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Tip of the Month: Creating Property-Driven Thresholds »

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 [...]

Medifast and Mercy Speak Out »

At Zenoss, we are very fortunate to have a group of very passionate community members.  They are very vocal and they do not hesitate to praise as well as criticize us.  Our forum provides a good medium to capture general requests and rants, but we felt that we also needed to capture great anecdotes and [...]

Windows Genuine Advantage Server Down, Bill Give us a Ring »

Today’s news has been peppered with the outage of the Windows Genuine Advantage servers today. Now we aren’t endorsing DRM rights by any means but if you are running mission critical servers you need to look beyond availability monitoring. If the system is customer facing you probably will know by the inquiries from angry customers [...]

SingleHop: A Zenoss Core Success Story »

SingleHop, a fast-growing full service managed hosting provider is another happy Zenoss Core user. According to SingleHop’s VP of Operations, Andy Pace,
“Zenoss is Nagios done right, with frosting and a cherry on top!”
He goes on to say even more (this is such high praise, I can’t help but quote liberally):
SingleHop utilizes this brilliant piece of [...]