Why SysAdmin’s Love Zenoss

As a follow-on to SysAdmin day I was thinking about some of our marketing copy. So in the interest of truth in advertising let’s see what you think. As a Sysadmin or Network Admin do you agree with the following list, do you have better reason why you would recommend Zenoss Enterprise to your boss? Comments are open.
Top 10 Reasons System and Network Administrators should choose Zenoss Enterprise Edition

1. Effortlessly deploy and manage

• Easy downloadable software
• Model based IT monitoring that leverages auto discovery of networks and their components for 100 monitoring coverage
• Escalation rules to avoid “alarm fatigue” simplifying management and increasing time savings

2. Use a single, 100% web based solution for IT monitoring and management

• Accessible 100% web based IT monitoring and management solution
• Cost and time saving with integrated solution combining Configuration Management Data Base (CMDB), Inventory and Change Management, Availability Monitoring, Performance Monitoring and Events Management

3. Proactively monitor and manage

• Proactive monitors for health and performance of IT systems for early detection of issues
• End user experience monitoring for web, database and e-mail applications
• Correlated monitoring with events management for faster time to resolution of issues

4. Utilize best practices

• Reality based best practices developed in the field
• Enriched with ongoing contributions from both the Community and Zenoss Expert Services

5. View multiple Zenoss instances with a centralized dashboard

• Easy management of disparate Zenoss deployments
• Global Dashboard that aggregates data from multiple Zenoss instances for full visibility across the entire IT Application

6. Access a reliable and scalable architecture

• Integrated software package with consistent design and code base providing a scalable architecture
• Reliable collection method with asynchronous, multi-threaded, distributable collection services
• Modern web application architecture which leverages Zope to provide a productive, secure and mature web framework

7.Leverage the power of community and Zenoss R&D

• Use of open source, open standards, open exchange maximizing collaboration among users
• Broad community base coupled with R&D maximizing innovation

8. Easily access expert support and services

• Experienced and reliable support or professional services to support mission critical deployments
• Silver and Gold level expert support providing email, IM and phone support with as little as 2 hour turn around

9. Receive guidance on future product roadmap

• Full access to our management team including regularly scheduled quarterly calls with our founder and CTO, Erik Dahl
• Helping to guide future development of Zenoss Enterprise Edition features that will ensure your success

10. Reuse your existing IT monitoring investments

• Designed from ground up to be open for easy customization and integration with other applications
• Supports easy integration using web services API’s (XML-RPC and REST), XML import/export as well Python scripting shell�

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