Hello,

I am a new user of zenoss and trying to develop an infrastructure on my own. Right now, my device is sending logs (cpu,timestamp,status,and similar other metrics) in the form of log. I really appreciate if you can help me how could I solve the following.

1) How to take those log files from another device  into my zenoss? Is there a place that I can create a test data and play?

2) I want to display stuff from my log files in the tabular format. Something like 4 or 5 columns and let go right data in right column. I have no clue on how to do this? Any DETAILED help please

Something like this format:

https://www.google.com/search?q=metrics+in+table&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=YecLUYT9DuqdiAK3xYH4Cg&biw=1600&bih=752&sei=ZOcLUduUAeSJiALG8YDICw#imgrc=7Wj0yzUrLL8BNM%3A%3BRMPgYxZXtmwFmM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.kaushik.net%252Favinash%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2007%252F06%252Fgoogle_analytics_keywords_table.png%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.kaushik.net%252Favinash%252Fsix-data-visualizations-that-rock%252F%3B478%3B320

3) My data keeps on changing. So I should be able to update/replace my data every 5 minutes in the table. How should I do that?

4) How should I bring that table in the portlet or my dashboard?

Again, I am learning and I appreciate anyhelp from this community.