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Saying you have a good piece of software, is one thing. Having your users say it for you is really a testament to your success. The following users have shared their thoughts on Zenoss. We thank them for their kind words and encouragement.

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So why do you love Zenoss?

We can ditch Nagios now....Another perfect example of open source software gone commercial is Zenoss. As a full-featured network and service monitoring solution, Zenoss is one of the best monitoring tools available.

Omnitraining

I think you guys have an AWESOME product...  As a matter of fact, our corporation has purchased Microsoft's Systems Center Operations Manager, installed the server, tuned our DC's and Exchange servers, and started working on a handful of other servers, and we learned real quick that the Microsoft product, as a TOTAL network monitoring solution, falls way short of Zenoss!!  After we get the new data center up, I'm going to push for us to move to Zenoss Enterprise. 

Rus

Zenoss Core's faultless and quick discovery of all our devices, servers, clients, operating systems, applications and running processes was a delight to behold.On an ongoing basis and on a schedule we set, its discovery process automatically detected and logged changes to our network, including server configuration changes -- a feature that even most commercial products lack.

If an organization is interested in an alternative to the enterprise software vendors and can tolerate the reliance on open source, it is worth looking at the Zenoss feature comparison. Often smaller organizations will be able to innovate much faster than large organizations and may provide capabilities missing from larger vendors. Is open source the answer to IT management? Too early to say, but vendors like Zenoss sure will make it interesting.

Another perfect example of open source software gone commercial is Zenoss. As a full-featured network and service monitoring solution, Zenoss is one of the best monitoring tools available...the Zenoss Web interface is top-notch. It includes a customizable dashboard for monitoring, and everything is AJAX-driven, providing user experience similar to Splunk and Google’s Gmail...Zenoss really does provide a wonderful product. It is, of course, open source and available for free.

Zenoss won the Sourceforge project of the month recently, and ironically enough, SingleHop utilizes this brilliant piece of software to monitor network statistics and customer servers. Zenoss is rich with many features that sets it above the competition.

Zenoss looks like a great project, and I've installed it on a Red Hat 4 box and am monitoring about 20 Oracle servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

Another perfect example of open source software gone commercial is Zenoss. As a full-featured network and service monitoring solution, Zenoss is one of the best monitoring tools available. If hardcore sysadmins are excited, you know this is something worthwhile. Zenosss is very functional and full of features. It may even be possible to replace three separate pieces of software with this one
monitoring tool of choice. Maybe even Splunk some day. We can't wait to see what features they will be adding next.

Yours is very good software.  Not only does it pull almost all the information in that is needed from a monitored machine, the interface is orders of magnitude more pleasing than OpenNMS and Nagios.

I've just completed installing Zenoss on Mac OS X Server now monitoring 50 devices (and about 200 more to go). I had attempted to configure Nagios on FreeBSD, and gave up after it took me a couple of hours messing around with MIBS and other garbage just to get one switch added. Blegh. After I installed a couple of servers and events, I was surprised and delighted to find out how well it worked. I was alerted to a service failure on our file server, fixed it and never had to lift a finger on Zenoss. I have to say, this is a GREAT product. I'm very enthusiastic about this project. It has really helped me in my day-to-day operations. Being able to quickly add devices, collect data and address problems has really helped me troubleshoot a number of network related issues, including solve a big problem with overall network instability related to a packet shaper. It also let me know that someone had filled up a terminal server HD with "questionable" material. Awesome!

For far too long, robust IT infrastructure monitoring was out of reach for most organizations because of the cost and complexity of the proprietary systems that offered the required functionality. Zenoss has changed the game by offering a complete, easy-to-use solution as a free (i.e. no money), downloadable, open source software product.

I've recently inherited a network. Zenoss has helped me to understand the undocumented inner workings of my network better than any other tool I've seen.

The community support is incredible. It is by far the most flexible and feature packed open source monitoring solution that I have seen. It is easy to use.

I thought Zenoss Core was extremely easy to setup and get running. Even configuring zinwin on some windows systems didn't pose any unsurmountable problem.