Intro to Zenoss by Andrew Kirch

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SCaLE 12xBuild a Cloud Day

Introduction to Zenoss

Andrew D Kirch

Zenoss Community Manager

February 21, 2014

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DO WE WANT SLIDES?• Choose your Destiny!• Yes!

• NO!

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Agenda• Elevator pitch

• Demonstration (30-40 minutes)

• Where do you get it?

• Questions and Answers

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Elevator Pitch• Zenoss is an Open Source Unified Monitoring

platform which uses standards compliant agents like SNMP SSH and WMI to monitor all the things.

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Franken Monitoring

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Zenoss Solution

Unified Monitoring- Servers

- Network Infrastructure

- Services

- Cloud

- Events

Extensible - Supports Nagios Plugins

- ZenPacks

- SNMP MIB Parser

- ZenPack can be used to integrate Config Management System

Automated- Modeling Based

- No out of date configuration file

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Unified Monitoring

• Unified monitoring for legacy, physical, virtual and cloud

• Agentless deployment leverages standard protocols• SNMP

• WMI

• SSH and Local command plugins

• SNMPv2 MIBs

• Supports most major operating systems out of the box

• Zenoss and Community documentation available

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Extensibility via ZenPacks• ZenPacks - fully integrated add-on built by Zenoss and Zenoss User

Community

• Rapid Development via Open Source ZenPack Generator

Over 350 ZenPacks currently available

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Install Zenoss Core – Small FootprintYou will need:

• VM or server with 4gb of ram (for up to 100 devices)

• Minimal Install of Centos 64bit (Ubuntu support coming)

• Community Script:• http://wiki.zenoss.org/Install_Zenoss#auto-deploy_Installa

tion

• Untar the script and run it as root

• Takes about half an hour

• Takes 3-6 weeks on hotel wifi!

(I highly recommend a good beer while waiting)

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Demo

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THANK YOU QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Email: akirch@zenoss.com

IRC: Trelane in #zenoss