Microsoft just announced “Cross Platform Extensions” for “System Center Operations Manager 2007″. (I just got carpal tunnel from typing the name of that thing!) These extensions bring SCOM (scam?) into the real world of heterogeneous management, which may provoke an all-out existential crisis for the company.
So they admitted that cross platform functionality was [...]

Mark and I just got back from a weekend in sunny Bellingham, Washington with the Open Source faithful. There were a good thousand enthusiasts there and we got to talk to a fair number of them. We gave a presentation of the latest Zenoss beta and attended a few ourselves. Lots of [...]

The Zenoss Submit a Tip Contest has ended and I would like to thank everyone who submitted tips close to 30 and posted multiple blog entries pointing to Zenoss tips.
The winner was Torben Bøgede Sørensen whose tip was  “How to Setup a Kiosk or Zenoss Overview monitor.” This tip was selected randomly from all entriess.
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Zenoss will be exhibiting at LinuxFest NorthWest (LFNW) on Saturday and Sunday in Bellingham,WA.LFNW is the showcase for what people in the Northwest are doing with Linux and open source software. It’s a place for Linux enthusiasts to get together to share their passion for what good software can do. This is an opportunity for [...]

This tip was courtesy of Chet Luther one of our services team.
Normally when you create a threshold, you have to choose the upper and/or lower limits. Sometimes you want these limits to vary considerably for different devices. It can be a lot of work to create many copies of the same template just so you [...]