Zenoss Core 2.1 Features and Benefits

Zenoss Core 2.1 is an open source IT management solution developed to provide an easy to use and complete solution with open integration to users' 3rd party applications. Following is a brief list of new Zenoss Core 2.1 features with their benefits.

Problem

Solution: Feature

Benefit

Lack of advanced visualization capabilities handicaps ability of system administrators to quickly identify and resolve performance issues

Network Management:
Google Maps Mashup displays IT center locations and WAN connections with color coded performance and availability indicators

Visually represent disparate IT centers and WAN; Google Maps Mashup provides real time alerting for performance and availability
Check systems status at a glance
Quickly drill down to root cause of performance issues directly from the Dashboard

No visibility into the relationship between IT assets, which limits ability to:

Quickly detect changes within IT environment and possible adverse effects in production systems
Quickly locate components in a large heterogeneous IT environment

Network Management:
Network Topology Map

Automate discovery of applications and infrastructure dependencies
Visually depict dependencies with real-time update
Improve problem resolution by highlighting changes in topology maps

Dashboards lack full customization capabilities, limiting ability to create customized and role based views to effectively carry out responsibilities to IT organization

Dashboard:
Ajaxified User Interface

Drag and Drop customizable dashboard.
Enables quick creation of role based and relevant views
Customize portlets fully, from size to contents

Mission critical applications leveraging Java technology require native performance monitoring capabilities to quickly identify production issues before they lead to major failures

Performance Monitoring:
Native JMX Performance Monitoring

Provide metrics for all J2EE based applications to monitor health and performance
Collect performance and availability data from Java applications using industry standards for collecting system and JMX metrics

IT management applications lack e-mail delivery method for sharing reports, limiting users' capability to effectively communicate and collaborate

Reporting:
E-Mailed Reports

Share reports across entire organization using existing e-mail system
Increase visibility and collaboration among disparate groups

Using 1^st generation open source solutions, IT organizations lack ability to effectively analyze and share data. Reporting capabilities are often limited and lack full user customization capabilities.

Reporting:
Custom Graphs

Compare and contrast performance graphs on the same report
Define and combine data from multiple components into a single graph to provide a centralized view for IT

Reporting:
Custom Reports

Select graphs to create custom reports from any IT component
Customize reports to only contain information pertinent to specific needs

IT management solutions lack efficient administration capabilities creating user frustration and inefficient IT organization

Administration:
Customizable Internal Zenoss Events

Customize and modify internal Zenoss events to conform with organizational terms
Define events messaging with familiar terminology

Administration:
User Groups

Aggregate alerting rules for several users into one location
Add group rules to individual user rules
Create user groups to apply rules to all group members