Datasheet: Zenoss Core 2.1

Who

Zenoss Core is an easy to use IT monitoring and management software designed for System Administrators. Zenoss Core provides centralized and customizable dashboards to support the needs of System Administrators from companies of all sizes.

What

Zenoss Core is an open source IT monitoring and management software. It is a web-based, integrated solution to monitor your entire IT infrastructure that combines the following capabilities:

Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

• Leading open source CMDB in the market
• Population through auto-discovery, web services API, XML import/export, and manual user input
• Modeling of entire environment including networks, servers, software, and applications

Inventory and Change Tracking

• Scheduled automatic or manual discovery
• Automatic change history and detection
• Ability to import IT Component information from outside resources

Network Monitoring

• Flash based representation of your network’s layer 3 topology
• Icon based device representation for Linux and Windows devices
• Google Maps Mashup for your WAN availability and performance monitoring

Availability Monitoring

• ICMP, SNMP, TCP/IP testing with intelligent suppressing of alerts based on layer 3 network dependencies
• Windows/Linux and Unix service and process availability testing
• Generate events based on availability issues

Performance Monitoring

• Scheduled collection and storage of SNMP OID values with support for Nagios and Cacti performance collection scripts
• Provides performance metrics on Java wrappers for applications, services, components, and devices in a distributed network with Java Management Extension (JMX) Performance Collection for managed objects (MBeans)
• Ability to set multiple threshold levels on a specific metric

Event Management, Log Monitoring and Alerting

• Aggregation of events from various sources: availability monitoring, performance monitoring, syslog sources, SNMP trap sources, Windows Event log
• Ability to build event processing rules through GUI interface
• Layer 3 aware alerting to minimize "Alarm Fatigue"
• Web Portal, Dashboard and Reporting
• Rich AJAX-Enabled user interface with role based permissions
• Drag and Drop fully customizable dashboard
• Customizable and powerful reports that can be shared via e-mail

Where

Zenoss Core 2.1 is developed to be used by companies and organizations of all sizes. Zenoss users include organizations monitoring 50 devices as well as large international companies managing 5000 or more servers. Easy to use and open Zenoss Core design enables users to select the functionalities they want to leverage and scale as their needs change.

When

Use Zenoss Core when you have been tasked to put together an affordable Configuration Management Database for your organization. Or you have been using first generation open source software for your IT monitoring needs, but now you need a solution that is easy to use, reliable and scalable.

Why

Zenoss Core is an easy to use, easy to implement and maintain IT monitoring solution that offers functionality that can only be found in expensive and non-integrated proprietary solutions. Zenoss Core is reliable, scalable and affordable.

How

Zenoss Core is freely available for downloading from www.zenoss.com or www. sourceforge.net. It is the most popular IT monitoring solution on Sourceforge with consistent ranking in the top 5 among all projects. The Zenoss family includes a very large user base and an active community providing timely support and help for your questions.

Features

• Model Based CMDB
• Inventory and Change Tracking
• Network Management
• Availability Monitoring
• Performance Monitoring
• Events Management
• Level 3 Network Topology Map
• Google Maps Mashup
• Ajaxified Drag and Drop Dashboard
• Agentless Native JMX Performance Monitoring of J2EE
• Easy to use Advanced Reporting
  
• Monitoring Templates Developed by the Community (ZenPacks)
• 100% Agentless and Web based
• Windows Monitoring from Linux-installed Zenoss
• Open Source
• Python Scripting Shell
• Zope Platform with MySQL Database

Zenoss Supported Platforms/Browsers

• Red Hat
• Enterprise Linux 4
• Enterprise Linux 5
• rPath VMWare ESX Appliance
• Firefox
• IE 7

Supported Monitoring Targets

• SNMP, any IP-addressable Device
• Windows, WMI and PerfMon
• SysLogs
• Plug-in Support for any Secure Shell: Native or Custom