Zenoss will be exhibiting at Ohio LinuxFest this weekend in Columbus, OH. Ohio LinuxFest is the showcase for what people in Ohio and the surrounding states are doing with Linux and open source software. It’s great a place for Linux enthusiasts to get together to share their passion for what good software can do. This is an opportunity for everyone… satisfy your curiosity… get free stuff… ask experts… explore the latest in software technology… support freedom… experience the magic of grassroots software.

Please stop by our booth to find out more about Zenoss and to sign-up for a drawing for a Chumby.

We will also be doing a presentation on Zenoss Core at 11:30 a.m. Saturday morning on the Open Source Solutions Stage. Please come by and ask questions and see a demo of Zenoss Core.

Tags: Community, linux, ohio, Zenoss

Zenoss developers will be available for questions on Thursday, October 9 at 11am EDT (UTC -04:00) in the #zenoss IRC channel on irc.freenode.net (port 6667). Please drop in and bring your questions, answers, suggestions and feedback. We can discuss the 2.3 beta and recent changes in the Zenoss community.

We’ll log the session and repost them here if you can’t make it.

Don’t forget you can search for answers to common questions by visiting the Zenoss forums.

UPDATE:
Here’s Thursday’s IRC log

http://www.zenoss.com/community/discuss/irc/archives/dev-chat-10-09-2008
other logs are available here:

http://www.zenoss.com/community/discuss/irc

Tags: Community, development, irc, Zenoss

Zenoss is proud to take part in the Texas Python Unconference 2008 on October 4-5 in Austin. This is a FREE event at the University of Texas. We’ll be presenting and hope to see a big turnout of Python fans from Texas and beyond. Presentations are open-format, so if you have something you’d like to demo or present, please sign up.

Tags: Community, Events, Python, unconference, Zenoss

Zenoss is more than happy to announce our sponsorship of Software Freedom Day 2008! Zenoss is committed to supporting the open source community and to helping spread the adoption of open source software. We see first hand the positive impact our software has on businesses, government, and educational institutions around the world, and want to participate in the growth and evangelism of open source software like ours. As a sponsor of Software Freedom Day 2008 we hope to further expose software users and developers to the benefits of transparent, collaborative software development.

Zenoss Austin will be participating in local Software Freedom Day events sponsored by the Austin Linux Users Group and the Austin Ubuntu Team, please come out and join the fun! For more details: http://austinlug.org/node/294

Tags: austin, linux, software freedom day, ubuntu, user groups, Zenoss

Zenoss developers will be available for questions on Thursday, September 11 at 11am EDT in the #zenoss IRC channel on irc.freenode.net (port 6667). Please drop in and bring your questions, answers, suggestions and feedback.

We’ll log the session and repost them here if you can’t make it.

Don’t forget you can search for answers to common questions by visiting the Zenoss forums.

UPDATE:
Here’s last Thursday’s IRC log

http://www.zenoss.com/community/discuss/irc/archives/dev-chat-09-11-2008
other logs are available here:

http://www.zenoss.com/community/discuss/irc

Tags: Community, developers, irc, Zenoss

Zenoss developers will be available for questions on Thursday, August 28 at 11am EST in the #zenoss IRC channel on irc.freenode.net (port 6667). Please drop in and bring your questions, answers, suggestions and feedback. Our JMX and Texas BBQ expert JP will be on hand to answer your questions. See you there!

We’ll log the session and repost them here if you can’t make it.

Don’t forget you can search for answers to common questions by visiting the Zenoss forums.

UPDATE:
Here’s last Thursday’s IRC log

http://www.zenoss.com/community/discuss/irc/archives/dev-chat-08-28-2008
other logs are available here:

http://www.zenoss.com/community/discuss/irc

Tags: Community, developers, irc, Zenoss

Zenoss developers will be available for questions on Tuesday, August 14 at 11am EST in the #zenoss IRC channel on irc.freenode.net (port 6667). Please drop in and bring your questions, answers, suggestions and feedback. See you there!

We’ll log the session and repost them here if you can’t make it.

Don’t forget you can search for answers to common questions by visiting the Zenoss forums.

UPDATE:
Here’s last Thursday’s IRC log
http://www.zenoss.com/community/discuss/irc/archives/dev-chat-08-14-2008
other logs are available here:
http://www.zenoss.com/community/discuss/irc

Tags: Community, development, irc, Zenoss

Halfway through the Submit a ZenPack Contest and the floodgates have opened up. We have had 10 more entries since the the first ZenPack Contest update. Keep sending Zenoss your ZenPacks for a chance to win an Asus Eee PC laptop.

Brocade Switches graphing ZenPack
http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/brocade-switches
Submitted by Community member Vaibhav Narula. It provides a large number of graphs for Brocade switches, the PDF on the page has examples.

Andrea ‘konsa79′ Consadori’s ZenPacks
Andrea gets his own section, he submitted 3 new and 3 updated ZenPacks, bring his total to 7 entries to the contest so far.
Updated
Alvarion WiFi monitoring: http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/alvarion
Funkwerk router monitoring: http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/funkwerk
Netasq firewall monitoring: http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/netasq
New
Colubris wireless monitoring: http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/colubris
MRV wireless monitoring: http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/mrv
Raytalk monitoring: http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/raytalk

EMC Celerra NAS ZenPack
http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/celerra
Community member Randy Schneiderman has submitted this ZenPack that can be used to monitor EMC’s Celerra filesystem created through the EMC Celerra Network Server instead of the default OS filesystems.

SQL Server 2000/2005 Performance ZenPack
http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/sql-server-performance
Submitted by Community member Fabio Paracchini, this ZenPack is for monitoring SQL Server Performance and works and was tested with SQL 2000 and SQL 2005

BlueCoat Appliances ZenPack
http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/bluecoat
Community member Wouter ‘netdata‘ D’Haeseleer has submitted his ZenPack that monitors BlueCoat Proxy SG and AntiVirus appliances.

For this and other ZenPacks, check out the ZenPacks site: http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/

Thanks Vaibhav, Andrea, Randy, Fabio and Wouter!

Tags: alvarion, Asus Eee, bluecoat, brocade, celerra, colubris, Community, contest, emc, firewall, funkwerk, mibs, monitoring, mrv, nas, netasq, network monitoring, proxy, raytalk, router, snmp, sqlserver, switches, wifi, wireless, Zenoss, Zenpacks

A big thanks from Zenoss to all you System Administrators out there who keep everything working! Hopefully Zenoss is making your lives easier as you work, thanks for your support. The site: System Administrator Appreciation Day

Tags: Community, sysadmins, Zenoss

Zenoss developers will be available for questions on Tuesday, July 22 at 11am EST in the #zenoss IRC channel on irc.freenode.net (port 6667). Please drop in and bring your questions, answers, suggestions and feedback. See you there!

Don’t forget you can search for answers to common questions by visiting the Zenoss forums.

UPDATE:
Here’s Tuesday’s IRC log
other logs are available here:
http://www.zenoss.com/community/discuss/irc

Tags: Community, development, irc, Zenoss