Dec 15, 2009 4:36 PM
ZENOSS AND UNICENTER TNG...working together??
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Hi!
I have to make it work!..we have Unicenter TNG to monitor all our Production Network, and it's already complex, so, we decide to go with Zenoss to monitor ONLY our Corporate network, and so far, so good with it..but Management doesnt want to have many "alerts system" for monitoring, they want ONLY ONE, monitoring system be in charge of the pagers...so, there is a way to tell Zenoss to talk with UniCenter, in terms of alerts???...let's put in example...yesterday we had a issue with a router running almost 100% CPU for a couple of hours, but I was the only one who received by email that issue (because I'm the only one who is testing Zenoss), anyways..nobody will be using emails alerts, ONLY pager...so, the "pager system" is already connected and configured in Unicenter TNG, so, we want to use that one...o, when Zenos generates an alert, send it to Unicenter TNG and it will send to the "on call" technicien...
any ideas?? everything that could come across your head, please dont hesitate!
THANKS!!
Jose
Zenoss lets you set Event Commands that are shell commands or whatever.
So anything you can script can be done, and then you could send on the
event in whatever method works for getting it into UniCenter.
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James Pulver
Information Technology Area Supervisor
LEPP Computer Group
Cornell University
bautistaj wrote, On 12/15/2009 4:36 PM:
Hi!
I have to make it work!..we have Unicenter TNG to monitor all our Production Network, and it's already complex, so, we decide to go with Zenoss to monitor ONLY our Corporate network, and so far, so good with it..but Management doesnt want to have many "alerts system" for monitoring, they want ONLY ONE, monitoring system be in charge of the pagers...so, there is a way to tell Zenoss to talk with UniCenter, in terms of alerts???...let's put in example...yesterday we had a issue with a router running almost 100% CPU for a couple of hours, but I was the only one who received by email that issue (because I'm the only one who is testing Zenoss), anyways..nobody will be using emails alerts, ONLY pager...so, the "pager system" is already connected and configured in Unicenter TNG, so, we want to use that one...o, when Zenos generates an alert, send it to Unicenter TNG and it will send to the "on call" technicien...
any ideas?? everything that could come across your head, please dont hesitate!
THANKS!!
Jose
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Hello,
I can not do email or snmp traps....according to our TNG Administrator, TNG will accept only syslog information, so, I need to generate syslog and send them to TNG, so, TNG will "read" this and generate the alerts...now, I have to generate syslog according to the alerts that Zenoss will generate...now, How I suppose to do this?? any suggestions??...I'm going right now to check the Zenoss Manual...and lucky me, I dont have a lot of scripting knowledge
Thanks!
Jose
So, you'd want to write (probably a shell script) as an event command
that matches events you like and then use log4sh as shown here:
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James Pulver
Information Technology Area Supervisor
LEPP Computer Group
Cornell University
bautistaj wrote, On 12/16/2009 10:23 AM:
Hello,
I can not do email or snmp traps....according to our TNG Administrator, TNG will accept only syslog information, so, I need to generate syslog and send them to TNG, so, TNG will "read" this and generate the alerts...now, I have to generate syslog according to the alerts that Zenoss will generate...now, How I suppose to do this?? any suggestions??...I'm going right now to check the Zenoss Manual...and lucky me, I dont have a lot of scripting knowledge
Thanks!
Jose
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Thank you for your reply!...and I have a question from my TNG ADministrator, who will be able to create a script or shell script...he's asking me : How Zenoss will send the data to the script, what fields he needs to know, where I find my info about it...then he says that the script will send the info to TNG in a format capable to read for it.
anyone has written a script like that before?? any examples where I can take a look?
THANKS!!
Jose
anyone please?? somebody who knows how I can do this?? any ideas...
thanks!
Jose
Zenoss can make lot of things but the problem is .... "who know Unicenter TNG?"
or better.. who has a deep knoledge of Unicenter TNG?
i think your solution is to find someone with Unicenter Knoledge to pay to develop script ....
(it's only my opinion)
Exactly!..and we have a TNG expert here with us, he wants to create the script and everything, to make work....but the thing is he doesnt know from here starts ??...you know, that is why I asked before : How zenoss will send the "syslog" format to TNG?? what fields / functions() / arrays() / procedures(), etc..the TNG admin needs to know to create the script??...for example, when you create an alert in Zenoss, you have the option to play with the "body" of the message and inside you have many "variables" to use (see file)...as you can see, how I suppose to know which "field name" or "%xxxx" name I need to know ??...that is why my TNG admin is asking from where we can get that info to build that script....is there a programming manual for Zenoss??
THANKS!!!
Jose
hi,
first you can use sniffer like wireshark to see how syslog create alarm
second, i think the problem is here
How zenoss will send the "syslog" format to TNG??
Zenoss can collect syslog, not send event as syslog to other server (or maybe he will send only it's machine event)
you can try Snare (http://www.intersectalliance.com/projects/SnareLinux/index.html), it grab zenoss event log and send it to TNG as syslog events.
(that's the same thing jmp242 told you before)
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