When you are running multiple servers or a fairly large network, then it is often difficult to determine if each and any required server is up and running and if all services on all servers are performing normally. This solution provides you with the tool to stay up do date on all network related events and allows you to monitor all your network components:

Zenoss Core is an enterprise-grade network and systems monitoring product that delivers the functionality IT operations teams need to effectively manage the health and performance of their entire infrastructure through a single, integrated package.

For far too long, robust IT infrastructure monitoring was out of reach for most organizations because of the cost and complexity of the proprietary systems that offered the required functionality. Zenoss has changed the game by offering a complete, easy-to-use solution as a free (i.e. no money), downloadable, open source software product.

These specific benefits of Zenoss unique product and approach include:

Features:

Persistent database of IT inventory and configuration detail stored in a Zope Enterprise Object (ZEO) database.

Auto-discovery

• Network devices & servers
• Device configuration details including interfaces, memory, disk, OS, services, processes, software
• IP address utilization

Scheduling

• Scheduled auto-discovery
• Manual / Ad-hoc configuration discovery

Manual Field Population

• Manual addition of new devices
• Allow for the creation of custom fields
• Search for resources using custom fields

Grouping, Organization, Association, Classification

• Organize devices by logical system
• Associate devices with locations
• Associate devices with operators
• Hierarchical configuration of device properties with inheritance
• Ability to put devices into various "production levels" (e.g. maintenance, decommission, etc...)

Reporting

• Global Inventory
• Change History
• Device Detail

• ICMP response testing
• SNMP response testing
• Testing of standard TCP/IP services (HTTP, SMTP, etc...)
• Testing of specified TCP/IP ports with regular expression matching
• Windows service availability testing
• Windows process availability testing
• Linux/Unix process availability testing
• Single URL availability testing
• Support for Nagios Plug-Ins

Dependency Tracking

Intelligently suppress tests and alerts based on layer 3 network dependencies

Event Generation

Generate events based on availability issues

Reporting

• Ping Issues
• SNMP Issues
• SLA Reporting

• Scheduled collection and storage of SNMP OID values
• Pre-loaded MIBs and new local MIBs
• Ability to set several threshold levels

Event Generation

Generate events with specific severity based on threshold settings

Graphing & Reporting

• Graphing of Trend over time: hourly, weekly, monthly, yearly
• Other Performance Reports

• Aggregation of events from various sources: availability monitoring, performance monitoring, syslog sources, SNMP trap sources, Windows Event log
• Custom event creation through XML-RPC interface
• Parsing of custom log files

Event Processing

• Ability to build event processing rules through GUI interface
• Automatic event classification
• Automatic event prioritization
• Automatic de-duplication
• Automatic begin/end correlation
• Operator acknowledgment
• Automatic and Manual Archiving

Alerting

• Paging and Email alerts
• Ability to delay alerting based on customize and personalized rules
• Basic escalation rules
• Advanced escalation rules
• System is aware of level three topology to avoid "alarm fatigue"

Reporting

• Ability to view current events and event history
• Inventory of events and event classifications
• Additional Event Reports

Other Features

Dashboards

• Customized Dashboard that summarizes active events by business system and severity
• Read-only Dashboard for other groups in company

Web Portal

• Secure web-based portal/console
• Rich AJAX-Enabled user interface
• Role-based permissions
• Personalized queries
• Personalized views

Operations

• Heartbeat monitoring for Zenoss internal components
• Automatic event archiving
• Automate check for updated software versions

An online demo of Zenoss is available here.

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Login as user "demo" with password "demo".

Please note that the "demo"-user is not allowed to add devices or users, or change configurational settings. The three monitored servers shown in this demo are not production servers and are not reachable from the internet.