Mar 23 2007
Zenoss - presentation
The new version of Red Hat Entreprise Linux was launched on March 14th. RHEL 5 includes a lot of new features such as:
- Application Design/Construction/IDE/Analysis
- Application Server/Integration Server
- Back-Office Enterprise
- Collaboration/Groupware/Messaging
- Consumer
- Content Management/Authoring
- CRM
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Information Access/Delivery/Mining/Portal
- Information/Data Management/Database
- Middleware/Message-oriented/Transaction
- Network Management
- Networking
- Other Development Tools
- Security
- ServerWare/Clustering/Web/VM
- Storage
- Systems Management
Considering the Network management, i’ll do a short focus on Zenoss.
Zenoss is an open source network monitoring and systems management platform - 1 year old 
it was launched in March 2006.
Zenoss is a full package. It is built on the Zope Application server (python technology).
You can monitor what ever you want (if it has an ip address): network devices: appliance (firewall, switch,…) or server, applications (web site,…), operating systems, environment,…
Your standard protocol tools:
SNMP, SNMP Trap, Ping/ICMP, SSH/Telnet, Syslog, WMI, Nagios Agents, XMP/RPC Interface
Zenoss provides
Availability - It test all your device and appliance with a continious scheduling
Inventory and configuration - You can manage all your appliance by device or groups
Discovery - It can describe all your IT environment
Performance monitoring - Collect data from your server, network, and application graphing them
Event management - Collect data (syslog, WMI, SNMP trap, custom events (as defined by the Zenoss web services API)) and analyse it by correlation.
Reporting - You can create your own and custom reports
Web portal - You have a web console (off course with AJAX components) to view and control with a secure access all the elements with a real-time information