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Shane Scott ZenossMaster 1,373 posts since
Jul 6, 2009
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Aug 23, 2012 11:02 AM

Suggested Features

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Post your suggested features in the comments.

 

Best,

--Shane Scott (Hackman238)

  • jroyce Newbie 6 posts since
    Aug 17, 2012
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    1. Aug 27, 2012 10:47 AM (in response to Shane Scott)
    Re: Suggested Features

    Ability to throttle or auto-pause alerts when X have been sent over x seconds/minutes - similar to the delay feature. Current practice right now is to alert on 100% of everything. For email this is ok, but for pagers/phones, it can result in burying them and making them paperweights for a long period of time. Bad outages can result in the phone provider auto-throttling messages out for days.

  • jcurry ZenossMaster 1,021 posts since
    Apr 15, 2008
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    2. Aug 28, 2012 4:28 PM (in response to Shane Scott)
    Re: Suggested Features

    My starter for 10......

     

    1. Ability to monitor processes and services for device classes (not just a global default and a specific device instance)
    2. Automation to move devices from /Discovered to more helpful device classes - see docs/DOC-3540
    3. Ability to export graphs and reports - to separate webserver and to pdf files.  Fix the "export all" button.
    4. Good documentation on ZenPack design
    5. Good documentation on new architecture in Zenoss 4 - event subsystem, Rabbit, Zope database in MySQL,..

     

     

    Cheers,

    Jane

  • James Stewart Rank: Green Belt 91 posts since
    Dec 1, 2010
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    3. Aug 28, 2012 8:17 PM (in response to Shane Scott)
    Re: Suggested Features
    1. Ability to schedule command checks, (ie run once daily @10am)
    2. Custom properties for components as well as devices, (e.g. to set thresholds per-component)
    3. Ability to define multiple rules for an event view rather than just one big rule
    4. Set multiple thresholds and only event for the highest breached threshold, (so we don't get a CPU warning *and* CPU critical event when the critical threhold is breached)
  • jcurry ZenossMaster 1,021 posts since
    Apr 15, 2008
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    4. Aug 29, 2012 3:49 AM (in response to James Stewart)
    Re: Suggested Features

    Going on from James' point about scheduling command checks...

     

    1. Scheduling zenmodeler runs - not just frequency. 

     

    Cheers,

    Jane

  • Andrea Consadori ZenossMaster 863 posts since
    Feb 11, 2008
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    5. Aug 29, 2012 9:41 AM (in response to Shane Scott)
    Re: Suggested Features

    - Easy device dependacy to create a event suppression logic (to lower alarm for remote monitoring over ipsec)

    - an option to select time range in reportmail export.

    - a full integration and optimization of phpweathermap

  • Matt Maloney ZenossEmployee 5 posts since
    Jan 25, 2012
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    6. Aug 30, 2012 12:21 AM (in response to Andrea Consadori)
    Re: Suggested Features

    This is excellent feedback!

     

    I will encapsulate a formal response back re: current list of feature requests over the next couple of weeks with roadmap (Core vs. Commercial) alignment included.

     

    Some of the feature requests are in the commercial product today i.e. dependency mapping and intelligent event suppression at the service level, but many of them aren't and are just plain good ideas.

     

    Please keep it coming team ZCA and thank you for taking the initiative.

  • jcurry ZenossMaster 1,021 posts since
    Apr 15, 2008
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    7. Aug 30, 2012 3:56 AM (in response to Matt Maloney)
    Re: Suggested Features

    1) A built-in MIB Browser, a built-in MIB Browser, a built-in MIB Browser  - not just a ZenPack that I have to fix with evry new release!  PLEASE!

     

    Cheers,

    Jane

  • Andrea Consadori ZenossMaster 863 posts since
    Feb 11, 2008
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    8. Aug 30, 2012 5:40 AM (in response to Matt Maloney)
    Re: Suggested Features

    for event suppression i don't want a complex service suppression but only a simple event suppression to avoid ping down event from remote network if a its remote gateway fail

  • jcurry ZenossMaster 1,021 posts since
    Apr 15, 2008
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    10. Sep 6, 2012 3:00 PM (in response to Shane Scott)
    Re: Suggested Features

    Much better user interface for creating event transforms.  The tiny window from Event Mapping -> Edit is a joke.

     

    Cheers,

    Jane

  • Charles Wilkinson Rank: White Belt 29 posts since
    Jun 22, 2012
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    12. Oct 24, 2012 12:26 PM (in response to Shane Scott)
    Re: Suggested Features

    Not sure if this thread is still valid or if this feature is taken care of in 4.2 (only 4.1.1 for me so far).

     

    1: Run commands against components.

     

    It seems that the commands menu in a device (and in the events window) only seems to run against the device, not the component selected in the sub-window or the component noted in the event.

     

    So if I had a command to start, stop or restart a windows service I would need a command for each service I can predict restarting rather than one command which would take device/component or evt/component as the service I wish to restart.

     

    2: A context-sensitive action (cog-wheel option) for the Infastructure side window that lets me run a remodel against an entire device-class, group, system or location.

     

    3. Ability to link network ranges to a location (I think some preliminary work has already been done in Zenoss for this) and have the regular modeling adjust the location for the device depending on it's IP. Probably need a setting against devices to allow prevention of automated location changing based on IP).

     

    Great if you're monitoring Laptops and devices by host names which might xenmotion/vmotion between sites and pick up new IP addresses.

     

    4. Not so much a feature but it'd be nice to have a lower, alternate licensing price for user devices (e.g. desktops) as opposed to servers.  Likely some definition required around it to specify systems providing for only a single user or a single user at a time (workstations) and not using extended monitoring or something.  Lawyers can figure it out but it could be good for sites with thousands of small registers in stores or terminals in branch offices and other such devices which are often considered far less vital than the full servers but would add some small value if they were all monitored.

     

    AND/OR a license for modeling devices only. i.e. the ability to discover and model devices for asset registration, an up-to-date CMDB and general tracking but no permission to run any monitoring template (even pings) against the device.  Possibly need to restrict frequency of modeling.

     

    So, I might buy 500 Server Monitoring licenses, 1000 User Monitoring licenses (Head office PC's/Laptops) and 6000 Modeling Licenses (store registers/printers) to cover the business needs.  You might even get some customers who wish to use it as a pure CMDB/asset management system and only buy Modeling licenses.

  • jcurry ZenossMaster 1,021 posts since
    Apr 15, 2008
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    13. Sep 30, 2013 6:17 PM (in response to Charles Wilkinson)
    Re: Suggested Features

    Long time since this was added to and we still have not seen Matt Maloney's response after 13 months.....

     

    I need to be able to add triggers and notifications to a ZenPack via the GUI - like I can add event classes, MIBs, templates...

     

    I know there is supposed to be a programmatic way of doing this in an actions.json file under a ZenPack's zep directory but I need much better examples than the skeletons provided and I still think this ought to be a GUI option, not a tricky coding option.

     

    Cheers,

    Jane

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