windows > server to use wmi as I already did with "http://blog.dastrup.com";. Now the > question is: does commercial plugins work in the same way? Can I use wmi > instead snmp to monitor Exchange and Sql Server but using the commercial (and > supported) plugins? > > > 2) Webinject > Because webinject is a nagios's plugin, do you think is possible to integrate > it with zenoss? I think it would be very cool! I don't know "twill" but I > read something about it but webinject seems to be just a little bit more > professional. > > Price comparison. > Groundwork is 25000$ for UNLIMETED NUMBER OF DEVICES > Zenoss Professional with Gold service Plan is 130$ PER RESOURCE > So...supposing to monitor 1000 devices , Groundwork will be always 25000$ > instead Zenoss 130x1000=130000$ and, supposing you have a "volume discounts", > maybe you can save 10000 or 20000$ but...GROUNDWORK IS DEFINITIVELY CHEAPER > THAN ZENOSS. > So...what does justify this difference? > This is important because I'm planning to migrate to Zenoss Professional but > because we are already use "Groundwork open source" someone could ask to me: > why don't use Gw professional that is a lot cheaper? What kind of added value > does Zenoss offer compared to Groundwork? > And I would like to have a good reply so please tell what do you think about > it. > > > Thanks again > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=32769#32769 > > -------------------- 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
