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Zenoss Newsletter - August 2007

By Mark Hinkle on Sep 5, 2007 in News Items, newsletter

Hello Zenossians,

Welcome to the August edition of the Zenoss Newsletter. It’s summer in Annapolis, and that means it’s beach season. We hope you get a chance to enjoy yourself. So take some time off and let Zenoss monitor your network while you relax.

Using Zenoss’ sophisticated alerting you can send pages to the on-call operator while you are at the beach. Or you can choose to only get the alerts that really matter while your gone. (Our recommendation is to send them to someone else).

Without any further adieu, here’s the news that’s fit to print.

Zenoss 2.0.4 is Available

Zenoss Core Version 2.0.4 is primarily a maintenance release that addresses many minor issues.

Browser incompatibilities for both Firefox and IE 7
Correct alerting rules issues for users and administrators
Bug fixes and improvements in Zenperf, Zenevents, Zenmodel, and Zenhub

For complete details read the release notes. You can download Zenoss Core from www.zenoss.com/download/.

Zenoss Subscriptions and Training

Zenoss Inc. provides a complete suite of software and services to help you succeed in monitoring your IT infrastructure. To find out about all our product offerings, including our subscriptions, please review our support matrix for all your Zenoss service needs.

Zenoss Core Wins Enterprise Open Source Reader’s Choice Award

Zenoss is proud to have been awarded the Enterprise Open Source Magazine Reader’s Choice Award chosen above our peers by the reader’s of EOS Magazine. Anytime you receive praise from a group of users it is especially satisfying. Thanks to all of you who voted for us.

Zenoss Tip: Running Commands from the Zenoss User Interface

Zenoss allows commands to be run though the user interface. Zenoss comes with several built in commands such as ping and traceroute. This way you can select and run these commands without exiting to a terminal window and also see the output of commonly used commands. Commands run from the Zenoss UI can be run on a single device or also on a grouping of devices. To do this:

Navigate to the Device or Device Group where you want to run the command (and where the command is defined).

From the Device page menu, select Run Commands and then the command name you want to run.

The command is run and the output appears on the screen.

You can even execute scripts and other commands remotely. You can also run additional commands via SSH or remotely through the Zenoss system.

To define custom commands, from the Settings menu on the left navigational menu, select Settings and then click the Commands tab. Here you can use Tales expressions to define new commands or edit existing commands.

Zenoss in the News

Zenoss has received numerous news mentions and blog mentions this month, here are some of the highlights:

News Articles

Network World – What has become of last year’s open source companies to watch?

Tech Target - Open Source System Management Suites: A Viable Alternative?

CIO.com - Seven Financial Reasons to Use Linux in the Enterprise

From the Blogosphere

Coup d’Oeil – Brent Toderash blogged about Zenoss on his Strategic Intuition blog.

John M. Willis – John spoke about Zenoss a lot this month on his enterprise systems management blog. We highly recommend you add him to your RSS Reader.

Cote’ People over Process – Redmonk analyst Coté did a man on the street video with systems management guru John Willis, BMC’s whurley and Mark Hinkle from Zenoss.