Hi,

I looked at Zenoss a couple of years ago in a previous job but decided against it for various reasons (performance, pay-only windows zenpacks, etc.). With all the improvements and now I'm in a new company, I am seriously considering deploying Core 4. Or rather I have installed the latest (2012-08-03) and would like to start using it in production :-).

I have done some basic discovery and am now at the point where I'd like to start adding "real" (application) monitors. I want to monitor 3 websites on two machines and a loadbalancer (same three sites on two lb'ed machines and the lb). I am a little confused at the best way to do things - the howtos seem pretty involved for just adding an http monitor - are the FAQs/howtos in the forum for previous versions generally valid?

I come from a system (Intellipool INM/KNM) that had a very machine/physical object-centric vision of things - you tied all monitors to a specific machine/object. Is that the Zenoss way? It seemed to be but then I saw the howtos suggesting that I should create a new device category (or class) /Web. I'm not sure I understand why we would do this, at least if we are object/machine based like INM.

I have looked at everything that seemed relevant on the youtube channel and I've looked through the admin docs. Maybe I didn't look hard enough - can you point me to something that will explain the best way forward?

Thanks.

ps. Is there a firm RTM date yet for 4.*?