Zenoss Core 2.4.1

Zenoss Core is an enterprise network and systems management application written in Python/Zope.
Zenoss provides an integrated product for monitoring availability, performance, events and configuration across layers and across platforms.
Zenoss Core is an easy to use IT monitoring and management software designed for Systems Administrators. Zenoss Core provides centralized and customizable dashboards to support the needs of companies of all sizes.
Zenoss Core is easy to implement and maintain and offers functionality that was previ- ously only available from expensive and non-integrated proprietary software vendors. Zenoss Core is reliable, scalable and affordable.
Zenoss Core is an award-winning open source IT monitoring product that delivers the functionality to effectively manage the configuration, health and performance of networks, servers and applications through a single, integrated software package.
Zenoss Core is being used by over 4,000 companies around the world, from small to medium sized enterprises to large global 2,000 corporations.
Supported monitoring targets:
- SNMP, any IP-addressable Device
- Windows, WMI and PerfMon
- Syslog
- Plug-in Support for any Secure Shell: Native or Custom
Main features:
Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
- First open source CMDB on the market
- Population through auto-discovery, web services API, XML import/export,and manual user input
- Modeling of entire environment including networks, servers, software, andapplications
Inventory and Change Tracking
- Scheduled automatic or manual discovery
- Automatic change history and detection
- Ability to import IT Component information from outside resources
Network Monitoring
- Flash based representation of your networks layer 3 topology
- Icon based device representation for Linux and Windows devices
- Google Maps Mashup for your WAN availability and performance monitoring
Availability Monitoring
- ICMP, SNMP, TCP/IP testing with intelligent suppression of alerts based on layer3 network dependencies
- Windows/Linux and Unix service and process availability testing
- Generate events based on availability issues
Performance Monitoring
- Scheduled collection and storage of SNMP OID values with support for Nagiosand Cacti performance collection scripts
- Provides performance metrics on Java wrappers for applications, services,components, and devices in a distributed network with Java Management Extension (JMX) Performance Collection for managed objects (MBeans)
- Ability to set multiple threshold levels on a specific metric
Event Management, Log Monitoring and Alerting
- Aggregation of events from various sources: availability monitoring, performance monitoring, syslog sources, SNMP trap sources, Windows Event log
- Ability to build event processing rules through GUI interface
- Layer 3 aware alerting to minimize "Alarm Fatigue"
- Web Portal, Dashboard and Reporting
- Rich Ajax-Enabled user interface with role based permissions
- Drag and Drop fully customizable dashboard
- Customizable and powerful reports that can be shared via e-mail

System requirements:
- 2GB RAM.
- 20 GB free disk space.

Enhancements
- Zenoss Setup Wizard, which guides you through initial system configuration and device addition.
- Additional, simplified method for adding devices.
- Ability to implement remote SSH monitoring (requires ZenPack creation following provided example information).
- Reporting normalization.
- Over 70 community-contributed ZenPacks .
- Expanded documentation, including the Zenoss Extended Monitoring guide.