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Tip of the Month: Getting XML Formatted Device Details »

By Chet on May 21, 2008 in News Items, Tips | 0 Comments

Zenoss provides a variety of tools to help you integrate it into other tools. Commonly used are the REST, XML-RPC and Python APIs. Another less-used option is XML. This can be very useful as a read-only integration point because you can get all of the data you need in a single simple transaction and good [...]

Tip of the Month: Creating Property-Driven Thresholds »

By Chet on Apr 23, 2008 in Best Practices, News Items, Systems Management, Tips | 0 Comments

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 [...]