The goal is to make SSH and SNMP-based monitoring of Linux essentially equivalent in what they provide, so you have the option of handling it however you prefer. Right now, SNMP probably provides more coverage, there is a fixed ticket for King Crab that provides the memory and interfaces (http://dev.zenoss.org/trac/ticket/5047), which is also provided by the LinuxMonitorAddOn ZenPack. Once the same metrics are provided with SSH and SNMP, the choice should fall to the sysadmin based on preference: SNMP is probably more lightweight but requires configuring snmpd whereas SSH is slightly more heavyweight but almost every box already has SSH configured. Feel free to open tickets against the LinuxMonitor ZenPack with patches to get this into shape. SNMP also has the advantage of working with more stuff out of the box, but with additional Community SSH ZenPacks the coverage differences should eventually disappear. Right now there are OpenSolaris, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Fedora and SuSE SSH ZenPacks available, so feel free to add more Linuxes and BSDs and Unixes.
Thanks, Matt Ray Zenoss Community Manager community.zenoss.com [email protected] _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
