Zenoss Howtos

These howtos contain information on a multitude of Zenoss topics, written by our community and by members of the Zenoss team.
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General Tasks

• Installing Zenoss
• Upgrading Zenoss
• Interact with Zenoss daemons via the command line
• Do things with Zenpacks
• Setup Apache in front of Zenoss to add SSL to the Web UI
• Setup Zope to authenticate against LDAP
• Disable Ping checks on devices

Feeding Zenoss

• Get system information without the use of SNMP (*nix systems only)
• Forward Syslog messages to Zenoss
• Extending Net-SNMP output via scripts
• Monitoring software RAID devices
• Setup syslog to forward messages to Zenoss
• Use a Nagios Plugin with Zenoss
• Setting up Net-SNMP to work with Zenoss
• Install SNMP on Windows remotely
• Setting up multiple zenperfsnmp collectors across different hosts
• Setup email round trip monitoring
• Monitoring websites with HttpMonitor
• Graphing One Value from 2 Datapoints
• Manage MIBs

Troubleshooting

• Troubleshoot basic SNMP problems
• Troubleshoot WMI problems
• Windows Server Troubleshooting Table
• Troubleshoot Zenoss daemons

Interacting with Zenoss without the WebUI

• Send and event to Zenoss from an external script
• Add a device
• Edit a device
• Model a device
• Check if a device exists
• Delete a device
• Interact with Zenoss
• Call any method
• Import/Export devices via XML
• Import devices from a text file

Development

• Write migrate code that will allow migration from older versions of Zenoss to newer ones
• Write Zenoss unit tests
• Add an export button to a report
• Create an Event Class
• Create Tables using ZenTableManager
• Create an edit screen and save properties
• Add a zProperty
• Create ZenModel realtionships
• Get easily get a DB connection to the Zenoss DB
• Create SSL certificates from your Python code
• Integrate Zope with TestGen4Web
• Perform a multi-source unit test with TestGen4Web
• Perform a single-source unit test with TestGen4Web
• Converting Testgen4Web scripts to Python