Hmmm. Not necessarily. Perhaps: http://www.zenoss.com/community/docs/zenoss-guide/2.4.0/ch06s02.html#d4e2328 Basically you: 1. get into the templates of a particular subclass (dropdown, more, templates) or just template tab. You have to pick the level you want to create your template in, and in fact, it may be useful / safer to create your own subclass /Devices/MyPlayground or something so you don't accidentally break anything that is currently working.
2. Create a new template 3. Create a datasource, and pick the appropriate type (probably SNMP in this case). 3a. Provide the OID you need to poll. 4. Create a Datapoint named the same thing (I guess it doesn't have to be, but it usually is - I don't really know why). Then set it to the appropriate value, see the admin guide linked above for values, GAUGE might be appropriate. 5. Repeat as necessary. 6. Create Graph Definitions for the stuff you want graphed (you can have a data point that just runs a check but doesn't get perf data so you don't need it graphed). This is usually easy, use defaults and specify the Datasource_Datapoint you want in the graphs. You can have one per graph, or multiple. 7. Done. For a command data source example, see: http://www.zenoss.com/community/wiki/user-contributed/SmokepingishLatencyGraphs/ With that sort of datasource, you can easily use Nagios Plugins with Zenoss: http://community.zenoss.org/trac-zenpacks/wiki/CommunityFAQGeneral?version=72#HowdoIuseNagiospluginswithZenoss Hope this helps. -- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell University gerryarmstrong wrote, On 7/14/2009 9:59 AM: > Ok, apparently I am somewhat confused between Zenoss and Nagios. Guess I have > to learn how to create these templates, any step by step tutorials out there > that I can see to help a newbie with this? > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=36913#36913 > > -------------------- 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
