I'll answer in line: -- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell University
sjgndb wrote, On 8/16/2009 12:58 PM: > Hi all, > > Sorry but another newbie here. Im sure im going to aks some questions that > have been answered many times before but I just cant find them anywhere out > there on the net. > > Firstly what a cracking peice of software Zenoss is. We have been trialing > various moniting packages and this is deffo looking like the one we will > purchase, however for now we have to use the Open Source free version to > prove concept. > > For the questions: > > 1) We have External system out on the net and have 2 locations for our > internal networks. Is it possible to monitor both internal networks with a > Zenoss Box each, and then pass the data and info to the External box? (Really > I suppose can data be replicated from Box A and Box B to Box C. Then we all > use box C to view the data)? > You can with the Enterprise version in a supported way. There's a bunch of stuff about maybe getting this working with Core, but it seems very non-trivial. See the Zenoss Wiki and search the forums for some info. > 2) On SNMP is SNMP2 safe enought to put on our hosting box's? Does it create > any security holes? SNMP V3 looks cool but some people out there are saying > not to use it, just to monitor using SSH. Is this the best way? > It depends on your environment. For systems inside a firewall, SNMPv2 is fine IMO. And it's pretty easy to get going with Zenoss. However, I don't know that I'd trust a pretty simple community string open to the Internet. SSH is more secure, but Zenoss's support is much less mature IMO, it just came out with 2.4. If you're ok writing some of your own Zenpacks for perf, then it's fine - you'll not have the number of existing Zenpacks as you do for SNMP. > 3) We have a site which has 8 Servers on which would would want to monitor. > The site only has one static IP address, can we setup different ports for the > SNMP? e.g > > 161 = Server 1 > 162 = Server 2 > 163 = Server 3 .... etc > Not easily, in CORE I believe you would NOT be able to use the built in SNMP collector(that only does port 161 IIRC), you'd need to create command data sources to specify using snmpget or snmpwalk on different ports. This would have performance implications. > 4) Is there any Trixbox Plugins we can use to Monitor Trixbox? > None that I'm aware of. > 5) Any suggested good reading? > Yes. Read the official docs, and the Community FAQ: http://community.zenoss.org/trac-zenpacks/wiki/CommunityFAQGeneral http://www.zenoss.com/community/docs/zenoss-guide/2.4.0/index.html _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
