Archived community.zenoss.org | full text search
Skip navigation
93032 Views 10 Replies Latest reply: Dec 24, 2009 2:34 AM by Andrea Consadori RSS
bautistaj Rank: White Belt 83 posts since
Nov 11, 2009
Currently Being Moderated

Dec 15, 2009 4:36 PM

ZENOSS AND UNICENTER TNG...working together??

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

  • guyverix ZenossMaster 846 posts since
    Jul 10, 2007
    Currently Being Moderated
    1. Dec 16, 2009 1:48 AM (in response to bautistaj)
    Re: ZENOSS AND UNICENTER TNG...working together??
    How does Unicenter recieve external events?  Can you email it, or send SNMP traps to it directly?  If you can email it, and have it parse the message, you could go that route, otherwise, create an SNMP trap for events and have it send a trap over when Zenoss sees something amiss.  A final option would be using a trapforward daemon to send snmp traps to both hosts.
  • jmp242 ZenossMaster 4,060 posts since
    Mar 7, 2007
    Currently Being Moderated
    2. Dec 16, 2009 8:26 AM (in response to bautistaj)
    Re: ZENOSS AND UNICENTER TNG...working together??

    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.

    --

    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

    >

  • jmp242 ZenossMaster 4,060 posts since
    Mar 7, 2007
    Currently Being Moderated
    4. Dec 16, 2009 10:28 AM (in response to bautistaj)
    Re: ZENOSS AND UNICENTER TNG...working together??

    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:

    http://log4sh.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/log4sh/trunk/source/1.4/doc/log4sh.html#advancedusage-sect-remotesyslog

    --

    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

    >

  • Andrea Consadori ZenossMaster 863 posts since
    Feb 11, 2008
    Currently Being Moderated
    7. Dec 23, 2009 11:39 AM (in response to bautistaj)
    Re: ZENOSS AND UNICENTER TNG...working together??

    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)

  • Andrea Consadori ZenossMaster 863 posts since
    Feb 11, 2008
    Currently Being Moderated
    9. Dec 24, 2009 2:35 AM (in response to bautistaj)
    Re: ZENOSS AND UNICENTER TNG...working together??

    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)

  • Andrea Consadori ZenossMaster 863 posts since
    Feb 11, 2008

    also look here

     

    docs/DOC-3791

More Like This

  • Retrieving data ...

Legend

  • Correct Answers - 4 points
  • Helpful Answers - 2 points