Jacob Smith wrote this How To for Modeling 3COM Devices on Zenoss. His description states:
Many manufacturer specific data is supported by default, but 3Com was left out. This page will show you how to retrieve the switch serial number, product number, and software version.
Read the full tip on the Zenoss wiki along with many [...]

Zenoss community member Erik Abele will be doing a half day training session at ApacheCon EU 2008 on Monday April 7th at 9:30 a.m. called Monitoring 2.0 - Zenoss, the next level of IT Management.
His half-day training session will show you how to setup and effectively use Zenoss, an open source monitoring and IT management [...]

Zenoss is a great tool for monitoring all aspects of your IT, amongst those are Windows services. This means Zenoss can tell you when service XYZ has stopped running on your Windows box. The logical next step is to automatically try and restart these services. Zenoss actually comes with a tool that will allow you [...]

Wouter D’Haeseleer is the man. He’s been busy this week adding a bunch of tips for using Zenoss. Check out his high availability FAQ it’s very interesting.
Here’s the complete list.

Create rotating daily backups

What is the data_source_type_id in the cacti XML

Create a High Available zenoss

use a zendmd script as standalone program

Create a device dependency

Wouter has been [...]

Martin Buerger submitted this tip to the Zenoss Wiki today:
Zenoss - zendmd - playing with interfaces
Martin will be entered in the Submit a Tip contest and will have a chance to win the AsusEEE. Great tip, thanks Martin!

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