#Zenoss Administration
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Table of Contents
- 1. About Zenoss
- 2. Using Zenoss
- 1. Zenoss Interface and Navigation
- 2. Customizing the Zenoss Dashboard
- 3. Searching for Devices
- 4. Navigating the Event Console
- 5. Running Commands from the User Interface
- 6. Creating and Using Alerts
- 7. Creating Custom Event Views
- 3. Discovering and Modeling Devices
- 4. Working with Devices
- 1. Device List
- 2. Managing Devices and Device Attributes
- 2.1. Managing Custom Device Properties
- 2.2. Managing Device zProperties
- 2.3. Managing Device Templates
- 2.4. Determining Device Administration
- 2.5. Clearing Heartbeats
- 2.6. Pushing Configuration Changes to Zenoss
- 2.7. Locking Device Configuration
- 2.8. Renaming a Device
- 2.9. Remodeling a Device
- 2.10. Resetting the Device Manage IP Address
- 2.11. Resetting the Device Community
- 2.12. Selecting Device Collector Plugins
- 2.13. Deleting a Device from Zenoss
- 2.14. Managing Multiple Devices from the Device List
- 2.15. Dumping and Loading Devices Using XML Lists
- 5. Properties and Templates
- 6. Core Monitoring
- 1. Availability Monitoring
- 2. Performance Monitoring
- 3. Monitoring Using ZenCommand
- 4. SNMP Monitoring
- 5. Monitoring Devices Remotely Through SSH
- 6. Monitoring Windows Devices
- 6.1. Device Preparation for Windows Devices
- 6.2. Setting Windows zProperties
- 6.3. Testing WMI on a Windows Server
- 6.4. Optional Windows Configuration
- 6.5. Modeling Services on Windows Devices
- 6.6. Collecting Windows Eventlog Events
- 6.7. Monitoring Windows Performance with SNMP Informant
- 6.8. Running winexe Commands on Windows Servers
- 7. Event Management
- 1. About Events
- 1.1. Basic Event Fields
- 1.2. Other Fields
- 1.3. Details
- 1.4. De-Duplication
- 1.5. Auto-Clear Correlation
- 1.6. Event Consoles
- 1.7. Event Sources
- 1.8. Creating Events Manually
- 1.9. Event Classes
- 1.10. Mapping and Transformation
- 1.11. Event Life Cycle
- 1.12. Event Commands
- 1.13. Capturing Email Messages as Zenoss Events
- 8. Production States and Maintenance Windows
- 9. Organizers and Path Navigation
- 10. User Commands
- 11. Managing Users
- 12. Reporting
- 13. ZenPacks
- 14. General Administration and Settings
- A. Zenoss Daemon Commands and Options
- B. SNMP Device Preparation
- C. Syslog Device Preparation
- D. TALES Expressions
- Glossary
List of Figures
- 1.1. Zenoss High-Level View
- 1.2. Zenoss Architecture
- 1.3. Workflow: Model-Driven Monitoring
- 1.4. Monitored File System (Threshold Exceeded)
- 2.1. Zenoss Dashboard
- 2.2. Navigation Menu
- 2.3. Breadcrumbs (Navigation)
- 2.4. User Information Area
- 2.5. Device Issues Portlet
- 2.6. Google Maps Portlet
- 2.7. Top Level Organizers Portlet
- 2.8. Zenoss Network Map
- 2.9. Page Menu
- 2.10. Table Menu
- 2.11. Customize Dashboard
- 2.12. Column Layout Dialog
- 2.13. Device/IP Search Area
- 2.14. Zenoss Event Console
- 2.15. Event Details
- 2.16. Selecting Events
- 2.17. Command Output
- 2.18. Settings Tab - SMTP Settings
- 2.19. Preferences - Edit Tab
- 2.20. Add Alerting Rule
- 2.21. Edit Alert Details
- 2.22. Alerting Rules Message Tab
- 2.23. Add Active Period
- 2.24. Alerting Rules - Schedule Details
- 2.25. Add Event View Dialog
- 2.26. Custom Event View (Edit Tab)
- 3.1. Add Device
- 3.2. Main Device Page
- 3.3. Add Device Dialog
- 3.4. Networks Page (Overview Tab)
- 3.5. Discover Device
- 4.1. Device List
- 4.2. Device Page (Status Tab)
- 4.3. Device Page (OS Tab)
- 4.4. Device Page (Hardware Tab)
- 4.5. Device Page (Software Tab)
- 4.6. Device Page (Events Tab)
- 4.7. Device Page (Performance Tab)
- 4.8. Device Page (Edit Tab)
- 4.9. Device Page (Custom Properties)
- 4.10. Device Page (zProperties)
- 4.11. Device Page (Templates)
- 4.12. Device Page (Administration)
- 4.13. Edit (Configuration) Lock Dialog
- 4.14. Reset IP Dialog
- 4.15. Device Page (Collector Plugins)
- 5.1. Device Class Hierarchy
- 5.2. Device Class Hierarchy - Locally Defined Value (Override)
- 5.3. Device Class Hierarchy - Value Set on Device
- 5.4. Defined zProperties - Root Level
- 5.5. zCollectorClientTimeout zProperty - Local Value Set
- 5.6. Delete Local Property
- 6.1. Services List - Classes tab
- 6.2. Individual Service Status Tab
- 6.3. Individual Service- Edit Tab
- 6.4. Individual Service - zProperties Tab
- 6.5. Showing Processes to Monitor
- 6.6. Service Summary
- 6.7. Process Monitoring
- 6.8. Processes Page
- 6.9. Add OS Process Dialog
- 6.10. Processes zProperties tab
- 6.11. Performance Template for Load Average Graph
- 6.12. Add Data Source
- 6.13. SNMP Data Source
- 6.14. Define a Data Point
- 6.15. CPU Utilization Report
- 6.16. Alias-Based CPU Utilization Report
- 6.17. Add Data Point Alias
- 6.18. Data Point Alias Dialog
- 6.19. Add a Threshold
- 6.20. Graph Definition
- 6.21. Running ZenCommands
- 6.22. Device Group zProperties Tab
- 7.1. Event De-Duplication
- 7.2. Event Auto-Clear
- 7.3. Event Console
- 7.4. Event Details
- 7.5. Selecting Events
- 7.6. Add Event Dialog
- 7.7. Event Processing
- 7.8. Event Life Cycle
- 9.1. Device Groupings
- 9.2. Device Class Tab
- 9.3. Device Class - zProperties Tab
- 9.4. Device Class - Templates Tab
- 9.5. Sub-systems Status Menu
- 9.6. Add Organizer
- 9.7. Move Organizer
- 9.8. Zenoss Device Class Tree and Inheritance
- 10.1. Add User Command
- 10.2. Define User Command
- 11.1. User Administration
- 11.2. Add User
- 11.3. Edit User
- 11.4. Administered Objects - Add Object
- 11.5. Administered Objects - Objects Added
- 11.6. Administered Objects - Add Administrator
- 11.7. User Groups (Settings Page)
- 11.8. Add New User Group
- 11.9. Add User to Group
- 12.1. Reports List
- 12.2. Graph Report
- 12.3. Graph Report Edit Page
- 12.4. Graph Report Element
- 12.5. MultiGraph Report Graphs
- 12.6. MultiGraph Report Edit Page
- 12.7. MultiGraph Report Collection
- 12.8. MultiGraph Report Graph Definition
- 12.9. MultiGraph Report Graph Group
- 14.1. Zenoss Settings - Settings Tab
- 14.2. Event Manager - Edit Tab
- 14.3. Portlet Permissions
- 14.4. Jobs List
- 14.5. Start zenjob Daemon
List of Tables
- 5.1. Event zProperties
- 5.2. Device zProperties
- 5.3. Device zProperties
- 5.4. Device zProperties
- 5.5. Service zProperties
- 5.6. Process zProperties
- 5.7. Network zProperties
- 5.8. Network zProperties
- 14.1. SMTP Options