What Zenoss Monitors

Business Services

Zenoss enables users to group their IT infrastructure into systems that represent IT services. For example, a system may consist of all the IT infrastructure used to provide a web site. Zenoss also provides the ability to create groups based on geographic locations.

• Group related infrastructure into IT services known as systems
• Create geographic groups that map IT infrastructure to its physical locations
• Google Maps integration shows outages directly on the geographical view
• Use systems to quickly find all the open events related to an IT service

Applications

Zenoss monitors the performance & availability of software applications such as databases, Java application servers & web servers.

• Monitor performance and availability of Java application servers and Java virtual machines using JMX:
  • Apache Tomcat App Server
  • BEA WebLogic Server
  • IBM WebSphere Application Server
  • JBoss Application Server
• Monitor the performance and availability of various databases, including roundtrip query time:
  • MySQL
  • Oracle
  • PostgreSQL
  • Microsoft SQL Server
• Monitor Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory
• Use synthetic transactions to check web site availability
• Create custom SQL queries to verify databases are responding in a timely manner

Virtual Servers

Zenoss provides comprehensive monitoring of your entire virtual infrastructure. The performance & availability information for the virtual and physical infrastructure is automatically correlated and displayed together in a single pane of glass.

• Automatic discovery and inventory of the entire VMware vSphere environment including: VMs, ESX servers, clusters, and data stores
• Monitor performance of VMs including memory, disk & CPU
• Real-time detection when VMs move from one VMware host to another (called VMotion)
• Zenoss is a VMware Ready certified solution
• Integration with VMware Virtual Center and vCenter Server

Cloud Monitoring

• Monitor the the performance & availability of Amazon EC2, OpenStack and CloudFoundry instances
• Automatically discover EC2 instances as they are added and removed
• View performance reports across all EC2 instances and instance types
• Setup in a matter of minutes using Amazon's authentication services

Physical Servers

Zenoss monitors the performance & availability for the most popular server operating systems including: Windows, Linux and UNIX. Monitoring is done remotely (agentlessly) and does not require any software to be deployed on the target machines being monitored.

• Agentless technology allows monitoring to be set up in minutes
• Linux and Unix OS monitoring can be fully secure using Secure Shell (SSH)
• Native Windows monitoring using WMI & Perfmon
• An inventory of software packages installed on each server is automatically created
• Ability to monitor Windows services and Linux/UNIX processes

Network

Zenoss monitors the performance & availability of virtually any network device including routers, switches and firewalls.

• Monitor any SNMP enabled network device
• Understand your network's dependencies by using the Layer 3 topology view
• Get detailed information on network interface bandwidth utilization
• Find out what software is running on the network device

Power/Environment

Zenoss monitors the environmental conditions of server hardware including temperature and humidity. Zenoss is also integrated with devices that measure environmental conditions of the entire data center.

• Measure hardware environment of both Dell and HP Servers
• Monitor data center environmental conditions from any SNMP enabled sensor device such as Websensor
• Monitor the availability of Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS)

Technologies

The following is a sample list of some of the network devices, operating systems, and software applications that are currently monitored by Zenoss. Open standards and APIs allow organizations with special needs to create their own ZenPacks.

Network Devices

• Alvarion WiFi
• BigIP LTM Virtual Server
• BlueCoat Appliances
• Brocade Switches
• Cisco IP SLA
• Cisco Security Appliance
• Colubris Wireless
• Fortigate
• Funkwerk
• IronPort Email Security & Relay Appliances
• Juniper
• LTM Virtual Server
• MRV wireless
• Netasq
• NetScreen
• Nortel
• Raytalk Wireless
• SourceFire

Operating Systems

• IBM AIX
• Sun Solaris
• HP-UX
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• CentOS Linux
• Fedora Linux
• Debian Linux
• Ubuntu Server Linux
• openSUSE Linux
• SUSE® Linux
• Microsoft Windows
• Mac OS X
• Netware Loadable Module
• BSD

Virtual Infrastructure

• Citrix XenServer
• VMware vSphere v4
• VMware Virtual Center (VI 3)
• Amazon EC2

Application Servers

• Apache Tomcat Application Server
• BEA WebLogic Server
• ColdFusion MX
• IBM Websphere Application Server
• Java Applications via JMX
• Java Virtual Machines
• JBoss Application Server
• Microsoft Messaging and Queuing Server

Databases

• MySQL
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Generic SQL Queries
• Round-trip SQL time

Web Servers

• Apache Web Server
• Microsoft IIS
• Server Load Balancing Virtual Server
• Squid
• Web (HTTP) Transactions

Microsoft Technologies

• Microsoft Active Directory
• Microsoft Exchange
• Microsoft IIS
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft Terminal Services
• Microsoft Windows Services

Storage

• Brocade SAN Switches
• EMC Celerra,/li.
• NetApp Filers

CRM

• SugarCRM

Security

• LDAP Queries
• ASSP Anti-Spam
• VPN Tunnels
• Microsoft Active Directory

Email Servers

• Microsoft Exchange

Power & Environment

• APC UPS PowerNet
• Dell Servers
• Eltek Power Systems
• HP ProCurve Switches
• HP Servers
• HP Systems Insight Manager Adents
• HP Temperature Sensors
• Netbotz
• Powerware UPS
• Sentry Cabinet Power Distribution Unit (CDU)
• Websensor

Protocols

• DIG
• DNS
• FTP
• Generic Printer Monitor
• IRC
• Jabber
• NNTP
• NTP
• RPC