We’re finalizing the Zenoss 1.1 core product, and part of this process involves the creation of distribution RPMs. We then take those RPMs and install them on various servers in our lab in order to shake-out the software and verify that the software operates as we expect it to. A strange dependency has [...]

Today we have added a new chairman of the board, he’s every bit as good looking as Sinatra, but we don’t know how well he sings yet. Andre Boisvert, has joined the Zenoss team.
Andre has a exceptional software background working at Oracle, and at IBM among others. Andre has also served as the [...]

This afternoon I worked on Ticket #160, which is supposed to add cronjob support to the RPM distribution. I think this is a pretty important ticket because there are some pretty significant performance improvements that can be gained by running some maintenance commands periodically. There are also some housekeeping activities that should be [...]

Zenoss-1.1 has a bunch of new features and all are cool and powerful. You can check out the release notes for more details. While I love all the features I think the most sexy one by far are the swoopy rrdtool graphs!
A while ago I created ticket #281 that basically said make cool [...]

So this is my first post in the Zenoss Blog. I’m very excited about writing up my experiences joining the Zenoss team and contributing to the project. I’m looking forward to the interesting articles I’m sure will be posted in this space, along with the fun pictures.
I’m sure you are very unimpressed by [...]