As I mentioned in Part 1 of my series on ZenPacks, you can find hundreds of ZenPacks on the Zenoss Wiki Page. But you may need a ZenPack to monitor a service that hasn’t been publicly posted (if you happen to make one for Google TV, please be sure to let Dave Winter know). Lucky .. Read More »
Does this sound familiar? “I just gave a demo of Zenoss Core to my supervisor and he liked what he saw. He asked about the costs/merits of the commercial product versus the community version…I’d like to be able to give him a good ball park figure as well as what it gets us versus the free .. Read More »
Last Friday Kent Erickson, Deepak Kanwar, and David Winter of Zenoss hosted a webinar with the unassuming title Optimize IT Operations for Data Center Efficiency, which for the most part felt like a review session of the major topics discussed on this blog over the past few months. For the first two-thirds of the webcast, .. Read More »
The DevOpsDays conference came to Zenoss’ and my home new hometown of Austin, TX over the last two days. Zenoss was one of the sponsors for the event, and I was fortunate enough to attend. Going back through the blog, you can see that we’re no strangers to talking about DevOps. There are many reasons .. Read More »
I must make a confession. I’ve written posts for the Zenoss blog for about two years, but up until recently, I didn’t really understand what ZenPacks were. I knew they had something to do with open source and something to do with customization, but if you had asked me anything beyond that, I would have been .. Read More »
One of the great things about working at Zenoss is all the really smart people working here. And at an all-company meeting this week, we’re going to see just who the best at hacking around in Zenoss is. Participants will each present a 10 minute trick, tip, configuration, or some other interesting thing that can .. Read More »
Last week, I was forwarded a few pictures of our Zebra mascot, Zenny. He looked to be on an adventure somewhere in the world and I was eager to share. However, not wanting to post them out without investigating their origins, I did some digging. The story, not the photos, turned out to be far .. Read More »
