Zenoss 2.3 Now Available!

We are proud to announce Zenoss 2.3. The latest Zenoss version was developed in conjunction with our community of more than 40,000 members who provided product input, monitoring extensions and beta testing.

Zenoss 2.3

Zenoss 2.3 includes improvements in Windows and Java application monitoring as well as native VMware management for Zenoss Enterprise Edition. We are also taking the opportunity to highlight over 30 new ZenPacks developed by the Zenoss community for expert monitoring of Asterisk PBX, Brocade Switches, Cisco Security Appliance, and many more.

What’s Included

All versions of Zenoss 2.3 include the following features:

Enhanced, Agentless Monitoring of Microsoft Windows Servers & Desktops

• Enhanced Windows collection services improve scalability, security and fault tolerance
• Agentless full lifecycle monitoring of Windows servers and desktops including hardware, service and software discovery, centralized event collection, availability monitoring, performance monitoring, and reporting
• Support for Windows 2008 and Windows Vista

Enhanced Agentless Monitoring of Java Applications

• Enhanced JMX collection services improve scalability, security and fault tolerance
• Support for tabular data types, which allows retrieval of broadest set of performance data
• Support for JMX Notifications and integration with the Zenoss Event Console provides a single central window for correlated view of hardware, software, and application events

Zenoss Enterprise features Native, Agentless VMware Monitoring of Entire Virtualization Infrastructure

• Automatic discovery and inventory of all Virtual Infrastructure (VI3) components including Virtual Machines, ESX Servers, clusters, and VMware data stores
• Physical and Virtual resource usage and performance (memory, disk, CPU, and more)
• Real-time detection when Virtual Machines move from one VMware host (or ESX Server) to another (called VMotion)
• Physical and Virtual performance and availability information correlated and displayed in a single, central web console

More Info

Downloads and evaluations are available at Zenoss Download.

Tags: JMX, monitoring, network, Systems Management, vmware