Well, you're on the right track, though I'm not sure you could do this via event transforms, you probably could via a cron job. You may also want to try putting the device into decomissioned production state when you don't want it monitored, again, I think you'll have to use cron + zendmd... -- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell University
nikal wrote, On 4/13/2009 10:29 AM: > I also need to monitor a good number of Windows desktops. All they are > switched off during the night. > > It's not about the ping alerts which I can easily supress, but about the fact > that even when Zenoss sees these devices are down, it tries without stopping > to establish a WMI connection there and to poll the SNMP agents. My > zenwin.log and zenevent.log are full of "WMIFailure: > NT_STATUS_HOST_UNREACHABLE" messages coming every couple of seconds. I have > thresholds of zenwin, zeneventlog and zenperfsnmp cycle times exceeded. In > case of exceeded filesystem size tresholds, alerts are periodically cleared > and appearing again as long as devices are switched off and back on. > > I wanted to manipulate dinamically the zSnmpMonitorIgnore and > zWmiMonitorIgnore properties (e.g. from an event transform - > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?t=9354), but up to now have not > succeeded in doing that. > > I'd like to have full-blown monitoring of these machines, but at the same > time I want to overcome somehow the above problems. Could anybody share his > experience, or advice on the matter? > Thank you in advance. > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=33339#33339 > > -------------------- 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
