Zenoss Newsletter - April 2007

Zenossians,

Welcome to our first official monthly newsletter for all things Zenoss.

One Year on Sourceforge.net

In this inaugural post, I’d like to reflect on our one-year anniversary on SourceForge.net. After four years in development we released Zenoss Core in February 2006 under the GNU Public License. After demonstrating the ability to successfully monitor tens of thousands of network devices we knew it was time to let Zenoss co-founder and CTO, Erik Dahl’s baby out into the wild, as a project on SourceForge.net.

While we were always confident that there would be strong interest in Zenoss Core, we are amazed at the adoption and recognition that has occurred since our first open source release. Here are some of the our accomplishments:

• Zenoss SourceForge.net Rank March 2006: 154,909
• Zenoss SourceForge.net Rank March 2007: 29
• Downloads in March 2006: 251
• Downloads in March 2007: 48,868
• Zenoss Rank among IT Monitoring Projects in 2007: 1
• SourceForge Project of the Month: March 2007

Thanks to all of you for taking interest and making this happen!!

While we have miles to go to achieve our mission of simplifying IT management, we are very happy with the progress. We are even more excited about what’s coming up in the coming months…

What’s New in 2007
It’s hard to believe that it’s already April, we have made so much progress that it’s hard to know where to begin. However, here are some of the highlights.

Zenoss 1.1 Released in January
Some of the key features from version 1.1 included:

• Automatic Remediation (i.e. execute a command based on an event)
• Configuration Change Tracking (i.e. automatically track history of configuration changes)
• User Interface Enhancements (e.g. Ajaxified performance graphs, etc.)
• Additional Reports & Report Export

>>> More

Updated Subscriptions & Support Services
As of April 1st , we have updated our commercial subscription packaging and pricing. Here is a quick summary of the key changes to our support and service offerings:

• New levels of service now packaged as Bronze, Silver and Gold
• Bronze support focused on users who want inexpensive access to Zenoss, Inc. engineers
• New indemnification and IP protection offerings

>>> More

Zenoss Community Site, Forums, Blog
In February we launched http://community.zenoss.com with some new features like user profiles and forums. If you have not already, please registerat community.zenoss.com to gain post access to the forums and your own members area.

Also, the Zenoss Blog “No Node Left Behind” is active with posts several times per week, subscribe to our RSS feed today.

What’s Next
We are getting very close to our next major release of Zenoss Core, Version 2.0. We are moving quickly to 2.0 from 1.x because of major enhancements to both the user interface, configuration database, plugins architecture and collection engines. Here is a quick summary of what to expect in 2.0.

• Substantially Revamped AJAX User Interface
• Synthetic Web Transactions (beyond simple URL checks)
• SNMPv3 Support & Faster SNMP Collection
• ZenPacks – Ability to Package, Distribute and Load Zenoss Rules, Plugins & Extensions
• Expanded Configuration Database (CMDB) and Substantial Performance Improvements

Please visit our bug and features tracking database to provide your input for this upcoming version.

Thanks for your interest and support. Please keep telling us what you think we want to make managing your IT infrastructurre less hassle and more fun!

Best,

Bill Karpovich
CEO & Co-Founder
And the Zenoss Team

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