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Zenoss Resource Manager Administration Guide
    1. General administration and settings
    2. Events settings
    • About this guide
    • Chapter 1. Using Resource Manager
      • Initial login
      • Interface and navigation
        • Navigation
        • User information area
        • Portlets
      • Customizing the dashboard
        • Adding a dashboard
        • Adding portlets
        • Arranging portlets
        • Editing the dashboard settings
        • Working with portlets
      • Search
      • Navigating the event console
        • Sorting and filtering events
        • Creating an actionable view
        • Saving a custom view
        • Refreshing the view
        • Viewing event details
        • Selecting events
        • Managing events
      • Running a command from the browser interface
      • Working with triggers and notifications
        • Working with triggers
          • Creating a trigger
          • Editing a trigger
          • Setting global trigger permissions
          • Setting individual trigger permissions
        • Working with notifications
          • Creating a notification
            • Notification actions
          • Editing a notification
            • Notification settings
          • Defining notification content
            • Notification content variables
          • Defining the SNMP trap host
          • Defining commands to run
          • Global notification permissions
          • Setting individual notification permissions
          • Adding notification schedules
      • Advanced user interface configuration
      • LDAP authentication
        • LDAP configuration requirements
        • Adding an SSL certificate
        • Configuring LDAP authentication
        • Editing LDAP configurations
        • Configuring local authentication as a fallback
      • Verifying connectivity and credentials outside of Resource Manager
    • Chapter 2. Visualizing your environment
      • Dynamic service view
        • Dynamic view of organizers
        • Dynamic view of devices
          • Dynamic view of Cisco UCS devices
          • Dynamic view of VMware hosts
          • Dynamic view of storage devices
      • Datacenter view
        • Configuring
        • Working with the List View
        • Working with the Custom View
          • Adding a background image to a custom view
            • Removing a custom view background image
          • Working with devices in the custom view
          • Removing a custom view
        • Activating the auto-generated rack view
          • Rack view specification syntax
    • Chapter 3. Adding, discovering and modeling devices
      • Discovering devices
        • Providing network or IP address range for device discovery
        • Discovering devices from the command-line interface
        • Classifying discovered devices
        • Updating device authentication details
        • Adding or editing information on a device record
      • Adding devices manually
        • Adding a single device
        • Adding multiple devices
        • Adding a Cisco UCS device
        • Add VMware vSphere endpoint
      • Modeling devices
        • Configuring Windows devices to provide data through SNMP
        • Configuring Linux devices to provide data through SNMP
        • Modeling devices using SSH/COMMAND
        • Using device class to monitor devices using SSH
        • Modeling devices using port scan
        • Using the /Server/Scan device class to monitor with port scan
      • About modeler plugins
        • Viewing and editing modeler plugins for a device
          • Adding plugins
          • Reordering plugins
          • Deleting plugins from a device
      • Debugging the modeling process
    • Chapter 4. Working with devices
      • Viewing the device list
        • Devices hierarchy
        • Managing multiple devices from the device list
      • Working with devices
        • Dependency view
        • Dynamic view
          • Dynamic view of devices
        • Events
        • Components
          • Disabling component monitoring
        • Graphs (Performance)
        • Component graphs
        • Modeler plugins
        • Software
        • Custom properties
        • Configuration properties
        • Device administration
        • Overriden objects
        • Monitoring templates
      • Managing devices and device attributes
        • Clearing heartbeat events
        • Locking device configuration
        • Renaming a device
        • Re-identifying a device
        • Remodeling a device
        • Resetting the device manage IP address
        • Deleting a device
        • Exporting device list to load into another system
        • Batch loading or modifying devices
    • Chapter 5. Configuration properties
      • Configuration property types
      • Configuration properties inheritance and override
      • Viewing and overriding device properties
        • Device configuration properties
      • Viewing and overriding event properties
        • Event configuration properties
      • Viewing and overriding network properties
        • Network configuration properties
    • Chapter 6. Monitoring templates
      • Creating templates
      • Renaming templates
      • Template binding
        • Device templates
          • Binding templates
          • Resetting bindings
        • Component templates
        • Interface templates
      • Example: Defining templates in the device hierarchy
      • Example: Applying templates to multiple areas in the device hierarchy
    • Chapter 7. Basic monitoring
      • Availability monitoring
        • zenping correlation
        • Controlling ping cycle time
        • Using the predefined /Ping device class
        • Monitoring processes
          • Example: Creating a process class
            • Test existing process classes
            • Create an organizer
            • Create a process class
            • Define the regular expression series of a process class
            • Test a process class
            • Test and review the process class sequence
            • Test the process class on a host
          • Process class options
        • Monitoring IP services
          • Enabling IP service monitoring
          • Using the predefined /Server/Scan device class
        • Monitoring Windows Services
      • Monitoring using ZenCommand
        • Plugin format for ZenCommands
        • Testing ZenCommands
      • SNMP monitoring
      • Monitoring devices remotely through SSH
        • Changing Resource Manager to monitor devices remotely using SSH
        • Using the predefined /Server/Cmd device class
      • Network map
        • Choosing the network to display
        • Viewing device and network details
        • Loading link data
        • Filtering by device type
        • Adjusting viewable hops
        • Adjusting the network map
    • Chapter 8. Performance monitoring
      • Monitoring templates
        • Viewing monitoring templates
      • Template binding
        • Editing templates bound to a device
      • Data sources
        • Adding a data source to a monitoring template
      • Data points
      • Data point aliases
        • Alias formula evaluation
          • Reverse polish notation
          • Using TALES expressions in alias formulas
          • Using Python in alias formulas
        • Adding a data point alias
        • Reports that use aliases
      • Thresholds
        • MinMax threshold
        • ValueChange threshold
        • CiscoStatus threshold
        • PredictiveThreshold
        • Adding thresholds
        • Editing MinMax thresholds
        • Editing ValueChange thresholds
        • Editing CiscoStatus thresholds
        • Editing PredictiveThresholds
        • Adding a trendline to a graph
      • Performance graphs
        • Graph points
          • Re-sequencing graph points
          • DataPoint graph points
            • Adding DataPoint graph points
            • Editing DataPoint graph points
          • Editing threshold graph points
      • Performance data retention
        • Changing the performance data retention time
    • Chapter 9. Monitoring health and performance of Zenoss systems
      • Monitoring Control Center
      • Control Center components
      • Customizing Control Center monitoring
      • Monitoring file system storage
      • Monitoring Resource Manager
      • ZenossRM components
      • Customizing Resource Manager self monitoring
    • Chapter 10. Event management
      • Basic event fields
        • Device field
        • Status field
        • Severity field
        • Summary and message fields
      • Other fields
      • Details
      • De-duplication
      • Auto-clear correlation
      • Event consoles
        • Master event console
          • Customizing the event console
          • Selecting events
          • Sorting and filtering events
          • Working with live search
          • Saving an event console view
          • Refreshing the view
          • Viewing event details
          • Acknowledging events
          • Returning events to new status
          • Classifying events
          • Closing events
          • Reopening events
          • Exporting event data
        • Creating events
      • Event sources
        • Generated events
        • Captured events
      • Creating events manually
        • Creating events in the browser interface
        • Creating events from the command line interface
          • Example: Simulate a ping down event
      • Event classes
        • Event class configuration properties
      • Mapping and transformation
        • Event class mappings
        • Event class mapping sequence
        • Event class transform
      • Event life cycle
        • Automatic event aging
        • Automatic archived event cleanup
      • Capturing email messages as events
        • ZenMail
        • ZenPop3
        • Translating message elements to the event
      • Administering MIB files
        • Using MIB files
        • Importing pre-loaded MIB organizers and files
        • Creating a MIBs organizer
        • Installing custom or additional MIB files
      • SNMP traps and event transforms
        • Classifying SNMP traps
        • Example: Sending test traps
        • Transforming events with event mappings
          • Mapping SNMP variables to events
        • Event transforms based on event class
        • SNMP trap filtering at the collector level
        • Configuring SNMP trap forwarding
        • Configuring syslog message forwarding
    • Chapter 11. Production states and maintenance windows
      • Production states
        • Setting the production state for devices
      • Maintenance windows
        • Maintenance window events
        • Creating and using maintenance windows
          • Create a maintenance window for a single device
          • Create a maintenance window for a group of devices
          • Managing maintenance windows
    • Chapter 12. Organizers and path navigation
      • Classes
        • Viewing device classes
        • Adding a class
        • Moving a class
        • Setting configuration properties at the class level
      • Groups
        • Adding a group
          • Moving a group
      • Systems
        • Adding a system or sub-system
          • Moving a system
      • Locations
        • Adding locations
          • Moving a location
        • Integration with Google Maps
          • Enabling Google Maps
          • Setting an address for a location
          • Clearing the Google Maps cache
          • Network links
            • Drawing map links (zDrawMapLinks configuration property)
          • Google Maps example
      • Component groups
        • Creating and viewing component group information
      • Inheritance
    • Chapter 13. Distributed monitoring
      • About collectors
      • About hubs
      • About resource pools
      • Navigating collectors and hubs
      • Adding a hub or collector
      • Collector data storage
      • Deleting collectors
      • Adding devices to collectors
      • Moving devices between collectors
      • Managing collector daemons
    • Chapter 14. User commands
      • Defining global user commands
      • Running global user commands
      • Defining user commands for a single device
      • Running user commands for a single device
      • Defining user commands for all devices in an organizer
      • Running user commands for devices in an organizer
      • User command example: Echo command
    • Chapter 15. Managing users
      • Creating user accounts
      • Editing user accounts
        • Associating objects with specific users
          • Adding administrators
      • User groups
        • Viewing user groups
        • Creating user groups
      • Roles
      • Device access control lists
        • About device access control lists (ACL)
        • Permissions and roles
        • Administered objects
        • Users and groups
        • Assigning administered object access
        • Portlet access control
        • Example: Restricted tser with ZenUser role
        • Example: Restricted user with ZenOperator role
        • Example: Restricted user with ZenManager role
        • Example: Adding device organizers
        • Restricted user organizer management
        • Viewing events
        • Detailed restricted screen functionality
          • Dashboard
          • Device list
          • Device organizers
          • Reporting
    • Chapter 16. Reporting
      • Organizing reports
      • Cisco UCS reports
        • Free Memory Slots
        • Hardware Inventory
      • Device reports
        • All Devices
        • All Monitored Components
        • Device Changes
        • MAC Addresses (MAC Address Inventory)
        • Model Collection Age
        • New Devices
        • Ping Status Issues
        • SNMP Status Issues
        • Software Inventory
      • Enterprise Reports
        • Cisco Inventory
        • Customized performance templates
        • Data Sources in Use
        • Datapoints Per Collector
        • Defined Thresholds
        • Event Time to Resolution
        • Interface Utilization
        • Interface Volume
        • Maintenance Windows
        • Network Topology
        • Notifications and Triggers by Recipient
        • Organizer Availability
        • Organizer Graphs
        • User Event Activity
        • Users Group Membership (User to Group Mapping)
      • Event reports
        • All EventClasses (All Event Classes)
        • All EventMappings (All Event Mappings)
        • All Heartbeats
      • Performance reports
        • Availability Report
        • CPU Utilization
        • Filesystem Util Report
        • Interface Utilization
        • Memory Utilization
        • Threshold Summary
      • Graph reports
        • Creating a graph report
        • Working with graph reports
      • Multi-Graph reports
        • Creating a multi-graph report
        • Adding collections
        • Adding graph definitions
          • Adding data points
        • Adding graph groups
          • Re-sequencing graph group order
      • Creating a custom device report
      • Scheduling reports
    • Chapter 17. ZenPacks
      • Displaying the list of installed ZenPacks
        • Displaying installed ZenPacks in the browser interface
        • Displaying installed ZenPacks in the CLI
      • ZenPack information resources
      • Preparing to install or upgrade a ZenPack
      • Installing or upgrading a ZenPack
      • Removing a ZenPack
      • Creating a ZenPack
    • Chapter 18. General administration and settings
      • Events settings
        • Changing events database connection information
        • Changing event maintenance settings
      • Rebuilding the events index
      • Audit logging
        • Examples
          • Example: Change device class
          • Example: Change threshold value
            • Searching file content
        • zensendaudit utility
      • Support bundles
        • Creating support bundles
        • Deleting support bundles
        • Gathering serviced and docker logs
      • Working with the job manager
        • Viewing the job manager
        • Stopping and deleting jobs
        • Configuring jobs
        • Running the zenjobs daemon
    • Using the Appliance Administration menu
      • Configure Network and DNS
        • Editing a connection to configure static IPv4 addressing
        • Edit a connection (Docker virtual bridge)
          • CIDR prefix lengths for common subnet masks
        • Activate a connection
        • Setting the system hostname
      • Configure IPv6 Network CIDR
      • Configure Timezone
      • Change Docker Hub Credentials
      • Change Root Password
      • Change ccuser Password
      • Update System
      • Change SSL settings
      • Root Shell
      • Reboot / Poweroff System
    • Managing Zope instances
      • Changing the number of Zope instances
      • Dedicated Zope service for reporting
        • Disabling automatic start of the reporting Zope service
        • Stopping the reporting Zope service
      • Dedicated Zope service for Zenoss JSON API use
        • Disabling automatic start of the Zenoss JSON API Zope service
        • Stopping the Zenoss JSON API Zope service
      • Dedicated Zope service for debugging
        • Enabling the Zope service for debugging
    • SNMP device preparation
      • Net-SNMP
      • SNMP v3 support
        • Advanced Encryption Standard
      • Community information
      • System contact information
      • Extra information
    • Syslog device preparation
      • Forwarding syslog messages from UNIX/Linux devices
      • Forwarding syslog messages from a Cisco IOS router
        • Other Cisco syslog configurations
      • Forwarding syslog messages from a Cisco CatOS switch
      • Forwarding syslog messages using syslog-ng
    • TALES expressions
      • Examples
      • TALES device attributes
      • TALES event attributes
    • Monitoring large file systems
      • Procedure
    • Managing multi-realm networks
      • Example system
      • Prerequisites and considerations
      • Setting up a system
        • Deleting networks and adding IP realms
        • Adding collectors to realms
        • Adding devices to realms
    • Glossary
      • aggregation pools
      • bandwidth utilization
      • component
      • data point
      • data source
      • device
      • device class
      • discovery
      • event
      • event class
      • event rules
      • graph
      • headroom
      • managed resource
      • model
      • monitoring template
      • notification
      • organizer
      • out of balance
      • resource component
      • service definition
      • service profile
      • service template
      • threshold
      • trigger

    Events settings

    You can adjust events settings for

    • Events database connection
    • Event maintenance
    • Changing events database connection information
    • Changing event maintenance settings
    General administration and settings
    Changing events database connection information