The 1-day Zenoss FastStart and Introduction Workshop will take place in London on January 27th 2010, run in collaboration with the UK Unix User Group (UKUUG) and O'Reilly.  Potential delegates should register interest this week (w/c Jan 4th) to ensure a place.  Details at http://www.skills-1sthttp://www.skills-1st.co.uk/products/courses/zenoss-faststart.html.co.uk/products/courses/zenoss-faststart.html .

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With Zenoss you can monitor all your servers and network devices:

• Know when a critical device goes down
• Alert operations staff when urgent action is needed
• Know how much traffic is flowing on critical network links
• Know how hard your servers are working
• Watch load trends and plan for the future
• Verify SLA compliance

Zenoss has a web interface so you can use it from anywhere. It uses industry-standard protocols like SNMP so it can monitor almost anything - Windows, Linux, Cisco, HP and more. There is an extension mechanism so it can adapt to new requirements.

The core functionality is available free of charge so you can get started with no risk. A fully-supported commercial version is available for Enterprise deployments. Zenoss is an excellent replacement for products like IBM NetView, HP Openview, and Nagios.

The purpose of this workshop is to get delegates started with Zenoss. The product will be installed in a VMware environment and the main functions of Zenoss will be explored through a series of practical exercises, using a combination of real and virtual devices.

• Discovery - find and classify devices
• Availability - monitor systems and services
• Events - view and process status changes
• Performance - collect measurements and generate reports

No previous knowledge of Zenoss is needed. By the end of the workshop, participants should have a working Zenoss installation with basic customisation and an appreciation of how to further customise for their own environment.

Cheers,

Jane